Gemini - a mysterious new product from MacPaw was published

Almost all owners of Mac developers are well-known Ukrainian MacPaw, creators of such hits as the Ensoul, CleanMyMac and MacHider. For some time they kept us in the dark, what lies behind the new name of Gemini and mysterious promo video. So, yesterday intgriga been disclosed. It turns out that the new product is designed to find and remove duplicate files on your Mac.

Gemini video teaser from macpaw on Vimeo.

If you have been exposed to MacPaw applications, you do not need to remind you of what kind of attention is paid to developers appearance, functionality and usability of the application. So, when the first information about the Gemini in, there was no doubt that we are waiting for a useful and high-quality product. Looking ahead, I will say that the developers did not deceive our expectations.

Given that I am very fond of stylish application with a nice interface, Gemini in I liked from the very first minutes of use. The first window, which meets you application is made in gray tones and offers to select the folder to scan.

When you decide on the choice, Gemini immediately begin to explore the contents of your hard drive and report on their progress cute animated ring located around the selected folder. The application runs over quickly, so that the results did not take long to wait. At the end of the ring happily turn green and you are prompted to go to the skaniovaniya results.

I liked the way has a window with information about the results of the scan. Gemini distributes data types, such as music, documents, images. Results are shown as general and for each category separately. In addition, in the lower part, you can view a pie chart with the results of the scan.

All files have information on the number of found duplicates. After selecting a file, you can view the path to the file, the date of change, as well as open it in the Finder. The apparent advantage of Gemini is that for all files available quick preview directly in the application. You can, for example, listen to the audio to make sure that the file really want to delete.

If the results of the scan, you have found a large number of duplicates, you do not have to remove them manually one by one. You can completely rely on the Gemini and use the magic wand in the top of the application. In this case, Gemini independently decide which files to keep and which to delete. For example, if an image exists in your folder in the iPhoto library, preference is given to library.

When you decide that you want to remove, safely press the «Remove Selected». Gemini will prepare for you-styled paper report, which you can double-check the list of deleted files. If everything is correct, the report will go to a virtual shredder. At the end of Gemini process will be familiar to users CleanMyMac message, in which he congratulated you that the hard disk space freed as a place and offer the result to boast Twitter.

Of the nice features of Gemini, you can also acknowledge the support of not only removing duplicate files of, but also folders; check to be sure that when you remove will be one of the files; ignore sheets; support for external drives; as well as a number of other functions, which can be found at official website application.

Honestly, at first I thought that Gemini are unlikely to be useful for me, because I try to keep your hard drive clean and promptly remove the trash. Imagine my surprise when I found about 16GB duplicates.

As you know, some applications may duplicate your files, creating copies of them in their libraries. You must have guessed that we are talking about iTunes and iPhoto. However, third-party applications, too, are not averse to clone your files. For example, I completely lost sight of that the photo service Adobe Carousel, the player Sonora and iDocument in the process I spawn dublkaty files.

It would seem that free 16GB - it's not much, but do not forget that many owners of MacBook Air constrained in volumes of their SSD drives and they obviously will not prevent a timely manner to remove duplicate files, giving way to a more useful information. Large amounts of memory, in turn, allow users to little more than neglect the maintenance of cleanliness on the hard disk, so that in this case, Gemini will be no less useful. And if the Gemini add CleanMyMac, the volume of space osovobozhdennogo undoubtedly receive more than impressive, and your Mac will be grateful for the care of the hard drive status.

Macpaw once again managed to create an application that is not only useful, but also pleasant to entertain you in the process of using a stylish appearance. Among the shortcomings I have mentioned only the absence of Russian and Ukrainian localization, which is somewhat strange for Ukrainian companies. This is hardly a significant disadvantage, because for Gemini use requires nothing more than a basic knowledge of English.

Finally I want to note that only until February 15 you can purchase a Gemini 50% discount offer and see a small official video showing the application.

Gemini app demo from macpaw on Vimeo.

Download from the App Store: Gemini
Price$ 4.99 (50% off)
Developer website:MacPaw
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 and above