Monolingual For Mac

Most Mac apps come packed with multiple language resources in order to provide access to various localizations. Moreover, several architectures are included in order to make sure everything will run smoothly regardless of the machine or operating system your are using.

Unfortunately, that means that you will store on your Mac a lot of data that you are not actively using. Monolingual is a small utility that allows you to remove the language resources and architectures that do not suit your needs.

The small Monolingual main window is organized in two different tabs: Languages, and Architectures. In the first one, you can view a list of languages that are supported by certain apps running on your Mac.

Monolingual automatically detects your system’s language and keeps the entry unchecked, while all the other languages are selected: make your own adjustments and then press the remove button from the bottom right corner of the main window to actually delete the localizations.

Note that Monolingual must process all the apps installed on your Mac, so the procedure might take some time.

The same rules apply to the Architectures tab: Monolingual automatically recognizes the machine’s architecture and enables you to select the ones you want to remove.

The drawback is that the cleansing process is performed system wide: you cannot decide to keep a certain localization or system resource only for a specific app.

Even though the language or system resources do not get in your way, they represent wasted storage space: Monolingual offers you the possibility to reclaim this space and put it to better use.