A note from the founder

I'm Sidhanth. I build Blame on my own, and this is why.

Why it exists

I work on a 16 GB MacBook with AI coding tools open all day: Claude Code, VS Code and a browser full of tabs. In September the Mac kept slowing to a crawl, and Activity Monitor never told me why. It showed a wall of rows called "Code Helper (Plugin)" and no name to blame.

So I started building something to log it: an early Blame, then called MemWatch. On 5 October it caught VS Code growing from 1.4 GB to 14.8 GB in fourteen minutes. One extension kept starting copies of a helper and never ending them, 621 at the worst point, and at its peak VS Code held 18.1 GB on a 16 GB Mac. I wrote up how I found it. Between 12 and 26 October my Mac slowed 107 times, and in every one of them Chrome held the most memory.

None of this was a bug I could fix by buying more RAM. It was things left running: an agent session's leftovers, a dev server from yesterday, an extension that leaked. I wanted something that names the culprit in one sentence and ends it safely, without me opening Terminal. That is what Blame grew into.

How it works, honestly

Blame reads every process on your Mac, because it can't name a cause otherwise. That is also why it is not sandboxed and not in the App Store. Before it ends anything it checks the whole process tree: never a database, a build, git or a running install, never another user's process, and anything busy asks you first.

It still makes mistakes, and I'd rather tell you than have you find out. On the night of 2 November my own Mac ran out of disk with 30 GB of swap, partly because Blame's cleanup had put 6.4 GB in the Trash and left it there. The next release fixed that, and every change since is listed in the changelog with the reason for it.

What I promise

Nothing about your processes leaves your Mac. No program names, commands or paths, ever. Usage counts are off unless you switch them on, and the app shows you the report before it is sent. Everything that leaves, listed.
You pay once. Blame is free. Blame Pro, which lets Autopilot act on its own, is a one-time $29 with no subscription, and the key works offline on every Mac you use.
Everything Autopilot does on its own can be undone, and every action, yours or its, is on record in a log that stays on your Mac.

Who makes it

Just me, from India. There is no team behind a ticket queue. When you write to [email protected], I read it and I answer it. Bug reports, things Blame got wrong, things you wish it did: all of it shapes what ships next.

I also post what I find and what ships on X, as @sidhanthpande.

Thanks for trying it.

Sidhanth