Apple Notes will not tell you which notes you have stopped using, and it will not let you delete more than one at a time. Notes Cleanup puts every note you own in a single sortable list, oldest first, and lets you clear hundreds in one go.
What it looks like
One window. Filters down the left of the toolbar, folders in the sidebar, every note in the table — with the date it last changed and how long ago that was.
What it does
Filter to notes untouched for 15, 30, 60 or 90 days. The app tells you the actual cutoff date and how many notes it is hiding, so you always know what you are looking at.
Open any note in place to read the whole thing without leaving the list. A title and a one-line preview is enough to recognise a note, not enough to judge it.
Tick them one by one, shift-click a run, or take everything the current filter shows. A running count sits beside the delete button so you always know the size of the swing.
Drag a selection onto any folder in the sidebar to move it there. Not everything old needs deleting — some of it just needs putting away.
Search titles, folder names and note text at once. Search and the staleness filter combine, so "90+ days" plus a word means both, not either.
Create folders and delete the ones you have finished with, without switching to Notes. Deleting a folder tells you exactly how many notes go with it first.
How it works
On launch it asks macOS for permission to control Notes, then reads your whole library — every account, every folder. A 2,000-note library takes about three seconds.
Filtering, searching and sorting all happen in the window. Nothing is written anywhere and nothing changes in Notes until you choose an action.
Deleting uses Notes' own delete, so notes land in Recently Deleted and stay recoverable for 30 days — exactly as if you had deleted them in Notes yourself.
Worth knowing
Notes keeps no record of when you last read a note — only when it last changed. The filters use the modification date as a stand-in for staleness, and the app says so on screen rather than pretending otherwise.
Nothing is ever permanently erased by this app. There is no hard-delete path in it at all. Anything you delete waits in Notes' Recently Deleted folder for 30 days.
The app makes no network calls: no telemetry, no accounts, and nothing written to disk. Your notes never leave your Mac — close the window and the app remembers nothing.
It reads, deletes and moves. It does not edit note content, sync anywhere, or restore deleted notes — Notes' own Recently Deleted folder does that better.
There is no iPhone or iPad version and there cannot be one: Notes has no third-party API on iOS. This works through macOS Automation, which only exists on the Mac.
One payment, no subscription, and a download link the moment you have paid.