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Uninstall

Removing Hamburger,
start to finish.

Trashing the app is most of it. macOS does not delete a program's own files when you delete the program, so this page says exactly what Hamburger Keyboard writes to your Mac and where to find it, in case you want a completely clean slate.

Quit the app.

Hamburger Keyboard lives in the menu bar, not the Dock. Click its icon and choose Quit Hamburger Keyboard.

If you turned on Open at Login, turn it off first (Settings in the app, or System Settings › General › Login Items) so it does not relaunch itself the next time you sign in.

Delete the app.

Drag Hamburger Keyboard.app from Applications to the Trash, then empty the Trash. That is enough for most people: the app stops running, and nothing about it starts again.

Files it leaves behind.

Deleting the app does not touch what it saved to your Mac. Remove these yourself if you want them gone too.

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Hamburger Keyboard/ holds your adaptive vocabulary, saved license, practice history, and typing stats (adaptive-language-model.json, license.json, practice-history.json, typing-stats.json). Delete the whole folder to remove all of it.
  • ~/Library/Preferences/com.hamburger.keyboard.agent.plist stores your settings: hand, appearance, paused apps, and the rest of what you set in the app.
  • ~/Library/Caches/com.hamburger.keyboard.agent/ holds the app's web cache and Sparkle's update downloads (org.sparkle-project.Sparkle inside it). Safe to delete; macOS rebuilds a cache on its own.
  • ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.hamburger.keyboard.agent/ is what macOS keeps for any app that talks to the network: license activation and update checks, in this app's case.

If you ever turned on the diagnostic log for support, it lives at ~/Library/Logs/hamburger-diag.log and can be deleted too.

In Finder, press Cmd Shift G and paste a path to jump straight to it. None of what you typed ever left your Mac: correction runs entirely on-device, and removing these files does not contact us or change anything about your license. See the privacy page for what does and does not touch the network.

Permissions in System Settings.

macOS keeps a permission grant even after the app that asked for it is gone. Removing the app does not remove these entries.

Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, then in both Accessibility (called Device Control and Data Access on macOS 27) and Input Monitoring find Hamburger Keyboard and turn its switch off, or select it and click the minus button to remove it from the list entirely.

This step is optional. Leaving a disabled app's permission listed does nothing on its own; it only matters if you plan to reinstall later and want to grant it fresh, or if you simply want the list to only show what you actually use.

Questions about any of this?

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