New to CoreRobin? Start here.

Get started

Use these four steps to get familiar with CoreRobin on your first launch.

1. 1
   Give it a few seconds

   Right after launch, disk and network rates may show a warm-up message. They appear after the next refresh.

2. 2
   Start with computer status

   Everyday mode first tells you how the computer is doing and offers one useful next step. When everything looks fine, there is nothing else to inspect.

3. 3
   Start with what you notice

   If the computer feels slow, hot, power-hungry, low on space, slow to start, or has network trouble, open Help me solve. The Everyday and Professional switch stays at the bottom of the shared sidebar.

4. 4
   Choose language and background behavior

   The interface supports 10 languages. Settings can also launch CoreRobin quietly after sign-in and control the macOS Dock icon and Robin desktop companion.

Computer status and Help me solve

Computer status gives one stable conclusion and one primary action. Help me solve starts with the slowness, heat, battery drain, space, startup, or network problem you actually notice. A confirmed condition does not disappear after one normal sample, and recovery is confirmed only after it stays stable. Technical numbers remain available on demand.

Apps

Apps is a top-level entry in both modes. It shows localized app names and real icons, reuses a cached inventory, and opens the Complete Uninstall Assistant for path-by-path review on macOS.

• Select an app or process to see its location, launch command, parent process, and activity over the last five minutes.
• Prefer request-to-stop so the app can save state; force termination only when necessary.
• To avoid stopping the wrong process, CoreRobin checks the target again right before the action. If the process has exited or changed, the action stops.

Storage

Storage shows how much space is left on each disk, recent read and write activity, and which apps are using the disk heavily. Open Cleanup when space is low, or safely eject a removable volume after confirmation.

Cleanup

Before the first scan, Cleanup shows its read-only scope and a clear start button. Moving to Trash remains the recoverable default, with a separate confirmation for direct deletion.

1. 1
   Let the scan finish

   The page shows where it is scanning, how many items it has checked, and how much space it has found. You can stop at any time.

2. 2
   Explore large folders

   Larger sectors use more space. Click a folder to open it, or click the center to go back.

3. 3
   Add items to the basket

   Hold a sector and start dragging; the basket stays visible at the bottom of the window. Adding it does not delete the item.

4. 4
   Review, then choose a cleanup mode

   Review the scanned targets once. Moving to Trash is the default; direct deletion is irreversible and requires separate confirmation. Switching modes does not repeat a deep scan, missing items are skipped, and other confirmed targets continue.

Full scan results stay on this computer for up to 7 days and are marked stale after 24 hours. The basket binds each target to its reviewed filesystem path: existing items are processed, missing items are skipped, and one disappeared item does not block the rest.

Network

Network Quality probes multiple targets and separates local route, DNS, IPv4, IPv6, internet, and independent-service health. It samples every 30 seconds while visible and labels the failure ratio as TCP probe failures. The live 15-minute trend needs no persistence; enabling continuous quality history stores local five-minute aggregates for 1-hour and 24-hour views.

Startup items

Everyday mode shows startup-item checks only after you choose Slow startup. Supported third-party items can be turned off and restored; system items are view-only. CoreRobin does not delete their configuration files.

Records and history

• Everyday Records uses a simple timeline to show when the computer became busy and when it recovered; Professional mode keeps the full resource history and filters.
• A warning and its recovery are paired into one incident with its start time, duration, likely cause, and outcome.
• Keep history for 1, 7, or 30 days. You can also turn history off or clear it anytime.
• Notifications appear only when a problem lasts for a while, the same warning is not repeated constantly, and CoreRobin follows up once after stable recovery. CPU, memory, and storage alerts can be turned off separately.

Settings

Settings now uses consistent card layouts and controls. Professional mode selects a useful process by default, and app watch rules use styled app, metric, threshold, and duration fields.

Safety and privacy

Troubleshooting

AI assistant & capability center

Enable AI in settings, add your provider and model, then choose device context as needed. Preview the recipient, evidence, and included history before sending. Model replies can be wrong; check the actual results.

Device, process, network, and disk checks show their actual results.

Review targets before stopping a process or moving files to Trash.

Capability center

Run cleanup, process, network, and history tools directly. Local inputs and results are not automatically sent to a model.

Conversations are saved locally and can be deleted. Clearing chats keeps connections and credentials, and does not erase provider copies. Saved credentials use the OS credential store; temporary credentials last until app exit. Delete a connection to remove its credential.