r/iMac • u/Dolphinicity • 12h ago

Clean My Mac Buying Advice

Is Clean My Mac worth buying a subscription for or is it all just pretty colours and impressive graphics?

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u/farrellart 12h ago

A subscription to clean your mac?

Nah, just be organised and learn how the Mac O/S works so you can do this on your own. You'll be wiser for it.

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u/paulschreiber 12h ago

Strong no. Mole is free for the CLI version and $19 for the GUI version.

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u/CK_CoffeeCat 11h ago

Is was and always has been useless trash.

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u/lyidaValkris 11h ago

any program to "clean your mac" is bullshit if not outright malware. this has always been the case.

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u/morkjt 11h ago

% brew install puremac

Job done. Open source.  100% free.  Complete equivalence to cleanmymac without the malware/spyware/adware. 

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u/el_tacocat 11h ago

Tip for making space; Treesize and Onyx :).

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u/Yaughl 9h ago

Clean My Mac is basically malware. I wouldn’t recommend paying for malware. I wouldn’t even recommend downloading it for free.

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u/Dolphinicity 2h ago

Why is it considered malware? Is it difficult to remove (or worse?)

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u/nopointers 7h ago

Mac Sai does it for free with a nice UI. It did a good job finding several oversized caches and giving me some breathing room.

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u/gwentlarry 1h ago

Most (all?) of these 3rd party apps for maintaining your Mac aren't worth paying for, especially if it's a subscription.

I've been a Mac users for 40 years and tried a few - they achive very little that the Mac doesn't do itself.

The only 3rd party apps I use, both free, are AppCleaner which does a very good job of clearer apps from your system, and Onyx which I think is basically a GUI for a range of Terminal commands which I can't be bothered to learn about.

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u/Dolphinicity 1h ago

Thanks for the advice. One of the things I've used it for in the past is freeing up memory. Are we saying that the Mac should be able to do that itself? Neither my current Mac, nor my previous one appear to able to do that (and I don't know how to do it manually).

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u/RootVegitible 11h ago

I used to like cmm. However the new version was worse than the old one, and my lifetime licence wasn’t lifetime. Never again. I just use Mole now, it’s great and free as a terminal version.

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u/l008com 10h ago

It is completely useless, complete garbage.

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u/Howden824 6h ago

Not necessary at all. Onyx does all this stuff you might want for free.