EXEGETEJR  As with others I have used many of the maintenance tools available for MacOS and, for quite some time now have settled on Cocktail. I had been using another popular app when I purchased MacUpdate bundle with Cocktail. I was immediately please with the straightforward look and organization of the GUI, and equally pleased with its function. As a general maintenance app that boasts some additional, deeper tools, Cocktail is very well done. And as for updates? Cocktail is not only updated regularly, but also (and this is my personal favourite!), it is updated when necessary! (It has been a personal gripe of mine to own an app that is updated weekly or even for some, every day or two @##%%^!@) So, many thanks to the developer and keep up the good work!!!  
(Version 4.7)

MLBKXBX  Cocktail is well worth the money IMHO.

It's got a pretty UI/Icon(s), just the features you're looking for laid out in a sensible way, actively updated, and lots of nice automator actions available.

You can probably get away with using , but if you want that little extra, and are prepared to pay for it, then go for it.  
(Version 4.7)

DOUG ENGELBART  Evil, beware!

Cocktail opens up without any window and without saying what it's doing, but scanning my OSX.5.8 hard drives for endless 60 seconds, then opening an application list showing all my apps and asking: "Where is Cocktail?" Evil! Bad joke for 15$. Only good for trashing it instantly.

Main rating: *°°°°  
(Version 4.6.2)

DONMONTALVO  I would love to know in detail what this tool does. Not from a sales or home user perspective, but from an IT perspective. We command line tools to do almost everything, and most of the time we attach the commands to launchd agents or daemons.

If Cocktail can do stuff our users (who never have admin rights) need to do, we would embrace it. Without knowing *exactly* how it does what it does, we avoid/ban it from the environments we support.

Not trying to put down Cocktail. I think it's a great tool. Just trying to see if we can get a little more documentation (mice nuts level) so we can make a proper evaluation of whether this is a tool we might want to provide our 24/7/365 non-admin production environments with.

Happy to work with the developer on producing the documentation, since we can all benefit.

Thanks,

Don

Don Montalvo, TX  
(Version 4.6)

PARVENU51  I just tried updating to version 4.6 on my Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and it would not install no matter what I did. I even tried a clean install by uninstalling the previous version of Cocktail but that had no effect. Each time I had to force quit Cocktail after installing it into my applications folder and then trying to open it up for the first time. I have a 2 GHz Macbook with 4 GB DDR3 memory running Snow Leopard.  
(Version 4.6)

ICONZ113  I've used onyx, sLCC, macpilot and mainmenu, and I've settled on cocktail. They all have there strengths, but cocktail always solves the problem, I don't really use it regularly just for maintenance, I use it when Im having some issue, and it always fixes it. Great application  
(Version 4.5.2)

MACMAN8  I want to thank the developer for not forgetting those of us still using Tiger, and for updating Cocktail for us as well. Your dedication to Mac users, as well as those who cannot use Leopard or Snow Leopard (due to hardware limitations) is greatly appreciated. Thanks for a great product and for including us too. I use Cocktail on a daily basis at shutdown, and my Mac is in great shape thanks to your efforts.  
(Version 4.5.2)

JAKE THE SNAKE  Excellent tool. Works flawlessly under 10.6.1

Thanks for a great product!  
(Version 4.5.1)

MACTECHHEAD  Previously launch problem was fixed as soon as I literally posted about here. 10 out of 5 for support !

Works great with 10.6.1 , no issues and no complaints.

Thanks again for the super speedy fix and for great tool !  
(Version 4.5)

MACTECHHEAD  Is this new version of Cocktail for Snow Leopard only for 64-bit Mac's running 10.6?

I started up from 10.6 and when I tried to launch Cocktail 4.5 I was given an error saying "Cocktail cannot be launched from this Mac because it's not compatible" or something alone those lines.

This would be a shame if the developer is doing this intentionally.   
(Version 4.5)