CleanMyMac X

I don't know what everyone here is talking about. Look, I'm a minimalist and I like having as few as apps as possible on my Mac (but will not take anything less than the best so if I need extra apps than so be it). I love what Mac is by itself HOWEVER... Just the utilities the app has alone pays for itself. The Uninstaller is tool is much better than iTrash($8) and barley leaves any extra trail whereas with iTrash it leaves behind almost half the app. The Updater is superior to MacUpdater($10). It picked up on apps that MacUpdater never did. These two apps alone pay for HALF of what you're gettin with CleanMyMac Then you're getting Malware Removal, Privacy Clean up, System scan, Optimization, all with the best user interface I have ever seen I'll let you decide if that's worth $20

I don't know what everyone here is talking about. Look, I'm a minimalist and I like having as few as apps as possible on my Mac (but will not take anything less than the best so if I need extra apps than so be it). I love what Mac is by itself HOWEVER... Just the utilities the app has alone pays for itself. The Uninstaller is tool is much better than iTrash($8) and barley leaves any extra trail whereas with iTrash it leaves behind almost half the app. The Updater is superior to MacUpdater($10). It picked up on apps that MacUpdater never did. These two apps alone pay for HALF of what you're gettin with CleanMyMac Then you're getting Malware Removal, Privacy Clean up, System scan, Optimization, all with the best user interface I have ever seen I'll let you decide if that's worth $20

This program takes over your computer. It slows it down. The "health monitor" pops up constantly with false positives related to everything from free memory available the need for more junk file removal. Ironically, the best way to free up more memory is to remove this bloatware. You also can't Force Quit this health monitor, and if you remove the startup entry,, it'll just reinstall itself when you reboot. Stay away from this app. It cause more harm than any good it does!

For years I have used CleanMyMac. I have found that CleanMyMacX has some flaws. I ran the auto scan and chose to fix the issues. When i reran the scan, I got the same results of what needed to be fixed. It's updater area is slow and does not show as much available updates as MacUpdate. including the updates to its' own program. So sad.

DEAR READER: please navigate to https://www.thesafemac.com/the-myth-of-the-dirty-mac/ to learn why you not only DO NOT NEED and SHOULD NOT USE CleanMyMac, but why you you DON'T NEED ANY of the dozens of 'cleaner" software packages out there. If you need to delete software that didn't come from the Mac App Store, use the uninstaller if there is one. Otherwise a combination of iTrash and FindAnyFile do an excellent job. If you feel the need to clean caches, get TinkerTool System and READ THE MANUAL before you go HACKING AROUND macOS. AND BY THE WAY, to dear "iMacWare," who left a review here claiming to have tested this app against the "top alternatives" -- I call BS on you until you do a writeup of the results and post them for all to see. You're a MacPaw shill, if not an actual MacPaw employee. (And where do you come off using DISK DRILL'S logo as your meme?) MacPaw used to be a decent company -- no more. Gemini is now a deceptively priced ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. CleanMyMac is just another overpriced entry in the Mac "cleaner" market space -- though granted it has a SLICKER INTERFACE -- the better to reel in the SUCKERS out there who think their Macs will "RUN FASTER" if they have a good 'CLEANING.' Buyer beware, they're all garbageware. -SB

A while back I gave a 5 star review. I have now totally reversed my opinion. 1) Constantly asks for full disk access when it has already been granted. 2) Completely unable to verify and repair disks. 3) Despite tons of data given to MacPaw to demonstrate problems responses are way off target! Suppose developers will offer fixes that are not fixes...ie deauthorize the app and reauthorize it to solve the problems...what a solution...works for about 5 minutes then the problems reoccur! DO NOT BUY THIS APP!!!

I don't understand all the negative, comments. When ONYX came out they warned... "if you don't want to destroy your mac, "READ DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY". Clean my mac can be used as a memory cache and functionality cleaner. Just un-box and every week or so just scan and clean. Then watch your Mac run faster. Which it will! It can also be used as a maintenance tool for those who, "read the instruction", for those who don't and try things that they don't understand it will make bad things happen, just as ONYX did. Some of the horror stories from ONYX reviewers were really bad and some completely destroyed their macs. I have been using clean my mac since the beginning. I had two mac book pros in the past and now have two mac minis. I have clean my mac 3 on one and clean my mac x on another. My thought's (I don't give advice) just use it to clean your mac when it runs slow (you can free up space while in the middle of a project, AWESOME FEATURE). Disable the large file feature, unless you know exactly how it works, Don't do maintenance. DONT DO ANYTHING but keep your mac clean, you won't have any problems. PLEASE PLEASE Check out the Privacy Feature... the number of Cookies accumulated... WOW! ...Web Developer for over 15 years, used Clean My Mac since it came out.

Great app! After cruising youtube or any google site it finds GBs of tracking cookies, cache file, etc. and can delete them... The more hours you cruise the web the more you need CleanMyMac X!

Bloated and expensive. But worst of all: even though you disable the background "monitoring" function in the preferences, it's still running, and you can't turn it off; when you use force quit, it's launched immediately again. Avoid.

Even when you disable the "Health Monitor" in the preferences, it runs in the background regardless, and it's now impossible to shut it down manually – it no longer responds to force quit.

I've just about had enough of this bloated piece of junk.

cleanmymac 3 was great but cleanmymacx app wants to run "cleanmymac health monitor " all the time in my processes and all I want to do is clean my junk files . All I want is a good on demand junk file cleaner

This USED TO BE the best cleaning app for Mac OSX, but sadly no more. It keeps prompting for a password to "install a helper tool". I quit the app after 25 prompts! Yes! 25 prompts --- that's way too many !!!! It's a shame it had to go, but there are a few freeware alternatives that do the same job; eg., Onyx.

Killed my Mac. If you have the expertise to use this application, you don't need prepackaged software - just do whatever you need to from the console.

Just dare mention this app on the Apple Support Communities website -- as I mistakenly did -- and the old timers there will do everything short of stringing you up. As far as they are concerned, CMM is scamware. Some of them will put you down as if their's is the only opinion that matters. It is serious group think there. It seems that the only acceptable apps similar in nature which are promoted at ASC are EtreCheck and Malwarebytes. I found Malwarebytes to be too intrusive for my taste, so I don't use it, and I rarely use EtreCheck, being as I don't have any serious issues on my machine. I had CMM installed for a short time to check it out, but after they berated me, and warned me about the dangers of using it, I removed it from my hard drive as well.

$40 a year for an app that Onyx does for free. I got my calculator out and worked out that the cost over 10 years would be $400! Approximately.

Every time you open CleanMyMac X, an application called "CleanMyMac X HealthMonitor" is launched too and will keep running in the background after you close CleanMyMac X. Even if you disable CleanMyMac X's "health monitoring" function in the preferences, the HealthMonitor application is still launched when you open CleanMyMac X. After contacting MacPaw support about it several times, I got the reply that they were "investigating". That was in November 2018. Still no way to permanently disable this function.

New release 4.1 still cannot verify an SSD formatted in Mojave. I could care less about the ability to clean out Steam Game leftovers if the app is unable to perform this most basic and essential function. Also, it is not as good at deleting apps and its leftovers as you might think. When you use Adobe's Un-Installer to remove Acrobat DC for instance, the Adobe app leaves a ton of executable files. When you use The new CleanMyMac it will leave a huge number of files behind. They may not be active but they do take space and you want them gone! Use any file search app and enter Adobe and you will be shocked to see all of the files etc. left behind. 40$ for this app? Not likely!

Wiped out my entire home folder (also on SSD)! WTF! DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE.

Yesterday I downloaded and ran version 4.04 once, obtained from the in-app updates from version 4.03 also downloaded yesterday. It trashed a Time Machine drive by making it Read Only and despite everything I tried I couldn't change it back. Eventually had to erase and start it rebuilding my back-up. Even trying to erase the drive was problematic, I couldn't just erase the partition but had to reformat the whole drive. DiskTools and Onyx both report the drive to be in good order with no defects. Luckily I have two time machine drives which back-up successively. No response from the CleanMyMac team to my email.

NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME! BUYER BEWARE CleanMyMac X v.4.0.2 is currently not ready for prime time. There is no + function to add apps to safe guard via the ignore section for iMac Pro. I feel this app was rushed out the door before it was ready. Considering the price, we expect more...

The app seems to work well, but I have a concern about privacy. Using HandsOff! I found out that when run it connects to Google Analytics. I can think of no good (for me) reason that a paid app would try to connect to this. I sent a customer support request and voiced my concerns and asked if there were a legitimate reason for the app connecting to Google Analytics and so far I have not gotten a reply.

Price? $40. A YEAR!!! And I am out of here.

4.0.1 is out!

Apple recommends against use of CleanMyMac.

DISCLAIMER: I'm venting a rant ahead, be warned. FWIW I'm not exaggerating a bit -- I can provide the full email thread I exchanged with MacPaw's support, which was extremely frustrating as they replied in the usual Microsoft fashion: blah blah blah, fuck you, blah blah.

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I bitterly regret buying the two licenses for CMM and the two ones for Gemini2, these guys have no respect for users' privacy -- allow me to explain:

Back in the day when I bought CMM, it had an option under Preferences- > Privacy so you could opt-in, if you wished, to share 'sanitized' information about the way you use the app to help them bring more unicorns to the world, convert poo in rainbows and blah blah blah.

Guess what: at some later version - which? I can't tell, because they did this surreptitiously without PROPERLY INFORMING THEIR USERS - they REMOVED the opt-in option and made it COMPULSORY; now when you go to Preferences -> Privacy you're SLAPPED IN YOUR FACE with a message that reads: "All data collected by CleanMyMac 3 can be reviewed in the updated Privacy Policy. Take a moment to learn how we collect and store your information."

Well, MacPaw: FUCK YOU.

If this had been the way things were from the very beginning, I wouldn't complain about it (I just wouldn't buy the app); but they changed the rules in a totally unacceptable way along the way without even having the decency to inform their users.

I PAID FOR YOUR SOFTWARE and now YOU ARE HARVESTING MY APPLICATION USAGE AND STEALING *MY* DATA.

What is worst, how can anyone could trust that the information they HARVEST FROM YOU is truly anonymous and whatever? For what is worth to me, they are shady as fuck. Luckily I never went with a Setapp subscription no matter how many times they approached with numerous discounts.

The app itself is great, congratz to the engineering team -- but the fucker(s) who made the brilliant decisions to go ahead and screw me can go fuck themselves.

I'll be compiling a list of alternative applications that can replace any and every feature of CMM and publishing it back here. I prefer any day to expend the same amount of money on legit developers and F/LOSS projects than expending a dime on THIEVES like MacPaw.

A lot of hate 'reviews' for this app. Still, this is a great tool to clean up your Mac. The good thing about this tool is that YOU are in control. Before removing items, it is very easy to over watch what is going to removed when you hit the remove button. Most negative comments here very probably didn't even launch/tried this tool. As everything, first try it out in demo mode and see if this fits the bill for you. If not, ignore it but be honest about it when writing about it. If yes, buy it and be happy. :-) I do think it is a bit too expensive though. Luckily there are frequent promos for this app.

I deleted it since can also ruin the OS. Apple doesn't like it and neither do the professionals that work on Mac's.

Quoting Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cleanmymac>

"The Apple App Store

CleanMyMac is not allowed in the Apple App store, because it is not safe. Other programs by the same publisher are available in the App Store."

CMM is a very good 'keep-your-system-clean' tool. It really is ! Onyx can do most things too, for free, but it lacks control. CMM gives a clear list of what it will and can delete. If you think some things are not obsolete, uncheck it. It's simple as that. However, one should not hit the big 'clean' button right away. Closer inspection of what to remove is advised. So maybe not for the beginner but most certainly more secure than Onyx. Onyx just removes everything, so no way to verify what it removes. I do have a problem with the high price tag. Luckily, it comes with rebates at regular times. So if you are in no hurry, wait for those. I do recommend this app.

CleanMyMac is cute and clever – however there are far better utilities that do the same thing for FREE. – A former customer

I am using this app on my MacBOOK Air. It is a good option to clean junk files and remove unwanted apps. But it can't remove virus - compare to MacKeeper. Still a good tool.

To my surprise, Clean My Mac is a very good app to remove unneeded files. It does find a lot of files that could be considered useless (email attachments, caches, ..)
But I do not like it is forcing you to remove all files it found after it scanned your system. So don't push the big Clean button at the bottom right a way.
I recommend verifying all found files manually and remove them when you are sure they are not obsolete.

One thing I also do not like: it always drops a LaunchAgent in the ../<username>/library/LaunchAgents folder. So every time you boot your system, it will run that script (whatever it does but my guess is some sort of (adds) scheduling).
This should be a preference, so users can disable this.

I now give this app 3 stars. When the devs adds a preference to stop forcing the LaunchAgent, I would gladly rerate it to 4 or even 5 stars.

I recommend trying this before buying but make sure you remove the LaunchAgent !