Clean My Mac useful?

@drmoss_ca drmoss_ca
Wed, 06 May 2026 10:48:36 +0000

It’s taken me this long to realise something: the app I tried as a Macupdater replacement—App Cleaner & Uninstaller—is not part of Clean My Mac, it is part of MacCleaner Pro. The latter is written by Nektony in Odessa and provides quick and effective e-mail support. I had cast aspersions on it as I had incorrectly assumed it was related to the questionable app.

It does a good job of completely removing apps (I’ll have to give up on AppDelete being Intel only, and no longer supported since the death of its author), and a thorough job of removing cruft, but as with any you have to check what it thinks can go. It does want to assassinate some files that I know are part of currently installed apps. It’s app-updating function is very good, and while I have settled on Updatest, I still run it occasionally as it does sometimes find an update that Updatest has missed.