Buy once instead of CleanMyMac
- CleanMyMac costs
- $40a year. Apple's listing shows "CleanMyMac Yearly Access" at $39.99 for the standard yearly plan. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 4apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $9.99DaisyDisk, which pays back in 3 months
- Cost nothing
- 3freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
| AAppCleanerFinds the preferences and caches an app leaves behind | FreeFreeware | No build listed for macOS 27 yet — the newest release on the page stops at macOS 26 |
 OnyXFree maintenance and hidden-settings utility, going since 2003 | FreeFreeware | Each major macOS release needs its own build, and the current one is Apple silicon only |
 TinkerToolFree GUI for the hidden macOS preferences Apple ships but does not show | FreeFreeware | Only surfaces preferences Apple already ships; the system-level tools are in paid TinkerTool System |
 DaisyDiskSunburst map of a drive so you can see what ate the space | $9.99This version | The licence covers minor updates only, so a future major version may cost again |