Better served by MacKeeper
Choose MacKeeper if you want antivirus, a VPN, breach monitoring and 24/7 chat support in the same subscription as the cleanup.
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MacKeeper or macleanup.
A subscription Mac suite from Clario that bundles cleanup and an uninstaller with antivirus, a VPN, adware blocking and identity monitoring.
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PRICES AS READ2026-11-07
MacKeeper
1-month plan, 1 Mac$10.95 a month
Billed every month
12-month plan, 1 Mac$71.40 a year
First-year price shown with a discount; the page states subsequent payments of $95.40 annually
12-month plan, 3 Macs$89.40 a year
First-year price shown with a discount; the page states subsequent payments of $119.40 annually
macleanupFree$0 always
Pro$4 a month
or $36 a year
Team$3 a seat a month
from 3 seats · $30 a seat a year
Plan names as each maker writes them
Who each one serves better.
Better served by macleanup
Choose macleanup if cleanup is the whole job: caches, logs, orphaned data and unused apps, free on the command line, with every path listed before a run and nothing else bundled in.
Feature by feature.
Each MacKeeper answer is what its own pages state; follow the source to read it. Our answers come from the script and the app.
| What | MacKeeper | macleanup |
|---|---|---|
| Clears caches | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes Sections 3, 5 and 19. |
| Clears logs | Not stated on the pages we checked | Yes Section 7. |
| Finds orphan files from removed apps | Yes source | Yes Section 12. |
| Uninstalls apps | Yes source | Yes Section 21, moved to the Trash. |
| Disk usage map | Not stated on the pages we checked | Partial A text report from section 26. No visual map. |
| Free to use | Partial The Free column shows cleanup limited to one week or one time. source | Yes The command line has no limit. The app has a Free plan with a monthly run limit. |
| Mac App Store or notarised | Yes source | No Not notarised by Apple and not on the Mac App Store. |
| Open source | Not stated on the pages we checked | Partial The command line is MIT and public. The desktop app source is private. |
Where macleanup falls short.
Read these before you choose it.
- Not notarised by Apple, and not on the Mac App Store. The first time you open the app, macOS stops it and you choose Open Anyway in Privacy & Security. MacKeeper states one or the other. The steps
- A text disk report, not a visual map. Section 26 prints folder sizes for your home folder and
~/Library. - No undo. Sections 12, 21 and 24 move items to the Trash. Anything else deleted directly needs a backup to recover. What gets deleted
- A run limit in the app. The Free plan gives 15 real runs a month on each Mac. The command line has no limit.
- The app's source is private. The command line is MIT licensed and public; the desktop app is not.
Moving from MacKeeper.
The guide maps what you use there to numbered sections, with a preview before anything changes.
Pages we read.
7 November 2026: First checked