I tried the free version, I didn't buy it. For example, it has an integrated RAM monitor which allows you to see the percentage of used memory at the moment and clean it whenever you want.Īnd I observed that it tends to show you much more used percentage of RAM than the Apple's Activity Monitor does.
What I mean by that is that it's doing what it pretends to do when it comes to erasing trash files on your Mac.
Everything that I read was very positive and the software was even recommended by famous Apple-related podcasts in my country. I was asking myself the same question a few weeks ago and decided to look for reviews. There are better free or open-source alternatives that do everything that CMM claims to do except they do it without lying to you or trying to sell you something. Reminds me of those VPN providers you see advertised everywhere that are actually just honeypots run by the feds in the US. You shouldn't just be deleting stuff because Storage Info says 'Other'.Īlso I don't trust CleanMyMac because they lie or mislead on their web site by pulling figures out of their asses, and they advertise too much for an app of that size. This can include stuff like browser caches.
Normally the bulk of it is either local Time Machine snapshots, or the contents of ~/Library/Application Support.
I've personally seen it miscategorize 40+gb of content at a time when it thought ~40gb of my music collection spontaneously became 'Other' one day. 'Other' doesn't mean junk, it just means that Apples (frankly terrible) method of categorizing files cannot categorize it.