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He's recommending Clean My Mac. I am a bit out of my medium on Mac, even though I use it 8hrs a day, but I was under the impression Clean My Mac is little more

by ikurei 9y ago

He's recommending Clean My Mac. I am a bit out of my medium on Mac, even though I use it 8hrs a day, but I was under the impression Clean My Mac is little more than bullshit, albeit with very effective and somewhat shady marketing practices. Do the more expert Mac users in HN recommend it?

yoz-y 9y ago
For uninstalling applications it is quite useful. By default macOS applications still do not have a good way of defining which files belong to which application and when you simply remove the .app file a lot of crap stays on your computer. It has also handy tools to remove developer cruft one accumulates. MacPaw is actually quite respected as a developer. Enough so other developers trust them to steward the "Netflix for apps" Setapp.
- leemailll 9y ago
  For uninstall, I use AppCleaner. Small footprint, only 5.1MB, and I can use Alfred workflow to delete apps with a few keystrokes
  - jeffhuys 9y ago
    AppZapper clocks in at 3.2MB, and even has a nice sound/screen effect when zapping an app :)
    - rusinov 9y ago
      I like AppZapper too, but developer stopped updating the app recently (I got this information via email exchange with a developer.)
  - smnscu 9y ago
    FWIW I am another very happy long time user of AppCleaner. More stuff I install with brew-cask on my macs: https://github.com/andreis/cfg/blob/master/brew-cask.txt https://github.com/andreis/cfg/blob/master/brew-cask.txt
synthmeat 9y ago
They have rather aggressive marketing tactics for sure, but I've installed it the other day, ran it, and it freed up almost 70GB on 512GB driven to 90% capacity. App looks and works professionally.
porsager 9y ago
Is there any chance you're actually thinking about Mackeeper? I've seen those two confused before. MacKeeper is indeed shady, but I think Clean My Mac is a great piece of software.
- s_dev 9y ago
  Also use Clean My Mac as part of SetApp bundle -- only positive experiences here.
- ikurei 9y ago
  Now I feel terrible for bad-mouthing an apparently respected company... I could swear I've seen those "Your Mac is having a problem" ads that fake being a system error trying to get me into Clean My Mac 3, but may be it was MacKeeper.
romanovcode 9y ago
I find it ironic that these types of tools are no longer needed/desired on Windows but now are coming to MacOS.
- mitchty 9y ago
  They've been around for a long time on OS X.
- ikurei 9y ago
  I use Windows, but way less than Mac and Linux, so I might not be very up-to-date. I use CCleaner regularly and it saves several gigabytes of disk space every time, do most Windows user not need/desire CCleaner now?
  - romanovcode 9y ago
    Because since Win8 it does not become bloated over time like it used to.
sneak 9y ago
He's also recommending Gemini, which is crap software, as well as Telegram, which is crap crypto.
stevoski 9y ago
Yes, recommended. When you upgrade from one Mac to another, you can use "Migration Assistant" to get all your apps, docs, and settings on the new Mac. This _also_ brings across all the leftover cruft from apps you no longer use, but whose data is still in your ~/Library folder (hidden, contains the working data for most apps) Repeat a couple of times, and your current Mac will have large amounts of files that are leftover from your current mac, your previous Mac, _and_ even from your earlier Mac! "Clean My Mac" will help remove this accumulated cruft. Source: Mac developer whose product is guilty of using ~/Library to store a large database.
Rjevski 9y ago
I use Clean My Mac, mostly for the privacy aspect of removing usage history/etc. It's not strictly necessary (just like CCleaner on Windows is not - your PC won't explode if you don't CClean for years) but could help giving you back a few gigabytes of cache/temp files.
rmrfrmrf 9y ago
Onyx, AppCleaner, and good-old find(1) all day. Mac directories are well-known enough that you can usually scrub cruft pretty easily.
scarlac 9y ago
You are almost certainly mistaking it for MacKeeper, which is what pretty much everyone does when I recommend it. It's really sad because CleanMyMac (CMM) is one of the only cleaning tools I've ever used and can recommended, particularly on a mac. It's surprisingly high quality for a clean up utility. The uninstaller is very convenient for me and I use it often, as it tries to detect configuration files and asks to remove them as well.

by ikurei 9y ago

yoz-y 9y ago

For uninstalling applications it is quite useful. By default macOS applications still do not have a good way of defining which files belong to which application and when you simply remove the .app file a lot of crap stays on your computer. It has also handy tools to remove developer cruft one accumulates. MacPaw is actually quite respected as a developer. Enough so other developers trust them to steward the "Netflix for apps" Setapp.

leemailll 9y ago
For uninstall, I use AppCleaner. Small footprint, only 5.1MB, and I can use Alfred workflow to delete apps with a few keystrokes
- jeffhuys 9y ago
  AppZapper clocks in at 3.2MB, and even has a nice sound/screen effect when zapping an app :)
  - rusinov 9y ago
    I like AppZapper too, but developer stopped updating the app recently (I got this information via email exchange with a developer.)
- smnscu 9y ago
  FWIW I am another very happy long time user of AppCleaner. More stuff I install with brew-cask on my macs: https://github.com/andreis/cfg/blob/master/brew-cask.txt https://github.com/andreis/cfg/blob/master/brew-cask.txt

synthmeat 9y ago

They have rather aggressive marketing tactics for sure, but I've installed it the other day, ran it, and it freed up almost 70GB on 512GB driven to 90% capacity. App looks and works professionally.

porsager 9y ago

Is there any chance you're actually thinking about Mackeeper? I've seen those two confused before. MacKeeper is indeed shady, but I think Clean My Mac is a great piece of software.

s_dev 9y ago
Also use Clean My Mac as part of SetApp bundle -- only positive experiences here.
ikurei 9y ago
Now I feel terrible for bad-mouthing an apparently respected company... I could swear I've seen those "Your Mac is having a problem" ads that fake being a system error trying to get me into Clean My Mac 3, but may be it was MacKeeper.

romanovcode 9y ago

I find it ironic that these types of tools are no longer needed/desired on Windows but now are coming to MacOS.

mitchty 9y ago
They've been around for a long time on OS X.
ikurei 9y ago
I use Windows, but way less than Mac and Linux, so I might not be very up-to-date. I use CCleaner regularly and it saves several gigabytes of disk space every time, do most Windows user not need/desire CCleaner now?
- romanovcode 9y ago
  Because since Win8 it does not become bloated over time like it used to.

sneak 9y ago

He's also recommending Gemini, which is crap software, as well as Telegram, which is crap crypto.

stevoski 9y ago

Yes, recommended. When you upgrade from one Mac to another, you can use "Migration Assistant" to get all your apps, docs, and settings on the new Mac. This _also_ brings across all the leftover cruft from apps you no longer use, but whose data is still in your ~/Library folder (hidden, contains the working data for most apps) Repeat a couple of times, and your current Mac will have large amounts of files that are leftover from your current mac, your previous Mac, _and_ even from your earlier Mac! "Clean My Mac" will help remove this accumulated cruft. Source: Mac developer whose product is guilty of using ~/Library to store a large database.

Rjevski 9y ago

I use Clean My Mac, mostly for the privacy aspect of removing usage history/etc. It's not strictly necessary (just like CCleaner on Windows is not - your PC won't explode if you don't CClean for years) but could help giving you back a few gigabytes of cache/temp files.

rmrfrmrf 9y ago

Onyx, AppCleaner, and good-old find(1) all day. Mac directories are well-known enough that you can usually scrub cruft pretty easily.

scarlac 9y ago

You are almost certainly mistaking it for MacKeeper, which is what pretty much everyone does when I recommend it. It's really sad because CleanMyMac (CMM) is one of the only cleaning tools I've ever used and can recommended, particularly on a mac. It's surprisingly high quality for a clean up utility. The uninstaller is very convenient for me and I use it often, as it tries to detect configuration files and asks to remove them as well.