Using Clean My Mac X

By That Blind Canuck, 4 July, 2025

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So a friend of mine had an extra license for Clean My Mac X and kindly gave it to me. Since I'm starting to delve deeper into the Mac world, I was just curious to know if anyone here has ever used it, if it's safe to use, reasonably accessible and worth using on my Mac Mini?

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By Maldalain on Friday, July 4, 2025 - 15:08

The app was superbly accessible unfortunately with the recent uptades it is very hard to use. You may look to other apps such as Onyx.

By Levi Gobin on Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 00:55

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

I have used both clean my Mac and Onyx extensively. Clean my Mac slows down so many max in my opinion, especially with recent features like the menu bar app, that's always monitoring system performance, etc.
with Onyx, you can do so much more than you could with clean my Mac. Although it doesn't uninstall apps like clean my Mac X does, there is another free app called app cleaner which does the same thing as clean my Mac's UnInstaller feature, but even better.

I would recommend staying away from clean my Mac, just because of the amount of background activity apps like clean my Mac X, Mac keeper, and other apps use. I used to use clean my Mac X for a while, and forgot how fast my Mac could be when I disabled it. Onyx is completely free and is completely accessible with voiceover. It even allows you to do more advanced things like enabling or disabling gatekeeper without the terminal.
another thing about apps like clean my Mac, is that if you want to uninstall them, you can't just move the app to trash, you also have to delete other hard to find demons, launch agents, etc.

By Igna Triay on Sunday, July 6, 2025 - 03:52

So giving onix a shot but, cmpared to clean my mac, does it uninstall applications in the background? Does it monitor in the background in the menu bar like clean my mac, etc, or do you have to do things like maintenance etc manually by opening the app and doing it yourself, etc? Does it have threat and virus scanning? I want to give this a fair shot so, hense my asking.? Also, every time I opeo n onix, I have to enter my password, and I mean, every, single time... Any way to stop that?
To be honest though, i've never had problems with clean my mac, its never made my mac run slow at all; and we're talking I used to run on on intel and on my 2012 macbook, its always worked well.