CleanMyMac X alternatives

Pearcleaner is the free answer to app cleanup: drag an app in and it hunts down every preference file, cache and support folder the standard uninstall would leave behind. It's open source with around 13,000 GitHub stars, and it became the community's default CleanMyMac X alternative for good reason — no subscription, no upsells, no nagging. Honesty requires noting the development pace slowed in late 2025. Even so, it remains the...

DaisyDisk displays your disk usage as an interactive sunburst chart. Click any segment to drill down into the folder responsible. A collector pane lets you pick files and folders to delete, then removes them all at once. Beautiful, fast, and requires no ongoing subscription. One of the most visually appealing Mac utilities ever made — a favourite since its launch in 2010.

OnyX has been maintaining Macs since 2003, and a rebuilt version still lands with every macOS release — a level of consistency almost nothing else in this category can claim. It clears caches, runs maintenance scripts and exposes hidden system settings that would otherwise need Terminal commands. Power users treat it as a first-aid kit for a misbehaving Mac. It is completely free, no strings attached. Download the exact build for...