Guide · October 2026

The 8 best Mac cleaner apps in 2026

Apps that free up space on your Mac, from all-in-one cleaners to free single-purpose tools.

We make Caretaker, so it's first on our list. Other apps' prices are from their makers' sites, October 2026, as they list them.

01Our pick

Caretaker

Best forCreative workPriceFree · Pro from $5.99 a month

Made for video, music, design and 3D. It clears junk, caches and leftovers, and knows the media caches and render files of creative apps like Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Blender and Ableton. Caches are deleted for good, since apps make them again; files you might want go to the Trash first and can be restored for 90 days. It also keeps versions of your projects and offloads camera cards.

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CleanMyMac

Best forAn all-in-one cleanerPriceFrom $39.95 a year

MacPaw's all-in-one cleaner and the best-known paid one. Junk cleanup, an uninstaller, maintenance, malware checks and a disk map called Space Lens.

Visit CleanMyMac ↗

DaisyDisk

Best forSeeing what fills your diskPrice$9.99 one-time

A fast, visual map of your disk as rings. You pick what to delete. It can break down System Data and scan cloud storage. One licence covers five Macs.

Visit DaisyDisk ↗

Sensei

Best forCleanup with hardware healthPrice$29 a year or $59 one-time

Cleanup and an uninstaller, plus drive health, battery, temperatures and a disk benchmark.

Visit Sensei ↗

MacCleaner Pro

Best forA bundle of cleaning toolsPriceFrom £31.36 a year

Six tools from Nektony in one: junk cleanup, a duplicate finder, a disk analyser, an uninstaller, memory and startup items.

Visit MacCleaner Pro ↗

OnyX

Best forFree maintenancePriceFree

A long-running maintenance utility: verifies system files, deletes caches, rebuilds indexes and changes hidden settings. Each version supports one macOS version.

Visit OnyX ↗

AppCleaner

Best forRemoving apps completelyPriceFree

Drag an app onto its window and it finds the files the app left around your Mac, then deletes them with it.

Visit AppCleaner ↗

GrandPerspective

Best forA free disk mapPriceFree, or $2.99 on the App Store

Draws your disk as a treemap, each file a block sized by the space it takes.

Visit GrandPerspective ↗

Questions

What is the best Mac cleaner for video editors?

Caretaker, because it knows the media caches, previews and render files of Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro, and never touches your projects.

Is there a free Mac cleaner?

Yes. Caretaker's free edition cleans junk, large files and duplicates and has an uninstaller and a disk map. OnyX, AppCleaner and GrandPerspective are free too.

Try Caretaker.

Free to download. Pro free for 7 days, from inside the app.

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