Open source alternatives to CleanMyMac

6 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what CleanMyMac does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What CleanMyMac does

Clear caches, logs and junk filescore
Uninstall apps with their leftover filescore
See what is using disk spacecore
Find duplicate and large files
Malware scanning
Manage login items and background apps
Memory and maintenance tasks

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
MacSaiOpen source Mac cleaner with disk cleanup, optimizer and malware scanning	Replaces it100%	2.2k+41	86	2 days ago	100%	Install like an app	BSD-3-Clause
Covers everything on the checklist.See the evidence Clear caches, logs and junk filescoreYesuser and system caches, logs, language files Uninstall apps with their leftover filescoreYesA pattern-matching engine that finds every associated file See what is using disk spacecoreYesdisk treemap Find duplicate and large filesYesLarge & Old Files Malware scanningYesSignature-based scanning at 3 depths (Quick / Balanced / Deep) Manage login items and background appsYesManage login items and launch agents with per-item enable/disable Memory and maintenance tasksYesfree RAM, run maintenance scripts, verify the startup disk
MangoDiskDisk cleaner with duplicate finder, app uninstaller, and space analyzer	Replaces it90%	5.7k+305	447	yesterday	95%	Install like an app	GPL-3.0
Covers all 3 core jobs. Not shown: Malware scanning.See the evidence Clear caches, logs and junk filescoreYesClear system and app caches to reclaim disk space Uninstall apps with their leftover filescoreYesRemove apps along with their leftover files See what is using disk spacecoreYesSee where your disk space is going at a glance. Find duplicate and large filesYesFind duplicates and keep one copy per group Malware scanningNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Manage login items and background appsYesManage startup items and background activity Memory and maintenance tasksYesfree memory manually or automatically
PeelMac app uninstaller that removes leftover files and finds duplicate files	Replaces it85%	607+158	2,566	10 days ago	100%	Install like an app	GPL-3.0
Covers all 3 core jobs. Partly: Memory and maintenance tasks. Not shown: Malware scanning.See the evidence Clear caches, logs and junk filescoreYescaches of developer tools Uninstall apps with their leftover filescoreYesUninstall apps completely See what is using disk spacecoreYesSee what fills your disk. Find duplicate and large filesYesFiles and whole folders with identical contents Malware scanningNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Manage login items and background appsYesbackground items, extensions, plug-ins Memory and maintenance tasksPartlyTweak your Mac:** settings macOS already has
Mole-GUINative SwiftUI Mac cleaner for caches, app leftovers and disk usage	Replaces it75%	94+23	39	10 days ago	Too few	Install like an app	GPL-3.0
Covers all 3 core jobs. Partly: Find duplicate and large files. Not shown: Malware scanning; Manage login items and background apps.See the evidence Clear caches, logs and junk filescoreYesClean caches, uninstall apps and their leftovers Uninstall apps with their leftover filescoreYesuninstall apps with their leftovers See what is using disk spacecoreYesTreemap with drill-down, reveal in Finder, move to Trash Find duplicate and large filesPartlyOld `.dmg`, `.pkg`, `.iso`, `.xip` files, move to Trash Malware scanningNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Manage login items and background appsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Memory and maintenance tasksYesPending maintenance steps and performance diagnosis
macspace-releasesModular macOS cleaner for system data, disk space and debloating	Covers one part45%	481+23	366	23 days ago	94%	Install like an app	MIT
Covers 2 of 3 core jobs. Partly: Memory and maintenance tasks. Not shown: Uninstall apps with their leftover files; Find duplicate and large files; Malware scanning; Manage login items and background apps.See the evidence Clear caches, logs and junk filescoreYesbreaks it down: caches, logs, reports Uninstall apps with their leftover filescoreNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. See what is using disk spacecoreYesMacSpace shows what fills System Data Find duplicate and large filesNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Malware scanningNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Manage login items and background appsNot shownNeither the README nor the website mentions it. Memory and maintenance tasksPartlycleans stale macOS updates and old Time Machine snapshots
purge-appNative Mac app that clears caches and junk files to the Trash	Not checked yet	1.9k+20	248	2 days ago	90%	Install like an app	MIT

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