MacCleaning – Software to Clean Your Mac

When I made the switch from PC to Mac four years ago, I was amazed by how effortlessly I could maintain my Mac (I still am). But four years later, I’m almost sure that I could do a better job in maintaining and cleaning my Mac. One of the many reasons I’m a Mac user is that there are some very creative and talented developers who strive to make the Mac computing experience even better.

Enter MacCleaning. MacCleaning is a nifty menubar utility that effortlessly monitors your hard drive for free space, cleans up system junk, and offers ejecting mounted drives with just one click. Instead of over promising and under-delivering, MacCleaning does a very efficient job.

MacCleaning Options

In the preferences, there’s an option to be warned when you free space drops below a certain percentage. Currently, those percentages are at 10%, 20%, 30%, and 40%. What I like about this is that you can set to be warned and then run the program to help you free up some space. I probably wouldn’t set it to 10%, so I’d say the least you need to be warned at is 20%.

MacCleaning lets you choose which places you wish to clean. Those places are:

• System Caches
• User Caches
• System Logs
• User Logs
• User Trash
• User Downloads folder.

There’s also the option to launch MacCleaner at login. I’d say that this isn’t really necessary because you probably won’t be cleaning your Mac every day, but I’d like an option to launch every two weeks to run some cleaning.

There are two versions of MacCleaning available. I used the Pro version for review purposes, but there’s also the free version. However, the free version only offers fast clean and real time disk monitoring – there is no option to eject mounted drives with one click, and the warning to be reminded when your hard drive space drops to a certain percentage is removed.

The requirements for MacCleaning are minimal – Mac OS X or later, 512 MB of RAM or more, and 2.8 MB of HD space available.

Get MacCleaning Free!

MacCleaning are currently offering their Pro version for just $4.99 – reduced from the normal price of $9.99. But guess what? We have 15 copies of MacCleaning to give away! The first 15 people who leave a comment on this post (with a legitimate email address) will receive the Pro version of MacCleaning. Contest ends Tuesday 27th December, 2011 11:59pm CST.