Like Bitdefender, Malwarebytes for Mac Premium, and others, CleanMyMac requires a macOS version of at least Yosemite (10.10). It's Surprisingly Easy to Be More Secure Online In addition, that price gets you five licenses for Norton’s VPN and 50GB of online storage for your backups. That sounds high, but Norton is a full-scale, cross-platform security suite. At the other end of the price spectrum, Norton lists at $104.99 per year to protect five devices. Once you get past the discount confusion, this product’s pricing is in line with the competition.Īvast, Avira, and AVG are totally free, which is handy if you didn't budget for Mac antivirus. A five-device subscription will run you $90.85. Ignoring the coupon discount, you pay $59.95 for two licenses after the volume discount, about the same as F-Secure Safe for Mac. But those prices are cut by both a volume discount (always active) and a coupon discount that varies day to day. The list price for a two-device CleanMyMac subscription is $79.90, and for five devices it goes up to a whopping $199.75. (Opens in a new window)Ī one-year one-Mac subscription for CleanMyMac costs $39.95, the same (or nearly so) as Bitdefender, ESET, Kaspersky, Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac, and Webroot. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions.

A review focused on the cleanup side would take a different slant. I'm evaluating this product as an antivirus utility for Macs, one that happens to have a big collection of bonus tools to clean and tune your Mac. The product's description clearly states that it 'fights off malware, adware, ransomware, and all them -wares.' A company representative contacted me about a review because they saw my other macOS antivirus reviews. The cleanup features are useful, but the core antivirus lacks some standard features, and we found verifying its efficacy almost impossible.

CleanMyMac promises malware protection and detection, but it also encompasses a wide range of features to clean up and speed up your Mac. While CleanMyMac is clearly the company’s flagship product, other offerings include a photo cleaner, a universal archive opener, and even a wallpaper manager. MacPaw, which makes CleanMyMac, is different. Most of the companies that develop antivirus software for the Mac are dedicated to security, with products including antivirus, security suites, VPNs, and the like.

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