Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CleanMyUSB
I built CleanMyUSB to solve a problem: macOS leaves hidden files all over USB drives, causing issues when using them with Windows PCs, car stereos, cameras, and other devices. Real problems it solves: - USB drives not playing music in car stereos (thanks .DS_Store!) - Windows users complaining about "junk files" when sharing - SD cards showing "file error" in cameras - Can't delete Spotlight indexes on exFAT drives What it cleans: - .DS_Store files: The culprit behind "USB not recognized" in car stereos - Spotlight indexes (.Spotlight-V100): Wasting space and useless on other systems -…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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FreeUpMyMac▲110Hey HN Ex YC/Google engineer turned indie maker here - excited to share something I just shipped. The System Data in my Mac was taking up 300GB and it took me months to figure out how to clear the old cache, logs, junk and more. And CleanMyMac is a subscription - I refuse to pay subscription fees for Mac apps that run locally. So I built FreeUpMyMac an offline, lifetime Mac cleaner that clear junk with 1 click. And helps you visualize your storage with TreeMap/Sunburst. Hope it’s helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback Tunde
Jan 2026 · freeupmymac.com · its alternatives →
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CleanMyMac X▲418Keep your Mac clean, fast, and secure in two clicks.
2018 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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Automatically clean & backup your MacOS desktop in 1 click
2022 · phuctm97.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Tidey▲90Hey HN! I built Tidey because my Desktop was always a mess. The problem: Files pile up on Desktop and Downloads. Screenshots, PDFs, random downloads. You save them "temporarily" and forget about them for months. The solution: Tidey sits in your menubar and watches those folders. When you're ready to clean up, it shows you each file one by one. You preview it, then click Delete (goes to Trash) or Keep (moves to ~/Documents/Kept/, organized by year/month). That's it. No complex rules, no automation magic. Just a fast way to make decisions about files you've been ignoring.…
Jan 2026 · trytidey.com · its alternatives →
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MultiDrive▲467Hey HN! I'm the CTO at Atola Technology, and we have launched MultiDrive: a free disk backup/clone/wipe tool that does things differently. After 17 years of work with drives, I got tired of seeing simple disk operations locked behind paywalls. Macrium killed their free version, EaseUS hides cloning in paid tiers, and so on and so forth. Another reason is that all the existing solutions are overly complicated. It must be simple enough for my mum to start erasing a USB stick or making a full drive backup. All in all, we thought the community deserved better. What makes MultiDrive…
Dec 2025 · multidrive.io · its alternatives →
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DaisyDisk▲161See & recover hidden gigabytes from your Mac disks
2014 · daisydiskapp.com · its alternatives →
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OptiClear▲71Clean your Mac storage with duplicate file and photo cleanup
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Pretty Clean▲139macOS disk cleanup tools and programmer friendly. Size < 4MB
2022 · pretty-clean.github.io · its alternatives →
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De Stash▲67See, search and clean up your Mac storage, 100% private
22d ago · destashmac.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud space has limits. Cloud Cleanup makes it feel infinite
2025 · cleanmymac.com · its alternatives →
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Mac Cleanup Go▲100Instead of a traditional command-style CLI, it runs as a TUI in the terminal, allowing users to inspect cleanup targets before proceeding. On my macOS machines, caches and app data often take up more than 40% of disk usage. Manually cleaning them each time felt tedious, so I built this tool to make the process easier. While similar tools exist, I found it hard to quickly understand how items were categorized or how important each cleanup target was, so I built my own. Repository: https://github.com/2ykwang/mac-cleanup-go Feedback is welcome.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MacKeeper▲127Your Mac needs upkeep. MacKeeper keeps it clean, and secure.
2021 · mackeeper.com · its alternatives →
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The premier macOS data recovery software
2020 · cleverfiles.com · its alternatives →
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Room Service▲128Built this after repeatedly running into “Disk is full” on macOS with no clear explanation. Started as a cleanup tool for dev environments (Xcode, Docker, node_modules), but the harder problem turned out to be understanding what’s actually taking space. macOS groups a lot of this into “System Data”, which isn’t very actionable. Recently, local AI tools made this worse. Model files and caches (Ollama, Hugging Face, Whisper, etc.) grow silently and are spread across different locations. The goal is to make disk usage more transparent before deciding what to remove. Would appreciate feedback,…
Mar 2026 · roomservices.pro · its alternatives →
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File Sumo Pro▲131Keep your Mac light. Find and delete huge files
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source Tinder for desktop files on MacOS. 100% Free.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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