Then there are options added by the apps themselves which aren’t needed on every computer. Sure, you can delete that app by dragging it into the trash bin, but there are always little remnants floating around the library and other spots on the hard drive taking up space and slowing things down. But over time, things get cluttered inside your hard drive. Most people spend their whole Mac lives working without any kind of fancy utility. So, here it is in all it’s unabashed glory. Since I’m the guy with the brutally honest opinions here at AG, I was tasked with reviewing it.

Recently, MacKeeper came onboard as an advertiser here at Apple Gazette, and I was sent a free license to check out.

Problem was, you still need some of those utilities. Sure, most of them were there, but they were in individual programs, not one big app. Since I moved over to the Mac, I noticed that I didn’t have the same range of options for utilities. There was Norton Utilities to scan for viruses, I had a defragger handy too, and all sorts of other goodies that consumed my time. When I was spending my days in the Windows world, I had lots of different utilities to fix broken things. UPDATE: In response to the overwhelming number of negative comments on this review (at the bottom of this page), the company that created MacKeeper has fired back with a response, claiming that they have been the victim of an unethical competitor who’s trying to tarnish their reputation via “paid blog posts, advertisements, and an army of comment and forum spammers to make false claims and scare our potential customers.” Read all about it here.

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