MacCleaner Pro - How to Get Started

MacCleaner Pro is the all-in-one software program that keeps your Mac digitally clean and boosts its performance. This program helps you clean up your Mac’s hard drive from tons of junk files, and as a result, creates more storage space.

Before we start, watch this video to see how easy it is to use MacCleaner Pro to clean up your computer.

Video guide: How to use MacCleaner Pro

How to check the storage on a Mac

Launch MacCleaner Pro.
The app will automatically scan your Mac`s hard drive and display a summary of your disk usage in detail.

A bar chart displays the types of files that are taking up space on your Mac, as well as the amount of available storage. Some of the types include:

System files
Applications
Duplicates
Documents
Movies

Music
Pictures
Archives
Other volumes

Fast Cleanup Mode

Under the bar chart, you can see the Fast Cleanup Mode section. Here, you can quickly free up space and optimize the performance of your Mac.

Click Review and Clean Up.
Review the listed categories and toggle the checkbox for any item you do not wish to remove or optimize.
Click the Remove button to delete all the selected junk files and perform the RAM optimization.

Left Panel Guide

The left panel serves as the main navigation for the application’s features, categorized into: Overview, Clean Up, Speed Up, Manage Files and Tools.

Clean up your Mac

If you want to clean up your Mac’s storage, switch to the appropriate section in the app’s window:

Click on Clean up in the sidebar.
Here, you can view the following types of junk files:
- System files
- Caches
- Language files
- Installation files
- Trash Bin
- Mail attachments
- Downloads
- Screenshot files
- Purgeable space

Maccleaner Pro showing the Clean Up section

Select the files you want to remove.
Click Review and Clean Up.
Confirm the action by clicking the Remove button.

How to make your Mac faster

If your Mac is slow, or even worse, if it sometimes freezes, MacCleaner Pro can fix this problem. Here’s how:

Go to the Speed up section from the sidebar.
Here you can see categories of operations that can be run for optimal Mac performance:

Optimize RAM
Disable startup programs
Reindex Spotlight search
Reindex Mail

Remove browser extensions
Remove Internet plugins
Quit heavy applications

Select the options you want to perform and click Review and Speed Up.
Confirm the action

Note that you can view each option in more detail. For this, just click on each option and manually select the tasks to run.

Manage storage on a Mac

With MacCleaner Pro, you can see the list of your documents, apps, and system files taking up disk space on your Mac.

Switch to the Manage files section from the sidebar.
Review the files taking up the largest amounts of disk space on your Mac.
Select and remove unneeded files. For some categories, like duplicate files or applications, you will have to launch the bundle’s additional tools.
Review the files taking up the largest amounts of disk space on your Mac.
If you want to remove files, launch the appropriate tool provided by the app and perform a deep cleanup.

Tools section

MacCleaner Pro provides a set of special professional utilities for those users who want to clear even more space on their Mac computers.

You can remove duplicates, uninstall applications, and analyse disk space using the options from the Tools list in the left panel. However, you can run additional Pro bundled tools

Duplicates

Switch to this section to review the list of duplicate files on your Mac.

You can use Smart Select to automatically choose copies for removal or manually review the list of duplicates for each file in the right panel.

Click Find all with Duplicate Finder to launch a separate application, which will give you more features like finding duplicate folders, similar folders, similar media files, merging folders, and more.

Applications

Click Applications in the left panel to review the list of apps installed on your Mac and remove unused ones.

Run an additional tool, App Cleaner & Uninstaller, to get more features for managing apps: find leftovers of previously removed apps, reset apps, and check apps for updates. For this, simply click the Manage apps with App Cleaner button.

Biggest Files

Click Biggest Files in the left panel to view the list of all your files displayed in order from largest to smallest. Here, you can locate the biggest items and remove them to free up more disk space.