How to cancel a Setapp subscription?

1. Log in to your Setapp account. n2. Visit the Subscription page. n3. Click Manage subscription. n4. Scroll down to the bottom → click on Cancel subscription. n5. Finish the cancellation process.

How do I remove a device from Setapp?

1. Go to your Setapp account → log in to it. n2. In the left sidebar, select Manage devices. n3. Find your device you want to remove → click on Disconnect.

How to delete a Setapp account?

1. Sign in to your Setapp account. n2. Visit the Account settings page. n3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page → click on Delete account. n4. Finish the process by entering the password and confirming deletion.

How to uninstall Setapp Mobile

You can easily remove Setapp from your iPhone or iPad: n1. Tap and hold the Setapp Mobile on your Home Screen. n2. In the pop-up menu, choose Remove App → Delete App Marketplace → Delete. n. Deleting Setapp Mobile doesn't delete the apps you installed through it; you can still use them until your billing period ends. Then, only their basic (free) features will stay available. To remove those apps, delete them like you deleted Setapp Mobile.

November 21, 2025

Step-by-step guide on how to uninstall Setapp on Mac

Written by

A content creator with a background in tech support and quality assurance, focused on writing clear, helpful guides for Mac optimization.

Sergio Tereshchenko

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Alex Holovchenko

As of mid-2025, Setapp gives you access to over 260 Mac and iOS apps under one roof. Monthly/yearly fee for Mac is $9.99/107.88 and for iOS is $4.99/53.89. The price may bite, especially if you don’t use many of the included apps anymore.

Perhaps you’ve streamlined your workflow, rely mostly on built-in Apple apps, no longer need third-party utilities for your daily tasks, or want to clean your Mac from top to bottom.

Anyway, if you want to uninstall Setapp, the detailed guide on how to do it right is on me.

Keep scrolling down and learn how to remove Setapp from Mac completely without leaving any related files behind in two ways, and how to uninstall the apps installed via Setapp.

This Article Contains

Ways to remove Setapp on Mac
- 1. Manually with Finder
- 2. In one click with App Cleaner & Uninstaller
How to uninstall apps installed with Setapp
FAQs

Video: How to uninstall Setapp on Mac

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Ways to remove Setapp on Mac

There are two main ways to delete Setapp from your Mac. You can go the old-fashioned manual route, checking every Library folder yourself. Or, you can use App Cleaner & Uninstaller, which automates finding and deleting hidden files.

I checked Setapp version 3.48.0 on my MacBook Pro M3, Tahoe, which resulted in comparing two approaches:

Method	Difficulty	Time	Pros	Cons	Best for
Manual uninstall	Complex	10 min	Free; no third-party tools needed	Risk of missing hidden files; takes longer	Who don’t mind digging into Library folders
App Cleaner & Uninstaller	Easy	< 30 sec	Fast & reliable; removes every trace in one click	Requires a download of an extra tool	Beginner-friendly

Setapp pre-uninstall precaution

Note:

Before you delete Setapp, one important thing: uninstalling doesn’t cancel your subscription. To avoid getting charged again, you’ll need to cancel it first. You can find how to do it in the FAQ section below.

Uninstall Setapp manually with Finder

After you cancel your Setapp subscription, you can safely move on to uninstalling the app. But when dealing with manual uninstallation, you should know: every Mac app creates hidden support files to keep it running. Just dragging Setapp into the Trash won’t clean those up, meaning you’ll still have leftovers eating space on your Mac. To avoid this:

Run Setapp.
From the top menu bar, click Help → select Uninstall from the dropdown.
Choose Keep Applications to remove only Setapp.

Delete all Setapp-related files. To do so, open Finder → press Cmd + Shift + G → check these directories for anything with setapp in the name and trash them:

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~/Library/Application Support
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~/Library/Application Scripts
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~/Library/Caches
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~/Library/Saved Application State
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~/Library/Containers
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~/Library/Group Containers
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~/Library/Preferences
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~/Library/Cookies
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~/Library/Launch Agents
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Setapp caches in Finder

Empty your Trash.
(Optional) Restart your Mac for a clean refresh.

Uninstall Setapp in one click with App Cleaner & Uninstaller

If you want a guaranteed clean uninstall, including every hidden file, use Nektony’s tool – App Cleaner & Uninstaller. It’s built exactly for this kind of job. Here’s how it works:

Close Setapp with Activity Monitor.
Install and open App Cleaner & Uninstaller.
Find and select Setapp among the apps → click on the Uninstall button.
Confirm deletion of all Setapp files.

Told you. One click on the uninstall button, and Setapp and all its related data are gone.

Already removed Setapp manually?

You can still open App Cleaner & Uninstaller, switch to the Remaining Files tab, and let it detect any leftovers. Then, you select them and click Remove, and your Mac is spotless.

Setapp leftovers in App Cleaner & Uninstaller

How to uninstall apps installed with Setapp

If you’d like to delete a few apps you installed using Setapp, here’s how:

Open Setapp.
Go to My Apps in the sidebar.
Find the app you want to remove → click on it.
Open the dropdown next to the Open blue button → select Uninstall.

If you want to delete Setapp and all its installed apps at once:

Open Setapp.
In the top menu, click Help → Uninstall.
In the pop-up, choose Uninstall Completely.

Remember:

This built-in uninstall doesn’t delete support files. For a thorough cleanup, I suggest you run App Cleaner & Uninstaller and use it to uninstall apps on your Mac correctly, safely, and effortlessly. What’s more, you can delete all the apps installed with Setapp at once.

Run App Cleaner & Uninstaller.
Find and choose the Setapp app(s) you want to delete → click Uninstall.
Confirm.

Final setup: simplify your uninstall routine

If you’ve made it this far, you now know every way to delete Setapp from your Mac. From manual cleanup to full automation, it’s all covered.

But if you want to skip the manual checks, App Cleaner & Uninstaller saves you time and guarantees a spotless uninstall. It’s the tool that makes your uninstallation flow complete, quick, and perfectly clean.