Free trial: Yes, with full options access.

Price: $29.95 (Yearly subscription for 1 Mac).

Covers either 1 or 3 Macs depending on tier.

Yearly subscription or lifetime purchase options.

Good range of tools for maintaining your system.

There is a 60-day money back guarantee, so if you sign up to a tier and find the app isn’t to your liking you can cancel the account. IObit does offer a free trial, but the app will only act as a diagnosis program, fixing no issues it finds until you upgrade to a paid tier. The price is a little high for a single Mac license, being $59.95 for 12 months, but there are other options available for multiple machines, with the Premium plan covering three Macs and costing $129.95 a year or the Lite tier that covers three Macs for life (all be it without 24/7 support) and costs $179.95. This app has a nice design and a decent range of features to maintain your system. One thing to remember though when using the photo sweeper, you’ll want to check the results before you commit to deleting them, as we had a couple of instances where very similar, but different, images were listed as identical. The app is also officially notarised by Apple as a safe product to use on your Mac.

MacBooster 8 is a product from iObit software, which has a proven track record of reliable and safe software. We did see a higher number of cookies in Chrome than we might have expected, and further investigation suggested that some of these were ones that seemed benign, but we’re not going to penalise the scanner too much for being over-cautious. The Virus & Malware scanner is a nice addition, as it searches for known malware and potentially malicious cookies that may be stored in your browser cache. One thing we’d like to see though is a map of the whole disk usage, rather than just the junk files, as we feel this would give a clearer picture of the state of the overall system. Using the features is fast, with results returning within a minute or so. The interface acts in a similar way across all the elements, so you can quickly see and change which apps automatically load when you turn on your Mac, the large and old files that are wasting space on your drive or identify duplicate files and photos. If you want to reduce the impact on performance, clicking the Clean button will allow MacBooster to automatically end any non-essential processes and free up the memory. For example, clicking on Memory Clean will display how much RAM is currently being used and you can dig down to see exactly which processes are the culprits by clicking on the Details button. Selecting any of the tools from the main screen opens a window where you can see how that particular element is affecting your system.

When you first launch the app, the larger area contains three highlighted elements: System Junk, Virus & Malware Scan, and Turbo Boost, while additional tools in the left-hand column include Memory Clean, Privacy Protection, Uninstaller and a few others. The interface is clean and simple, presenting you with a main pane and a sidebar containing more options. Distribution: Available direct from MacBoosterĪs the name suggests, MacBooster is now on its eighth version and has matured into a solid suite of tools for keeping your Mac ticking along.Price: $59.95 for Standard Plan (1 Mac).

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