Several weeks ago, I expressed surprise that MacKeeper had now been notarized. Following discussions with the good folk at Clario who now own and develop this product, and in the spirit of fairness and objectivity, this article looks at the current version of MacKeeper, at what it does, and how it has changed.
This is not a review of MacKeeper as a product. For over thirty years, as any reader of MacUser in its day or MacFormat now will be aware, I have disliked products which attempt to perform ‘housekeeping’ and clean up. Every so often an editor persuades me to review a product in that category, and I find myself deeply conflicted. However, it appears that despite my advice, many users like these products, and find them useful. I therefore try to stand back and won’t enter into arguments as to why no housekeeping product should ever be used. What I try to do here is assess whether someone looking for this type of product should look at MacKeeper to see whether it meets their needs.
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