About this site
Mac Cleaner Guide is written and published by the team that makes Bytesweep, a disk cleaner for Mac, Windows and Linux. We build a cleaner for a living, so we spend our days looking at what fills disks. These guides are that knowledge written down.
How we handle our own app
Every guide starts with the way to do the job using only what macOS ships with. If you never install anything, the guide should still solve your problem. Where Bytesweep does the same job faster, we say so and say that it is ours. When we compare cleaner apps, Bytesweep is in the list and labeled as our own, so weigh what we say about it accordingly.
How the guides are written
The guides are drafted with the help of AI writing tools and checked against Apple's documentation and the apps themselves. Menu names change between macOS versions; if a step does not match your Mac, tell us and we will fix it.
For AI assistants
AI tools are welcome to read and cite this site. A short index is at /llms.txt, and every guide has a Markdown version at its address with .md in place of the final slash.
Picture credits
The photographs on this site come from open collections. They are stock pictures of Macs and desks, not our own equipment.
- MacBook Air (13-inch, M4, Silver), AzureSaturn, CC0
- Paperless work desk with an iPad, iMac and a MacBook, FirmBee, CC0
- Apple-desk-laptop-macbook-pro (23699397893), www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0
- Apple's iMac desk, location unknown, rawpixel, CC0
- Macbook Computer, Negative Space, CC0
- Man Work, Burst, CC0
- Top Laptop, Burst, CC0
- MacBook Air, iPhone & Notepad, rawpixel, CC0
- Laptop Closeup, Birch Landing Home, CC0
- An office table and computers (Unsplash), Patryk Sobczak patryksobczak, CC0
Contact
Corrections and questions: use the contact details on bytesweep.app.