MacKeeper Review 2025: Is It Good Enough for Your Mac?
#11 out of 70 antiviruses
Fact-checked by Kate Davidson
MacKeeper Products & Pricing
Bottom Line
Antivirus Comparison
Check the top 3 alternative antivirus programs
MacKeeper User Reviews
*User reviews are not verified
107
26
Based on 133 reviews in 6 languages
You can trust the Community! Companies can't ask us to delete or change user reviews.

LIARS AND THIEVES
Mac User
I saw this promo for the app.. In short Mackeeper uses bait and switch tactics. Mackeeper makes it a point to look like a free app and hides that it cost money UNTIL AFTER YOU WASTE 20 MINUTES DOWNLOADING AND RUNNING IT then and only then after the app freezes you have to leave the page and find out they want money. It's a subcription service but they don't make it clear whether or not you can pay by the month or have to pay up front for a year. I was told both answers and by then I just gave up. Mackeeper by you trying to be cute by hiding costs encourages distrust right off the bat and you make it point not to care at all. YOU NEED to have us trust you but I think you don't have an idea what that is.

Just uninstalled it
Mac User
The programme simply does not work anymore: my computer behaves strangely all the time needing restarts and and since many days and many attempts, the antivirus simply doesn't enable itself. When I try to reinstall, I get system messages that this programmes can't be installed because it needs updating by the developer. Isn't this all embarrassing for a "premium" product, which I paid on a yearly subscription basis. I try to get the remaining days reimbursed, since the product is simply faulty. And I refrained from using their support professional because last time this "apple certified support professional" most of all tried to bully me into buying an upgrade, and I got only rid of his insistence by going offline.
I have been relatively s...Show More
I have been relatively s...Show More

Don't Bother
Mac User
I signed up for mackeeper in June 2019 and it worked for about a month. Then, every time I'd log in it would alert me to items it found that needing cleaning. After month 1, it logged me out with no option to log back in. It would keep alerting me to problems it found, but would try to charge me for membership rather than let me log in with the one I was already paying for. When I contacted the company, they suggested I call their technicians to have them scan my computer and provide the diagnostics that the app is supposed to do. I told them I'd rather the app (that I'm paying for) do its job and they offered me no other option than calling and working with their technicians to scan the computer as the app is supposed to do. No thanks.
...Show More
...Show More

Get Alternatives
Mac User
I suggest finding other alternatives to mackeeper that doesnt spamvertise your mac after your subscription expires and gives your a headach just to unistall it. It also injects this malware called turbomac, it pops up on chrome and safari and can bypass adblockers. The turbomac problem was solved after i got rid of mackeeper on my mac. If you want to, you may go ahead and pay for the unnecessary features without ads, but overall i jest dont recommend it, seems untrustable.

They did not solve my problem and aggressively tried to sell me unnecessary products.
Mac User
They did not solve my problem and aggressively tried to sell me unnecessary products, making me think my computer is broken. I would like to upload the screenshots if i could

My computer won’t work
iOS User
I was told it was because of MacKeeper. Apple has it own security installed in the computer. MacKeeper confuses the software & causes my MAC not to work. Of course it was denied. I wasn’t given a refund one star cause I have to

Ruined my computer
Mac User
I don't know how MacKeeper gets such great reviews on blogs and forums. I have an older (2015) macbook pro that has served me very well through some pretty heavy use in architecture school and now working from home as an architect. My laptop has started to show its age with the fan sounding like its going to blast into hyperspace and programs taking longer to load than usual. I decided it was time to try to clean up the mac to try to help with the aging and improve performance. I barley keep anything on the computer itself other than apps, most of my data is stored on external drives. At first MacKeeper seemed great. It supposedly cleared a bunch of memory and unused files. A feature i did like was the duplicate file search this helped me c...Show More

Get rid or your scammers agents. Great company but terrible agents pushing stuff that people do t need.
iOS User
How can this company have people working for them that love to hack client’s information for the simple act that they didn’t do a great job when offering services and pushing people to buy stuff when people clearly don’t want to or can’t at the moment, money doesn’t come that easy.
I never had any problems with stolen information, so how after I left my review on how terrible and pushy that agent was all my information was stolen, my debit card info was used in many places, my bank account was also used in many place.
When installing the MK software I didn’t need any help, the software can be installed very easy and fast but somehow and nowadays you push for talking to an agent when there’s no need for, but ok I let that slide and I g...Show More
I never had any problems with stolen information, so how after I left my review on how terrible and pushy that agent was all my information was stolen, my debit card info was used in many places, my bank account was also used in many place.
When installing the MK software I didn’t need any help, the software can be installed very easy and fast but somehow and nowadays you push for talking to an agent when there’s no need for, but ok I let that slide and I g...Show More

Don't buy it!
Mac User
It's a scam. It really screwed up my iMac. MacKeeper's StopAd facility prevented me from opening the links in an email to read the rest of an email. Had to uninstall it so I could see the rest of the email.
MacKeeper also prevents me from opening a photo I had previously saved to my desktop. Had been able to open it and see the photo before installing MacKeeper. Now get a message from Google saying I need special app in order to see it. Can't find an app that works. Didn't have this problem until installing MacKeeper. When I complained to MacKeeper, its tech support claimed MacKeeper hadn't caused this problem. Their support wanted to charge extra to fix this. I refused to pay, so still have this problem, unless uninstalling MacKeeper...Show More
MacKeeper also prevents me from opening a photo I had previously saved to my desktop. Had been able to open it and see the photo before installing MacKeeper. Now get a message from Google saying I need special app in order to see it. Can't find an app that works. Didn't have this problem until installing MacKeeper. When I complained to MacKeeper, its tech support claimed MacKeeper hadn't caused this problem. Their support wanted to charge extra to fix this. I refused to pay, so still have this problem, unless uninstalling MacKeeper...Show More

I Hate this software.
Mac User
It's so annoying that i cannot use it anymore. Million times every day is poping up stupid question if i want to do this and that. Its just rubish. And another thing i don't understand is why we have option to choose subscription 1 month or 1 year if they are charging automaticly once month expired. If i choose 1month subscription that mens i want subscription for one month only!!!! and not even hour more.
All in all, try to go with other softwares...because this one is really with covid-19
All in all, try to go with other softwares...because this one is really with covid-19
Leave a Review
Please enter your email address to submit your review