MacKeeper Review 2025: Is It Good Enough for Your Mac?

Our Score
8.0
GOOD
#11 out of 70 antiviruses
#11 out of 70 antiviruses
Katarina Glamoslija
Katarina Glamoslija Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor
Updated on: August 24, 2025
Fact-checked by Kate Davidson
Katarina Glamoslija
Katarina Glamoslija
Updated on August 24, 2025 Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor
Fact-checked by Kate Davidson

MacKeeper Review: Quick Expert Summary

MacKeeper Products & Pricing

12-month plan for 3 Macs
$71.52 / year
12-month plan for 1 Mac
$57.12 / year
1-month plan for 1 Mac
$10.95 / month
About the Author
Katarina Glamoslija
Katarina Glamoslija
Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

About the Author

Katarina Glamoslija is the former Lead Cybersecurity Editor at SafetyDetectives. She has more than a decade of experience researching, testing, and reviewing cybersecurity products and investigating best practices for online safety and data protection. Before joining SafetyDetectives, she led several tech websites, including one about antiviruses and another about VPNs. She also worked as a freelance writer and editor for tech, medical, and business publications. Outside of work, she can be found traveling (and writing about it on her small travel blog), playing with her cats, and binge-watching crime dramas.

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MacKeeper User Reviews

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Based on 133 reviews in 6 languages 8.2
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Joe Hall
Joe Hall
United States
2.0
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.
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Vicky Joe Hall
Hi Joe! We don't hide our prices, we have a pricing page on the top of our site. Why have you decided it's free?
We also clarify all the types of subscriptions on the pricing page. We have a 1-month plan as well as a 1-year plan...Show More
Gregor
Gregor
Panama
2.0
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
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Chris Gregor
Gregor, thank you for choosing our company over the years. We are really sorry to know about your latest experience though. Please, send me more of the details about your issue to chris@kromtech.com, alongside with an email addres...Show More
Amy
Amy
United States
2.0
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.

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Vicky Amy
Hi Amy! I'm sorry to hear that. Please provide me with your email, I want to investigate this issue.
vicky@kromtech.com.
Vicky from Mackeeper.
Tina
Tina
Singapore
2.0
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.
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Vicky Tina
Hi! Could you send me the email you use as MacKeeper login here: vicky@mackeeper.com? I want to investigate this issue. Could you clarify where and when did you download MacKeeper?
Also please note that MacKeeper successfully pas...Show More
madda
madda
Germany
2.0
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
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Vicky madda
Hi! Could you send me the email you use as MacKeeper login here: vicky@mackeeper.com? I want to investigate this issue. Vicky.
Erica L. Fretz
Erica L. Fretz
United States
2.0
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
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Vicky Erica L. Fretz
Hi Erica! I want to investigate this issue. Usually, MacKeeper can't cause such behavior so it looks strange, I want to look deeply into this. Could you please send me the email you use as MacKeeper login to vicky@kromtech.com? I ...Show More
Chris
Chris
United States
1.0
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
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Catherine Chris
Hi, Chris. We are sorry to hear that you had an unpleasant experience. It's recommended cleaning computers from the beggining of it's usage not only when the problems appear. MacKeeper offers some real-time scans that are made to ...Show More
Ivan Dominguez
Ivan Dominguez
United States
1.0
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
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Vicky Ivan Dominguez
Hi Ivan! Please take my apologies for your unsatisfied experience with MacKeeper.
Regarding your credit card: we don't collect any payment information on our side. We work with big trusted payment providers like Pay Pal Global a...Show More
penelope
penelope
United States
1.0
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
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Vicky penelope
Hi! Could you send me the email you use as MacKeeper login here: vicky@mackeeper.com? I want to investigate this issue. Vicky.
Kurac tinabijem
Kurac tinabijem
Australia
1.0
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
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Den Kurac tinabijem
So, why don't you cancel app notifications in macOS notifications center if pop-ups annoying you?
And I tell you a shocking truth - any subscription service, like Spotify or Netflix will also charge you automatically after 31 da...Show More
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