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Alun Baker has explained that Apple wasn’t prepared to let MacKeeper simply undergo its normal notarization checks, and looked thoroughly at historical issues such as Clario’s business associates and marketing methods as well. It’s delivered through a two-part installer: the first Installer package, which is separately notarized, downloads and installs the main app and its supporting components, which are also notarized. The current version of MacKeeper is, as Clario claims, properly and completely notarized.

#Mackeeper review apple mac#

This might appear surprising, but a great many current Mac users don’t share the same associations that we do, and Clario didn’t want to risk losing or confusing existing users.

Rebranding breaks the commitment we have made to our current userbase and although it wasn’t the easiest route to take we believe the brand’s transformation will shine through in the end.” The founding principles of MacKeeper remain the same – worry-free, secure, and private online experiences, available for all. We have tackled the issues we had in the past and it has been recognised by both our users and third parties like Apple and AppEsteem. “We have transformed MacKeeper into a consumer-first company and we want to take the honest approach with everyone and address legacy perceptions of the brand head-on. So I put that question to Clario’s CEO, Alun Baker, and this is his answer: The most obvious question is why, under its new ownership, anyone would want to continue selling a product, however good it might be, under a name which to many of us is synonymous with PUP.

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. I therefore try to stand back and won’t enter into arguments as to why no housekeeping product should ever be used. However, it appears that despite my advice, many users like these products, and find them useful. Every so often an editor persuades me to review a product in that category, and I find myself deeply conflicted. 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. This is not a review of MacKeeper as a product. 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. Several weeks ago, I expressed surprise that MacKeeper had now been notarized.