Comparison

OmniMac vs AppCleaner

AppCleaner does one thing (App cleaner). OmniMac does it and adds six more modules in the same app. Here are the facts, no adjectives: usage measured on the same Mac, what each does better and when to pick one or the other.

The facts

AppCleaner 3.6.8OmniMac 0.5.1
What it doesAn uninstaller: drop an app on it and it also finds the files it leaves around the system, to remove them with it.Seven modules: keep awake, ⌘Tab by windows, dynamic notch, window shortcuts, clipboard, tools (OCR, colour, keyboard, microphone) and sound
Price and codeFree (not open source)Free, open source (MIT), no accounts, no telemetry
Memory at idle (RSS)90 MB86 MB (33–37 MB of real physical memory)
CPU at idle0.000 %0.017–0.033 %
Size on disk9 MB16 MB
Threads at idle66
RequirementsmacOS (see its site)macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon and Intel

What AppCleaner does that OmniMac doesn't

  • SmartDelete: watches the Trash and offers to clean up when you drag an app into it
  • It also uninstalls widgets and plugins, not just apps
  • A separate list of system apps, protected so you can't touch them by accident

What OmniMac adds

  • It finds leftovers from apps that are no longer installed, not only while uninstalling
  • It discards system files, shared frameworks and containers of apps you do have
  • It warns about what macOS won't let it touch (Containers folders) instead of failing silently
  • It doesn't live in the background: it is a module of an app you already have open

When to pick each

How it was measured

Each app on its own on the same Apple silicon MacBook running macOS 26.5, on 9 September 2026, 50 s at idle with the cursor away from the notch after 15 s of startup. CPU = CPU time consumed divided by elapsed time (ps -o cputime); memory = RSS (ps -o rss); OmniMac's real physical memory (footprint) is 33–37 MB in the 0.5.1 measurement. One run: think orders of magnitude, not decimals. Full methodology and results in docs/PERFORMANCE.md (Spanish); the feature inventory in docs/COMPETENCIA.md.

Try OmniMac

Download OmniMac.pkgSee the code on GitHub

Free, no accounts. macOS 14.2 or later. Also brew install --cask BySergiMM/tap/omnimac.