6 alternativesPeel: Free, open source
The best Peel alternatives
For most people the best alternative to Peel is AppCleaner, and the best free one is GrandPerspective.
AppCleanerPick it if you try lots of apps and want each one gone with its caches and settings files.FreeCompare at a glance
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| App | Price | How you pay | Mac | App Store | Developer | Setapp | Rating |
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 Peel | Free, open source | Free | Too few ratings | ||||
| AppCleaner | Free | Free | Too few ratings | ||||
 CleanMyMac | From $9.95 | Subscription | Too few ratings | ||||
 DaisyDisk | $9.99 once | Pay once | Too few ratings | ||||
 GrandPerspective | Free, open source | Free | Too few ratings | ||||
 Smol | $29 once | Pay once | Too few ratings | ||||
 App Cleaner & Uninstaller | Free to start | Free, with paid upgrades | Too few ratings |
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The alternatives, in order
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Pick it if you try lots of apps and want each one gone with its caches and settings files.
Drop an app on it and it deletes the app plus every cache and settings file it left behind, free.
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Pick this if you'd rather run 1 scan for junk, malware and old files than hunt through folders yourself.
One scan that clears junk, malware and forgotten files from your Mac and your cloud drives, for people who'd rather not dig.
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Pick it if your Mac keeps saying the disk is almost full and you need to see why.
Shows your whole drive as a clickable ring map, so the biggest space hogs stand out right away.
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Pick this if you want the same answer as DaisyDisk for free and don't mind a plainer block map.
A free, open source map of your disk where the biggest files show up as the biggest blocks.
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Pick it if you often hit email or upload size limits and want photos, PDFs and videos made smaller in one place.
A Mac compressor for images, PDFs and video, $29 once.
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Pick it if you install and delete apps often and want each one gone together with its leftovers.
Uninstalls Mac apps with their caches and support files, and manages startup items and extensions.
When Peel is still the right pick
You install and remove a lot of Mac apps and want the leftover files gone too, with a way to undo it.
Peel prices and verdictFree, open source