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Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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MacPaw is a SCAM
May 31, 2023

I am so upset I was duped by this fraud. I have been billed five times for one computer in recent months. And it is very difficult to get reimbursed. Moreover, when I tried to use the software (both Clean My Mac and Gemini) it only told me what my computers problems were, but did not allow me to clean the computer. For that you need to get an upgrade and pay more. This is a total scam, and paddle and pay pal should be ashamed they are involved with this company.

Date of experience: May 31, 2023
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scam
January 27, 2022

I paid for the service. They tried to bill me before the contract was up 4 months prior and then turned me off because I didn't pay it. They are a scam. The folks that take up the billing is Paddle. Both do not do anything to help reinstate the situation. They get back with complicated instructions to reinstate while you have already paid. Not worth the money or effort to deal with them. I just removed the software and will go else where.

Date of experience: January 27, 2022
Arkansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Trouble Maker App
June 15, 2022

Stay away from this application! I have tried over and over to cancel my subscription and I only get into an endless loop that does nothing to solve this issue. I keep having to cancel my credit card due to Paddle Net / MacPaw continuing to recharge it. Once you are in, it's impossible to get out.

Date of experience: June 15, 2022
Virginia
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Beware!
December 26, 2023

Their products may be fine but take extreme caution when trying their wares on trial as you may find charges against you, particularly if you have an Apple Card.

Absolute, total pain to get such charges wiped by both MacPaw and Apple - ridiculous! Traditional credit card companies are much, much easier to deal with.

MacPaw behaves in an all-too-familiar way trying to foist specious charges on consumers.

Date of experience: December 26, 2023
Belgium
4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Their legal situation is confusing at best, the name of the software is Gemini, but they send emails under the name MacPaw and the payment they require with Paypal is to yet another company.

They don't send an invoice.

They charge your Paypal account for an amount higher than mentioned on their website

They don't provide their legal address.

The software bugs and can only be used once.

Unfriendly customer service. They provide two different legal addresses.

Date of experience: October 18, 2016
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A con.
May 29, 2023

I have just been charged for something that I did not want. Having been told that I had already had a week's trial for my Mac cleaner I thought no more about it until I saw the debit on my account. Now I need to get my money back!

Date of experience: May 29, 2023
Sweden
1 review
4 helpful votes
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For many years I do use CleanMyMac now and I'm very satisfied.
I do use latest version 4. 2. 1 and I love it.
If I do have problems with e.g. my memory or whatsoever, I start this programme.
Gemini (also from MacPaw) is not my favourite programme, simply because I don't need it.
I can advice CMM.

Date of experience: February 28, 2019
California
34 reviews
126 helpful votes
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There is no cancel subscription option, so they really try to rebill you. To avoid this, I had to find their email and write "Please cancel my subscription for XXX. Do not rebill for the next year."
Christine responded with a 30% off offer. I repeated my demand. Christine gave me a complex solution in iTunes, then instead of following up to verify it was cancelled, she wrote: "We didn't receive a reply from you, therefore we assume that things are going great" This is the same stunt internet fax and other companies try, and it's old and embarrassing because legitiamate companies make it simple to cancel.

But the biggest reason not to but this software is that it does a very sloppy job deleting duplicates, and I am going to have to reclean my 12 TB of data from the originals because this program deleted so many of the files in the process leaving empty folders.

DO NOT BUY.

Date of experience: April 26, 2020
Pennsylvania
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Gemini II A NIGHTMARE!
November 30, 2017

A NIGHTMARE!
A nightmare! Was free and worked well. Then changed so it was no longer free and you had to upgrade. Paid for the upgrade as found it useful. The upgrade added photos and itunes search and who knows what else. Totally failed and crashed my hard drive! It now restarts on its own every 20 or so minutes. Contacted the company and they blamed me and we not helpful and continue to sell this VERY BAD PRODUCT! Blamaed the victum. Not that I wanted it but did not even offer to return my money or send me a working copy of the original program, which is no longer available. DO NOT USE.

Date of experience: November 30, 2017
Kentucky
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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Theives
October 21, 2022

We purchased a subscription of CleanMyMac of $34.95 on September 9,2022. We canceled our subscription on September 27,2022. We canceled our subscription in 18 days. Even though they said we would get a full refund if we canceled within 30 days they have reported they will not refund the money. A robot message reported the correct dates we began the subscription and the date we ended the subscription. Then it went on to say that because it was not canceled with 30 days we won't get our refund. Go figure. They have a scam operation taking your money and not refunding it. BEWARE!

Date of experience: October 21, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Buyers Beware
September 7, 2023

They take your money automatically without permission and won't give it you back. Asked PayPal to get it back and they won't help

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
New Mexico
1 review
0 helpful votes
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SCAM!
June 30, 2023

This company is BS and auto renewed without my consent and is refusing to refund the charge insisting I speak with their bot. DO NOT BUY

Date of experience: June 30, 2023

Overview

MacPaw has a rating of 1.7 stars from 12 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. MacPaw ranks 1478th among Software sites.

service
5
value
6
returns
5
quality
5