Cocktail $29 (about £22)

Get your Mac up to speed

The more you use your Mac, the more cruft you’ll build up that slows your machine down.

If that sounds familiar to you, try Cocktail. It’s a macOS utility that cleans up your Mac and optimises it for greater speed.

The app has five main sections that deal with your Mac’s disks, system, files, network and interface. These range from tools to clear caches and check disk statuses to more cosmetic changes, such as customising the appearance of Finder and altering hidden settings in iTunes.

If some of Cocktail’s options feel above your station, the Pilot mode can do the hard work for you. Just tell it when you want it to run and whether it should affect just your user account or all of them, then click Run. Cocktail will then get to work optimising your Mac automatically, without you needing to lift a finger.