Lets you clean, repair and optimize your Mac

Cocktail for Mac

Cocktail for Mac

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  • Latest Version

    Cocktail 18.6.4 LATEST

  • Review by

    Michael Reynolds

  • Operating System

    macOS 15.0 Sequoia or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

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  • Filename

    Cocktail18SE.dmg

  • MD5 Checksum

    fadc69fa4ae0af9b2f5da0016a92640a

Cocktail is a general purpose utility for OS X that lets you clean, repair and optimize your Mac. It is a powerful digital toolset that helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world get the most out of their computers every day.

The application serves up a perfect mix of maintenance tools and tweaks, all accessible through a clean and easy to use interface. The app's features are arranged into five categories that helps you manage various aspects of your computer.

It also comes with an automatic Pilot mode that allows you to simply press a button and relax, knowing that Cocktail for macOS will take care of the rest.

Cocktail for Mac is installed at more than 250.000 computers world wide. The largest part being private individuals, but Cock tail can also be found at large international companies, educational institutions or newspapers.

Features and Highlights
  • Enable or disable journaling
  • Repair disk permissions
  • Set disk spindown time
  • Prebind and re-prebind entire system or selected folder
  • Run cron scripts
  • Change startup mode and language
  • Modify sleep settings
  • Force empty trash
  • Rebuild Launch Services database
  • Update whatis and locate databases
Alternatives

If you are looking for Cocktail for Mac alternatives, we recommend you to download CCleaner for Mac or CleanMyMac X.

How to Use


Drag the app to the Applications folder

Launch the app and enter admin password

Select a section: Disks, System, Files, etc.

Click “Execute” to run selected maintenance tasks

Use "Scheduler" to automate regular cleanups

Quit the app once tasks are completed

System Requirements

macOS 10.10 Yosemite or later (varies by version)

Intel or Apple Silicon Mac

PROS
  • Easy-to-use maintenance interface
  • Automates macOS cleanup tasks
  • Supports deep system optimization
  • Offers repair and rebuild tools
  • Lightweight and fast performance
CONS
  • Not free, trial is limited
  • No real-time system monitoring
  • Basic UI design feels outdated
  • Requires caution for advanced tools
  • Limited support for latest macOS betas
Note: Free to try, 10 launches trial.

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What's new in this version:

- Addresses a critical issue where Cocktail may not launch on macOS Sequoia 15.6
- Addresses a rare issue in which keyboard layout may change after clearing system caches
- Addresses an issue in which Cocktail may cause kernel extensions not to load properly
- Addresses an issue in which Cocktail may unexpectedly quit while rebuilding XPC caches
- Fixed few problems with user privacy protections
- Fixed a bug in which some items in /private/tmp directory were not deleted
- Improvements on the "Perform essential system maintenance" procedure
- Minor interface improvements
- Updated Automator actions
- Resolves a number of other issues discovered in the previous release