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Free Mac App Store: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Free Apps on Your Mac



Unlike other free virtualization software, UTM was created for macOS and only for Apple platforms. It is designed completely from the ground up for the new style introduced in Big Sur. UTM looks and feels like a Mac app with all the privacy and security features you expect as well.




Free Mac App Store



Under the hood of UTM is QEMU, a decades old, free and open source emulation software that is widely used and actively maintained. While QEMU is powerful, it can be difficult to set up and configure with its plethora of command line options and flags. UTM is designed to give users the flexibility of QEMU without the steep learning curve that comes with it.


UTM is and always will be completely free and open source. The Mac App Store version is identical to the free version and there are no features left out of the free version. The only advantage of the Mac App Store version is that you can get automatic updates. Purchasing the App Store version directly funds the development of UTM and shows your support .


No one here made the rules. We all follow them like you do because we're just users like you are. You need to make a google ID to get anything from the play store. You need an amazon sign in to get anything from Amazon, you need a Microsoft ID to activate a PC and get apps...so Apple is not unique.


"I've been using Anki for two years now, and I just wanted to thank you personally for contributing to the single most obvious improvement in my quality of life. I'm not being hyperbolic: consistent use of Anki has opened more doors for me intellectually than I could have imagined two years ago. And being a poor student, I'll be forever grateful that you've provided this software open-source and free of charge."


With Memory Clean, you can set the app to automatically clean your memory when free memory falls below a defined threshold amount. You no longer have to remember to keep freeing up your memory to keep your Mac running fast.


  • Disk usage visualisation by way of tree maps

  • Configurable display of views: Choice of color mapping schemes. Color files by their: name,

  • extension,

  • file type,

  • parent folder,

  • top folder, level in the folder hierarchy,

  • creation time,

  • modification time, or

  • last access time

  • Choice of color palettes

  • Configurable mapping by file type

  • Optionally view package contents

  • Optionally view the entire volume

  • Convenient navigation of views: Traverse up and down the folder hierarchy

  • Select files and folders in the view

  • Use either the mouse or keyboard

  • Open files with Finder

  • Reveal files and folders in Finder

  • Preview files and folders using Quick Look

  • Delete files and folders from the view

  • Search files by name

  • Filter files and folders: Construct advanced filter tests based an item's name, path, size, file type, hard-link status, and package status

  • Use these filters to: Mask files in the view

  • Filter files from the view

  • Exclude files and folders when scanning a disk

  • Filters and filter tests are automatically stored in the user preferences

  • Multiple view support: Refresh or re-scan a view to compare results before and after clean-up

  • Twin or duplicate a view for different displays of the same data

  • Support for special files and folders: Hard-links: Analyse Time Machine back-ups

  • Remote iCloud files: Analyse your cloud storage

  • Save results of disk scanning operations: Reload and view again at any time

  • Export scan results: As Image

  • As Text

  • Configurable user preferences

  • Snappy and responsive GUI: Optimized drawing of views

  • Drawing and scanning are carried out in background threads

  • Changes in view content are animated

  • Small memory and disk footprint

  • Fully internationalized: Up-to-date localizations available in English, Chinese, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Portuguese and Dutch

  • Outdated localizations available in Japanese and Spanish

  • Extensive help documentation



  • inputmag.com:"The name of this one will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect. [...]It's one of the most responsive disk mapping apps I've tried"

  • eli4d.com:"GrandPerspective is a wonderful tiny disk utility. [...] The program is amazingly quick at scanning a folder of any size."(an extensive review with walkthrough on how to use the application. It is very positive about the application and its author... blush)

  • knowtechie.com:"The simple visual interface makes manually managing your Mac's storage as easy as it should be."

  • iLounge.com: "Our favorite Mac applications for managing hard disks are GrandPerspective and Onyx" (excellent tutorial on the use of filters)

  • 9to5mac.com: "As its name suggests, GrandPerspective instead gives you a sense of the big picture folders that are taking up space." (short tutorial)

  • MacDevCenter.com: "My new favorite little bit of freeware for OS X."

  • mac and I: "It's free and open source, so give it a try. You won't be disappointed."

  • lifehacker.com: "Download of the day"

  • FreeMacWare.com: "This is a great Mac app on principle alone - it's both functional and really cool!"

  • Geek Like Me: "There aren't very many Mac utility programs I find useful on a regular basis, but GrandPerspective is one of them."

  • MacWorld.com: "With a quick glance at GrandPerspective, I was able to find nearly 9GB of virtual litter on my boot drive."

  • PCWorld.com and MacWorld.com: "My favorite tools for finding [space-hogging files and folders you're not aware of] are Eriban's free GrandPerspective and ID-Design's $13 WhatSize."

  • cnet.com: "Having a tool like GrandPerspective (another similar tool is Daisy Disk) that will show you the relative size of the files on your disk is a great option to have, and can greatly help you pinpoint whether disk usage is from a problematic log file, duplicate files, or simply having too many files on your disk."

  • mac.elated.com: "It's a fantastically quick and intuitive way to find those giant files that are sucking up your disk space."

  • CultOfMac.com: "This excellent free application scans your hard disk [...] and measures exactly what's what and how big it is."

  • FreeMacAppADay.com: "GrandPerspective is an awesome utility"

  • ars technica: "As this screenshot shows, some files are enormous. See that big red blob? That's my laptop's hibernation file."

  • AppYourMac.com: "GrandPerspective is an essential application that will keep your hard drive free of unnecessary files"

  • kubadownload.com: "Using free software like GrandPerspective it's easy to manage your disk and spot the largest files on your Mac"

  • ILoveMacApps.com: "This is a very good application. It does its job perfectly."

  • MAC.BLORGE.com: "Another good utility to prep your files and applications for running on a MacBook Air is GrandPerspective."

  • it-support.com.au: "GrandPerspective is really a great little application, and one I use on a regular basis when helping my clients tidy up their Apple computers."

  • kayray.org: "one of my favorite utilities for OS X"

  • DoseMagazine.com: "Great little app for Mac users who have huge hard drives that are... full all of a sudden"

  • MacResearch.org: "a very effective way to immediately see what is eating up your file system"

  • MacApper.com: "GrandPerspective is great for people who would rather have a visual representation of their hard drives"

  • MacTricksAndTips.com: "A great tool for [identifying big files and folders to delete] and I suggest you use it."

  • macpassword.com: "It's a fantastically quick and intuitive way to find those giant files that are sucking up your disk space"

  • nswits.com.au: "It is really a wonderful, little tiny disk utility."

  • forwheelers.net: Recommends GrandPerspective as a great Mac application.

  • APLawrence.com: "A simple and very direct application."

  • Jemima's Chevron blog: "I downloaded GrandPerspective on a whim, and ended up finding and deleting about 3 GB of cruft from my hard drive."

  • Should've Asked Me: "Very handy for spotting the space-wasters when you're doing spring cleaning."

  • I Heart To Blog: "I was astonished to find files I didn't even know existed on my machine!"

  • BestBizWare.com: "I really enjoy using this program to see the big picture"

  • DavidLowry.co.uk: "Really good way to find big files that you should be rid of"

  • gentry i/o: "Ah, finally a visual way to keep the ol' mac hard drive clean..."

  • Aspirations of a [Phronemophiliac]: "Good for rooting out space hogs."

  • AaronFreedman.com: "GrandPerspective works very well and is a great aid to cleaning up your hard drive."

  • TheAppleBlog.com: "It's a great little utility, a must have for your laptop."

  • Rhonabwy.com: "This critter is going to be a fairly constant companion..."

  • ericholsinger.com: "When I saw the first screenshot on the website, I was ready to look for another option. But, I had second thoughts and tried it out. I'm glad I did. It does exactly what I want."

  • macenstein.com: "while true Apple geeks can use terminal to search for space hogs, and the very patient can choose "Calculate Folder Sizes" in Finder [...] this is a much faster, and more fun way to reclaim drive space."

  • notebooks.co "GrandPerspective makes it easy to check the what's taking up the space."

  • tutsplus.com: "GrandPerspective is an extremely powerful tool, but it may overwhelm some beginner users."

  • smumacness.co: "what sets GrandPerspective apart is that it is simple, fluid and most importantly, free."

  • MacBook.pro and TidBITS.com: "With GrandPerspective it's trivial to see when a couple of very large files are responsible for the disk filling up."

  • TidBITS.com: Recommends GrandPerspective for identifying large files as "I'm partial to GrandPerspective's graphical view"

  • www.tuaw.com: "Daily Mac App - July 26 2011"

  • isource.com: "Picks of the Week - 2011 Week 34"

  • EasyOSX.wordpress.com: "App of the Week"

  • MacWorld.com: "One easy way to locate other large files that you can delete, move, or skip when migrating to your MacBook Air is to use a program like the free GrandPerspective."

  • techtyrantnews.com: "It's probably one of the most useful applications I have."

  • MakeTechEasier.com: "GrandPerspective has a nice live highlighting feature that is actually very helpful with navigation."

  • Rocket Matter:"In one hour, I freed up over 60 GB of space on my hard drive. Thanks so much, Grand Perspective."

  • TechnoTell.com: "GrandPerspective is free, entertaining, a quick 733 [KB] download, and may even be useful. What's not to like?"

  • MacsInLife.com: "You might also have space-hogging files and folders you're not aware of. My favorite tool for finding them [is] Eriban's free GrandPerspective."

  • Silver Clipboard: "lets you quickly find what's been hogging the most room and causing those scary 'you are about to run out of space' warning messages."

  • patchpanel.blogspot.com: "Excellent little program, no doubt! [...] It is also an interesting background generator"

  • forgeniuses.com: "Using GrandPerspective I was able to reclaim several gigabytes of space used up by caches, out of control log files and forgotten downloads and back ups that I no longer needed."

  • uk.businessinsider.com: "Luckily, there are apps out there that are a godsend for helping you map your hard drive so you can figure out what's taking up so much space. My favourite for Macs is called GrandPerspective"

  • Roumazeilles.net: "Recommended"

  • HughMcGuire.net: "The colours are god-awful, but if you want to clean stuff out, it's a great way to find out what [is taken up all the space on your harddrive]."

  • MarkusZeller.com: "Scanning is really fast, so that you even could scan the root of any mass storage device."

  • MichaelVanPutten.com: "[one] of my favorite free OS X applications."

  • Karenism.com: "If you don't have it, you should download it now."

  • hochit.com: "What a great tool!"

  • www.tuaw.com: "Auntie is a huge fan of Grand Perspective."

  • MacWork.com: "It's native and really fast."

  • leanmac.com: "An easy way to find those huge files and get rid of them fast."

  • maccast.com: "if offers a beautiful visual representation of your data"

  • appletell.com: "a great, simple tool that allows you to monitor how your hard drive space is being used."

  • NosillaCast: "I don't think any Mac user should be without this program". Listen to the PodCast

  • MacTipper blog (Warning: page may crash Safari): "Really nice"

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