Cocktail
Cocktail is a general-purpose Mac maintenance and optimization utility designed to clean, repair and optimize a user's computer. It offers tools for disk cleanup, system repair, performance tuning, and various macOS tweaks, organized into five feature categories. The app has been used by hundreds of thousands of Mac users over the years and includes an automated "Pilot mode" for hands-off maintenance. Cocktail editions have historically been versioned to match major macOS releases.
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1 suggestionCocktail has been flagged as discontinued and is no longer actively supported or updated by Maintain, the developer. The app was 32-bit and became incompatible with macOS 10.15 Catalina (released in 2019) unless it was updated — a sign that development largely ended well before that. No native Apple Silicon build has been released, and there are no recent updates from the vendor. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), the Intel-only Cocktail will stop launching entirely at that point. If you currently rely on Cocktail for system maintenance, begin migrating your workflow now. Modern alternatives with confirmed native Apple Silicon support include CleanMyMac X (paid, commercial), Disk Diag (free/paid, system monitoring), or simply using macOS's built-in tools like Disk Utility and Activity Monitor, which are often sufficient for routine maintenance on modern Macs. iStat Menus is also a popular choice for system monitoring and optimization among power users.
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