I don't think that's weird, I enjoy those as well. So much so that I have a newsletter where I post changelogs of various apps that had updates in the past week (https://buttondown.email/appsandupdates). Adding apps is a slow process but I'm starting to see quite a bit of repeated apps so I'll have to speed it up.
In the latest newsletter „Clean my Mac X“ is listed. I always assumed that this is some form of malware, because they advertise so aggressively. Does it really make sense to „clean“ your mac?
It cleans it in terms of identifying large files, duplicate files/images, shows you caches for apps, uninstaller, which apps and files are old and never/rarely used. And so on. It's more of a convenience tool than anything. Don't recall other features.
I think there is a certain type of company that go for fairly generic(named) software with a lot of SEO and marketing to be able to earn a lot of money. I guess there is a venn diagram of malware creators where this applies too but I don't think they are.
They are also the developers behind SetApp. I mean, that's a pretty mainstream/famous app(store?) so they collaborate directly with loads of developers/companies to distribute their apps in SetApp. If that counts for something.
Agreed, their marketing can really sketch one out but CleanMyMac X is tremendously useful. I use almost every function it has once it a while. The app updater for example, it not only updates Sparkle apps but also lists outdated Mac App Store apps. The MAS itself fails to list those updates for some reason most of the time in its "Updates" pane.
In practice it's more of a software discovery email, with the added bonus of knowing that they are being worked on actively, and finding out what sort of things they are working on at the same time. It's not really about "bug fixes and improvements" and I trim those out if I have time.
