Tidy My Mac vs Intego ONE

What Intego ONE does

Intego began in France in 1997 with VirusBarrier, and for years sold separate Mac apps, among them NetBarrier, a firewall, and Washing Machine, a cleaner. Intego ONE puts them in one app with four tools:

• Antivirus: real-time scanning of new files and processes, Quick, Full and scheduled scans, and a quarantine you can review.
• Firewall: shows which apps connect to the internet and lets you allow or block each one, in both directions.
• SmartClean: removes clutter and leftovers, uninstalls apps, and watches CPU, memory and disk space.
• Intego VPN, in the Complete plan, with an iPhone app.

Since 2018 Intego has been owned by Kape Technologies, the group that also owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost and Private Internet Access.

Intego ONE plans and prices

• Essential: antivirus and firewall, $39.99 a year for one Mac.
• Advanced: adds SmartClean, $69.99 a year. This is the plan in the table above.
• Complete: adds the VPN and covers one iPhone too, $89.99 a year.

Those are the prices each plan renews at. Intego almost always has a sale, usually 25 to 40% off the first year or the first two years, and plans come for 1, 3 or 5 Macs. There is no free trial, but every plan has a 30-day money-back guarantee. Tidy My Mac is $19.99 for the first year and $59.99 a year after that, for one Mac, with every feature included and a 7-day trial that needs no card.

Is Intego safe and worth it?

Intego is safe: it is a long-established Mac security company, its app is notarized by Apple, and its antivirus is regularly tested by AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives. Whether it is worth it depends on the plan. Essential is a fair price for an antivirus and a strong firewall. For cleanup you need Advanced, which renews at $69.99, and even then it doesn't list protection from phishing sites, which is where most Mac infections start; see do Macs need antivirus.

Where they are the same

Both have real-time antivirus with scans on demand and a quarantine, ransomware protection, adware removal, a per-app firewall, a junk cleaner, large files, an uninstaller that removes leftovers, and a CPU and memory monitor.

Where Tidy My Mac does more

• Web Protection blocks phishing, scam and malware sites, ads and trackers in every browser and app. Intego ONE doesn't list this for the Mac.
• A disk map, duplicates and similar photos, app updates with alerts for apps with known vulnerabilities, and every startup item with the app it belongs to, none of which Intego lists.
• A scam message checker, a score for your macOS security settings, camera and microphone access, and a Wi-Fi check.
• One plan with everything, and one scan for cleanup and security together.

Where Intego does more

• A two-way firewall with more detailed rules, which also controls incoming connections. Tidy My Mac's Firewall blocks apps' outgoing connections.
• Real-time scanning that runs in the background all the time. Tidy My Mac's watches new files in Downloads and Desktop while the app is open, and catches up on the rest when it opens again.
• A VPN and an iPhone app in the Complete plan, plans for 3 or 5 Macs, and two-year plans.
• It runs on macOS 12.4 Monterey and later; Tidy My Mac needs macOS 26 Tahoe. Intego asks for at least 8 GB of memory.

Can you use Intego and Tidy My Mac together?

You can, but you'd pay twice for antivirus and a firewall. Running two real-time scanners and two firewalls at once checks everything twice and makes problems harder to trace, so turn one of each off. If you keep Intego Essential for protection, Tidy My Mac covers the cleanup it doesn't have.

Prices and features were checked on Intego's own website on October 30, 2026; the ownership comes from news reports. We make Tidy My Mac, so read this page with that in mind. See the full comparison for CleanMyMac, MacKeeper, Malwarebytes and the other apps.