MacPaw


MacPaw is a Ukrainian software company with a headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine that develops and distributes software for macOS and iOS. Its products include CleanMyMac, Setapp, Gemini Photos and more. The company was founded in 2008. MacPaw's revenue was $23 million in 2018. The company claims that one in five Macs worldwide run an app by MacPaw, as of June 2019.

History

MacPaw was founded by Oleksandr Kosovan, then a student at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The company's first app was CleanMyMac and made $4,000 in its first month. Kosovan wrote the code himself. The company was bootstrapped. Kosovan called the company, MacPaw, after Apple's operating systems, which were named after big cats like Cheetah and Tiger at the time.
MacPaw launched Setapp, a subscription service for apps, in January 2017. The company merged software development and distribution tool DevMate into Paddle's e-commerce platform in May 2017. MacPaw acquired The Unarchiver in July 2017 and Wallpaper Wizard in August 2017.
MacPaw publishes an annual survey of developers on the Mac App Store.
MacPaw houses one of the largest vintage collections of working Apple computers and devices in the world. The collection began when Kosovan purchased the Mac Museum from Tekserve.

Awards & Achievements

MacPaw won a Red Dot design award in 2017 for Gemini 2 in the Communication Design category. Setapp won a Product Hunt Golden Kitty Award for Consumer Product of the Year in January 2018. Setapp was named one of the most innovative companies in Europe in 2019 by Fast Company and won the 2019 SaaS Award for Best SaaS Product for Productivity.