With this article, we are launching a monthly series in which I will present the best software offers for Mac. In addition to the discount offers that appear in the Appstore, many developers of applications for the Apple operating system use the bundle system. Such a bundle can contain several different programs, offered at a reduced price, for a limited period of time and there are many sites that offer such bundles, but you have to discover them, find out about offers, etc. so I will do this for you and I will present them to you briefly.
The discounts are very good, you can usually buy several hundred dollars worth of software for only 20-50 dollars. You receive licenses for each individual program, and you can usually install them on as many computers as you want, unless otherwise specified in the terms and conditions of each individual program. I recommend that you buy the programs you use in order to benefit from technical support and to support the work of the developers who created them. You don't have to pay a fortune for this if you use the bundles recommended by me below.
Just the ones presented today offer you 34 software programs totaling $1245 for just $95.
In the following days you can purchase the following bundles:
1. The MacUpdate Bundle (available for 3 more days!!!) – $49 for 10 programs totaling $618 ($568 discount) – can be purchased following this link.
The programs it contains are:
- Parallels Desktop – 79.99 USD – the main program through which you can use Windows on Mac, it can run Windows applications in parallel, integrated with the OSX interface, or you can run a separate Windows instance. If you have programs that only use Windows, Parallels Deskop is the ideal solution to run them on Mac. If you don't have Parallels Desktop, that's reason enough to get this bundle for just $49. You also have 9 more programs that you can use or give as a gift!
- DevonThink PRO – 79.95 USD – an information manager that helps you manage your documents based on tags and relationships between them, ideal when you have a lot of documents and keep them all in one directory.
- Prizm 2 – 49.95 USD- an OCR program (recognizes text characters from any document) that allows you to edit any text in any file!
- Motion Composer -149 USD for those who work in web design – a tool for creating animations and interactive content, supports Flash and HTML5 Also for those who work in design, the bundle also contains a collection of 1000 OpenType fonts – worth 99 USD
- iStat Menus 4 – 16 USD – a utility that shows you through a dashboard at any time everything that happens in the kitchen of your Mac: processes, memory and processor usage, temperatures, network status, and much more
- PhotoStyler 6 – 29.99 USD – one of the many photo editing options for mac, with the help of filters, containing over 100 templates
- DiskAid 6 – 29.90 USD – an alternative to iTunes for synchronizing, copying and backing up files on and from iPhone/iPod/iPad
- Mac Internet Security – complete security solution for three Macs – 74.98 USD
2. Offer Mac Bundler (8 days left!) – $49 for 10 programs totaling $434 ($385 discount) – can be purchased following this link.
Contactizer Pro – 119 USD – a contact management program that synchronizes with Contacts, Mail.app and allows you to make a call on your iPhone/other smartphone to any contact directly from the application
- KeyCue – 25.99 USD an application with which you learn the shortcuts from the keys for each application or keep CMD pressed to see all the shortcuts of the active application – very useful!
- Disk Drill Pro -89 USD- recovers data from hard drives with problems, monitors their status and notifies you when you are in danger of losing data
- AppShelf -9.9 USD- here you can save all the serial numbers of the purchased programs, many big sites give you the possibility to import directly into AppShelf the SNs for the entire bundle
- Default Folder X - 34.95 USD - you set your favorite directories and remember them in the open and save windows 702 Premium Fonts - 99 USD
- Circus Ponies Notebook -49.95 USD- the equivalent of OneNote from office, it allows you to take notes and organize them, along with any type of files
- Color Splash Pro – 9.99 USD- a photo editing application - specialized on a single effect: make your images black and white with "splashes of color"
- Cinch - 7 USD - a window management application that allows you to set the windows as in the Aero interface on Windows - to have them share the screen vertically or horizontally, etc.
3. Finally, for those of you who play on Mac, we also have a bundle of games - Name Your Price Indie Gamer Bundle - some of the bundles, especially those that contain games, invite you to choose the price you want to pay, you can pay a symbolic price but you only get part of the games, you can pay the average price to get them all , or, if you want to support the developers of those games, you can pay anyway.
This time, you have 6 Mac games for which you can pay $3.87 or 3 for which you can only pay $1. The 6 games cost a total of 62 USD. You can buy this bundle following this link.
List of 6 games: The Journey Down, Aztaka, iBomber Defense Blades of Time, SpaceChemand cubemen
4. A FREE BUNDLE! For almost three more days, MacUpdate also offers a free bundle, for which you only have to leave your email address. You can download the bundle following this link.
Contains:
- grappler - a program that helps you download audio and video files from the Internet
- Color Strokes, Light Frame si Photo Batch - three photo editing programs, one for colors, the other for adding frames to photos and the third for simultaneous adjustment/resizing operations on several photos at once
- Videos Rotate – a program that helps you rotate a video that you shot in the wrong orientation
- Date Guardian - program for securing own files with 448-bit encryption
- Mac Cleanse - a general cleaning program on Mac of accumulated files: logs, caches, etc
- SnapDear – a dedicated program for screenshots
