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
Great, thank you!!!
Thank you
One of the best initiatives in recent times. Absolutely exceptional, both for Mac beginners and the most skilled.
All the best Zaone and congratulations!
Well done Zaone... There was really a great need for such a section!!!!
Unfortunately, Mac applications are very expensive...
Very useful.
Is $50 a lot? No comment, then why do you have mac? Only for Black market?
Super Z. thanks for the guy, parallels at $50 and other bonuses superrr thanks!!!
Until now, I had them from "specialty websites", but it's a shame not to take advantage of such offers 🙂
@virus does this mean having a Mac and paying $50 for an application? You are very rich and you throw money out the window like that. Tell me, too, please, what is your salary? Or are you still not working? do you have family Are you late? do you have a car Do you have kids? If not, please refrain and give your opinion about yourself and not about others. If you use "Black market" it doesn't mean that everyone uses it, don't say something about others you don't know.
So far, I don't need all the $50 crap apps to keep installed on my Mac just for the sake of having them or paying for them, honestly.
And finally, I didn't buy my Mac to use it on Facebook or iChat.
Ionica, you contradict yourself, which tells me that the first time you wrote to let the world know that you also have an opinion! Here was a software suite that cost over $400 to purchase each program separately! You want it, you pay, you don't want it, no one gets upset like the donkey in the village! Yes, the software is expensive, the Mac is expensive, more expensive than a Windows MPAD! And you, incidentally, chose OSX, because it is more expensive, plus the related car! And then why are you complaining? Isn't it your choice according to your budget? Or is age and tide to blame? 😉
I appreciate zaone's initiative, useful packages at a good price, either to get into legality or just for the attractive price and useful applications, everyday!
@ionica
It's not a $50 application, but a package of Mac applications that, taken separately, are $618!!! It's like taking Fruit Ninja, NOVA 3, Fifa 13, NFS Undercover and Plants vs. Packed Zobies for €0.89, instead of €15 or whatever.
1. The cacophony is intentional, I say this because there would be many people who would blindly "penalize" me.
2. The titles are random, as they came into my head. 🙂
@Doc I expressed my own and personal opinion and I think I have the right since the comments are open on this topic. For me, $50 for 10 applications seems expensive, even if it's a bundle, for the money we get compared to the EU or the USA. I chose OSX because it is the only one that offers me what I need. I didn't complain, I expressed my opinion. It's everyone's choice depending on what they want to do with that Mac, and here you know what I'm talking about (programming, music, photo-video editing). I like zaoane's idea, until now I used paddle.com for such bundles, but that didn't stop me from creating an account on macupdate.com yesterday and downloading the free bundle.
@icetkk I expressed myself wrong. I think I know how to read, I don't need a translator, maybe $1000, I'm not curious, because none of them help me at all. Maybe for you or someone else it is exactly what they need. It's like going to the supermarket and putting 200 lei on the table and the girls at home will fill your basket with whatever they want and you actually need mineral water.
Super ! Thank you.
@Ionica: @virus does this mean having a Mac and paying $50 for an application? => I know not, but it depends on each one what it consists of! It just hurts me when I see posts like this: Mac software is expensive.... The first reaction is: It is important for him to have poppy seeds, bread is not so important 😀
1. You are very rich and you throw money out the window like that. => No, I don't throw away, I only buy what I need.
1.1. Tell me, too, please, what is your salary? I think you wouldn't want to know!!!
2. Or are you still not working? At 35, what do you think?
3. Do you have a family? Yes, I am 10 years old!
4. Do you have installments? Yes, I'm still 25 years old!
5. Do you have a car? Yes I have. Do you want details?
6. Do you have children? Yes I have
7. If not, please refrain and express your opinion about yourself and not about others. If you use "Black market" it doesn't mean that everyone uses it, don't say something about others you don't know. => I just don't use "Black Market"
8. So far, I don't need all the $50 crap apps to keep installed on my Mac just for the sake of having them or spending money on them, honestly. => No comment here, why are you reacting?!
9. And finally, I didn't buy my Mac to use it on Facebook or iChat. => Facebook= I don't have an account, I don't use iChat
@virus I say that we are taking the discussion where we do not reach any meaning. I keep mine, you keep yours 😀
Just like you buy only what you like and what you need, so do I. I would also like Adobe CS6, but it hurts my soul to pay $1800 for it. And isn't it expensive? :)
Related to the discussion correctly. It's just that the respective price is the same for windows... It depends on the software, but exactly Adobe has the same price as osx or win...