Where to watch for selling applications for the Mac? 5 best services

Applications for Mac are much more expensive than for the iPhone and iPad, as a good professional applications even more. However, developers often arrange discounts and sales, giving their applications individually or in bundles. All such proposals from Mac App Store, you can learn from our daily column, but in addition to the shop Apple applications, there are a lot of different sites and services where you can get hold of high-quality applications for little money. All these places and will be discussed in this article.

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MacUpdate

MacUpdate It is positioning itself as a substitute for Mac App Store by Apple and offers more than 40,000 applications. If you create an account and will buy the application through it, the service will keep track of the serial numbers of all your applications and as soon as they appear for updates - you will get an immediate notification. A useful feature, but we are more interested in discounts.

Function MacUpdate Promo six days a week, it offers a variety of Mac-applications 50% discount for a short period of time. At the same time, of course, you have to buy the application through MacUpdate, and not through the Mac App Store. Discounts are not always quite so impressive, however, unlike other services, MacUpdate offers only well-known and popular applications.

Even more interesting for us to offer, it is the sale of a 50-dollar bundles 10 applications that MacUpdate arranges several times a year. Discounts in such bundles reach at least 90%. Often, one of the applications included in the package has a price much greater than $ 50. For example, last year offered a bundle of Parallels Desktop for $ 50, which costs $ 80, and 9 other applications.

StackSocial

Unlike MacUpdate, StackSocial offers not only the application for the Mac. You'll also find a wide selection of different products, online courses, resources for designers, etc. scatter discount is wide enough, some things are only 10-15% discounts, while others give almost nothing.

Chip StackSocial are bundles Name Your Own Price. Several times a year are offered bundles with Mac-cool applications. Now, for example, there is a bundle with Fantastical and Path Finder 6. Some of the applications are available at any price, but to get access to the best applications, it is necessary to name the amount, which is higher than the current average price at the time of purchase.

If the average price is $ 10, you will have to pay $ 10 and 1 cent to unlock all of the applications from the set or you can just pay $ 1 and get 3-4 out of ten applications. Of your money goes to charity, and when buying the bundle, you can choose from a list of Charitable Organizations. This model was first used Humble Bundle.

Two Dollar Tuesday

Two Dollar Tuesday - a service that notifies you about the applications available for a mere pittance. Every Tuesday you offer a few Mac-applications that can be purchased for $ 2 for a limited time. Almost all of the applications available in the Mac App Store, but the discounts reach epic proportions. It happens that you can buy for $ 2 a couple of applications, one of which is worth $ 30, and this, for a moment, 93% discount!

Two Dollar Tuesday has a newsletter, subscribing to which you will always be up to date with the hottest offers. Of course, you will not be interested in all proposals, but within a few months you can find a real gem for a great discount.

The Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle is the founder of the propagation model applications as part of bundles, which is now used by many services and sites.

Traditionally, it provides a set of games, and you are responsible for determining how much to pay the developers, how much - to the service, and how much to send to charity. As well as in StackSocial, to get access to the best applications, you need to pay the price, which is higher than the average cost of the bundle at the moment.

Although the developers are not particularly pet Mac-gamers in recent years the situation has improved markedly. Not always, all games of the bundle are compatible with the Mac, however, some pieces are definitely typed. Again, this fact will be clearly shown within the specification, so that it will not be for you a "surprise."

If you play on your Mac, you should visit The Humble Bundle. In addition to the main steep bundles, they offer weekly mini-bundles and daily discounts Humble Store.

AppShopper

All of the above sites are offering steep discounts on the application, but they are difficult to predict. Many developers are more simply and easily reduce the price for their applications in the Mac App Store, without any high-profile promotions on coupon services.

AppShopper It helps you if you are interested in a particular application, but do not want to pay him the full price. You can create a wish-list of applications for Mac and iOS, as well as their price will fall - you will immediately receive a notification. AppShopper will also help you to monitor the dynamics of prices and you will be able to see whether the developer has long been arranged for the sale and how at the same time has been lowered price.

To create a wish-list, you will need to login, so you first need to register and log in. After that, we find a certain application, and put a check in front of Want itImmediately below the button buy Now - the application will be added to your wishlist.

It provides a variety of filter criteria by which you can sort the applications - platform, price, popularity, category and more.

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As you can see, in addition to the Mac App Store have enough alternative ways to get apps and games, thus saving a lot of money. If you know of other "fish places", dear readers, share your experiences in the comments! Me and our other readers will intresno learn about them.

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