Setapp - analogue Mac App Store with unlimited access to applications (+ Invites)

Ulysses, iStat Menus, CodeRunner and dozens of other popular applications with access for a monthly subscription.

What is Setapp

MacPaw Company, a well-known Mac owners on such programs as CleanMyMac, Gemini and Hider, launched a service Setapp, which is similar to Mac App Store. Unlike the Apple store applications, Setapp do not need to pay for each program separately: by purchasing a subscription to the service you get at once all available applications in it.

The subscription price is $ 10 per month, and now for the money you can get in use about 50 applications, among which there are MacPaw tools and other programs developers. CleanMyMac, Gemini, CodeRunner, iStat Menus, Paste, Ulysses, MoneyWiz, Blogo - this is only a partial list of the currently available applications. Apart from them there are still many popular utilities.

How it works for users

Now Setapp is in public beta testing. After registration link installed a small client service that is preloaded list of available applications. They can be viewed from the same folder in the Finder sidebar. By selecting any of them, you can see detailed information about the application and run it.

After installation, the application behaves like any other on your Mac. It will be available to you for as long as the subscription is active Setapp.

How it works for developers

This approach to spread the benefits not only for users, but also for application developers. Assignments to the Setapp is the same 30% as in the Mac App Store, but such harsh restrictions on software, like Apple, MacPaw install will not. Due to the nature of subscription income is distributed among the developers, depending on the frequency of application usage. This kind of incentive for the creation of quality software. By the way, the quality - the main goal Setapp. According to the staff MacPaw, catalog store is planned to collect not more than 300 applications. Because after all it is quality over quantity.

How to try Setapp

Get access to the service is by invitation only. The official release will take place early next year, but Layfhakera readers can try Setapp now. The first 100 users after switching on this link mail immediately comes the invitation, others will have little to stand in the virtual queue.

Try and tell me about their experiences in the comments. Are you ready for the subscription applications propagation model?