Mac Apps

Latest App Price Drops In The Apple Mac App Store

With prices in the Mac App Store far higher than most in the iOS store, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some apps that have very recently dropped in price and some have even gone temporarily free – take a look and perhaps pick one or two out for the weekend…

Todolicious

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*** FREE through Friday, January 28! *** Todolicious is a beautiful and simple task list for your Mac that helps you actually finish your tasks. Todolicious does not ask you to categorize or organize your To Dos; simply add your tasks and check them off, and it will manage everything for you. And it will even cheer you on when you finish a To Do.

Stop wasting time meticulously tagging and scheduling your To Dos, and spend more time doing them.

Todolicious has system-wide keyboard shortcuts for adding new To Dos so you can get your next task out of your head quickly. There is also a keyboard shortcut for creating new To Dos and quickly showing/hiding your To Do list.

Todolicious has three beautiful styles to choose from, including a light, dark, and notebook styles. Your To Do list is your personal brain dump, so keep it styled the way you like it.

Free/download

Compartments

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✭✭✭ Insane 50% Off Weekend Sale!! 50% off through 1/30 ✭✭✭

Compartments is a fast, easy-to-use home inventory application. Check out a few of the great things you can do with Compartments:

* Enter Your Information Fast *
Enter dozens of items in seconds, all in one dialog box, with Quick Add. Select multiple items and apply tags and other details with Quick Apply. Access everything with keyboard shortcuts.

* Generate Insurance Reports*
Generate a report of all or some items with one click. Reports automatically calculate the total estimated value of your things. The report can be printed or saved as a PDF and e-mailed.

* Keep Track of Warranties *
Compartments keeps track of everything you need to know about your products: serial numbers, purchase dates, scanned or photographed receipts, and the exact date of your warranty expiration.

*Organize With Smart Collections
Search for anything by name, tag, or type and then save the search as an auto-updating smart collection.

$4.99/Download

Renamer

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Renamer allows you to rename and number many files at once. If you’ve every tried to rename a large set of files by hand and thought there must be an easier way, then Renamer is for you. Rename tasks include replacing text in filenames, numbering files, changing file extensions and converting between cases. Renamer also contains some time savers for power users: save rename tasks for later use, build complex rename tasks with chains and rename directly from Finder via the system menu.

$9.99/Download – 50% Off

SQLiteConverter

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SQLiteConverter is the fastest and easiest way to convert your mySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle (natively) and a wide range of ODBC compliant databases (like FileMaker, Microsoft SQL Server, Access, FoxPro and many others) to sqlite.

It combines a very intuitive interface with very powerful features so you can convert an existing remotely hosted database to sqlite in little time.

This solution is ideal even if you want to backup your remote data to a disk based solution using another relational database.

$14.99/Download

Iconizer

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The best way to preview and resize your icon for iOS. Great for iOS developers and designers.

*** ON SALE UNTIL THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF ICONIZER 1.1 ***
Iconizer 1.1 will add an exciting new preview interface. It’s currently awaiting App Store approval.

• Adds rounded corners and gloss effect, so you can see what your icon will look like on iOS devices.
• Export resized icon files ready to be added to Xcode.
• Save to disk, or email directly to the client or developer.
• Supports Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, PNG, TIFF, JPEG, and many other file formats.

$2.99/Download

TraktorSim

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Special SALE until 1 February the price is down to $9.99 USD ! After the sale it will revert to $15.99 again.

Tractor Driving and Farming Simulation

This version includes also a Tractor race with high speed racing models.

Different Traktor models in different levels will let you be a farmer and Tractor driver

$9.99/Download

Realms

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REALMS IS ★FREE★ FOR A LIMITED TIME!

The retro action shooter Realms blasts its way onto your screen at an unbelievable price providing numerous levels of gameplay for the beginner and advanced Mac gamer.

Start with any of six different races and prepare your ship to embark on a journey through 30 missions in the six realms, encountering minefields, power generators, guardians and protectors. Collect Tari to upgrade your ship and buy inventory items to make your journey less perilous. Once your vessel is armed, prepare to test your skills in destruction, strategy, defense, and maneuverability as you engage in space warfare.

FEATURES:
★ Four difficulty levels
★ Unique music tracks for each realm
★ Choose from six different alien races
★ Upgrade your ship and buy inventory items from shields to a teleporter!
★ Realistic physics including acceleration and momentum
★ Melee mode: Skirmish against multiple computer opponents

Download/free

Minesweeper Arcade

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Play the Classic that will blow your Mines! Minesweeper Arcade is here.

Choose your difficulty Beginner, Intermediate, Expert.

Or create a custom game by choosing the amount of Rows, Columns, And Mines on your Minefield.

Save your High Scores!

So just click way!

$0.99/Download

Puzzle Quest

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Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is a unique combination of classic RPG elements and fun puzzle mechanics. Create your own character and venture off in the world, listening to rumors, taking on quests, fighting monsters, and unraveling the mysteries to be found in the world of the Warlords. Designed specifically to entertain both casual and non-casual gamers with its deep immersion, five to fifteen minute play sessions and turn-based play style, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords incorporates strategy, role-playing elements and a persistent storyline in a puzzle board setting.

Set in the Warlords universe, the game challenges players to create, develop and customize the ultimate hero in order to save the land of Etheria from evil Lord Bane. To advance their character, players battle in turn-based, head-to-head "match-three" style puzzle games in one of two distinct gameplay modes. Single-player allows gamers to battle against the AI as they embark on over 150 challenging quests. Instant Action allows gamers to jump in and immediately play continuous battles to level-up characters without participating in quests.

$9.99/Download

Touch Fly

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Free for limited time. Don’t miss the chance! Touch Fly is a fun and joyful travelling tale of a hare who’s chasing a mean tortoise.

This sidescroller will need just a mouse click on the screen to play. Try to fly as far as you can while getting as many items possible and avoiding the tortoise shells flying toward you.. Something good is going to happen when you get gift boxes…

Free/Download

Optimal Layout

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Optimal Layout’s keyboard commands allow you to easily move, resize, and switch between your application windows. It can also re-arrange a whole group of windows to optimally fill your screen.

POWERFUL FEATURES:

– MOVE + RESIZE windows seamlessly from your keyboard and they smoothly glide across the screen and snap into alignment.

– Instantly LAYOUT a whole group of windows to optimally fill your screen; NO MORE OVERLAPPING WINDOWS.

– Jump windows across the screen to fill half or quarter of the screen space.

– Window SWITCHING that lists all your open app windows with a visual preview, even for windows minimized or in another space.

– Windows can STICK TOGETHER, removing the overlapping problem when you later want to resize them

Half price $8.99/Download

Mystery Masterpiece: The Moonstone

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Now on sale! 30% of the regular price. Check it out!

Who stole the Moonstone diamond? Is it cursed? It’s up to you to investigate and unravel the mystery! Investigate every person who was in the Victorian mansion at the time of the crime to locate the thief and ultimately the ancient jewel, in this beautiful Hidden Object Adventure game! Explore every room to find valuable clues in Mystery MasterpieceTM: The Moonstone, and return the enormous diamond to its rightful owner.

Full Version Features
•18 stunning locations to search on the Verinder estate
•Cleverly hidden objects and cryptic clues
•Use Investigative tools and techniques to acquire evidence
•Classical music from Tchaikovsky brings the game alive.

$6.99/Download

Unsolved Mystery Club: Amelia Earhart

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Now on Sale! 30% off the regular price. Check it out!

Join the Unsolved Mystery Club(TM), and grab a chance to explore some of the facts and theories behind Amelia’s disappearance in Unsolved Mystery Club(TM): Amelia Earhart. Find hidden artifacts, solve puzzles, and master perplexing minigames. Put on your thinking cap as you scour detailed scenes and solve one of the greatest mysteries of all time!

Full Version Features
• Watch historical newsreels and listen to Amelia’s voice
• Immerse yourself in exotic locations to discover the truth
• Scour beautifully detailed, authentic locations for clues and artifacts
• Learn how to fly like Amelia in flight simulator mini-games

$6.99/Download

Bubblez

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Bubblez is a mixture of a match-2 bubble bursting game combined with popping away those bubbles against time as every second or faster new balls automatically fall down on the stack and you need to make sure the stack of bubbles doesn’t get too high that the balls fall out of the container. For every bubble falling outside your life count gets reduced. The game is over when your life count reaches zero. But to avoid this, special bubblez fall down from time to time with a surprise inside if you click them – it could be an additional life, double score but also 10 or 20 extra bubblez falling down.

The game contains a local and an internet highscore list to compare your scores against all others in the world. Bubblez is a truly addcitive game you want to play over and over!

$0.99/Download

Bubble Bang

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Bubble Bang is an ultra addictive match-2 bubble popping game. Click 2 or more same-colored adjacent bubbles to let them explode. The longer the strings of bubbles gets, the more points you receive. But watch out – for each exploding string of bubbles a bunch of new bubbles will fall down and quickly fill up the stack. Additionally, every few seconds so-called wondercubes drop onto the stack with a surprise inside if you click the wondercube.

Bubble Bang has 4 different difficulty game modes to play. Starting with the easy game mode for the beginner over to normal and hard up to the ultra game mode for the absolute Bubble Bang experts. The game features also an internet highscore list separate for each game mode and each month of the year. Compare your Bubble Bang skills against all other players in the world and try to beat them!

$0.99/download

Webbla

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If you like to handle your music and photos with iTunes and iPhoto, Webbla is the right application to handle your bookmarks.

Webbla is visual bookmark manager for Mac OS X.

Instead of remembering your bookmarks by title, Webbla gives you a new way to remember them visually. Personalizing your bookmarks with tags or keeping them in different categories will help you to come back to them easily.

It also offers you an easy way to keep track of website updates.

Supported web browser:

Camino, Firefox, Chrome, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari

$6.99/download

BattleSheep!

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The sheep’s civilization has survived a horrible catastrophe but now it suffers from civil strife and wars over territory. It’s useless to rely on justice cause everything here is being resolved by brutal force of explosives. You have a whole lot of enemies, they are aggressive and tireless but who says that there’s safety in numbers?

50% off

$0.99/Download

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]

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