Black Friday week is a great time not only to pick up new Apple gear and accessories, but also to score some excellent Mac apps at deep discounts. Many popular titles get major price cuts during the sale, and you can pick them for a fraction of their usual cost.
From powerful utilities to creative apps and professional tools, check out the best Black Friday deals on Mac apps.
Best Mac apps on sale for Black Friday 2025
Unlike Apple hardware, great Mac apps rarely go on sale. Black Friday week is one of the rare occasions that you’ll find several amazing Mac apps heavily discounted. And that’s why you should not miss the chance to snap them up.
- CleanShot X
- AlDente Pro
- Yoink for Mac
- ScreenFloat for Mac
- OpenIn
- Mimestream
- Paste
- Default Folder X
- ForkLift 4
CleanShot X
Screenshot: Rajesh Pandey/CultofMac
CleanShot X is one of the most polished screenshot and screen-recording tools available for macOS. It lets you capture anything on your screen, annotate it quickly, blur sensitive details, and even record videos with a built-in camera overlay.
While macOS already features a built-in screenshotting tool, CleanShot X takes things up a level. It offers features and tools you probably didn’t know you needed. These include scrolling capture, instant OCR and cloud sharing.
CleanShot X is one of those Mac apps that supercharge my productivity. If you create tutorials, share bug reports, or work with visuals daily, it’s a no-brainer.
While a CleanShot X license for a single Mac costs $29, it’s discounted by 30% to $20.30. (There’s a similar discount available on more seats.) Each CleanShot X license includes one year of free updates. If you already paid for the app, you can renew today at discounted prices as well.
Buy now (30% off)
AlDente Pro
Screenshot: AppHouseKitchen
macOS comes with built-in battery protection. But if you want even more advanced control, check out AlDente Pro. It helps extend your MacBook’s battery health by giving you precise control over charging. You can set custom charge limits and switch between protection modes to prevent unwanted wear and tear on the battery.
There’s also a Calibration mode that helps recalibrate the battery’s readiness to ensure the system properly reads it. And if you use the MagSafe port on your MacBook, AlDente Pro will even let you turn it off or tweak its color to your preferences.
A lifetime license for AlDente Pro costs $24.99. Thanks to a sweet Black Friday discount, you can get it for $19.99. The yearly subscription is also on sale — it drops from $13.59 to $10.87.
Buy now (30% off)
Yoink for Mac
Image: Eternal Storms Software
Yoink acts as a shelf on your Mac, making it easy to drag and drop files, images or even text snippets around. Whenever you drag an item, a temporary shelf appears on your screen where you can place those items. You can then switch apps, navigate to new folders, or open windows without losing your selection.
Developer Eternal Storms Software released Yoink years ago. And if you’re new to the Mac, it’s one of those apps you should pick up right away.
For Black Friday, you can purchase Yoink directly through the Eternal Storms website or through BundleHunt for $1.99 — down from $8.99.
ScreenFloat for Mac
Photo: Eternal Storms
ScreenFloat is another popular screenshot app for Mac. It makes it easy to keep important screenshots visible while you work. When you take a screenshot, the screenshot “floats” above all windows so you can reference it without switching apps or digging through folders.
You can resize, stack, and organize these shots in a built-in library, making it perfect for research, writing, coding or comparing information side by side.
Typically available for $17.99, ScreenFloat for Mac is discounted by 50% to $8.99 for Black Friday. You can buy it directly from the developer’s website or through the App Store.
OpenIn
OpenIn gives you full control over how links, files and apps open on your Mac. Instead of letting macOS decide, OpenIn lets you choose which browser handles specific links and which app opens certain file types. You can even set rules based on URL patterns or profiles.
If you use multiple browsers or profiles, OpenIn can save you a lot of unwanted clicks and smooth your workflow.
An OpenIn license typically costs $11.99. But for Black Friday, it’s discounted by a whopping 70%, dropping its price to only $3.60. Make sure to use the code BLACKFRIDAY25 during checkout to get the deal.
Mimestream
Mimestream is my favorite email client for Mac. It only works with Gmail, but it beats other email clients with its speed and polish. Thanks to its deep Gmail integration, it offers all features you’ll need, such as labels, filters, categories, server-side rules and more.
The interface is clean and focused, with support for keyboard shortcuts and lighting-fast search making things even better.
If you live in Gmail every day and handle multiple accounts, definitely give Mimestream a try.
Mimestream’s individual yearly subscription costs $49.99. For Black Friday, you can get a 30% discount, dropping the subscription to $34.99 for the first year.
Paste
Screenshot: Paste
Paste is a powerful and popular clipboard manager for Mac that keeps everything you copy organized, searchable and ready to reuse. It stores your full clipboard history, including text, images, links and even files in a clean, scrollable interface. And your clipboard history extends to days, so you never lose anything you’ve copied once.
You can pin frequently used items and create custom collections. Paste also offers a companion iPhone/iPad app, ensuring you can sync your clipboard across your Apple devices.
Paste offers a yearly subscription for $29.99. For Black Friday, that’s discounted by 50% so you can get a year’s license for $14.99. Buy the app directly from the App Store or use the code BLACKFRIDAY2025 on the website.
Default Folder X
Screenshot: St. Clair Software
Default Folder X supercharges the Open and Save dialogs on your Mac by adding a quick-access sidebar to every file window. This way, you can jump to your favorite folders, recently used locations and open Finder windows with a single click.
You can set default folders for specific apps, rename files inline, preview documents instantly, and add tags — all this and more without leaving the dialog box.
Typically available for $40, you can save 50% on Default Folder X this Black Friday by purchasing it through the Unclutter app bundle.
ForkLift 4
Screenshot: Binary Nights
ForkLift 4 is a Finder replacement for Mac that stands out for its responsiveness and dual-pane layout. You can browse local drives, remote servers and cloud storage from one place, then move or sync files with simple drag-and-drop actions.
With batch renaming, folder syncing, quick previews and a clean interface, ForkLift 4 is a no-brainer if you heavily use Finder for file management.
A single-user license of ForkLift 4 typically goes for $19.95, while a Family plan that works with all Macs in your household retails for $29.95. For Black Friday, the developer is giving a flat 50% off, dropping the price to $9.95 and $14.95, respectively.
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Rajesh has been closely following and writing about the latest happenings in the world of mobile for nearly a decade now. While he prefers Android, he does not deny the superiority of Apple’s products and ecosystem.
