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ViDL is a great free YouTube and video downloader for Mac

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Download almost any video with ViDL.
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ViDL is a YouTube download app for Mac. It comes from Ole Moritz, developer of the amazing Pythonista and Editorial iOS apps. ViDL is a simple wrapper for the youtube-dl command-line tool, so if you already use that, you don’t need this. But the app is far easier to use than a command-line tools. Plus, it offers a built-in browser, in case you need to log in to a site to get access to the target videos. There’s even a ViDL Safari extension.

Get 9 Mac apps to breathe new life into your machine for just $26 [Deals]

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The 2020 Mac Productivity Essentials Bundle
These nine productivity Mac apps will make it easier to work from home.
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Whether your Mac is new or well into its useful life, you can breathe fresh life into it when you add the right apps. This massive bundle from Cult of Mac Deals comes with nine Mac apps, so there’s something for anyone.

The 2020 Mac Productivity Essentials Bundle comes with apps for PDFs, graphics, productivity, VPN protection and more. And you can get them all for just $26 if you use our special promo code.

Last chance to save on cloud storage, language lessons and more [Deals]

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Deals To Score Before They End
Snag these deals from the Cult of Mac Store before they disappear.
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The Cult of Mac Store is full of so many deals that some must leave for others to come in. Among our outgoing deals you will find deep discounts on language lessons, cloud backup, six-month phone plans and intuitive website-building tools.

New Mac app Slideas is like Keynote, but powered by Markdown

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Turn plain text into beautiful slides with Slideas.
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Slideas is a new Mac app that turns Markdown text into fancy, stylish presentations. It’s like Keynote, only entirely driven by typed text. And like Keynote and PowerPoint, you can add videos, charts, images and more. How does it work?

Clean your Mac to get it running like new with this app [Deals]

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CleanMyMac X- Junk Cleaner for Mac
Make your Mac run like new with a highly rated app that removes junk files and malware to boost performance.
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Like everything else, Macs get cluttered over time. With our houses and cars, clutter can cause trouble finding stuff or embarrassment when a visitor drops by. With our computers, it costs performance, so it’s extra-useful to keep a clean machine.

NetNewsWire is reborn on iOS

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NetNewsWire has used a satellite as an app icon since forever.
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Nerds of a certain age will have a warm place in their dorky hearts for NetNewsWire. First released in 2002, for years it was the best RSS newsreader on the Mac. At some point, a terrible version turned up on iOS, then withered and died. Now, original developer Brent Simmons is back in charge, and a new, free iOS version of NetNewsWire just launched for iPhone and iPad.

Facebook Messenger has a brand-new app for Mac

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It's finally here, almost a year after it was confirmed.
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A brand-new Facebook Messenger app has finally landed on Mac. It gives users the ability to more easily keep on top of their conversations across different devices, and it supports a whole host of useful Messenger features — including group video chat.

You might not be able to download it where you live just yet, however.

Save on 3 years of VPN security for all your devices [Deals]

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WifiMask VPN Unlimited Devices- 3-Yr Subscription
Stay secure, anonymous, and free of annoying content restrictions for three years, and on all your devices.
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Here at Cult of Mac, we’re big fans of VPNs. That’s because they not only keep us secure and private online, they also bypass annoying location-based content restrictions, so you can stream your favorite content anywhere you go. With this great deal, you can get VPN protection on all your devices for three whole years.

Twitter adds new ‘continue thread’ button, fixes notification bug on Mac

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It's as easy as that.
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Twitter is rolling out a new “continue thread” feature that lets you easily publish follow-ups to previous tweets. Simply pull down in the compose window to see recent posts in one place.

There’s also a new update for the official Twitter app on Mac that fixes an annoying notifications bug.

Get all the video tools you need in one app [Deals]

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Filmage
This app is a one-stop app for HD screen recording, fully featured editing, fast conversion and multi-format video playback.
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Making videos on Mac is easy, if you have the right tools. But subscriptions to creative software suites are expensive, and can take up a lot of space. Often, they’re too complicated for casual users.

Not so with Filmage Screen, a single app that offers a one-stop shop for all your HD video needs.

Lockdown Firewall now safeguards your Mac

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Lockdown blocks tracker connections.
Lockdown blocks tracker connections.
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Lockdown, the open-source firewall app for iOS, is now available on the Mac. And just like the iOS version, it blocks all kinds of connections to trackers and other unwanted snoop-ware.

Mac users already enjoy good options when it comes to privacy apps, so how does Lockdown match up?

Pick up deeply discounted Mac and iPhone apps for Presidents Day [Deals]

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Apps Software Sale
Score massive Presidents Day discounts on awesome apps for iOS and Mac.
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This Presidents Day, instead of thinking about presidents, why not upgrade the apps in your iOS and Mac devices? We’ve rounded up some awesome deals on great software, from half off to as much as 94% off of VPNs, website builders, task managers and more.

SwitchGlass is a supercharged Dock replacement for Mac

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SwitchGlass -- almost exactly the same as the Dock.
SwitchGlass -- almost exactly the same as the Dock.
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SwitchGlass is a handy new Mac app from John Siracusa. It’s like a superpowered dock, conceptually honed from the regular macOS dock by removing some annoyances, and adding some extra subtleties. It’s certainly not the most powerful dock-replacement app out there, but if your needs align with Siracusa’s, then you’re going to love it.

Handy Mac tool lets you check the status of Apple services with one click

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Download it free today.
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StatusBuddy is a brand-new app for macOS that lets you quickly check on the status of various Apple services in just one click.

The app sits in your Mac’s menu bar where it’s always accessible and displays a red badge when an Apple service is running into issues. It pulls information from Apple’s official status pages so you don’t have to go hunting for it.

Avalanche uses AI to convert from Aperture to Lightroom (and preserves your edits)

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Avalanche is a universal translator for photo apps.
Avalanche is a universal translator for photo apps.
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Do you still have all your photos stuck in an Aperture library? Aperture won’t even launch in macOS Catalina, so you’re going to have to do something about that. The long-time answer has been to move to Adobe’s Lightroom, but then all your carefully crafted RAW edits are lost, or at least frozen into JPGs, never to be reversed.

Avalanche is a new Mac app that can convert your old Aperture library into a Lightroom library. What’s more, it uses machine learning to reverse-engineer your edits, and then does its best to redo those edits in Lightroom. It seems amazing. And because it doesn’t need the Aperture app installed on your Mac at all, you can use it even if you’ve already upgraded to Catalina.

One Switch gives you a single toggle to control everything useful on your Mac

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One Switch: One switch for your Mac's menu bar.
One Switch: One switch for your Mac's menu bar.
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One Switch isn’t a new app, but it does look like one of the handiest Mac apps for anyone who follows our Cult of Mac how-tos. The app puts a drop-down list in your Mac’s menu bar, offering instant access to all kinds of great hacks and tweaks, from toggling Dark Mode to connecting AirPods.

Take control of your Mac’s audio with BlackHole

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BlackHole
Down the hole!
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BlackHole is a free, open-source tool to route audio anywhere on your Mac. You know how the audio from YouTube in Safari comes out the speakers or headphones of your Mac, and that’s about it? Well, with BlackHole, you can intercept that audio. Then you can record it, redirect it to another app or do basically anything you like.