Archive for November 18, 2015

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Not on the Mac App Store

Dan Counsell:

The Mac App Store has been around for 6 years, but is still lacking some of the best software the Mac has to offer. You might be wondering why this is. Sandboxing certainly has a lot to answer for, but it’s not the only reason. There’s also paid upgrades, sustainability, quality of life, and the Mac App Store just generally being half-assed.

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Don’t let all that get you down though, there’s plenty of benefits to selling software outside of the Mac App Store. I’ve compiled a list of over 60 apps that are all world-class and seem to be doing just fine without it.

To this list, I would add some of the apps that I have installed: Arq, CrashPlan, DiskWarrior, Drive Genius, iDefrag, IntegrityChecker, MailMate, Mailsmith, Name Mangler, OmniDiskSweeper, Opacity, PhoneView, ProfitTrain, Skim, SourceTree, and Vienna. There are also lots of Mail plug-ins.