8 apps to help your MacBook run better — all on sale

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By TEAM COMMERCEMashable Deals2019-02-26 10:00:00 UTC

Relying on free apps to enhance your MacBook’s functionality isn’t always the right move. With premium apps, you get tons more features, better privacy protections, and fewer annoying ads.

What’s more, you don’t have to spend a fortune to reap those benefits. With this epic Mac app bundle, you can score eight awesome apps for web design, task management, and more, all for less than $50. That’s a pretty stellar deal. If you bought each featured app individually, you could only snag one of them (if that) for the same price of the whole bundle.

Here’s what it includes:

Any Data Recovery (a $69.95 value)

You’ve never felt true panic until you’ve accidentally deleted an important document, photo, or file. Any Data Recovery is an app that makes that problem a thing of the past: It’s capable of recovering more than 550 file types — whether they vanished because of a virus or plain old human error — from tons of different sources, including hard drives, USBs, SD cards, and iPhones. 

Command-Tab Plus (a $34.99 value)

If constant app-switching is slowing you down, use Command-Tab Plus to make your workflow efficient again. Once installed, it lets you seamlessly jump between apps and tabs (while hiding inactive ones) with a few simple keystrokes. 

Flux 7 (a $99 value)

Intuitive and reliable, Flux 7 is an HTML and CSS designing tool that takes the hassle out of creating beautiful, functional, and responsive websites. It’s ideal for developers of all skill levels, letting the user decide how much or how little they want to code. 

iLocker Pro (a $79.80 value)

Taking measures to protect your personal information is a no-brainer in this age of regular data breaches, and iLocker Pro makes it easy to do so. Just choose the things on your Mac that you’d like to safeguard — say, Apple Mail, Photos, Safari, Contacts, and a handful of files and folders — and iLocker will keep them secure from unauthorized access via password protection.

iStat Menus 6 (a $14.99 value)

Something’s up with your computer… but what, exactly? With iStat Menus, the most intricate Mac system monitor on the market, you can view all of the device’s stats on one interface to faster diagnose any problems that arise. Use it to take a quick peek at your WiFi connection, monitor the computer’s temperature sensors and fans, check on the status of file downloads and transfers, and more.

Pagico 8 (a $50 value)

Elevate your workflow with Pagico 8, an app that helps you be more productive by turning all of your tasks, notes, and projects into interactive flowcharts. It features a variety of different modes for smarter organizing on both short- and long-term projects, as well as a new calendar tool that makes scheduling (or rescheduling) simple.

PDF Expert (a $79.99 value)

Voted an “App of the Year” runner-up by Apple itself, PDF Expert is groundbreaking in that it allows you to quickly and easily edit PDF text, images, links, and outlines — something standard Mac software can’t do. Each license also includes built-in tools that let users annotate, merge, and password-protect virtually any PDF document.

Fantastical 2 (a $49.99 value)

You’ll get better acquainted with your most organized self after you start using Fantastical 2, a next-level calendar app that serves as a hub for your contacts, events, and reminders. Its niftiest feature is the Fantastical natural language engine, which lets you input natural language about a certain event to quickly set up reminders on the fly. It then automatically recognizes the location and time of the event based on that you’ve told it, and can even invite your guests from your Contacts list for effortless meetings.

These apps would cost you more than $475 if you bought them each separately. A bundle of all eight is currently on sale for just $45.99 though— a savings of 90%.