Snag these rarely-discounted Mac apps and software at Black Friday prices

We don’t just offer discounts on gadgets, gizmos, and training courses in the Mashable Shop. Ahead of Black Friday, we’re conducting a massive sale on rarely-discounted Mac apps, cloud backup, games, password managers, and a whole lot more.  

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Read on to check out the best digital Black Friday deals, and make sure to use the code BFSAVE40 at checkout to enjoy an additional 40% off.

If you’ve ever wanted to produce stunning animations but unfortunately can’t draw to save your life, Animatron can help you unleash your inner Walt Disney. Even without the design and technical know-how, it helps you produce animated content through its huge collection of pre-animated characters, backgrounds, and props. Just choose the elements you want and piece them together using the WYSIWYG editor. You can then export your finished masterpiece to a variety of formats, including HTML5, SVG, and GIF.

Your to-do list has nothing on this award-winning productivity tool. 2Do helps you stay on top of your tasks with color-coded lists which you can filter by way of priority, tags, location, and date range. The drag and drop feature lets you batch schedule tasks with ease, and there’s a built-in alert option that notifies you automatically whenever there’s something to do nearby.

Hear that? That’s the sound of the world’s leading train simulator game asking you to get on board. Trainz will let you traverse across historical and modern routes and famous locomotives through its incredible graphics engine. In the game, you can build your own railway masterpieces, or collaborate with other players in developing and operating a working rail line.

What if one day you woke up to discover that all your important files have been wiped out from your computer? Scary, right? Which is why you need to invest in Disk Drill, a data recovery system that makes it easy to recover photos, videos, music, and other documents that disappeared from your hard disk. With just a single click, this powerful app can retrieve over 200 types of files on your computer or even those stored on external drives or smartphones. It also offers other useful features like file cleanup, duplicate finding, disk health monitoring, and data protection.

The critically-acclaimed shooter game is now available for half the retail price. Immerse yourself in a gameplay experience that’s infused with visceral tactical action, upgraded graphics, and top sound design. Whether you choose to play a single-player campaign or participate in a deep multiplayer experience, you’ll never be able to put this game down.

Few things in life are more cumbersome than having to reset your passwords because you forgot them for the nth time. Sticky Password is an app that handles creating strong encrypted passwords for all your accounts and auto-filling them for you when you need to log in. Your only task? Remembering ONE master password to access it all.

In case you haven’t noticed, video content is what gets the most attention on social media. If you want to create videos that are highly engaging to boost your brand, you can rely on Videobolt Pro to help you produce high-quality animations, promotional slideshows, and music visualizers, even without prior video editing experience. The app offers beginner-friendly customization tools to adjust templates for colors and effects, and it has a one-click undo functionality to easily rectify mistakes. With a Pro subscription, you’re afforded 96 videos per year, delivered as eight videos a month.

Take the pain out of community building with Appz. Instead of having to manually follow, like, and comment on other users’ posts, this Google Chrome extension does the heavy lifting for you. It auto-likes, auto-comments, auto-follows (and unfollows) posts and users with the same interests as you, and connects you with relevant users and content via your desired hashtags.

Everyone tells you that the key to success is building your own empire, but no one actually teaches you how to start it. Bizplan is a step-by-step business builder that helps you put together a coherent business plan through drag and drop templates and self-paced progress tracking. It breaks down major projects into digestible pieces so as not to overwhelm you, and it features a host of collaboration and sharing tools to make working with a team hassle-free.

If you often find yourself spacing out or misinterpreting whatever you’re reading, the BeeLine Reader offers an ingenious solution to help you peruse everything 20% faster. It adds a color gradient to your text, with the color at the end of one line matching the beginning of the next. That way, you’ll be able to follow each line of your reading material easier and quicker, resulting in you being able to plow through emails, news stories, e-books, and more in blazing speeds without sacrificing comprehension.

Paying full price for keeping your files on the cloud? In this economy? No way. Zoolz offers 2TB of LIFETIME cloud storage for the same price you would drop for the likes of iCloud and Dropbox annually. The 1TB is for holding files you need to access regularly, while the other 1TB is reserved for data that rarely gets visited.

No one in history has wanted to deal with data migration using iTunes. It’s slow, overwhelming, and just downright confusing. iMazing 2 is an all-purpose tool that makes the process much more manageable. All you have to do is drag and drop everything you want to transfer from one device to another, and the app will handle everything else.

Take a break from your daily stressors with this meditation app. It offers simple and subject-specific mindfulness meditations you can practice to re-center yourself during the middle of a stressful workday, before heading to bed, or anytime you’re feeling extra anxious. Every day, you’ll get a new meditation infused with a life lesson, which could help in boosting your mood and staying on top of your game.

Impulsive holiday spending can abruptly put you in the red without you even knowing. Make sure to avoid accruing exorbitant overdraft fees by managing your money with Kualto. It’s a web-based tool that helps you plan expenses, stash more cash in your savings, and predict how much you’ll have for up to three weeks in advance. With precise forecasting, it learns what’s due and reminds you of upcoming bills so you can make payments on time. It also makes sure you don’t go below your minimum by calculating how your current spending affects your balance even months from now. Best part of all, it does all this without needing to connect to your bank account.

Remember when you said you were finally going to learn Korean to sing along to the K-Pop hits? Whatever happened to that? You’re out of excuses this time, especially when you find out about this hard to pass up deal on a Mondly subscription. The AI-powered app makes learning easy by employing state-of-the-art speech recognition that provides positive feedback if you speak your preferred language clearly and correctly. You can even listen in on the conversations between native speakers so you can further immerse yourself in the language, and you can supplement your learning with the built-in dictionary, verb conjugator, and interactive games.