Okay, this has been one of the most fun, legal ways to get free apps! MacHeist creates these extremely challenging puzzles, games and investigative adventures, and if you solve them, they reward you with awesome free software. This has been MacHeist’s third installment to a radically inventive and unique way of marketing Mac software. And I have to admit, I had a great time participating. Now unfortunately the challenges to win the free stuff are over, but at the end of the whole thing, they offer an incredible bundle of apps for an insane discount.
At them moment, they have $600 worth of apps for $39, and if enough people buy this bundle, they will continue to unlock more apps that will increase the value of the bundle without increasing the cost. If all apps are unlocked, the bundle will be worth over $900! I have bought mine, but you NEED to get yours. FYI, if you buy the bundle now, and the apps get unlocked later, they add them to your bundle as well.
Here is a list of the apps in the bundle: iSale $39.95, Picturesque $34.95, SousChef $30.00, World of Goo $20.00, PhoneView $19.95, LittleSnapper $39.00, Acorn $49.95, Kinemac $299.00, WireTap Studio $69.00. Current bundle value, $601.80. So far, I have already used Little Snapper, a great screen shot application, Picturesque which I used to make the image below, PhoneView for downloading information from my iPhone and WireTap Studio for recording internet radio and editing for custom playlists. That, in-and-of itself, paid for the bundle. I am dying to play with Kinemac, a neat 3D animation creation software worth $300 on its own, as it will be good for website design.
Oh, and 25% of all purchases goes to a charity of your choice.
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Discover some amazing new software. Unleash new potential from your Mac. Support independent Mac developers. And make the world a better place.
After nearly a year in the making, the MacHeist Bundle is finally back, and it’s bigger, better, and an even more insane deal than ever before!
This year’s bundle features a core lineup of a dozen award winning and popular apps, games and utilities that represent the cream of the crop from the Mac development community. Whether you’re interested in cooking a meal, or playing the best puzzle game of last year, or selling off an old item on Ebay, the MacHeist bundle has you covered. And for the first time ever, the MacHeist bundle can be yours for just $39.
MacHeist is also donating 25% of each bundle purchase to a partnering charity of the customer’s choice. To date, MacHeist customers have raised over $700,000 for philanthropic efforts around the world. You can find out more about this year’s participating charities here.