As it’s tradition, many indie (and major) app developers take Black Friday and Cyber Monday to offer steep and rare discounts for their apps. Here’s a list of great deals you should check out.
PCalc and Dice by PCalc
James Thomson’s famous scientific calculator PCalc is 50% off until the end of Monday, December 1st, alongside his other famous app, Dice, which offers physics-based simulations of polihedral dice.
- Get PCalc for macOS
- Get PCalc for iOS, watchOS, visionOS
- Get Dice for macOS
- Get Dice for iOS, watchOS
Things 3
This award-winning task manager is having a rare Black Friday sale, Things is available on Mac, iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, and Vision Pro, and they’re all 30% off through Friday, December 1st.
Adobe Creative Cloud Pro
Or sister site 9to5Toys has the details on how you can get 50% off Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and more. The subscription also includes the Adobe Firefly set of generative AI tools, and the discount ends today, so don’t miss out
Gentler Streak and The Outsiders
Gentler Stories’ uplifting exercise tracking app is 40% off on the Yearly Plan (Family Sharing included) through Monday, December 1st. Similarly, The Outsiders, their new app for high-performance athletes is 40% off on the Yearly Plan.
SongCapsule
SorcererHat describes SongCapsule as “your personal DJ”. The app helps you rediscover forgotten favorites from your music library, an it is 50% off through Monday, December 1st.
SongCapsule Quiz
This fun and modern music trivia game tests your music knowledge based on any Apple Music playlist. You can also create your own playlists to challenge your Game Center friends. SongCapsule Quiz’s lifetime Deluxe subscription is 50% off through Monday, December 1st.
MacWhisper
Jordi Bruin’s excellent AI transcription tool is 25% off for the MacWhisper Pro license, ahead of a price increase early next year. MacWhisper is really powerful, and a must-have if your workflow relies on transcription of any sort.
BundleHunt
While we’re on the Mac, don’t miss out on this year’s BundleHunt Black Friday offer, which famous apps such as iStat Menus are up to 90% off.
Darkroom
This famous photo and video editing app is an Apple Design Award winner is offering 50% off for the first year of Darkroom+, and 25% off for the Darkroom+ Forever membership. The sale runs through Wednesday, December 3rd.
Textsniper
While macOS offers a native optical character recognition feature, TextSniper goes the extra mile with advanced features like auto-clipboard copying, text-to-speech, and more. TextSniper is 75% off through Monday, December 1st.
Bartender
Fair warning: Bartender 6 has been facing some very annoying bugs since macOS Tahoe 26 came out. Still, it is a helpful app that lets you customize which items you want to show, hide, or never see on the menu bar. You can get it for 20% off this Black Friday with code: BLACKFRIDAY2025
CardPointers
CardPointers helps you save money and maximize credit card rewards, from points to miles, for your everyday spending across multiple categories. You can save 50% this Black Friday for their annual or lifetime subscriptions
CardioBot
Developer Majid Jabrayilov’s app lets you go well beyond the heart data collected by your Apple Watch and displayed on the Health app. With useful charts, graphs and analysis, CardioBot makes it really easy to understand trends and get an even better overall picture of your heart’s health. Use code CARDIOBOT15 to get the annual package for 50% off through December 8th.
Dark Noise
This famous noise generator app lets you customize frequencies and sound effects to build the perfect ambient noise to let you work, sleep, or just relax. You can get Dark Noise Pro for 50% off through Monday, December 1st.
Lumafusion
This award-winning, easy-to-use professional grade video editing platform is offering 33% off through Monday, December 1st. And if you already own Lumafusion, you can enjoy a $20 discount for a 1-year subscription to the Creator Pass.
What about games?
If you’re a gamer, be sure to check out 9to5Toys’ list of 30+ (and counting) price drops for hits and classics, including Grim Fandango Remastered, Full Throttle Remastered, and Hitman GO.
Want even more?
Don’t miss out on this year’s Indie Apps Sales list, which currently has 800+ iOS, iPadOS, visionOS, macOS, watchOS, Android, and Windows apps offering exclusive Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts.
Unclutter Black Friday Mac Apps Collection
Like in the last few years, the Uncluter is offering a discounted collection of popular indie Mac apps. The promotion went live on November 25, and will be valid for two weeks, which means that you have just a few days left to get any apps you like at 50% off, or get the entire selection of 12 apps at 77% off ($76). Here are the participating apps this year:
- Bike Outliner
- CleanShot X
- DaisyDisk
- Default Folder X
- Downie 4
- ForkLift 4
- HoudahSpot 6
- Keysmith
- Marked 2
- PopChar
- Unclutter
- Workspaces
Check out Unclutter’s Black Friday 2025 Mac Apps Collection
Great Black Friday 2025 deals
- AirTag: $17.97 (was $29)
- AirTag (4 pack): $62.99 (was $99)
- AirPods 4: $69 (was $129)
- AirPods Max: $399.99 (was $549)
- Anker Nano Portable Charger (10,000mAh): $39.99 (was $59.99)
- Apple Watch Ultra 2: $599 (was $799)
- Apple Watch SE 3 (40mm): $199 (was $249)
- iPad 11” (A16): $274 (was $349)
- MacBook Air 13” M4: $749 (was $999)
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