The Black Friday season is back, marking the perfect opportunity to save big. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite indie app discounts for this holiday season, enabling you to explore new apps on your iPhone while also supporting small, independent developers. Here, we’ve spotlighted 25 apps, with even more deals available at the end.
#1: Subjects
Subjects is a streamlined planner created for students to efficiently manage their schedules, assignments, and grades within a single, elegant app.
Deal: Enjoy a 70% discount on the annual plan, priced at $2.99/year from November 29th to December 2nd.
#2: Proxyman
Proxyman is a top-tier native macOS application for capturing, decrypting, and mocking your HTTP(s) requests and responses, equipped with powerful debugging tools.
Deal: Get 30% off all plans until Cyber Monday using the code “BLACKFRIDAY2024”.
#3: SongCapsule
SongCapsule acts as your personal DJ, effortlessly scanning your music library to curate playlists and mixes tailored to your taste—no requests necessary.
Deal: Now available at half price for Black Friday, just $2.49 from November 28th to December 2nd.
#4: Ambre
Ambre is a recipe organizer that syncs your recipes and meal plans across all Apple devices, allowing you to import recipes effortlessly from various sources, including cookbooks, social media, and websites.
Deal: First-time customers can avail 50% off the Ambre+ annual subscription for just $19.99/year.
#5: CardPointers
CardPointers is designed to help users maximize credit card rewards and offers, making it easy to keep track of various cards to earn the most points possible.
Deal: 50% off CardPointers+ until December 3rd when you click this link.
#6: Lil Artist
Lil Artist provides a secure and engaging learning space for children to explore and learn at their own pace. It includes a range of interactive games, digital storybooks, math exercises, memory challenges, coloring activities, logic puzzles, alphabet tracing, and bedtime stories, ensuring limitless entertainment and educational experiences.
Deal: Now at 50% off the lifetime plan, priced at $34.99 for Black Friday.
#7: MacWhisper
MacWhisper allows you to swiftly and accurately transcribe audio files into text using OpenAI’s advanced transcription technology, Whisper. It’s the ideal solution for transcribing meetings, lectures, and other essential audio recordings.
Deal: Get 40% off the Lifetime Pro plan, reducing the price to under $30 with code BLACKFRIDAY40.
#8: Karo
Karo simplifies task delegation by allowing you to assign tasks to any contact in your address book, managing all follow-ups and reminders. The best part? Notifications are sent via SMS or WhatsApp, eliminating the need for app downloads on the recipient’s end.
Deal: 50% off Black Friday, with the annual subscription priced at $14.99/year and lifetime at $39.99.
#9: Capture – Quick Notes
Capture provides a simple solution for recording your thoughts and ideas, allowing you to jot them down as they come to mind. It keeps your notes organized and accessible, syncing across devices and enabling easy export to your preferred platforms. With features like automatic data recognition, widgets, Siri integration, and a Share extension, Capture makes organization effortless.
Deal: 50% off the lifetime plan, now priced at $5.99 (down from $11.99) from November 22nd to December 5th.
#10: Access
Access is a native application providing secure storage for IDs, cards, documents, and more. It functions as an essential companion to Apple’s Passwords app.
Deal: Enjoy 40% off Access+ Lifetime until December 4th, now priced at just $14.99.
#11: Meadow
Meadow is a therapy companion app that enables you to track and set reminders for your therapy sessions. It allows you to manage your tracking, diagnosis, thoughts, and treatment objectives all in a single app, with data stored locally on the device or in the user’s iCloud.
Deal: Available for $0.99 during Black Friday, reduced from $3.99.
#12: SubManager
SubManager helps you keep track of all your online subscriptions, serving as an effective management tool. It sends reminders and functions as a one-stop shop for subscription management.
Deal: 70-80% off SubManager+, with the single-user plan available for $0.99 and family sharing for $2.49 (one-time purchases!) from November 29th to December 2nd.
#14: StringCatalog.com
StringCatalog.com is tailored for iOS developers, designed to save hours of manual localization work. It connects directly to GitHub, automating the localization process for your app’s strings, allowing you to reach global audiences efficiently.
Deal: 30% off the 12-month plan using the coupon code “9to5mac”.
#15: Recurrence
Recurrence helps you keep track of your repeating tasks, perfect for chores, bill payments, and other periodic responsibilities. It puts history front and center, so you can quickly see when tasks were last performed along with notes.
Deal: 50% off the lifetime purchase, now $9.99 (originally $19.99).
#16: Budget Flow
Budget Flow is a user-friendly app for managing your income and expenses. It’s quick to set up, doesn’t require registration, and can even be used offline.
Deal: 50% off the lifetime in-app purchase ($34.99 instead of $69.99).
#17: Study Snacks
Study Snacks is a beautifully crafted app designed to help you enhance your vocabulary, making it an excellent study tool. It supports iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro, turning your study lists into an engaging puzzle game.
Deal: 50% off annual for your first year ($2.49/year), and 33% off lifetime ($12.99). Deals available from November 28th to December 1st.
#18: TimeWave
TimeWave is a minimalist timer app that allows you to create sequential timers and customize specific time waves for your workflows.
Deal: 50% off the lifetime family plan, priced at $4.99 from November 25th to December 4th.
#19: SongCapsule Quiz
SongCapsule Quiz offers a platform to explore playlists, assess your music knowledge, and discover new songs through engaging quizzes.
Deal: 50% off the Deluxe Lifetime plan, now available for $4.99 from November 28th to December 2nd.
#20: Calorific – Calorie Counter
Calorific is a nutrition-tracking app that enables users to effortlessly log their meals by snapping photos, delivering instant insights into calories and macros. It features smart meal estimates, barcode scanning for packaged foods, and manual entry for tracking daily nutritional intake.
Deal: 50% off the first year using the code “BF24” from November 22nd to December 5th.
#21: DateMinder
Dateminder synchronizes important contacts and their significant dates with your app, calendar, and widgets, ensuring you never miss an occasion. Whether it’s birthdays, anniversaries, or other key dates, Dateminder keeps you organized from a beautifully designed interface.
Deal: 50% off for Black Friday, priced at $0.49/month, $4.99/year, or $12.49 for lifetime access.
#22: Unite 5
Unite for macOS enables users to convert any website into a standalone macOS app complete with its own window and dock icon. Built on WebKit, Unite apps blend browser functionality with the seamless experience of a native macOS application.
Deal: 50% off from November 27th to December 2nd, now priced at $14.99 for single-user, $24.99 for family, and $44.99 for Pro versions.
#23: Quick Capture – Obsidian
Quick Capture allows you to send various items to any vault in Obsidian up to ten times faster, including voice notes with transcripts, attachments, and scanned documents.
Deal: 50% off all lifetime plans for a limited time.
#24: Itemlist
Itemlist is a powerful inventory management tool for both home and small businesses, available on iOS and iPadOS (with macOS support on the way), helping users effectively organize and find their belongings.
Deal: 50% off the Lifetime Pro plan, now priced at $29.99 for Black Friday.
#25: What’s going on?
“What’s going on?” is a social diary app that enables users to maintain genuine connections with close friends and family while also creating a personal journal to document thoughts, ideas, daily activities, and memories shared with loved ones.
Deal: Lifetime plan at 70% off, now available for $12.99 for Black Friday.
More Indie App Deals
Although we’ve only highlighted a selection of great offers, there are many more available! Indie developer Matt Corey has compiled a comprehensive website showcasing over 400 indie apps offering discounts from November 29th to December 3rd. Be sure to check it out for even more savings.
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