This Week's Sponsor:

Winterfest 2025

The Winter Festival Of Artisanal Software


WinterFest 2025: The Winter Festival Of Artisanal Software [Sponsor]

WinterFest 2025: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic new collection of carefully crafted software for writing, research, and thinking.

Innovative software often comes from small teams, crafted with imagination and a vision of a better way to work. There are no bundles, games, or prices that are too good to be true: just fresh software with fantastic support at great, sustainable prices.

Software artisans from around the globe have come together for this time-limited sale to bring you innovative apps to assist you with everyday work. This incredible catalog of productivity software includes:

  • Avalanche: Photo catalog migration
  • BBEdit: Power tool for text
  • Bookends: The reference manager you’ve been looking for
  • Cotypist: Type as fast as you can think (Free Beta)
  • DEVONagent Pro: Your smart (re)search assistant
  • DEVONthink 4: Manage documents the smart way
  • Easy Data Transform: Merge, clean, and reformat data without coding
  • FindMySnap: Your private photo search engine
  • Hookmark: Using links beats searching
  • HoudahGeo: Know where every photo and video was taken
  • HoudahSpot: Powerful file search
  • HyperPlan: Flexible visual planner
  • ImageFramer Pro: Add creative borders and frames to photos
  • MailMaven: Take control of your email
  • Panorama X: Collect, organize, and understand your data
  • Peakto: Innovative AI-driven media asset manager
  • Scapple: Quickly capture and connect ideas
  • Scrivener: Your complete writing studio
  • Thinking With Tinderbox: The definitive ebook
  • Tinderbox: Visualize and organize your ideas and plans
  • Tinderbox 101: Learn to unleash your knowledge and insights
  • Trickster: Your recently used files, at your fingertips
  • Yojimbo: Your effortless, reliable information organizer

These amazing deals don’t come around often, so act today to start 2025 off with the best software available from this terrific group of developers.

Visit the WinterFest website to learn more about these amazing deals.

Our thanks to Winterfest for sponsoring MacStories this week.

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