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MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons: 40% Off from Black Friday to Cyber Monday

MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons are 40% off for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons are 40% off for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us, and we’ve prepared something truly special to celebrate the occasion at MacStories: starting today through Monday, November 30, MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons are available at 40% off their regular price.

To purchase MacStories Shortcuts Icons at $17.99 rather than the usual $29.99, click the ‘Buy’ button below:

Similarly, to purchase our Perspective Icons at $14.99 rather than the usual $24.99, click the ‘Buy’ button below:

All sales are final. You can read our license and terms of use here and here.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons

For those not familiar with MacStories Shortcuts Icons, they let you customize icons for shortcuts on your Home Screen, choosing from 400 glyphs with four different color combinations for a total of 1,600 icons. Designed specifically with Shortcuts users in mind, these icons expand upon the options provided by Apple in the Shortcuts app, bringing glyphs for task management, calendars and files, AirPlay, home automation, and lots more.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons on the iPhone Home Screen.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons on the iPhone Home Screen.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons will be fully compatible with the upcoming iOS 14.3 and its new compact mode for custom shortcuts on the Home Screen. As you can see in the video below, starting with iOS and iPadOS 14.3 (currently in beta), you will be able to run a shortcut that was assigned a custom icon directly from the Home Screen, without launching the Shortcuts app.

You can read more about MacStories Shortcuts Icons here and check out the FAQ section here.

All sales are final. You can read our license and terms of use here.

MacStories Perspective Icons

MacStories Perspective Icons are a set of 20,000 icons for custom perspectives in OmniFocus Pro.

MacStories Perspective Icons in OmniFocus Pro.

MacStories Perspective Icons in OmniFocus Pro.

Perspective Icons offer 400 unique glyphs with two distinct icon shapes available in 25 different colors, for a total of 20,000 icons included in the set. The icons can be easily installed in OmniFocus Pro for Mac, iPad, and iPhone using Finder or the Files app; all the icons and colors have been optimized for OmniFocus and designed to look like native additions to the app.

MacStories Perspective Icons were designed to cater to the needs of the OmniFocus community. From task management and the clipboard to media and documents, Perspective Icons cover dozens of categories of potential perspectives. In the download file, you’ll be able to browse the entire set by shape and color; you can also use Files or Finder search to quickly find each version of an icon by name.

You can find more details on the MacStories Perspective Icons product page and read the in-depth FAQ section here.

All sales are final. You can read our license and terms of use here.

MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons will be available at 40% off through Monday, November 30. You can purchase MacStories Shortcuts Icons and Perspective Icons here and here, respectively.

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Founded in 2015, Club MacStories has delivered exclusive content every week for over six years.

In that time, members have enjoyed nearly 400 weekly and monthly newsletters packed with more of your favorite MacStories writing as well as Club-only podcasts, eBooks, discounts on apps, icons, and services. Join today, and you’ll get everything new that we publish every week, plus access to our entire archive of back issues and downloadable perks.

The Club expanded in 2021 with Club MacStories+ and Club Premier. Club MacStories+ members enjoy even more exclusive stories, a vibrant Discord community, a rotating roster of app discounts, and more. And, with Club Premier, you get everything we offer at every Club level plus an extended, ad-free version of our podcast AppStories that is delivered early each week in high-bitrate audio.

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