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Unlock Big App Savings with Club MacStories+ and Premier Memberships

A core perk of a Club MacStories+ or Club Premier membership is the wide variety of discounts on our favorite apps and services we offer in partnership with developers. Our app discount program brings Club members a long list of deals that regularly rotate, so there’s always something new to try. That makes it easy to save hundreds of dollars on some of the best apps out there when you sign up and to keep on saving month after month.

On top of discounts, a Club MacStories+ membership includes exclusive columns, access to our Discord community, podcast events recorded live for members, exclusive giveaways, and more. Join Club Premier, and you get AppStories+, too, our extended, ad-free version of our flagship podcast that’s published a day early and in high-bitrate audio.

To compare every Club MacStories plan we offer, visit our Club plans page.

We’re fortunate to work with so many great developers, many of whose apps are rarely discounted. Because the lineup of apps changes regularly and has seen some notable additions lately, we wanted to take a moment to recap the current lineup and thank the developers who have worked with us to build such a great collection of discounts.

Members can visit the Club discounts page to take advantage of these deals and learn more.

Club MacStories+ and Club Premier Member Discounts

Currently, Club MacStories+ and Club Premier can take advantage of the following deals:

1Password for Families (6 months free for new users)

1Password Families is a subscription plan that offers full access for up to 5 family members to the 1Password apps across all platforms, including iOS, Mac, the web, Windows, Linux, and Android. It also includes 1GB of secure document storage for your family.

AirBuddy (20% off)

AirBuddy is the AirPods utility for the Mac from Guilherme Rambo that lets you check the battery status of your AirPods and many models of Beats headphones just like you can on an iPhone or iPad, but on your Mac. Gestures and automation make it easy to connect, change listening modes, adjust volume, and more without opening System Preferences.

Clean Email (30% off)

Clean Email is an email screening and inbox cleaning service that helps you manage mailbox overload efficiently while keeping your data safe and respecting your privacy.

CleanShot X (20% off)

CleanShot X is the premier Mac utility for capturing your Mac’s screen, with over 50 features for capturing, editing, annotating, and sharing screenshots.

HazeOver (30% off)

HazeOver is the Mac utility that automatically highlights your frontmost window by fading out all the background windows. It’s a terrific way to boost your productivity on the Mac.

Keyboard Maestro (20% off)

Keyboard Maestro is among the most powerful automation tools available for the Mac. You can automate virtually anything on your Mac with Keyboard Maestro on a schedule or using a keyboard shortcut. The productivity gains that are possible by automating apps, text and image manipulation, controlling websites, and performing other tasks are only limited by your imagination.

Lingon X 9 (20% off)

Lingon X 9 is a powerful app to run things automatically on your Mac that is also easy to use. Lingon can start an app or run a script, shortcut, or a command whenever you want. You can schedule it to run at a specific time, regularly, or when something special happens.

Lunar (30% off)

Lunar is the intelligent adaptive brightness app for your Mac’s external displays. Lunar can control the brightness of any Mac’s display thanks to the Display Data Channel. The app goes far beyond the settings you’ll find in System Preferences, allowing you to manually or automatically control your display’s brightness, black out distracting screens, and even help light your FaceTime calls.

Marked (30% off)

If you write in Markdown, you need Marked. The Mac app is a Markdown previewer that shows you exactly what your rendered Markdown will look like, updating your preview every time you save. Marked can preview your document as you work in your text editor, and when you’re finished, export in a wide variety of file formats.

Recurrence (3 months free)

Recurrence is a task manager for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to track the repeating tasks in your life. Perfect for chores, bill payments, and much more. Recurrence puts history at the forefront, allowing you to see when something was last done and accompanying notes.

Red Sweater Software (20% off all apps)

Club members can take advantage of discounts on all of Red Sweater’s apps, including:

  • MarsEdit: If you’re writing for the web, you need a desktop blog editor. And if you’re lucky enough to have a Mac, nothing is more powerful or more elegant than MarsEdit.
  • Black Ink: Black Ink 2 offers a deluxe crossword-solving interface on your Mac. It’s packed with features that streamline the process for solvers of all skill levels, from beginners to world-class pros.

  • FastScripts: Beloved by Mac automation experts for nearly 20 years, FastScripts puts all your scripts at your fingertips.

  • FlexTime: A versatile timer for repetitive activities.

  • Clarion: Improve your musical ear training with a simple interface and customizable learning experience.

Rogue Amoeba (20% off)

Club members can take advantage of discounts on all of Rogue Amoeba’s apps, including:

  • Airfoil: Use Airfoil to stream audio to a long list of devices connected to your home network, including Macs, iOS devices, HomePods, Apple TVs, Sonos speakers, Bluetooth speakers, and more.
  • Audio Hijack: Record any app’s audio, including VOIP calls and Safari streams, plus audio from hardware like microphones connected to your Mac. Audio Hijack’s block-based UI makes building complex audio workflows simple.

  • Farrago: Farrago is a soundboard app that’s perfect for quick access to sound effects and other sound bites. The app includes a large library of built-in effects and the ability to add your own for use in podcasts, live theater settings, and more.

  • Fission: Fission is a fast, lossless sound editor for the Mac. The app makes it easy to quickly edit audio files losslessly, convert between formats, batch convert files to MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, FLAC, AIFF, and WAV formats, and more.

  • Loopback: Loopback is an audio routing app that makes it easy to pass audio among multiple apps with an intuitive wire-based interface, making sophisticated studio mixing board functionality available right on your Mac.

  • Piezo: Piezo is the simplest way to capture audio on your Mac. With virtually no setup, you’re up and running, recording audio from apps and external devices like microphones immediately.

  • SoundSource: SoundSource is the premier Mac menu bar app for controlling audio on your Mac. From inputs like apps and microphones to output devices like speakers, you can adjust, filter, and control sound on a per-app and device basis.

Screens (20% off)

Screens allows you to control any computer from your Mac, no matter where you are. Compatible with Big Sur and Apple’s new M1 Macs, you never have to worry about leaving a file on another Mac ever again. With Screens, you can connect to whichever Mac you left the file on and work on it in place or transfer it from one Mac to the other.

TextSniper (25% off)

TextSniper for Mac allows users to extract text from images and other digital documents in seconds with TextSniper. The app instantly captures non-selectable text from YouTube videos, PDFs, images, online courses, screencasts, presentations, webpages, video tutorials, photos, and more. It’s as simple and easy as taking a screenshot.

Ulysses (50% off the first year of new subscriptions)

Ulysses is a text editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with powerful features and a pleasant, focused writing experience combined in one tool, made for people who love to write and write a lot.

Club-Wide Discounts

MacStories Pixel (15% off)

In addition, all Club members can get a 15% discount on the icon sets offered by MacStories Pixel, our design brand curated by our longtime designer Silvia Gatta, including:

  • MacStories Perspective Icons, the ultimate set of custom perspective icons for OmniFocus Pro users, which includes 400 unique glyphs in 25 colors for a total of 20,000 variants.
  • MacStories Shortcuts Icons, Classic and Color editions, which are perfect for customizing the icons of shortcuts saved to your Home screen, which includes 400 glyphs in four variants and can be purchased separately or as a bundle for an additional 30% off.

And for those of you who have read to the very end of this post, stay tuned. We’ll have another Club-wide discount to announce later today in MacStories Weekly.

Unlock More with Club MacStories

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.

Choose the Club plan that’s right for you:

  • Club MacStories: Weekly and monthly newsletters via email and the web that are brimming with app collections, tips, automation workflows, longform writing, a Club-only podcast, periodic giveaways, and more;
  • Club MacStories+: Everything that Club MacStories offers, plus exclusive content like Federico’s Automation Academy and John’s Macintosh Desktop Experience, a powerful web app for searching and exploring over 6 years of content and creating custom RSS feeds of Club content, an active Discord community, and a rotating collection of discounts, and more;
  • Club Premier: Everything in from our other plans and AppStories+, an extended version of our flagship podcast that’s delivered early, ad-free, and in high-bitrate audio.