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"18 Mac Apps Worth Paying For\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. Pages\n\n\nPrice: $19.99\nApple's inexpensive answer to Microsoft Word, Pages is a user-friendly word processor that every frugal Mac owner should download. Save files as page documents, word documents or PDFs sent through email.\nPages comes with more than 180 templates to choose from, allowing users to create any kind of document they need.\nImage: Pages\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. ReadKit\n\n\nPrice: $4.99\nWith read-later log and RSS client ReadKit, users access their favorite feeds offline. ReadKit supports Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, Pinboard, Delicious, Feedly, Fever, NewsBlur, Feedbin and Feed Wrangler.\nThe app has a minimalistic layout, so users focus on the content instead of the design.\nImage: ReadKit\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. Day One\n\n\nPrice: $9.99\nMake the switch to digital with Day One, a connected journal. Day One encourages users to write and take pictures every day.\nIn version 1.8, print your journal entries or export them as PDF files.\nImage: Day One\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. You Need A Budget 4\n\n\nPrice: $39.99\nVisualize your saving and spending with the fourth iteration of \"You Need A Budget.\" \nUsers can record expenditures on their phones on-the-go, then sync data to their desktops. Install the app on as many computers and mobile devices as needed, helping connected families keep their finances up-to-date.\nThe app helps allocate funds to specific bills, saving users time and money.\nImage: You Need A Budget 4\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Keynote\n\n\nPrice:  $19.99\nAnother Apple answer to an expensive Microsoft product, Keynote is the Mac user's PowerPoint. With a simple interface and variety of import options, Keynote should be on every Mac user's dock -- right now.\nUsers can craft their slideshow presentations with animations and over 40 design templates. Then, easily convert Keynote files into PowerPoint files.\nImage: Keynote\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Boom\n\n\nPrice: $6.99\nPlay movies or music directly through the Mac's sound system with the Boom app. Boom dramatically boosts the volume limits of your Mac's speakers. \nUsers create custom sound presets for programs like Netflix, Skype and YouTube.\nImage: Boom\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. Live Wallpaper\n\n\nPrice: $0.99\nPretty up your desktop background with Live Wallpaper. With 24 official themes (and many more created by the community), Live Wallpaper offers a real-time updating display complete with a clock, location-specific weather forecast and customizable wallpaper background.\nImage: Live Wallpaper\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. Divvy\n\n\nPrice: $13.99\nDivvy allows users to split their desktops into designated sections, improving workflow with more clicking and less typing. Define your own keyboard shortcuts, vastly improving the stock Mac method of clicking and dragging.\nImage: Divvy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. GIF Brewery\n\n\nPrice: $4.99\nWith GIF Brewery, users create animated GIFs from any of their Macs' video files. Users can also add their own text to the clips, making it perfect for the Photoshop-impaired.\nImage: GIF Brewery\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. Diptic\n\n\nPrice: $0.99\nA simple photo combination and editing tool, Diptic offers 56 customizable layouts. Simply save images in the app and return at a later time. Plus, you can export Diptic photos at huge resolutions for higher-quality prints.\nImage: Diptic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11. Disk Doctor\n\n\nPrice: $1.99\nFind out what's taking up your hard drive space with Disk Doctor, the top-rated disk cleaning app in the App Store.\nOnce installed, Disk Doctor scans your Mac's hard drive and creates a simple report that includes larger files you could delete to make space.\nImage: Disk Doctor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12. DoodleDesk\n\n\nPrice: $3.99\nUse your desktop background as a whiteboard. Perfect for jotting down an idea or giving a live presentation, DoodleDesk is cheap and fun to use.\nExport your doodles as JPEGs, PNGs, GIFs or TIFF files.\nImage: DoodleDesk\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13. Living Earth HD\n\n\nPrice: $6.99\nFor just $7, your boring desktop background can become a window to space. Living Earth HD pictures live cloud coverage, weather forecasts, a screensaver and wallpaper.\nThe app lives unobtrusively in your menu bar until you choose to access it.  \nImage: Living Earth HD\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n15. iA Writer\n\n\nPrice: $4.99\nA fantastic and ultra-light text editor, iA Writer is well worth the small $5 price tag. Minimalistic and user-friendly, it contains an exciting feature called \"Focus Mode:\" Surrounding text fades into the background so users can focus on one sentence at a time.\nImage: iA Writer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14. Alfred\n\n\nPrice: \u00A315 (about $23)\nWith Alfred, create and launch your own workflows with customizable keywords or hotkeys. You can even design the color scheme of the interface. \nInstead of tracking down a file within a bunch of folders, set the preferences so all you have to type is \"open [filename].\" The file will automatically open. \nThe app is free, though not greatly useful without the Powerpack option, built on top of the robust core of Alfred. \nMany of the more useful features are hidden behind the paywall.\nImage: Alfred \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n16. 1Password\n\n\nPrice: $49.99\n1Password is the last password-protecting and autofill service you'll ever need. The app generates and autofills passwords to every site you visit, encrypting your data with a single password you create. \nUsers can easily sync data between Apple devices, too.\nImage: 1Password\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n17. Pixelmator\n\n\nPrice: $14.99\nPixelmator is an exceptional photo editing tool and stand-in for Photoshop. Users open and save images as PSD files with layers, just as they would in Photoshop.\nPixelmator is extremely user-friendly and allows for much more customization than the average photo editing app.\nImage: Pixelmator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n18. Fantastical\n\n\nPrice: $19.99\nOne of Fantastical's coolest features is its ability to understand natural language. The app pulls data from your natural sentences and automatically adds them to your calendar, saving you time.\nFantastical integrates perfectly with Google Calendar and iCal, making it the only digital calendar you'll need to update again.\nImage: Fantastical\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Mac App Store, now two years old and offering just under 16,000 apps, is chock-full of great resources for Mac users. \nWhether your passion is photography, writing or gaming, the Mac App Store has a program that can help you do it better. \nSee also: 22 Best Mac Apps of 2012\nWhile it offers many excellent industry-specific programs in fields like design, music production and photography, we searched for apps useful to the widest array of users. Loads of these desktop apps are free, but a few are worth your wallet. In the gallery above, we've compiled 18 paid apps worth the money.\nHave a favorite paid app we didn't mention? Let us know what it is in the comments.\nImage: Flickr, Rob Boudon"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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