The Mac App Store is open for business and we’ve already recommended the best free Mac App Store apps to start with. But what if you’ve got a wallet in your hand and are waiting to splurge some cash on Mac App Store paid apps? Well, fear not, because we’ve picked five excellent Mac App Store paid apps to pick up on your first shopping spree. Read on to see which ones we think are worth your first burst of cash…

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Angry Birds
£2.99 Mac App Store
We’ve got Angry Birds PC, Angry Birds Android, Angry Birds iPhone and now…Angry Birds Mac! We’re not sure it is as much fun without the touch controls of the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch but if you’re an Angry Birds addict, this is a must purchase, especially because it’s going to jump up to nearly £6 at some point soon.

Courier
£2.99 Mac App Store
Courier is a handy utility which has found its way into the pile of Mac App Store paid apps. It makes it easy to fling files up to web services including Flickr, Facebook, Amazon S3, FTP servers, YouTube, Vimeo and MobileMe. The upload map which shows you where in the world your uploads are headed is a particularly nice touch.

Precipice Of Darkness 1
£2.99 Mac App Store
Lots of the Mac App Store games will be iPhone apps retooled for a bigger screen (just as lots of iPad games are iPhone games embiggened). Precipise Of Darkness is a proper full-on Mac game featuring Penny Arcade’s Gabe and Tycho transferred to a steampunk world where they run a detective agency, The Startling Developments Detective Agency. It’s a cartoony RPG game which you’ll love if you’re a Sam & Max or Monkey Island fan. The sequel is also on the Mac App Store.

Calendar Cleaner
£2.99 Mac App Store
One of Apple’s Achille’s heels is its treatment of synching and scheduling on MobileMe and iCal. You can end up with a lot of misscheduled alarms and conflicting events when you sync multiple calendars. Calendar Cleaner makes it simple to get rid of those clashes and problems with calendar items.

Dropbook
£1.79 Mac App Store
Similar to Courier but focused entirely on Facebook, Dropbook makes it easy to fling photos and video directly from your desktop to Facebook without having to deal with Facebook’s upload utility which while somewhat better than it used to be is still a pain to use.

Hit the comments and let us know what apps in the Mac App Store you’ve grabbed and are loving.

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  • Chris

    Dropbook: Save yourself the £1.79 and use iPhoto to upload your photo albums to Facebook. This feature is built in, simple to use and works perfectly. You can upload entire albums and any changes you make to albums or pictures in iPhoto are automatically synced with Facebook!

    • mic

      It's a good point Chris BUT not everyone has iLife or like iPhoto. A lot of people I know hate iPhoto for being in a close tie with iTunes for the most janky of Apple apps.

      • Chris

        Well you either absolutely love iTunes / iPhoto or you hate them. Personally I think they work perfectly well.

        • mic

          Have to say I generally agree with you but I have had to listen to a lot of moaning from friends and family about iPhoto!

          • http://www.facebook.com/GreatGuyChris Chris Staniowski

            Fair enough. Now that I've had chance to look at the App Store (it's brilliant by the way) 'Courier' an extra £1.20 at £2.99 allows you to upload to not only Facebook but a whole host of other sites including Flickr and Vimeo. Seems like a better option for those people who don't like iPhoto.

          • mic

            That's why I put Courier in the list too! I agree on the Mac App Store. Definitely time to make the iTunes App Store a standalone app outside of iTunes.

        • bensillis

          I despise both. iPhoto is well made, I have to admit, but just not for me (I need to get photos out of my camera and into Photoshop fast). But iTunes is just bloated and awful. What's the point of something so comprehensive, when it doesn't play everything? DoubleTwist FTW.

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