The Mac App Store is now bedded in and we’ve been scouting around the virtual shelves for the best Mac apps it’s got to offer. After you’ve nabbed the five free Mac App Store apps and five paid Mac App Store apps we recommended on the opening day, what wares should you be nabbing next?
Read on for the first five Mac App Store apps making it into our Mac App Store App Hall of Fame. There’s a drawing app that’s free but fabulous, Amazon staking its claim to books on your MacBook, an ace way of collaborating over your network, a simple way to create your own autobiographical comics and a game that will get your head spinning…
Sketchbook Express
£free | Mac App Store
Sketchbook Pro is a nice and powerful sketching app for the Mac but if you’re not ready to stump up a big heap of cash for the full version, Sketchbook Express is pretty good and free. It has many of the features of the full version and is a fun way of making sketches and drawings on your computer. It’s already one of the most downloaded of the best Mac App Store apps and worth giving a spin. It’s even better using a stylus on a MacBook trackpad or the Magic Trackpad with an iMac.
And Yet It Moves
£2.99 | Mac App Store
A fiendish physics game where you literally tilt the world to help your character navigate through puzzles, there’s a kind of Paper Mario feel to And Yet It Moves. It’s been on various platforms before but works really well here. It’s one of the best Mac apps we’ve grabbed from the Mac App Store yet because it’s fun to play for a few minutes inbetween doing other things and kind of addictive at the same time.
Whiteboard
£free | Mac App Store
Whiteboard is a cool collaborative drawing app which lets you work on images across a Mac and an iOS device and comes in handy for putting together projects or just messing about with family and friends. We’ve even used it to play games of Hangman. The app developers say it’s only free for the time being so this is one of those Mac apps that’s worth grabbing from the Mac App Store right now even if you don’t think you need it.
Comic Life 2
£11.99 | Mac App Store
An app for making your photos into full on comics with speech bubbles and comic sound effects. It’s really simple to make layouts and you can get some really good effects. Of course, now we’ve got used to the 59p apps of the iTunes App Store, paying £11.99 for an app can seem pricey but this is the world of fully-fledged desktop apps in the Mac App Store rather than mobile apps, so it’s not really that expensive in the grand scheme of things.
Kindle
£free | Mac App Store
Kindle for Mac is a great way to read the Kindle books you’ve grabbed to read on your iPhone or iPad. It’s easier on the eyes and makes it simpler to add notes or highlight portions on the text. Kindle for Mac earns its place in our Mac App Store best Mac apps library with ease.
