5 best Mac app Black Friday deals for 2026, with codes

Black Friday is the one week a year when good Mac apps get cheap. The problem is that most lists are 50 apps long, half of them expired, and you end up buying something you never open.

This list is short on purpose. Five apps, each one solving a real problem, each with a deal you can use today. Here is what is inside:

Disclosure: we make Stoic and Current. The other three are made by independent developers, and we have no deal with any of them. Deals were checked on 3 November 2026; always confirm the price at checkout.

1. Stoic: the HDR and Dolby Vision video player for Mac

Black Friday deal: use code BLACKFRIDAY at checkout.

Your MacBook has one of the best screens you can buy. Then you open a 4K film in VLC and it looks flat, or Dolby Vision turns green and purple. The screen was never the problem. The player was.

Stoic is a native Mac video player built for HDR. It reads Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG and maps them to the display in front of you, so highlights shine on a MacBook Pro and the colours stay right on a regular screen.

• Plays MKV, MP4 and MOV with every audio and subtitle track
• Dolby Vision Profiles 5 and 8.1, without the colour cast
• Dual subtitles, a ten band equalizer, frame notes and clip export

In our test with the same 4K Dolby Vision file, Stoic used 14.5% CPU while VLC 3.0.20 used 819% and showed the wrong colours. The full method is on the benchmarks page.

Price: a one-time purchase that works on up to three Apple silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later, and every update is included. Enter BLACKFRIDAY at checkout for the Black Friday discount. Coupon purchases are not covered by the 24-hour refund, so read the refund policy first.

Get Stoic with code BLACKFRIDAY

2. Current: update every Mac app in one click

Black Friday deal: already $3, no coupon needed.

Half the apps on a Mac do not come from the App Store, so they update themselves, nag you, or never update at all. Current puts them all in one list.

Current checks your Mac apps and your Homebrew and npm tools, verifies each update before it installs, and lets you update one app or all of them at once.

• Every update is checked before it installs
• App Store apps and apps your workplace manages are left alone
• Daily checks, notifications and a menu bar icon

Price: $3 at launch for the first 100 licences, then $7.99. One-time purchase, one Mac, macOS 15 or later, Intel or Apple silicon. There is no coupon because the launch price is already lower than a Black Friday discount would be.

3. BoltAI 3: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in one Mac app

Black Friday deal: 40% off with code BFCM2026.

If you pay for one AI chat and keep tabs open for two more, BoltAI gives them one native Mac window. BoltAI 3 works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and local models.

Price: $59 instead of $99 with code BFCM2026, according to the developer's Black Friday listing.

4. DevUtils: the developer toolbox that works offline

Black Friday deal: 60% off with code BLACKFRIDAY2026.

Formatting JSON or decoding a JWT on a random website means pasting your data into someone else's server. DevUtils puts more than 47 of those tools in one Mac app that works offline: a JSON formatter, JWT debugger, Base64, hashes, a regex tester and more.

Price: 60% off all plans with code BLACKFRIDAY2026, which takes the single licence from $29 to $11.60.

5. Compresto: shrink videos, images and PDFs

Black Friday deal: 40% off with code BFCM26.

Screen recordings and phone videos fill a drive fast and are too big to send. Compresto compresses video, images and PDFs on your Mac with drag and drop. It pairs well with a video player: keep the full quality film for watching in Stoic, and send the small copy to friends.

Price: 40% off all plans with code BFCM26 at checkout.

Which Black Friday Mac deal should you get?

• You watch films on your Mac: Stoic, with code BLACKFRIDAY.
• You are tired of update pop ups: Current, at $3 while the launch price lasts.
• You use AI every day: BoltAI 3.
• You write code: DevUtils.
• You send big files: Compresto.

Looking for a video player beyond Black Friday? See the best video players for Mac and IINA vs VLC.

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