These 25+ indie apps are offering discounts for Black Friday

It’s Black Friday season once again, meaning it’s the best time of year to save some money. We’ve gathered a list of our favorite indie app deals this holiday season – allowing you to try out something new on your iPhone, all while supporting small, independent app developers. There are 25 apps highlighted here, but there’s even more deals to find, linked at the bottom.

#1: Subjects

Subjects is a streamlined planner designed to help students keep track of timetables, homework, and grades — all in one sleek app. 

Deal: 70% off annual plan, now $2.99/year from November 29th-December 2nd.

#2: Proxyman

Proxyman is a best-in-class native macOS app to capture, decrypt, and mock your HTTP(s) requests/responses with powerful debugging tools.

Deal: 30% off all plans through the end of Cyber Monday, using code “BLACKFRIDAY2024”

#3: SongCapsule

SongCapsule is your personal DJ. It automatically scans your music library to create playlists and mixes that you’ll love — no requests needed.

Deal: Half off for Black Friday, now $2.49 from November 28th to December 2nd.

#4: Ambre

Ambre is a recipe organizer that instantly syncs recipes and Meal Plans, including the recipe progress, across all your Apple devices. Import recipes within seconds from anywhere: cookbooks, social media, audio and of course websites. 

Deal: 50% off Ambre+ annual subscriptions for first time customers, now $19.99/year.

#5: CardPointers

CardPointers helps users maximize their credit card rewards and offers, saving users money. If you have multiple credit cards, it can often be difficult to mentally keep track of the best way to earn the most points. CardPointers aims to make credit card management easier for everyone.

Deal: 50% off CardPointers+ through December 3rd at this link.

#6: Lil Artist

Lil Artist offers a safe and stress-free learning environment where your child can explore and learn at their own pace. With a collection of interactive games, digital storybooks, math learning, memory games, coloring, logic puzzles, Alphabet tracing and bedtime stories, Lil Artist provides endless fun and educational opportunities for kids. 

Deal: 50% off lifetime plan, now $34.99 for Black Friday

#7: MacWhisper

MacWhisper lets you quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI’s state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you’re recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text.

Deal: 40% off Lifetime Pro, making it under $30 – using code BLACKFRIDAY40.

#8: Karo

Karo makes task delegation seamless! Assign tasks to anyone in your contacts, and Karo takes care of all the follow-ups and reminders. The best part? The receiver gets notified via messages or WhatsApp—no app download required.

Deal: 50% off for Black Friday, with Annual being available for $14.99/year, and Lifetime available for $39.99.

#9: Capture – Quick Notes

Capture tackles the everyday struggle of keeping track of your thoughts and ideas by offering a super easy way to jot them down the moment they hit you. It keeps everything organized and accessible, syncing seamlessly across your devices and allowing you to easily export notes to your favorite platforms. With features like automatic data recognition, widgets, Siri, and a Share extension, Capture makes staying organized effortless.

Deal: 50% off lifetime, now $5.99 (down from $11.99) from November 22nd to December 5th.

#10: Access

Access is a native app offering secure and convenient storage for IDs, cards, documents, and more. It’s the missing companion to Apple’s new Passwords app.

Deal: 40% off on Access+ Lifetime through December 4th, now available for just $14.99.

#11: Meadow

Meadow is a a therapy companion app that lets you track and set reminders for any upcoming therapy sessions. Track and diagnosis, thoughts, and treatment goals all in one app that stores all data locally on the device or in the user’s iCloud. 

Deal: Available for $0.99 during Black Friday, down from $3.99

#12: SubManager

SubManager allows you to easily keep track of all of your subscriptions across the web, serving as a useful management tool. It provides reminders, and serves as a one stop shop for subscription tracking.

Deal: 70-80% off SubManager+, single user plan available for $0.99 and family sharing for $2.49 (one time purchases!) from November 29th to December 2nd.

#14: StringCatalog.com

StringCatalog.com is designed specifically for iOS developers to save hours of manual work. It connects directly to GitHub and automatically localizes your app’s strings every time you push code—eliminating tedious localization tasks and helping developers reach new global audiences in minutes.

Deal: 30% off 12 month plan using coupon code “9to5mac”

#15: Recurrence

Recurrence helps you track the repeating tasks in your life. Perfect for chores, bill payment, and much more! Recurrence puts history at the forefront, allowing you to see when something was last done & accompanying notes.

Deal: 50% off lifetime purchase, now $9.99 (down from $19.99)

#16: Budget Flow

Budget Flow is a modern, easy-to-use app for managing your income and expenses. It’s quick to set up, requires no registration, and can even be used offline.

Deal: 50% off lifetime in-app purchase ($34.99 instead of $69.99)

#17: Study Snacks

Study Snacks is a beautifully designed and playful app that helps you learn more vocabulary words, making it a great tool for studying. It supports iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. It transforms your study lists into a puzzle game.

Deal: 50% off annual for your first year ($2.49/yr), 33% off lifetime ($12.99). Deal available from Nov 28th-Dec 1st.

#18: TimeWave

TimeWave is a minimalist and modern timer app, allowing you to create sequential timers, as well as specific timewaves for each of your workflows.

Deal: 50% off lifetime family plan, available for $4.99 from November 25th-December 4th.

#19: SongCapsule Quiz

SongCapsule Quiz lets you explore playlists, test your music knowledge, and discover new songs while playing.

Deal: 50% off Deluxe Lifetime, now available for $4.99 from November 28th to December 2nd.

#20: Calorific – Calorie Counter

Calorific is a nutrition tracking app that allows users to easily log their meals by simply taking photos, providing instant insights into calories and macronutrients. It features intelligent meal estimates, barcode detection for packaged foods, and manual entry to track daily nutritional intake effortlessly.

Deal: 50% off first year using code “BF24” from November 22nd-December 5th.

#21: DateMinder

Dateminder syncs your important contacts and their key dates directly to your app, calendar, and widgets, ensuring you never miss a moment. Whether it’s birthdays, anniversaries, or other significant dates, Dateminder keeps you organized and in touch, all from one beautifully designed interface.

Deal: 50% off for Black Friday, now $0.49/month, $4.99/year, or $12.49 lifetime.

#22: Unite 5

Unite for macOS allows users to turn any website into a standalone macOS app with its own window, dock icon, and capabilities. Built on WebKit, Unite apps combine the functionality of a browser with the seamless experience of a native macOS application.

Deal: 50% off from November 27th-December 2nd, now $14.99 for single user, $24.99 for family, and $44.99 for Pro.

#23: Quick Capture – Obsidian

Quick Capture lets you send anything to any vault in Obsidian 10x faster, including voice notes with transcripts, attachments, and scanned documents.

Deal: 50% off lifetime plans for a limited time

#24: Itemlist

Itemlist is a powerful inventory tracker for home and small business, available on iOS and iPadOS (with macOS support coming soon), allowing users to easily organize and locate their belongings.

Deal: 50% off Lifetime Pro plan, now $29.99 for Black Friday

#25: What’s going on?

“What’s going on?” is a social diary app that helps users stay genuinely connected with close friends and family while creating your personal journal, where you can document your thoughts, ideas, daily happenings, as well as monitoring a timeline of memories from families and friends.

Deal: Lifetime plan 70% off, now available for $12.99 for Black Friday

More Indie App Deals

While I could only highlight the top submissions, that doesn’t mean these are the only deals out there! Indie developer Matt Corey has put together a website with over 400 indie apps that’ll be offering deals from November 29th-December 3rd. Give it a look if you want to find even more.

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