My thanks to HelloTalk for sponsoring this year’s Christmas and holiday deals! HelloTalk helps you learn languages by connecting you to native speakers. Read more about it or download HelloTalk today!

There are thousands of iOS apps, Mac apps, & iTunes movies on sale for Christmas, New Year’s, and other holidays! I’ve looked at over 4900 deals to curate just the best. If you’ve seen my curation before, you’ll be happy to know I’ve updated my system so that iOS apps & Mac apps are separated from each other, with subdivisions in each section so you can get quickly to exactly what you want!

Daily updates will be added to the top of each section as other deals break, so check back often!

Some deals are time-sensitive, so make sure to follow my dedicated AppDeal Twitter feed, @MDMDeals for the most up-to-date curation of deals. I’ll be giving away some fantastic apps next week to my followers, so make sure to follow!

My top 10

iOS apps

Mac apps

Movies

Sponsored app: HelloTalk

My top 10 (updated regularly)

iOS apps

iOS Productivity & Utility apps

Soulver, calculator combined w/ a scratchpad; fantastic app; HIGHLY recommended; 75% off, $3.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Due, remind yourself until you actually get it done; great app worth full price; HIGHLY recommended; 40% off, $4.99 ↘️ $2.99! Also on sale is Due for Mac, also 40% off, $9.99 ↘️ $5.99!

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iOS Education & Information apps

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iOS Photography & Graphics apps

Mextures, add nondestructive award-winning textures to your photos; 50% off, $1.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Vee for Video, easy video editor for iOS; 67% off, $2.99 ↘️ $0.99!

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LightScreen 2, easily manage, categorize, & delete screenshots; 50% off, $5.99 ↘️ $2.99!

Faded, manual camera controls; powerful filters; 50% off, $1.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Effects Studio, non photo edits & filters; 50% off, $1.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Hydra, take photos beyond range of standard sensors; 40% off, $4.99 ↘️ $2.99!

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FX Photo Studio, filters frames, edits, & photo effects; $0.99 ↘️ free!

Fotograf, beautiful filters; $1.99 ↘️ free!

iOS Games

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Mac apps

Mac Productivity & Utility apps

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Byword, minimalist text editor designed for Markdown; 50% off, $11.99 ↘️ $5.99! Syncs with iOS

Copied, best clipboard manager on the Mac; 75% off, $7.99 ↘️ $1.99! Goes great with free iOS app

BusyContacts, most powerful contacts manager for the Mac; 40% off, $49.99 ↘️ $29.99!

PopClip, iOS contextual pop-up menu w/ text actions; 80% off, $9.99 ↘️ $1.99!

Magnet, easily snap & manage windows; 50% off, $1.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Dropzone 3, initiate customized actions by dropping files onto preset locations; 80% off, $9.99 ↘️ $1.99!

Notability, powerful note-taking app; perfect sync w/ iOS; HIGHLY recommended; 30% off, $9.99 ↘️ $6.99! Syncs with iOS

Declutter, automatically keep your desktop free of clutter; 67% off, $2.99 ↘️ $0.99!

Denied, best iOS contact manager, w/ natural language input; HIGHLY recommended; 75% off, $3.99 ↘️ $0.99!

1Blocker, block scripts, ads, trackers, & more; rules sync w/ free iOS app; 40% off, $4.99 ↘️ $2.99!

Mac Education & Information apps

Monity, monitor network & computer stats in widget area; 60% off, $4.99 ↘️ $1.99!

Deliveries, the BEST way to track packages; HIGHLY recommended; 20% off, $4.99 ↘️ $3.99! Syncs with iOS app, also 20% off, $4.99 ↘️ $3.99!

WiFi Explorer, scan & monitor wifi signals & networks; 90% off, $19.99 ↘️ $1.99!

Mac Photography & Graphics apps

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Affinity Photo, Apple Mac App of the Year Award-winning photo editor; 20% off, $49.99 ↘️ $39.99!

Screenium 3, powerful & customizable screen recording app; 50% off, $49.99 ↘️ $24.99!

IconFly, easily generate iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad & Mac icons for your apps; 40% off, $4.99 ↘️ $2.99!

Mac Photography & Graphics apps

Mac Games

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Movies

Listed alpahabetically, by day of sale. Apologies if sales not available in all regions 😞.

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Check back throughout this week for more deals, added to the top of each post.

You can also follow my dedicated AppDeals Twitter feed, @MDMDeals where I curate the best deals each day and not just Christmas & New Year’s. I’ll be giving away some fantastic apps next week to my followers, so make sure to follow!

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My thanks to HelloTalk for sponsoring this week of deals! HelloTalk is a free app in the app store that simply and easily connects you to native speakers of over a hundred languages. If you want to learn, practice, or refresh a language, HelloTalk can help you out. My Master’s degree is in ESL and I’ve written before about how HelloTalk can help you learn a language and how it is designed simply to connect you with a language partner. Today, I want to share how HelloTalk gives you some of the techniques and tools you need to learn a language.

In order to truly learn a language, you must not only have large quantities of input in that language, but it must be comprehensible–that is, slightly stretching to you, but still understandable. HelloTalk has built into the app the tools that you need to comprehend (and thus learn) language. For example, the other day I posted a message into my Moments feed, celebrating that I finished my last class for my Master’s Degree. HelloTalk enables other users to fix errors you may have made in your sentence–and within minutes, six different people had offered me corrections of my sentence (which you can see, below).

Now, some of those corrections I could understand, but some I couldn’t. I could respond to that person and get more practice, or I could also use HelloTalk’s tools. Just long-press the sentence you don’t understand and it gives you a pop-up (above right). In the options, you can have the sentence spoken, transliterated into a script I may be able to read (below left) or even translated it into my native language (below right).

Built-in tools like this make HelloTalk a great way to not just practice language, but get the tools you need to make the language comprehensible. I’ve not only practiced my Mandarin in HelloTalk,, but I’ve been able to get near-instant feedback on the errors I’ve made through their community and the tools they’ve made. It is a great way to keep learning even without a teacher.

If you want to learn, practice, or refresh a language, why not give HelloTalk a try? It’s free to download on the App Store today.

You can subscribe to markdmill.com via RSS, Tumblr or by following @MarkDMill on Twitter. I also daily curate and tweet out the best sales on high quality iOS/Mac apps and iTunes movies via @MDMDeals.