The Mac App Store, now two years old and offering just under 16,000 apps, is chock-full of great resources for Mac users.
Whether your passion is photography, writing or gaming, the Mac App Store has a program that can help you do it better.
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While it offers many excellent industry-specific programs in fields like design, music production and photography, we searched for apps useful to the widest array of users. Loads of these desktop apps are free, but a few are worth your wallet. In the gallery above, we've compiled 18 paid apps worth the money.
Have a favorite paid app we didn't mention? Let us know what it is in the comments.