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* How do I know I can trust this and what is being installed? This can potentially save a bunch of time when setting up a new Mac, whether for yourself, or for deployments across a handful of Macs when you don’t have other device management software in place.

You’ll see progress for each download and install, reporting if the app is installed successfully, if the app can’t be updated for whatever reason, if the app was skipped because it is already up to date, and when it’s all finished.

Paste the copied command string into the Terminal and then hit return to begin downloading and installing the Mac apps.

Open Terminal on the Mac via Spotlight by hitting Command+Spacebar and typing “Terminal” followed by the Return key, or launch Terminal from the /Applications/Utilities/ folder.

Click “Install # Apps” in the upper right corner to get the app download command string.

Click to select the apps you wish to bulk download and install, scrolling through the list of available apps.Ready to batch download and install a bunch of Mac apps of your choosing, hands off? Here’s what to do: How to Bulk Download & Install Mac Apps from the Terminal One method is offered further below if you’re curious*. If you’re like me and you’re the default cautious type, you might want to glance at the script before executing it on your Mac. Using macapps.link requires trust to a free third party service, because you are issuing a remotely executed terminal script that is interacting with your Mac to install software. Easy peasy.Ĭaution: This is aimed at advanced users who are comfortable with the command line.

Basically you’ll be automating the download and installation of a ton of popular Mac apps.įor example, let’s say you have a brand new MacBook Pro for work, and you want to install your typical workflow setup of Chrome, Firefox, Chrome Canary, Skitch, Fantastical, GitHub, IntelliJ, BBEdit, Sketch, Docker, The Unarchiver, CyberDuck, iTerm2, iStats Menu, BarTender, VLC, Steam (I swear it’s for work boss!), Atom, Slack, Discord, Zoom, and Skype… that’s a ton of different websites and developers to go to manually to install apps from right? With the MacApps.link service, you simply select all those apps from their list, get the install link, toss it into the Terminal, and let run the command to completion. And here is where the MacApps.link service comes in handy, by bundling a bunch of different Mac applications of your choosing together into a single executable command string that you can toss into the Terminal, then go about your business while the apps are downloaded and installed onto the Mac.