For those who think MacHeist is a scam, is wrong, etc....there are (at this posting) about 36,500 people who disagree with you. Over $400,000 has been raised for some great charities. There is an excellent lead-in to the bundle by doing multiple "heists", which are puzzles which we get together and collaborate on to come to a final solution, for which we get prizes in the form of loot (shareware apps) and discount coupons. In my instance, I did each mission and had $10 worth of discounts. Therefore, the bundle of apps worth right at $500 cost me $39. Only using 1 or 2 apps more than pays for it. If you add in the cost of the 'loot' we received, the value goes up to around $800.....unbelievable. That's why so many people think there's a catch. But there's not. It's to promote indie Mac shareware and support various charities. Plus, we have a heck of a lot of fun doing the heists.

The forums are fantastic.
The level of involvement of the developers, especially Jerry Brace with Awaken, has been tremendous. I assure you, he has a lifelong fan base because of his attentiveness to detail. People have ripped Cha-Ching a lot, but the new version 2.0 is being released soon, and I think it will convert a whole lot of skeptics. Juan with Cha-Ching has been quite involved with us as well. So have Sophia with CoverSutra and Dave with 1Password. There are others, but those stick in my head as being the most active on our message boards.

When I initially purchased the bundle, I thought there were 3 or 4 apps that I would use regularly. Surprisingly, I'm not using those as much, but using several of the others multiple times a day. Reading the forums shows I am not in the minority. I've found that I couldn't make it without Awaken, 1Password, and Notebook (a referral app) -- incidentally, those are not the apps I bought the bundle for.

Someone commented about these not being full versions. The apps in the bundle are full versions, and the devs told us at the launch party that we would have free upgrades thru the next major verions (and we even got exclusive access to some releases). The apps that are not full versions are the ones that were in the loot (rewards for solving the puzzles). Regarding the two referral apps...I'm not sure about LaunchBar, but Notebook will be a paid ($19.95) upgrade when they go to version 3.0. However, that's still a heck of a lot better than $69.95!

Do I have any regrets about MacHeist? No

Will I buy the bundle again? In a heartbeat