macOS Mojave will soon be available to millions of users. Learn how the all-new Mac App Store beautifully showcases your apps and makes them even easier to find, and how improvements to Developer ID make it safer for users to install apps that you distribute yourself.
Mac App Store
The Mac App Store makes it simple for customers to discover, purchase, and download your apps, and easily keep them updated. And now, the redesigned Mac App Store on macOS Mojave brings a new look and new editorial content that inspires and informs. Organized around the specific things customers love to do on Mac, along with insightful stories, curated collections, and videos, the redesigned Mac App Store beautifully showcases your apps and makes them even easier to find.
Distribute your apps and extensions to customers around the world on the Mac App Store.
No hosting fees
Worldwide distribution and payment processing in over 150 countries and regions
In-app purchase and subscriptions
Volume purchasing and education pricing
Potential to be featured
Outside the Mac App Store
While the Mac App Store is the safest place for users to get software for their Mac, you may choose to distribute your Mac apps in other ways. Gatekeeper on macOS helps protect users from downloading and installing malicious software by checking for a Developer ID certificate. Make sure to test your apps with the macOS 10.14 SDK and sign your apps, plug-ins, or installer packages to let Gatekeeper know they’re safe to install.
And starting with macOS Mojave, you can give users even more confidence in your apps by submitting them to Apple to be notarized.
Gatekeeper was introduced in macOS 10.7.5 and provides users more control over what they install on their Mac. They can choose to allow only apps from the Mac App Store or allow apps from the Mac App Store as well as identified developers.
Mac Logo
The Mac logo is designed to easily identify software products and hardware peripherals developed to run on macOS and take advantage of its advanced features.
Advanced App Capabilities (iCloud Storage and Push Notifications)
Available
Available
App Store Services (In-App Purchase and Game Center)
Available
Not Available
64-Bit
Required
Recommended
App Sandboxing
Required
Recommended
To distribute apps on the Mac App Store and to generate a Developer ID certificate for distribution outside the Mac App Store, you need to be a member of the Apple Developer Program.
