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Automation on the Mac is alive and well and FastScripts 3 from Red Sweater makes it easy to organize and run your favorite scripts.

With FastScripts you can set up powerful keyboard shortcuts to run your scripts, or select and run your scripts from a menu bar icon. The app supports AppleScript, Automator, and shell scripts including Ruby, Python, or anything else you can cook up! Version 3 is a major upgrade that brings powerful new features supporting parallel script execution, a streamlined in-menu search function, and progress reporting.

FastScripts 3

John Gruber of Daring Fireball describes FastScripts as a “Hall of Fame Mac utility,” and says that “anyone who uses scripting on their Mac should be using FastScripts.”

FastScripts is free to download, offering a free 14-day trial with all premium features enabled. When the trial is over you can continue using it for free with some features disabled, or pay a one-time fee of $39.95 to unlock everything for good.

FastScripts has been revered by automation experts and the merely automation-curious for almost 20 years. See what all the fuss is about and download it today.