Unite for Mac: what you get for the price

The Unite Mac app is now sold as Unite Pro, made by BZG Apps. As of October 18, 2026, the official store lists it at $39.99 for one Mac, $59.99 for three Macs, and $99.99 for five Macs, each a one-time purchase that covers the Unite Pro 1.x releases. It needs macOS 15 or later, runs on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and lets the first app be created for free as a trial. The rest of this page covers what that price buys, how the licence works, the Setapp route, and which parts of the job Safari and Chrome already do at no cost, so the decision can be made against the sites actually in use. This site is run by the developer of a competing site to app tool, so the comparison below sticks to facts that can be checked on each vendor's own pages.

What Unite Pro is, and how it differs from older Unite versions

Unite turns a website into a separate Mac application with its own Dock icon, window, and stored data. The product page describes the current generation plainly: "No electron, no wrappers." Apps built with it use the WebKit engine that macOS provides, rather than shipping a copy of Chromium inside each app.

Search results for "unite mac app" mix several generations. Download sites still list Unite 5.x, a well known review covers Unite 6, and the developer's newsletter announced Unite Pro as the next generation. Owners of Unite 6.x are offered up to 35% off when moving to Unite Pro, according to the official purchase page. The version numbering also restarted: the Unite Pro changelog lists Unite Pro 1.8 as the latest release, dated August 30, 2026. That release added the ability to make a Gmail or Outlook app the Mac's default email client, so mailto links open a compose page inside that app. Version 1.7, on August 9, 2026, added bookmark folders and improved the 1Password autofill beta.

This matters for buying. A licence is tied to a major version. Unite Pro 1.x licences cover 1.x updates. A future major version may be a paid upgrade, which the vendor explains as its alternative to a subscription.

The price, in detail

All figures below were read from the official pages on October 18, 2026.

Option	Price	What it covers
Unite Pro, 1 Mac	$39.99 one time	Unite Pro 1.x on one Mac
Unite Pro, 3 Macs	$59.99 one time	Unite Pro 1.x on three Macs
Unite Pro, 5 Macs	$99.99 one time	Unite Pro 1.x on five Macs
Upgrade from Unite 6.x	Up to 35% off	Move to Unite Pro
Bundle with Coherence	20% saving	Both products
Student discount	20% off	Through a student app store

Each paid tier lists the same benefits: unlimited apps, bug fixes and minor updates, support, and the ability to export apps to other licensed users. The purchase FAQ explains that the licence is delivered by email from Paddle, the payment processor. Unite apps cannot be shared with unlicensed users.

The three-Mac tier is worth a second look. It is $20 more than the single-Mac tier and covers three machines. Anyone with a laptop and a desktop already needs two activations, so the single-Mac licence only fits a one-Mac household.

The Setapp route

Unite Pro is also included in Setapp, the subscription bundle of Mac apps. The figures do not match between the two vendors' pages. The BZG purchase page says Setapp starts at $9.99 a month with seven days free. The Setapp listing for Unite Pro showed "From $14.99/month" and "Free for 7 days" on the same date, and also offered the app alone for $39.99. Treat the price shown at Setapp checkout as the one that applies.

For someone already paying for Setapp, Unite Pro adds no cost. For someone who is not, a subscription at either figure costs more than the single-Mac licence within a few months, so Setapp only makes sense when several other apps in the bundle are wanted as well.

The system requirement comes before the price

Unite Pro requires macOS 15 or later. The product page says it is built for Apple silicon and Intel and designed for macOS 26 Tahoe.

Check this first. A Mac that cannot run macOS 15 cannot run the current version, however attractive the feature list is. To find out, open the Apple menu, choose About This Mac, and read the macOS version shown. If it says 14 or lower, and the Mac cannot be updated, Unite Pro is not an option on that machine.

Requirements tend to move with each macOS release for actively maintained Mac software. A one-time licence buys the current major version on the Macs that can run it today. It does not promise that a Mac which is supported today will be supported by the next major version.

What the licence adds over the free routes

macOS already offers two ways to turn a website into an app at no cost.

Safari's Add to Dock. According to Apple Support, this needs macOS Sonoma 14 or later. Open the site in Safari, choose File, then Add to Dock (or use the Share button), enter a name, and click Add. The web app is saved in the Applications folder inside the home folder and opens from the Dock or Spotlight. Its history, cookies, and website data are not shared with Safari. In its settings, the name, URL, and icon can be changed, navigation controls can be shown or hidden, and Safari extensions can be turned on per web app.

Chrome's Install page as app. The Chrome Help page on web apps gives the path: open the site in Chrome, select More at the top right, then Cast, save, and share, then Install page as app. Installed apps are listed at chrome://apps, where they can be set to open at login. These apps belong to the Chrome profile that installed them.

Against those two, the Unite Pro product page lists what it adds. The items that change daily use the most are:

• Three layouts per app. Normal window, menu bar app, or sidebar app. Neither Safari nor Chrome offers menu bar or sidebar web apps.
• Link routing. Links from one Unite app can be sent to another Unite app or to a chosen browser, with sign-in flows handled.
• Per-site customisation. User scripts and styles, a zoom manager, an automatic dark mode for light-only sites, and a built-in ad blocker.
• Site enhancements. Dock badges for supported services, meeting alerts from Google Calendar and Outlook, video speed controls, and a floating overlay for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok.
• App management. A built-in password manager and a shortcut manager that can rebind almost every keyboard shortcut.

Some of these can be approximated with the free routes and some effort. A user script extension, for example, can be enabled in a Safari web app. The menu bar and sidebar layouts and the cross-app link routing have no free equivalent.

Choosing by the sites, not by the feature list

The useful question is which sites will become apps, and what each one needs.

A chat or task tool that should sit one click away all day suits a menu bar or sidebar layout. That is the clearest case for Unite Pro. A mail or calendar service that should be the system default for mailto links is now covered by the 1.8 release. A site that only needs its own Dock icon and separate login, such as an internal dashboard opened a few times a day, is already handled by Safari's Add to Dock at no cost.

Browser extensions are the other dividing line. Safari web apps can use Safari extensions. Chrome web apps use the extensions in their Chrome profile. Unite Pro uses WebKit and lists its own built-in ad blocker and user script manager rather than Chrome Web Store support. If a workflow depends on a specific Chrome extension, such as a particular password manager or translation tool, check whether an equivalent exists in the tool being considered before paying.

A short test answers most of this. Create the first app in Unite Pro for free with the site that matters most. In parallel, add the same site to the Dock from Safari. Use both for a few days. If the free version already does everything needed, the licence is optional. If the menu bar layout or link routing becomes part of the day, the $39.99 tier has a clear return.

Teams and shared setups

For a small team, the licence terms shape the cost more than the feature list does. Every person who runs Unite apps needs a licensed copy, because apps cannot be shared with unlicensed users. What can be shared is the setup: the purchase page lists exporting apps to other licensed users as a benefit of every tier, and the FAQ mentions .uniteapp files created from the Unite tool. A team that standardises on the same set of internal tools can build each app once and hand the file to colleagues, instead of having everyone configure scripts, zoom levels, and link rules by hand. Larger groups are directed to contact the developer for enterprise pricing and custom licences.

Other site to app tools to compare

Unite is one of several tools that do this job on the Mac, and they differ mainly in which browser engine sits underneath. Unite Pro and Safari web apps use WebKit. Chrome web apps use Chrome. Some third-party tools build each app on top of a Chromium browser already installed on the Mac, which keeps Chrome Web Store extensions available inside each app.

One example of that last type supports Chrome, Chrome Canary, Chromium, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, and Opera as the base, gives each app its own browser profile so cookies and logins stay separate, and offers presets for over 300 services. It needs macOS 12 or later, which also covers Macs that cannot run macOS 15. It is free for up to three apps, and the Pro version is a one-time $24.99. The full feature list is on the features page, the presets are listed under supported services, and the price and free tier are on the pricing page. Setup steps are covered in the guide.

The choice between engines is a practical one. WebKit apps follow Safari's behaviour and extension model. Chromium-based apps follow Chrome's, including its extension store and site compatibility. Either is a reasonable base. The right one is the engine the important sites already work best in.

What to change first

Pick the one site that is opened most often from a crowded browser window and turn it into an app with a free route today, either Safari's Add to Dock or Chrome's Install page as app. If that falls short, try the free first app in Unite Pro on a Mac running macOS 15 or later, or a Chromium-based option such as Kagemusha if Chrome extensions or an older macOS version matter.