A quick word on how I do these roundups: I go through the listings, check what has real reviews from verified buyers, look at the price history, and ignore anything with inflated ‘original prices’ and five reviews. StackSocial has hundreds of deals live at any time. Most are fine. A handful are actually good. A few are not worth your time.
Here’s May.
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Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 – $34.97
Listed at $1,999 regular price. That’s a 97% discount and yes, that number is real. Visual Studio Professional is Microsoft’s full IDE for developers, not a lite version. If you write code for a living and you’re on Windows, you know what this is. At $35, it’s the kind of purchase you make without overthinking it.
PDF Expert Premium Lifetime (Mac) – $69.97
Regular price $139.99. PDF Expert has been the go-to PDF tool for Mac for years. The Verge and 9to5Mac have both called it out as a top pick for Mac users. Annotate, edit, sign, fill forms, merge files. If you deal with PDFs more than twice a week, this pays for itself quickly. Currently on a price drop with 38 verified reviews on the platform.
iScanner App Lifetime – $24.97
Regular price $199. Your phone camera can already scan documents but iScanner makes the output actually usable, clean detection, OCR that works, PDF export, signature capture. 241 reviews. At $25 once, it’s one of those apps you buy and then forget you even paid for because it just works.
FastestVPN Lifetime (10 Devices) – $24.97
This one is a consistent best-seller on the platform, and the reason is obvious when you look at it. One payment covers 10 devices permanently. WireGuard and OpenVPN support, 800+ servers. Most paid VPN subscriptions run $60 to $120 a year. This pays for itself in a few months. PCMag has noted that lifetime VPN deals from established providers are some of the strongest value plays in security software right now.
Drime Secure Cloud Storage Lifetime – $112.49
Regular price $299. Newer on the platform compared to Koofr but picking up real traction. 152 reviews, mostly positive. Buyers mention clean UI and good upload speeds. If you want to stop paying Google or Amazon monthly for backup storage, this works. Not flashy, just functional. You can get the deal here.
Ground News Premium: 1-Year Subscription – $14.97
Not a lifetime deal, but worth mentioning. Ground News aggregates news coverage and shows you how different outlets are reporting the same story, flagging bias and blindspots. The Guardian has written about media bias tools becoming a genuine category as news fragmentation gets worse. $15 for a year is a low enough price to just try it.
Koofr Cloud Storage 1TB Lifetime – $199.99
Been in every roundup I’ve done and it keeps earning its place. 565 reviews, well-established company, connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive so you’re not migrating your entire life. Google charges $99 a year for 2TB. Koofr charges $200 once for 1TB. Over five years you’re still ahead with Koofr. Over ten years it’s not close.
What to Skip This Month
Some of the AI tool bundles listing $2,000 to $3,000 ‘original prices’ for tools most people haven’t heard of. That markup math doesn’t hold up. If you can’t find the product being sold at anything close to the claimed original price anywhere on the internet, the original price is fiction.
Also skipping anything with fewer than 15 reviews unless it’s a brand you already know. The return window on unredeemed licenses gives you 30 days for store credit, but it’s still friction you don’t need.
One Actual Tip
New StackSocial accounts get 15% off their first order when they sign up for the email list. If you’re buying anything for the first time, that’s worth doing before you checkout.
Full listings at StackSocial. Prices change and deals sell out, so what’s listed here reflects May 2026 pricing.