How to share applications between iMac and Macbook

It will probably be easiest to just install one copy of each application on each of your Macs. Application bundles generally take up very little space (the user data is what eats up a lot of hard drive space).

Make sure the licenses you have purchased allow you to install and use the software on more than one Mac at the same time.

You would have to add the /Applications folder in System Preferences Sharing as a shared folder. In the Sharing panel, highlight File Sharing and click on the + below the Shared folders list then navigate to /Applications. Then set up the user privileges for that folder as appropriate for your situation.

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As a side note, you don't need sharing enabled on both computers, unless you are allowing remote users to connect to both of them. You only need it on the computer whose /Applications folder (or other folders) you want to share. And, if your applications all work okay by doing so, I would recommend that you to set up sharing on the /Applications folder as "read only." Furthermore, if that computer (i.e., the Macbook) ever leaves your trusted LAN space, I would turn off file sharing altogether when not inside your trusted LAN space. I presume that your home router's firewall is buttoned up tight (i.e., NAT enabled, no port forwarding, no DMZ).