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Danny Thys
There are many people, like me, who prefer not to be on a monthly / annual subscription, but pay once for life. So a kind of lifetime license for pro versions.
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ismailsevik
The cheapest "read later" app on the market right now.
ismailsevik
I think the current price is quite reasonable and appropriate. Technically, it is not possible to give a lifetime license. This might make sense if it were an offline application, but it's not very useful for a service that is online and requires constant updates and has hosting fees.
mdaverde
ismailsevik It would be useful to bring in relatively large revenues in now rather than later. Revenues now can be invested into new features that increase the amount of monthly/annual paying customers later.
Dancing_Rain
I think instead of lifetime subs, cheaper subscription will be better. At least don't increase it for the time being.
Rustem Mussabekov
Dancing_Rain cheaper than $3/m?
Dancing_Rain
Rustem Mussabekov I read the thread and many people were suggesting lower pricing. So I thought that will be more viable than lifetime subs. I think people should understand that Lifetime subs are "fake" promises. They never hold in the long run and I don't believe them in this age and time. Around 2000s or 2010s they could be believed but now... Not a chance. Most of the times it feels like a pull out scheme. Where the dev will just gather as much as they can and leave. I am happy (and grateful) paying for a service one time if the service doesn't deal with cloud services but when storage and bandwidth comes into equation then lifetime is not "trustworthy".
I have seen many services, which did this. Like a certain music player, a vpn app, a password manager and many more like them. All of them have been very very famous. And they all ended up going back on their "life time plan" promises. Some sold the company to make it someone else's headache (new owner obviously removed the plan), some ended the plan after 3 months and didn't even refund the users who bought the plan. Some just stopped making the software and created a new version of the same software (legal reasons) which they sold as a subscription service. So you can use the lifetime version, that isn't being updated anymore, for 1000000000000 years. But if you want updates and more features then pay for their new app version through subs. (BTW they promised future updates with the lifetime plan but they revoked it later.)
So, I thought if it has to be something then price could be altered for certain events like discounts on different occasions. Or maybe better regional pricing.
Rustem Mussabekov
Dancing_Rain Yes lifetime plan is a lie. Price cheaper than $3/m will not work for us, because you probably know that we also need to pay taxes, fees, etc? Your $3 become $1 for us. Making price cheaper actually means giving it for free.
Dancing_Rain
Rustem Mussabekov Fair enough. Great product. One of the cleanest and most feature rich manager. I am happy paying the price if it means there are a lot of new exciting features to play with 😁. Keep up the good work.
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wayneallison
Rustem Mussabekov
60% overhead? That’s a LOT of overhead for SaaS …
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vicasso
I'm in if the LTD is coming.
I like anybox pricing model!
Rustem Mussabekov
vicasso do not expect $39.99 lifetime pricing
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vicasso
Rustem Mussabekov Absolutely not! You may know your expenses better.
imquangdang
Rustem Mussabekov right here waiting for you
RainS0rm
Agree and ready to day for one time license. Free user now
jonathanlima
Up! I’d not even hesitate to buy it! Looking forward to have a lifetime plan!
Rustem Mussabekov
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Rustem Mussabekov
Merged in a post:
In app purchases, other than the subscription.
iAmRenzo
I am using the free version. I have something against subscriptions. And in this case there are just 2 or 3 things I would use from the subscription features, so I am not even considering it.
But why not make some features as a one time purchase? Like nested collections? Or permanent library?
Rustem Mussabekov
Merged in a post:
One-time payment
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A one-time payment option for Pro features would be great. I personally hate having bunch of services billing monthly/yearly. I would gladly double the yearly amount to have permanent access the the Pro features.
Rustem Mussabekov
Merged in a post:
pay for pro just once
Denis Sherstennikov
I just don't like subscription-payment. I'd pay 20$ for nested collections and dropbox backup if it was a once and for all payment.
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