I’ve grown tired, or my wallet has, of the subscription based app. I’m not looking for anything in particular, so list your favorite Subscription free apps or Pay Once apps!
I’ve gone more and more back to apples original apps for that reason. Reminders, Notes, Mail, (also keychain is slowly getting there for me) … Many have gotten a lot better and they have the advantage of being (more or less) continuously updated and completely free, if you don’t count the millions you spend on their hardware ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
NetNewsWire (RSS Reader) https://apps.apple.com/de/app/netnewswire-rss-reader/id1480640210
Mela, recipe manager
Before paying for Mela, I’d recommend trying Umami. It’s free and has better family sharing features.
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Mela is definitely nice. I especially like the typography layout/design for recipe ingredients and instructions.
It unfortunately falls short when you want to do things like share a collection of cocktail recipes with your friends while also sharing a book of family recipes with your extended family. With Mela everyone you add can see and edit everything.
Umami can create separately shared recipe books as well as grocery lists (which are useful when going on a trip or camping with friends).
Beyond that, Umami has Chrome/Firefox extensions to import recipes while you browse. Also you don’t have to sign in to use it, not sure where you saw that?
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Mela also collects 0 information. Umami collects identifiers, contact info, and others. They share your info with 3rd parties and judging by their privacy policy, don’t anonymize anything.
Umami isn’t free, they just don’t charge money for it. You are the product.
Merlin bird ID https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/merlin-bird-id-by-cornell-lab/id773457673
Never was interested before but now I check out the birds wherever I go. Can even do it from sound only.
I’ve been using Apple’s Freeform app a ton for whiteboards. It’s great to work out ideas.
Colibri (native Mac music player)
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I also use Reeder (one time paid app) for RSS and have used it for years.
Also Things for tasks. Absolute favorite.
Probably the podcast player Overcast:
I don’t think that counts as subscription free
The subscription is entirely optional
Edit: i mean that you can use it perfectly well without one, all you’ll see is a banner ad at the bottom. It’s how ive been using it for years now
That’s a positive aspect of subscriptions. If you don’t need any of the subscription stuff you get a well support app and don’t have to pay anything
Yeah its a yearly subscription 😔
Although to be fair that’s quite cheap compared to others. Castro costs at least 18 bucks and fantastical is at looks it up 70 bucks per year :O
I was a Fantastical advocate until it went to subscription model. At the time I was working in a medical office with one of my tasks being scheduling. I heard a lot of people complaining about the stock calendar and I’d often bring up Fantastical and even gave a quick example if time allowed.
Once the subscription model took over I went right back to Apple Calendar.
I‘m still using fantastical, as some of the new premium features stayed unlocked for previous customers, but not heavily. And I really do think subscriptions are fine, but in no way can I justify 70 bucks per year for that and I don’t want to.
Totally understandable, it’s a great app. Nice to know they gave a little extra to existing customers.
Some subscriptions are fine, I’m not against them completely, but the as you said the cost of this one is steep. For my use it’s not worth it but to some others it might be.
There is exactly one valid reason for a subscription to an app (not content), and it’s because your usage has to be reliant on a server with meaningful upkeep costs.
That does not include “your device could easily do this but we’re forcing it to the cloud”. Any other reason makes you a bad person.
I felt exactly the same. After the switch, I went to BusyCal which is a one time purchase. Worse than fantasical but better than the stock Apple Calendar.
Podcast republic cost $4 one time (for ad removal) and has cross platform support with iOS android and web.
I got it when it was still a one time purchase and I’m able to restore it when I buy a new phone. Very pleased with it as a one-off but would never subscribe.
Only to remove a small ad. And as it’s a podcast player, you listen, and don’t really see the Ad ever.
There’s more features such as playback settings if I remember correctly
Since this is an apple community, sell your apple abd get an android and the world is yours
Android has a lot of subscriptions as well. Switching from one fanboi ecosystem to another will not remove them totally.
My phone is almost fully run by foss apps. You pay what you want.
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