It's funny how our expectations have changed. I am keen to like this app simply because of who it's from, Hog Bay, who made one of the first Mac apps that really inspired me to how different Mac software could be back in the 2005-ish era. That was WriteRoom, and I used it on my second-gen Intel running Tiger and Snow Leopard.

In 2007 it was $25: https://web.archive.org/web/20070202002238/https://www.hogba... (and crikey wasn't design beautiful back then? Look at that snapshot of web design history.)

That same $25 would, calculated by inflation, cost $35 now. Which is the price of this app, Bike.

I'm fine with that. Newer OSes contain new features and APIs, and I can totally understand a developer wanting to build on top of some new feature instead of having to reinvent it themselves. Sometimes that's inconvenient for me, although I try to keep all my devices current. But if a dev wants to require an OS version that's shipped with every M1 Mac that's ever existed and chooses that as their cutoff, I get it.

$30 for an outliner and 1 year of support does feel steep.

I dig that it has AppleScript support, rare (and great!) to see a new app supporting that.

Won't run on my MacPro laptop because it's pre 11. Boo!