> Not to toot my own horn, but I am very good at making things uglier.

> To work with my natural skillset, I focused on aesthetic downgrades over aesthetic upgrades. I call this “frugly pricing”, AKA “cosmetic crippleware“.

> It’s simple: I plaster the word “free” everywhere until consumers pay for a license. I’m not the first to do this, and I certainly won’t be the last.

From the title and other comments I was imagining that the UI itself was made uglier in the frugly version.

But it sounds like the only difference is that it has these messages.

Which reminds me more of being nagware than being cosmetically crippled.