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This looks great and I appreciate the demo period and the option to buy one-time. Do wish the buy one-time had a longer update length. The subscription looks like the better deal. The $149 / 18 months is $8.28/month. Guess the upside is you get to keep using the app without updates after the 18 months. I have subscription fatigue so I do appreciate the one-time purchase.

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Ok but are we overlooking the $150 for a todo app? There are entire suites of software that cost less than $150 to own. Microsoft Office Home, Windows 11, Photoshop Elements 2024, Premiere Elements 2024...

I'm just saying I think the buy to own price is an order of magnitude too high relative to other significantly more complicated pieces of software.

Agreed. Especially when TUI projects like this exist: https://github.com/kraanzu/dooit

how do such things attach files and let me view them?

They don't. If that's worth $8/month to you, enjoy Godspeed instead :)

i think you just learned about scale and number of sales (and age of software).

That's a weird take. Almost nobody thinks a no frills todo app runs $150 at any scale. Except the guy who thinks a minimalist text editor is the same ballpark (and is right).

If it's more than a todo app, OmniFocus sets a price point: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/

Yep, $150. So not scale or age, cuz it is the granddaddy gold standard.

what is life if not a series of doing tasks? I don't see a problem with paying 150$ for me to better do tasks I care about, not forget important stuff etc. And I come from low-income country, not US or western europe

I have to agree. I don't mean to disrespect the existing app, it looks really good and well-polished, but... as someone new to the MacOS ecosystem, $150 feels highly pricey. It's as costly as a Windows / Office license!

At the same time, there are apps like Mindkit [0], which seem to do similar things as this, but with more features, but which cost 3000 JPY(20 USD) lifetime.

Personally, the only time I can justify 150 USD for a purchase of an app is when it has as many features or is as impactful as Word/Excel/Powerpoint combined.

No disrespect to the people who made it, good luck with the app!

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindkit-keep-things-organized/...

Price is a function of value, not cost. In this case the value is in managing your tasks in a way that means they get done. The sheer number of To Do list apps and services should tell you that this is truly a hard problem to solve - managing a task list is trivial, but doing it in a way that drives someone to do their tasks is immensely difficult.

If the app enables you to do that then $150 to actually keep on top of tasks you need to do is an amazing bargain.

OP could offer the same thing as JetBrains does : for X months of continuous subscription (here 18), you get a lifetime license for the current version. It satisfies both the customers who wants one time purchase but as a developper you still get your ARR.

Yeah $110AUD/year is more than twice what I'd expect to pay.

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