What makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because
1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well
2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with.
The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed.
Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.
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What makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because
1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well
2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with.
https://blog.helftone.com
What makes you think it's abandoned?
The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed.
Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.