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ricgOP

Thanks for your feedback and encouragement!

I'm not taking this personal, I appreciate the feedback and I knew beforehand that subscriptions are controversial.

I contemplated the pricing model for a very long time going back and forth between the two options in my head multiple times.

In the end, the argument that convinced me what that with a subscription my focus is on adding features for my existing users. I'm constantly thinking "How can I make the app better for my users to keep my subscribers"?

Whereas for a single purchase I have to constantly think "What can I add to attract more users"?. All my other apps use one-time payments and sometimes it really pains me to put feature requests on my backpack knowing that I will never get to implement them, because they would not increase the visibility of the app.

Mobile: I have an iOS app planned, but it will take some time because I have a number of features that I want to add to the Mac app first (block based editor, smart search folders, larger calendar view).

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