![]() ![]() In a given day, I only receive a couple of emails. I am aggressive about unsubscribing from marketing emails (unless I find one useful), newsletters I don’t read anymore, and notifications from services that I already receive push notifications from. A few years ago, I moved as many of my accounts, subscriptions, etc. I like email, but only after some hard work to consolidate and a mindset to clear my inbox as often as possible has this been true. I have a personal Google account and work Google account and they are accessed through Gmail on iOS and, again, the web elsewhere. My primary email is and I use Outlook on iOS and the web interface everywhere else. This is not efficient, but I separate my email accounts by app/webpage. ![]() Sure MailMate's developers would say, "Never!", but the history of non-Apple independent email software on MacOS is a damning case against them. Real companies on the backend get my money monthly or yearly for the heavy lifting.ĭigging into MailMate, but I may just go back to Thunderbird to avoid the future where MailMate sells to Google to be discontinued or started subscription tiers, or shakes me down for a few bucks to stop adding junk text to every email I send. Spark is not hosting the domain names or actually sending the emails. viewing raw emails) for my email which comes from somewhere else. Spark is a UI for without advanced features (e.g. It will cost $60 a year or $5 a month to have emails I send not say "Sent with Spark". If there were similar options with Spark. I used to hit their tip jar when major updates came out. I went with a lifetime purchase ages ago. The Iconfactory's approach with Linea Sketch is the one I like-the choice is yours: the app is free or pay monthly or pay yearly or lifetime. Panic's approach is a little better and I could (will?) probably learn to live with it when Transmit goes Nova's way as long as I don't think of it as a "subscription" and instead of a "yearly auto-purchase". I use legacy Macs that are stuck at 10.15 or 10.13 with pre-subscription Parallels. Now it is subscription and the price is ridiculous and the biggest insult is not being able to use the license on more than one computer. It was always too expensive, so I would wait until the new version was in a bundle for the $40 price. Parallels was like this for a long, long time. I will pay once a year for software if it was essential to my workflow in the previous year and I think I want it in the next year. ![]() I’d pay $8/year or whatever but not $8/mo. I realize that it’s not fair to buy an app for $25 and expect to get free updates forever, or even just for 2-3 years. "2) I’m so sick of monthly subscriptions for apps. Good news for Spark users who didn’t want this “Sent with Spark” ad: Readdle is removing this from the Premium feature setĪndroid Android App App Subscriptions E-mail Client Electron iOS iOS 16 iOS App Mac Mac App Mac App Store macOS 12 Monterey Readdle Spark Windows In the case, I’m going to have to stop using Spark.įrustratingly, I did not notice it was adding a signature ad like this after the most recent update until today, which means I’ve been sending business emails for a week with this ad at the bottom. The problem here is that I don’t need any of their Premium features, and now I’m forced to either pay a monthly fee to remove this ad or stop using Spark. ![]()
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