Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

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Post by willyt » Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:01 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #4

Panic Nova. Serif Affinity suite. Edit: Nova is arguably a subscription in some respects, there is an optional support & upgrade path for a fee, but the app works just fine without it. https://nova.app/ https://affinity.serif.com/

All the affinity stuff is great. They could triple their prices and I'd still be happy to buy all three apps.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

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Post by garciasn » Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:01 PM UTC

Rectangle: https://rectangleapp.com/

EasyRes: https://easyresapp.com/

ScreenFloat: https://www.screenfloatapp.com/

Bartender (paid): https://www.macbartender.com/ - Hidden Bar (free alternative): https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

AltTab: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Re: Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

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Post by sandstrom » Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:02 PM UTC

Cleanshot X (app for taking screenshots and easily annotate them, with e.g. arrows and text)

Re: Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

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Post by open-source-ux » Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:03 PM UTC

petecooper wrote: post #4

Panic Nova. Serif Affinity suite. Edit: Nova is arguably a subscription in some respects, there is an optional support & upgrade path for a fee, but the app works just fine without it. https://nova.app/ https://affinity.serif.com/

Affinity suite

I also recommend the Affinity apps and hope Affinity continue with the perpetual licence model.

In contrast, the SaaS subscription model is a juggernaut that shows no sign of slowing down and is eating the old desktop app model. For example, Sketch is a popular desktop app for creating UI designs and used to offer a perpetual licence. But Sketch faces competition from Figma (and lesser from Adobe XD), and Sketch are now wholly a subscription service.

Re: Ask HN: What are some good non-subscription Mac apps?

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Post by janejeon » Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:03 PM UTC

skydhash wrote: post #9

What I bought and personally use: - Things 3 - iA Writer - Bartender - Alfred - Cleanshot X - Sip - Tot - Keyboard Maestro - Tim (time tracker for freelance work) - Swinsian (Very good, but no dark mode) - Doppler (Good) - PDF Expert (Preview was a pain with annotation) - Reeder - Mela - Pixelmator Pro - Dash - Affinity Photo & Designer

+1 for iA Writer. Fair pricing, and it was the only thing my ADHD ass could actually use to sit down and get writing.