That was confusing. When I saw the app and that it offers in-app purchases, I thought something minimal would be possible without a purchase. But after downloading and launching it, I see the prompt to buy the subscription or the one time purchase, and nothing more. The app description on the store doesn’t make this — that a purchase must be made to use it — clear either. Edit: An observation I’ve had is that third p…
Halide author here. Previously, you would pay-once at the time of download, so this isn't much different than what we had before. That said, we wish the App Store offered a better solution than what we had to settle with; we'd much rather people know up-front the business model than download the app, be surprised, and possibly leave a negative review. As far as replacing the first party camera, it's by far our top us…
I think there should be more details on what customers get with either Pay-Once (which all existing purchasers get), and/or the Membership.
If I were a new user, I would think that Pay-Once means that I'm set for life(time of the product) (seeing as how it's equivalent to slightly under 3 years of membership payments), but the comments here sound like there's a basic feature set that new users would have to pay ~$30 for at first, and newer features would be restricted to people who commit additional regular annual payments.
It's very confusing.