The price is high, but as someone who seems to be testing every option at the moment, I didn’t wince much because I’ve come across similar pricing in other apps recently.
#Noteplan alternatives how to#
I didn’t know about the recent price hike until I was playing with the software and rummaging about on Reddit learning how to do things. I started testing NotePlan on Friday, so I’m a very very new user, and it’s part of my never-ending quest to find a task manager that works for me. The App Store never made this easy, and the market is only getting more challenging over time.”
#Noteplan alternatives pro#
The goal is to make NotePlan a productivity powerhouse for pro users and $2/month wouldn’t cut it and wouldn’t look like a power user tool. We could discuss and compare pricing infinitely, there are always apps that are more expensive and apps that are cheaper or even free. For example, one of Noteplan’s justifications (before the most recent price increase) was: You’ll find a variety of reasons developers explain the change. But I don’t want to go through the trouble of moving data back and then discover that my “existing customer discount” goes back to $15 / month in a year when the dev decides that $7/month from existing subscribers just isn’t worth it (see my notes above). I realize I could almost certainly get the discount. I put my stuff in Obsidian, was looking at coming back to NotePlan at a future date when it was more stable, and now that it’s “stable” it’s twice the price. I don’t begrudge devs some revenue, and the only reason I’m NOT a current NotePlan subscriber is that I was a paid subscriber, but the app was “buggy” (technically not a bug, but a feature implemented so unclearly that it looked like it was working but didn’t - and caused tasks with due dates to get lost). It’s the whole justification for developer after developer going subscription, and typically charging per year the same cost that they’d normally be making every two or three years as they released new versions. I don’t think that “ongoing payments in return for updates to the software” is a rule that customers have chosen to adopt in any way - much less as a negotiating tactic. Respectfully, I think that puts the shoe on the completely wrong foot. That’s just a rule that some customers choose to adopt as a negotiating tactic. I can do the exact same things in Obsidian and Agenda and they both have much better pricing plans.
Is it fair to compare a large corporation’s software package to an indie developer? Of course not, but I am still going to do it.īut even if you compare NotePlan to it’s competition from other small developers, it is a lot more expensive, and having used them all, I like NotePlan, but it is not such a great app where I would even consider it for $120 a year. $120 to take notes just isn’t worth a big chunk of change to me. I also consider how much I have to spend on software subscriptions. I don’t like paying Adobe that much money, but I rationalize it because it is really good software. All things that are fairly basic and I have a ton of options for. Then there is NotePlan, which is basically a calendar, todo, and notes app for the same cost. I pay $120 for Photoshop and Lightroom, pro level tools that do far more than I will ever use. It would never occur to me to compared BBEdit and Noteplan, or Noteplan and Nova, etc.
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