What is the most useless app that you have seen being given as a subscription?
For me, I tried a ‘minimalist’ launcher app for Android that had a 7 day trial or something and they had a yearly subscription based model for it. I was aghast. I would literally expect the app to blow my mind and do everything one can assume to go that way. In a world, where Nova Launcher (Yes, I know it has been acquired by Branch folks but it still is a sturdy one) or Niagara exist plus many alternatives including minimalist ones on F Droid, the dev must be releasing revolutionary stuff to factor in a subscription service.
Second, is a controversial choice, since it’s free tier is quite good and people like it so much. But, Pocketcasts. I checked it’s yearly price the other day, and boy, in my country, I can subscribe to Google Play Pass, YouTube Premium and Spotify and still have money left before I hit the ceiling what Pocketcasts is asking for paid upgrade.
Also, what are your views on one time purchase vs subscriptions? Personally, I find it much easier to purchase, if it’s good enough even if it was piratable, something if it is a one time purchase rather than repetitive.
Flightradar24. It uses publicly available information, has no real extreme back end needs and is basically forwarding linked information. They had ad tiers and ad free tiers years ago, I was happy enough with it so went ahead and purchased the pro version. Fast forward a couple years, they introduced a “new” version of the app, that basically wasn’t any different and moved to a subscription model. If you had the pro tier, they gave you like three free months of the subscription, but then you had to pay. That was a big fuck that from this guy. Google/Apple should pull apps that pull that horseshit, or at least force them to refund the purchases.