![]() My general experience with subscription based apps is that sooner or later they will introduce features I don't care at all, they remove features I use, they redesign the UI, in some cases they release a fully new version which does not even have feature parity with the previous version. Can you please explain why would I pay on a monthly basis for it, when I don't want new features, I don't want UI redesign just keep the app in a working state while we are going through the regular OS upgrade cycle. I paid for Spark once when I bought it, can't remember how much. I've been a Spark user for a long time, but I have no intention of paying for "Group by Sender", thank you very much. Mute Thread and Group by Sender cost $4.99/month? No thank you. Running my emails through some special spam service? (not that this is necessary if you use a decent provider), sure, charge for that. Syncing my contacts to some cloud service and doing something special with them? Sure, charge me for that. ![]() I think that's why putting some of these features behind a subscription tier feels so gross to me. The email client space is mostly commoditizated, and the feature set is mostly standardized. I realize Spark is doing a bit more than your run-of-the-mill email client, but I see that as an implementation detail / architectural decision more than I see that as a feature as an end user. When apps like Ulysses and 1Password went down the subscription route, I had no issue with it because Ulysses has continued to get better and better over time (by adding great new features), and I use 1Password's cloud sync service (and I think there's an argument to be made that password management apps need to continue evolving with the web to maintain usability).
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