Back in January 2017, MacPaw's subscription app service Setapp launched as an alternative to the Mac App Store, offering unlimited access to more than 60 Mac apps across a wide range of categories for a flat $9.99 monthly fee.
Since then, Setapp has grown its curated software collection to over 160 apps and gained 1 million users, and this week the service announced the public beta launch of Setapp for Teams, which offers the same raft of apps at a slightly reduced per-user pricing and single-point billing for a company or organization.
The pricing is pretty simple: For a team of four users, Setapp costs $8.99 per user per month. Each person can use Setapp on one device, and each additional device is $7.99 per month.
MacPaw says Setapp for Teams will remain in beta while it works to add features like single sign-on for admin management of app access, and user groups. Otherwise, the same apps that are available to Setapp's individual subscribers are accessible to teams.
Setapp's extensive catalog includes many popular apps in categories including productivity, design, writing, social media, and maintenance tools, all from approved vendors, and all apps on Setapp are available without ads or in-app purchases. Interested workgroups can try Setapp for Teams by following this link.
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I have already, further up in this thread, given my criticisms of SetApp but what you are saying here completely misses what they are offering.
The fact is that all software you buy becomes, in effect, a subscription if you continue to use it for years. Every popular app must be developed continuously, not only to deal with edge-case bugs unearthed by the activities of thousands of users, or to add features that keep them ahead of the competition, but also because operating systems keep evolving. The app you bought last year is not the same app today.
When you buy an app, you "own" the code as it stands at that point. Most developers will also include a period of updates, sometimes a year, sometimes until the next major version. If you want to upgrade to the major next version, you may get a discount but the principal that you have to pay again has been well-established: you do not have to upgrade to the next major version but, if you do, it is fair that you share a tiny part of the ongoing development cost.
Saying that there are Open Source or free versions of all these apps is delusional. I am an Open Source advocate but even I understand that these are not the type of app that will attract sufficiently skilled volunteers or the type of sustained, longterm effort required.
What you are really saying, by bothering to complain on a thread about a paid software product, is that you think you should be given the work of these developers for free because, to you, they are not worth 99 cents. Trust me when I say that you are the epitome of the type of customer who software developers do not want, the miserable guy who never sees value in the talent or hard work of other human beings.
with setapp, you may install and use *all* 160 apps for your one charge, as well as being entitled to *every* update, even the ones that are in the App Store under a new name and listing so that the devs can charge existing users again.
also, setappās library is curated, unlike Appleās, which is filled with garbage.
hereās the thing: there was an app in the App Store that I very much wanted... actually bought... and it was about $60. I had been researching setapp, but didnāt realize that app was already in their library before I bought it from Apple. There were also several apps on setapp that I had previously purchased or was considering, so it was a no-brainer, really: for the price of this one app, I could have the whole library.
also, sub models, which suck as one-offs, are actually a really good deal when bundled. Better for the devs, too, as they get paid residuals based on app usage. This is why so many apps have moved to a model of āupgradeā listings or IAP subs in the App Store. The canāt survive on one-time purchases.
i mean, you DO realize that this is LITERALLY what Apple has done with Apple Arcade, right?
but, you do you...
I've found numerous quality apps I never knew existed:
* Trip Mode
* One Switch
* Mosaic
* Endurance
* Beepify
* Proxyman
* Silenz
It has also given me access to upgrades for apps I already used:
* Bartender
* iFlicks
* Unclutter
* CleanMyMac
* IM+
* MacPilot
* Paste
Finally, there are apps I wanted but never purchased, and simple problem-solving utilities:
* Ulysses
* Disk Drill
* Prizmo
* Gemini
* Renamer
* Image2icon
* Spotless
When I encounter a problem that warrants a new app searchā¦ I open Setapp, finding what I need 70-80% of the time (compared to a 25-40% success rate with the MAS). I get to install it with no additional cost. The result being that Setapp allows me to aggregate the risk of wasted or underutilized app expenses.
Contrast this to the Mac App Store, where a simple search can result in hundreds of varied results and information overload. Free trials aren't supported, which means taking a risk by paying upfront for an unproven app. I've wasted far too much this way on apps I never used again. The MAS doesn't support paid updates, often leaving no way to continually support a good developer.
Many quality apps are already moving to subscriptions (or leaving the MAS). For this reason, I've already transitioned previous MAS purchases to Setapp (ie. Paste). I'd much rather have one subscription for 40 apps (my current Setapp install count) than 40 subscriptions for one app each. And I prefer centralized app billingā¦ rather than having accounts spread across every developer.