“MacPaw, the company behind the famous CleanMyMac hard drive cleaner, has launched Setapp, a subscription-based alternative to Apple’s Mac App Store,” Jackie Dove writes for Macworld. “With Setapp, a single subscription currently lets you access more than 60 curated Mac apps for a $9.99 fixed monthly fee. MacPaw says it will eventually offer up to 300 apps for that price, as new apps will be added every month.”
“While I was quite familiar with MacPaw’s own CleanMyMac, as well as assorted other popular apps like ChronoSync Express, Hype, Polarr, RapidWeaver, Ulysses, and XMind,” Dove writes, “there are many others in the suite I’m hearing about for the first time.”
Dove writes, “The suite’s ultimate strength is the sum of its individual parts. It broadens horizons, introduces you to apps you may not otherwise hear about, and cuts the time required to search the Mac App Store for just the right app for your needs.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: An interesting experiment. As we said earlier, the more options for Mac users, the better!
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I would be interested to know how the developers get paid under this scheme?
Do developers negotiate a fixed price per month, or do they get paid according to the number of people who actually use their application that month?
It’s an interesting business model, but it remains to be seen how well it works out in the real world.
I have found that these types of schemes only have 1 or maybe 2 good apps and the rest are just fillers to get numbers up. It’s bad enough when they offer a bundle like this fo one time purchase, it’s thievery to sell a monthly subscription. Move along nothing good here.