This isn’t the controversy the title suggests. Taking the dev at their word, the measures are pretty reasonable; they asked for help maintaining, nobody stepped up, and so it needs funding somehow. You only need a license to access a release binary, and a paid license to access the Pro binary. Source code is open, compile it yourself to avoid. Some features went into the Paid tier: well, something had to. Commenters are mostly supportive.
The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
As a current free-tier user, this price & transition plan seems completely reasonable. I'll upgrade when the nudge comes. I've got at least that much utility from it so far.
Very glad this isn't a subscription.
This is a horrible title. The developer has kept the entire source code open and you can build from source to get all paid features, and offers a free 14 day trial for all new users. The core functionality of Alt Tab to switch windows is staying free.
I don’t even need the features but I’ll probably buy a license anyway. This software is great and I can’t imagine going back to macOS’ built in alt tab or Mission Control.
The only downside is the "this app is recording your screen" notification light that pops up briefly when you enter full screen mode that a native implementation wouldn’t have to deal with. But clearly, Apple has no interest in building one.
Not a Mac user so I'm unfamiliar with this project, but a one-time $10 fee for a solo dev working on an open-source project that people talk about like it's a must-have for MacOS, who can be mad at that?
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 38.9 ms ] threadThe dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.
The only downside is the "this app is recording your screen" notification light that pops up briefly when you enter full screen mode that a native implementation wouldn’t have to deal with. But clearly, Apple has no interest in building one.