![]() IOS Universal: TONALY: Write & practice music: $4 (Reg. IOS Universal: PAKO – Car Chase Simulator: $1 (Reg. IOS Universal: Goodak Edit – Photo Editor Cam: $2 (Reg. IOS Universal: Zombie Night Terror: $1 (Reg. IOS Universal: Tempest: Pirate Action RPG: $4 (Reg. IOS Universal: Depello – color splash photos: FREE (Reg. IOS Universal: European War 6: 1914: FREE (Reg. I’m walking away perfectly happy with the year I spent with it.IOS Universal: Quickgets Geo: geodata widgets: FREE (Reg. Still, I wouldn’t have known that if I hadn’t given it a try. If I didn’t already own apps like PDFpen, Bartender, Marked, and Default Folder X, Setapp would make a lot of sense for me. When my Setapp subscription ran out last week, I bought it from the Mac App Store for $20. ![]() Its layout is simple, and it’s easy to search without building an SQL query from scratch. Setapp includes a handful of database frontends, and I tried them all before settling on Base. One-off changes-like when a client’s email address changes-are easier to do through a GUI. I’ve written several scripts that interact with SQLite databases, but those are for standard operations that do the same thing over and over. Finally, there was one app that I didn’t own before and that I used regularly over the year: Base, the SQLite frontend from Menial.I’m not sure what’s changed between over the past few years, but I found myself using the Setapp PDFpen quite a lot, so I’ll be updating my purchased version. Similarly, I hadn’t updated PDFpen for a while, so I installed the Setapp version (v. Moving back to Calendar has been just fine, possibly because I see the weather and moon phase regularly on my phone. Ultimately, though, it’s not really a replacement for Calendar because it doesn’t have an AppleScript dictionary, 2 which is why I hadn’t updated the version I bought several years ago. I installed Bus圜al because I prefer its look to that of Apple’s Calendar app, particularly the weather and moon phase data. Those that were updated versions of apps I already owned, like Bus圜al and PDFpen. Renamer was good for that, but I already own a copy of Better File Rename, and I’m perfectly comfortable returning to it. I usually rename files at the command line, but sometimes I want a nice GUI preview before going ahead with the renaming. Renamer is the exemplar in this category. Those that replaced an app I use reasonably often, but which weren’t that much better than what I’d been using before.Returning to youtube-dl won’t be a hardship. ![]() I kept it installed for the entire year, but didn’t use it more than 2–3 times. Those that worked well, often an improvement over some command-line utility, but not used often.The exception was Better Touch Tool, which I really wanted to like and kept installed for at least a month. These were usually uninstalled after a quick trial. Those that had interesting descriptions but were just wrong for me.Over the course of the year, I installed maybe 15–20 of its apps. But last year, when Setapp was doing a Black Friday sale on a year’s subscription, I succumbed. I already owned several of the apps in its inventory, and the great majority of those I didn’t own weren’t all that appealing to me. I held off on Setapp for quite a while, despite all the recommendations it got from people I trust.
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