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Initial experience with Setapp

Apr 14, 2019 Initial experience with Setapp

I signed up for Setapp for a free trial week. Setapp is an app subscription service for macOS where you sign up for $10 a month to gain full access to a catalog of over 100 apps.

This is not a review of Setapp, but rather my initial experience with it after having heard about it a few times on the Mac Power Users podcast. Many of apps in the Setapp catalog are well known and as such I was already aware of them. But there are several that are new to me.

Apps that I found myself using often during the trial:

Marked
Mindnode
Flume
Timing
iStat Menus

Apps I installed and use occasionally and would expect to use occasionally in the future:

WiFi Explorer
World Clock Pro

Apps I tried but then uninstalled after using just one or two times:

CleanMyMac X
IconJar
Luminar Flex

Apps that are included in Setapp but which I’ve previously bought individually and use anyway:

Screens
Paw
Sip

So with a very rough mental calculation I think the math would work out alright. Of course the main hook/promise of Setapp is the potential of all the other apps. Many may not be relevant today but may become relevant tomorrow. Their stated goal:

We have 100+ apps in the stack and are steadily adding more of them to cover all of your main needs. Eventually, Setapp is to deliver about 300 Mac apps, all per a single $9.99 fee (+ taxes).

I have already identified some apps that I plan to use soon but just didn’t have a chance to use during the trial period. I’ve now subscribed for one month, and if it still seems useful after that, I will likely switch to the annual plan for 10% off.

If you would like to try out Setapp, select here to use my referral code.

Apr 12, 2019

It’s that time of the biennial.

Apr 11, 2019

When rain gave way to the setting Sun,
briefly the other day

😍

Apr 9, 2019

I went down memory lane and discovered that Federico Viticci reviewed my first and only indie iOS app way back in the day 😊 www.macstories.net/news/twee…

Hiking at Angel's Rest

Apr 9, 2019 Hiking at Angel's Rest

Last Saturday we went hiking at Angel’s Rest in the gorge. I’ve been on this hike several times and always enjoy it. It is only a thirty minute drive from home, and offers great views and a good workout.

This trail, along with many others had been closed for over a year since the Eagle Creek Fire, and had reopened last fall.

All the way from the trailhead to the viewpoint on the top of the cliff there were charred trees. I’ve never hiked through a place devastated by fire before, so it was a new an interesting experience from that regard.