Same company acquired two very similar apps.

One required a $14/year subscription, the other $90/year

So they “carefully considered this decision” by delisting the cheaper one for the more expensive one. Boom, 500% cost increase

Don’t want to pay? Well, your files are hostage. Stop paying and lose your data.

Ps: remember the lie “subscription for software assures constant updates”?

The announcement serves as the final nail in the coffin for one of the iPad’s oldest and most popular sculpting apps, which hasn’t received any major updates since 2023.

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    Any Software that I previously used that switched to a subscription model has been replaced by FOSS on my end, even if it’s not fully up to par yet I am usually much happier with the alternatives.

    Plex > Jellyfin

    Office > Libreoffice / Collabra

    Photoshop > Gimp

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      Gimp and inkscape for vector work, both nice. There is also PhotoGimp, kind of an overlay that changes the interface of Gimp to resemble Photoshop, nice for those transitioning. There is also Krita which has been getting a lot of development, cross between Photoshop and Illustrator, reminds me of the old Adobe Fireworks program. Who remembers that old line of software?

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        It’s weird to me how GIMP and Krita clearly share a large amount of code under the hood, and even some UI design, but at the same time it feels so much less painful to draw illustrations in Krita than in GIMP. I’m glad I gave it a try.

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      Shout out to the FOSS community here on Lemmy, who are extremely helpful in providing FOSS alternative references.

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      I can’t get into gimp, it’s just too unintuitive and clunky imho. I’ve switched from PS to Affinity which is a one time purchase, got it 50% off when they had the “fuck Adobe” sale last year