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by danpalmer 3163 days ago
I had a trial and found the selection for developers wasn't worth the $10.

There are a few little utilities, like the Regex tester, that are definitely neat and well made, but given the once a month I actually need that functionality, I'll just use a crappy web app for it.

Most of the software I found to be the 3rd best in its category (or worse), for example, It doesn't have OmniFocus or Things, it has a bunch of to-do list apps I've never heard of that all have poor design and UX. Besides that there's a lot of the soft of system enhancer software that I thought made my computer go faster when I was younger but that I've now realised is mostly pointless.

For me to resubscribe to SetApp, I'd want to see best-in-class apps like Things, OmniFocus, SublimeText (or even BBEdit, I'm not a fan, but it's a good Mac app), RapidWeaver (again, not for me, but good for many), Transmit, Coda, Delicious Library, etc. I'd probably pay more than $10 for that sort of selection.

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but OP's point is that a Paw subscription /alone/ is $12/m
Oh apologies. I'd expect that's not a like-for-like comparison. Paw is a paid app, and then has team-sync subscriptions, the former is in SetApp, the latter is not.