[bilekas]

This is an interesting thread as a lot of the comments mention services as opposed to software straight out. That said i bought the lifetime membership of jetbrains IDE. I think it was worth the money personally.

Services based i would have to say Spotify. It's been a game changer for me over the years with an unhealthy habit of hoarding music.

[muzani]

I was an unhealthy hoarder of music too. Went JOOX > Spotify > YouTube Music as far as it goes. YT is great as it includes songs that are only posted on YT (mainly covers), but also you get no ads on the video version of YT. I kind of want to support Spotify as the little guy but they haven't been kind to paying users.

[gnz11]

Is Spotify the "little guy"? I like the concept of Spotify and pay for Spotify but their software seems to be getting more unusable with each passing day. Bugs that never get fixed and dark patterns everywhere. Maybe they should focus less on their new "AI DJ" and more on the boring stuff.

[muzani]

It's much littler than Google. I'm still uncomfortable giving my money to Google but yeah, I didn't like the dark patterns and the song suggestions didn't click. It's not as bad as JOOX, which was bad on both. YT music is legit one of the best music apps I've subscribed to though, mostly did it because I was discovering new music for Spotify via YouTube.