Interesting. I use several browsers such as Firefox - Brave and Chrome - for different purposes and I’m wondering if you can use Apple passwords - on those apps somehow? - right now 1PW is working perfectly to fill these needs.
Dave
Since last month, I am up from zero to two subscriptions 
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Those are GoodLinks which went subscription recently (6€ p.a.). But the dev lets you keep the features you got during the subscription period. The second is Keep It which seems to be a spouse-compatible (18€ p.a.).
The only app subscriptions I still have provide cloud services which, for me, justify the subscription price.
- 1Password (cloud syncing). Not sure about switching to Apples password system, so 1Password stays.
- Quicken (financial downloads). I’ve looked at others but, especially since they separated from Intuit, Quicken is far the best for me.
- Adobe Photography subscription. It does come with a cloud service. Frankly I hate Adobe, though.
- Backblaze. (cloud backup)
I’m an OG Meatbag with Carrot, so don’t have a subscription to that. Nor is my Parallels subscription, but I moved my VMs to VirtualBox, and have effectively weaned myself off of non-Mac OS operating systems in preparation for move off of Intel.
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Thankfully I am in education so I get Office for free.
Thanks. As I suspected.
That’s fortunate. Also my aversion to Microsoft is their penchant for selling your data…650 companies benefit from it apparently and of course Microsoft. We are all but commodities it seems.
I tend to use Microsoft services out of a similar aversion to Google. But alas I am in education so ChromeOS for days.
In the spirit of this forum, I reserve the right to change my mind.
I can now confirm that this will not happen. I was debating canceling my Ulysses subscription, which expires in October. But I have decided to cancel my Ulysses subscription.
As I’ve shared, there is much I like about Ulysses, and though I’d lost work when using a Beta version, I chalked it up as a fluke. No longer. Today, I entered text in Ulysses on my Mac. It synced to my iPad but would not sync to the iPhone. I deactivated and reactivated Ulysses iCloud sync on my devices. It still would not sync. I rebooted my iPhone, but nothing.
I can’t trust Ulysses. From reading other reports of this issue, the problem seems to be an iCloud issue with Ulysses sync. But that doesn’t solve anything. My work in Pages, iA Writer, and Scrivener (Dropbox) sync perfectly without delays or missing text. Ulysses’ unreliable iCloud syncing put a nail in the coffin for considering Ulysses for my work. RIP Ulysses. 
And, I can finally “RIP” regarding my writing apps. 
- Pages for my professional documents.
- IA Writer for my blog
- Scrivener for the book project.
See, that wasn’t so hard! 
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You don’t seem to be the only one who’s had issues
Unfortunately, I am not the only one. I suppose it’s just as well, it solved my last remaining app quandary I think once and for all. 
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I left Ulysses for Obsidian for the same reason. Except mine happened when I was about to give a lecture 
For my luck, the iPhone had synced but not my main iPad for presenting.
It’s times like this where I miss Evernote, eons ago, when it was simple, not clunky, etc. But when Evernote started giving me issues and I moved my stuff to DevonThink, just moving it was a hassle and then realized about keeping things fluid enough to move from any system.
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I’ve made a habit of always having a paper copy of my notes in my inside sports coat pocket when giving important lectures or presentations. I typically use my iPad for speaking notes but always have that paper backup copy. I like my tech; I just don’t trust it.
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I’ve seen someone try to wing it from memory when their digital copy failed. It’s not something I ever want to go through.
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I regularly convert. My employer is a Google Workspace, but our actual devices are running MacOS or Windows. If we’re moving files about that are on locked down drives, I convert to Word. Most my colleagues are on Windows, plus I just figure it’s polite because I’m in the U.K. and Microsoft has two-thirds of the market, so I’m more likely to hit a Microsoft user than a Apple user.
I’ve not had an issue with it, once I got used to remembering to do it! Windows users will panic if you send them a mysterious file (that’s true of Pages but also RTF!).
Pages is fine picking files up the other way, though sometimes it doesn’t recognise the font and substitutes its own (I don’t care). Google Docs also is fine picking up files and converting them.
My one caveat would be Excel: Numbers doesn’t have much formula support as Excel does, so if you’re doing really sophisticated things in Excel, you won’t want to convert those files as you’ll likely break the formulas. (Google Sheets also doesn’t have the full formula support that Excel does, so same issue).
And Google Slides and PowerPoint do not play nicely together at all - pick one and stick with it!
As always @Bmosbacker you are an inspiration in my quest to also eliminate subscriptions and go native apps as much as possible. I’ve culled my subs down to just a few that I doubt I’ll cancel anytime soon.
Feedbin - probably never cancel unless prices get too high
YNAB - budget app that has practically saved my marriage
CallSheet - such a great app written by Casey Liss that I don’t mind the price
Parcel - such a cheap price for a great app I use weekly
Flighty - I let this expire until I travel again but I’ll be back
iCloud - family plan for all the devices backups
Fastmail - can’t stop, won’t stop
I just went back and looked, In the last year I’ve canceled over 12 subscriptions! Including Overcast Premium, Instapaper, Carrot Weather, SiriusXM, Readwise, and Apple One. Here is to some money saved and a little less insanity! Thanks!
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Thanks! Appreciate the insight. Will give it a try!
Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you are saving some money and have less of what I’ll call “app cognitive load.” 
Subscriptions are sneaky because individually they are “less than a cup of coffee,” but as I’ve shared before, pretty soon you end up paying for a coffee plantation.
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Now app developers won’t say “a cup of coffee” as they have gradually increased their price. Not even dare to say “a lunch” or “a dinner” or “a box of puzzle”!
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But don’t you consider creating and maintaining an app- a craft, as any other that demands skillful knowledge and dedication? I find it hard to believe the developers are trying to “trick” their customers…
I think of it as whenever there is a new macOS, iOS etc…guys like the Germans behind Ulysses have everything ready! Whatever the new macOS or iOS can do, Ulysses supports it. It’s quality, and you get a product that is always up-to-date with whatever possibilities Apple puts forth (and it is probably tuned to run as smoth as possible on the given hardware). Personally, that’s the reason I don’t mind paying for it.
(And I am pretty sure the Ulysses guys will come with an update that fixes the iCloud problems. After all, they are Germans, it’s bound to perfection! 
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