I’ve done a little more checking this morning, and found two pages at the Setapp site that are relevant here.
At the bottom of Manage devices (seats): use Setapp on several Macs — buried at the bottom of the page — is this note: “If you’ve been using Setapp on several Macs before, you might find this article useful: The price or other terms of my subscription plan changed. Does that affect me too?”
The important bits of information there:
- “If you’ve been an active Setapp member for any time, your subscription terms and conditions, including price, won’t change and will stay the same as they were in your first payment.”
- “New terms and prices only apply to new Setapp members. However, if you decide to change or reactivate your subscription (after canceling it or missing some subscription payments), the conditions may change.”
So, as I read this, those of us who already subscribe should see things continue as they’ve always been — as long as we don’t let our subscriptions lapse. In my case, that means I have one seat for my Mac (I have the .edu subscription) and the ability to use apps on both my iPhone and iPad, since iOS devices weren’t “seats” when I subscribed.
That gives me good incentive to keep my subscription active, since my yearly fee is only slightly more than what I’d pay for Ulysses alone otherwise (and I use several apps in addition to Ulysses).
But I doubt I’d come aboard as a new subscriber under the current terms.