Revolut will let you do this, either with single use or recurring payment cards with monthly limits. If you go over the limit you get a notification and can either approve by making an exception for that one payment or just leave it, in which case the payment bounces.
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Monzo and Starling do this
After using MacUpdate for ages I finally decided that app collections werenāt for me. Iād rather select individual apps that do precisely what I need, even if the arenāt in the App Store.
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Iām with you on this one. MacPulse that you mentioned is my app, but i agree, being offered as standalone is weird.
I think they are experimenting with this, but either way no matter how it goes, they should take a good look at their subscription catalog. I guess voting with your wallet is the only way to make it count.
I moved off when my annual sub came up too. Was able to move to open source things for most stuff I used often.
MacShot replaced ScreenShotX and TextSniper
Clocker (now fixed) replaced Dato
TablePlus replaced TablePlus
Thaw replaced Bartender
Tripsy is one I have not found a replacement for, itās a nice to have and their subscription is more than I want to pay for an app like that. Maybe if they do a Black Friday lifetime deal or something
A few other apps I was using Iāve just deleted for now.
The other reason was the addition of their āApp Marketplaceā - I didnāt like being sold more apps when I was paying a subscription already. That was just a bad move on SetApps part IMO.
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I decided to leave around October last year and so I made a list of the Apps that were essential and bought most outright in the November Black Friday sales.
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every time I have ever looked into SetApp I have been unable to justify the extra expense over/above any apps I was currently paying for, even when attempting to find something I ādidnāt know I needed.ā I use may 2-3 of the apps mentioned in this thread so far. Just quickly going through my menu bar I have:
AutoMounter
TunnelBear
DockDoor
Rectangle
Shottr
BetterDisplay
RayCast
DropZone
Very few of those are paid versions.
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That might be one āI did not know I need itāā¦
Thanks for sharing!
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Hookmark Bike and Busycal are my subscribe anyway apps - a number of others are useful - Iād never pay the asking price for Nitro PDF - but that would pretty much cover setapp on itās own. definitely a bonus
However just upgraded to Tahoe 26.5.1 (25F80) and something has broken
Setapp reports it canāt connect to the internet to check my sub - and all the setapp apps not only donāt work, but put up multiple messages to make life even more difficult
so though it might cost literally a few$ more, it would be well worth paying for a more robust solution, as Iāve only just renewed - Iāve asked them to honour their 30-day money back offer