Swift To-Do List is maturing nicely...

Posted by NW
Feb 15, 2014 at 12:51 PM

I picked up swift pro v8 on bits and used it for quite while. I find I start out enthusiastically with tree based programmes, but as the tree gets bigger and it requires more effort to file items away correctly, I eventually give up on them. Swift has some nice features, such as the ability to drag emails across to create tasks or to store for reference.

The new features in v9 would be nice to have, but the upgrade price from v8 to v9 of $50 seems excessive. Although, not surprising as the cost is high anyway. For example, spell checking is withheld from the pro version and reserved for the ultimate version which is $150! Also, major versions are released quite frequently- seems like once a year, so if you want to keep current with bug fixes etc, you need to think about ongoing costs.

I guess like most app developers these days, jiri has his eyes on a subscription based web service which will be necessary to sync the desktop versions with the online version and iOS/android versions. Like many other developers, eg PersonalBrain, the plan seems to be to get desktop users to payout big money for minimal changes to desktop versions dressed up as major releases, in order to fund ios/android development.