Listed on stacksocial for $59

It always makes me nervous about what a platform wants from a LTD play....

https://stacksocial.com/sales/xtiles-personal-pro-lifetime-subscription

Anyone have any experience with this one?

I've used xTiles some and wrote about it here:

https://medium.com/@stephenjzeoli/card-based-whiteboard-pkms-5608dfe4a771

The app has come a long way since that mini-review.

Steve

Thanks Stephen,

Interesting read, I see it does look more web based. And sorry to hear about Henry.

Larry

Thank you your sentiment about our cat, Henry.

Lb wrote:

Thanks Stephen,

Interesting read, I see it does look more web based. And sorry to
hear about Henry.

Larry

Anyone know what advantages it has over Obsidian's Canvas?

What is "LTD" in this context?

X-Tiles appears to be more like Craft than Obsidian's canvas plugin.

IMO, Obsidian canvas is nice, but has no advantage over anything. It's a very low-end whiteboard tagged onto a plain-text editor.

Paul Korm wrote:

IMO, Obsidian canvas is nice, but has no advantage over anything.

Canvas' big advantage is that it's linked and incorporates files and saves itself into files.
I also have Heptabase and Scrintal, but I don't use them because the friction of putting stuff in overwhelms any extra features and I'm not going to make a database the centre of my workflows. I've never really had a use for Craft or Notion, although I have trialled them.

LTD = Lifetime Deal
(Selling software for life versus subs, per year licensing, etc.)


Paul Korm wrote:

What is "LTD" in this context?

Ah, the "Lifetime Deal" - on the rare occasions I've been tempted either the Company folds soon after or development stops (IdeaMason, CintaNotes, etc)

xTiles is a Ukraine based app, so they may be looking for an infusion of cash. I did a Zoom session with the developers, last spring, I think it was. They seemed dedicated to the app, so I am not too concerned that they will fold, but then again, things in Ukraine are not overly stable.

But xTiles is pretty different than Canvas. Canvas is more free-style. xTiles reminds me a little of OneNote.

Steve

Geoffrey Miller wrote:

Ah, the "Lifetime Deal" - on the rare occasions I've been tempted either
the Company folds soon after or development stops (IdeaMason,
CintaNotes, etc)

Not necessarily. I've purchased a number of LTD services (CloudApp, Droplr, AdGuard) and Mac Utilities (Alfred, BetterTouchTool, iPhone Recovery) which offered the choice between yearly subscription or one-time purchase.

Users are so used to paying next to nothing for software, so it's a choice between affordability versus long-term savings, so some devs offer both. And using a service like StackSocial to offer it on a limited basis brings in cash flow without tanking the regular pricing structure.

Moo.do had a LTD offer on StackSocial in 2017 and I believe it rolled over when the product was revamped and renamed as LegendApp. Recently Agenda added a LTD option for the price of three years' subscription. IA Writer offers the Android version as either a monthly or yearly sub, or a LTD purchase.

Some purchase pricing seems odd to me, however. UpNote for example has a one-time unlock with no limit to note storage capacity, which is increasingly economically untanable for a business as long as the product increases in users (and use of the product).

One caveat to these LTD deals: you may end up with full access only to the version of the app when purchased. This is what happened with WriteMapper 3, which surprised a lot of users who'd purchased lifetime licenses of v.1 and v.2 only to learn that it only meant you are allowed to keep your current version in perpetuity.