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SetApp annual pass -- discounted from Creatable
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Posted by Paul Korm
May 26, 2018 at 02:14 PM
I have nothing to do with anyone involved in this promotion:
SetApp is a subscription package containing “100+” Mac desktop apps. Here are the apps:
One adds or deletes apps as desired. You would want to check the terms to make sure you’re getting full-featured apps.
Creatable is offering a promotion for a Setapp subscription for $64.99—versus the normal $119.88 ($9.99/month). I haven’t found an explanation of whether this is a one-time (i.e., one year) discount, or permanent. I doubt that it is permanent.
Here is the offer
https://creatable.co/market/setapp-annual-pass#!
Posted by satis
May 26, 2018 at 06:11 PM
Not bad, $5 less than the https://stacksocial.com/sales/setapp-1-yr-subscription deal that’s been going on for the last few weeks….
Posted by Lucas
May 27, 2018 at 02:58 AM
Thanks for the heads up. I installed SetApp back in the early days, but I immediately uninstalled it, because it embedded itself in my system in a way that I found over-aggressive, such as creating processes that run on startup with no option to tweak that behavior. Anyone know if that has changed?
Posted by Paul Korm
May 27, 2018 at 09:14 AM
Setapp runs a daemon to ensure that the applications one runs are licensed, which is no different than what Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and others do. The menubar and dock icons for quick access to Setup’s control panel can be disable in its preference pane.
Lucas wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. I installed SetApp back in the early days, but
>I immediately uninstalled it, because it embedded itself in my system in
>a way that I found over-aggressive, such as creating processes that run
>on startup with no option to tweak that behavior. Anyone know if that
>has changed?
Posted by satis
May 27, 2018 at 11:48 AM
Yes, as Paul said it just runs a background process to make sure you’re registered and possibly to check for app updates. It’s pretty innocuous, same as background processes employed by Adobe, Dropbox, BetterTouchTool, 1Password, Audio Hijack, etc