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Scrintal now available for $60US/year for first 2,000 subscribers
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Posted by Darren McDonald
Sep 29, 2022 at 10:29 AM
Srintal is now (as of September 29, 2022) on offer for $60US/year for the first 2,000 subscribers. The pricing is locked in at the special $60/year with this subscription price if you are one of the 2,000 subscribers.
The link to subscribe is at:
https://www.scrintal.com/#pricing
Just for your information. I have no connection with the Scrintal company. I am just a new subscriber to the software.
Posted by satis
Sep 29, 2022 at 02:43 PM
This morning I got their email about this. Seems a tiny bit desperate: not offering free trials, just a choice between paying for a year or signing up for waitlist for beta access (which is what I thought I’d done!). Cash crunch?
Posted by tightbeam
Sep 30, 2022 at 11:14 AM
I got the same email, and it does seem desperate if not a bit shady. Why would I pay for software that I can’t first trial?
Posted by exatty95
Sep 30, 2022 at 02:01 PM
In a video on Scrintal’s website, the founder said that he would give refunds within a week of purchase. I bit, and while it’s early and rough, I am intrigued. It’s visual nature is helping me on a project. It seems comparable in concept to what I’ve heard about Heptabase. Heptabase seems farther along and slicker, but it doesn’t yet have a Web version so I can’t use it at work.
Posted by Darren McDonald
Oct 1, 2022 at 01:00 PM
I hear you. I was wanting to trail-test out Scrintal first to see if it was able to handle things like Japanese input before jumping into the deep end. I followed the developer’s communications with previous users and was very happy with the openness and fast response in answering queries which led to fast development. So, I had no qualms in signing up with a subscription even though Scrintal is still very much in beta.
The developers claim that they have already secured seed money, so not really sure why they asked for discounted subscriptions. Maybe it was a strategy to target the next set of serious users. Either way, I usually give donations to encourage the development of software that looks to be most useful to me (Obsidian, for instance). Even with the historic low level of the Japanese yen at the moment, it was a no-brainer for me.
Scrintal seems to check all the boxes for the type of software I am after- and it is still only in beta! I shouldn’t be so surprised though. The Scrintal team has a strong and fresh academic background, especially in the use of qualitative research. Scrintal’s allows you to bring together (see, brainstorm) seemingly random thoughts, research findings, and ideas visually using virtual cards to them be able to write long-form papers is very big to me and fits in well with the way qualitative research is done. It is software I needed to have right now to get through my research. :)
satis wrote:
This morning I got their email about this. Seems a tiny bit desperate:
>not offering free trials, just a choice between paying for a year or
>signing up for waitlist for beta access (which is what I thought I’d
>done!). Cash crunch?