Which is your most expensive app purchase and why?

Software and Dev Web, Apps & Cloud
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I was looking at video editing apps today and thought why not use Final Cut Pro, it being native to Mac. Realized it is 29K. Will be fiddling with Da Vinci Resolve instead. :zany_face:

Got me wondering, what are the most expensive applications that I have ever paid for.

My top 3 are:

  1. RubyMine IDE - approx 10K - for ruby code editing
  2. Affinity - approx 8K - photoshop/illustrator alternative for cheap and ease of use
  3. Sketch - approx 5K - long back before the world shifted to Figma for UI design

All 3 are perpetual licenses.

What are yours?

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Most expensive for me would be tally prime gold - around 50k for perpetual license along with 6000/yearly subscription for cloud access and software upgrades.

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IDA PRO - 365$ per year :smiling_face_with_tear: - Reverse Engineering, Malware analysis etc.
Burp Suite Pro - 499$ per year :distorted_face: - Web related security stuff
Unraid - 150$ Lifetime - Gaming Server/NAS/Noob friendly OS multipurpose

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Same. Affinity Photo around 3.5k and totally worth it. Upgraded to V2 as well. Now I think all 3 come in single app.

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It is not about coming in one app but being free after the Canva acquisition that probably matters more now.

Was close to buying it on occasions but now haven’t even installed it even though it is free.

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This was a thing. - https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/198rej9/air_dropping_apple_store_demo_applications_final/

Not sure if it still works.

EDIT : -

4 months ago, still worked.

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Ya have seen the acquisition. Not sure how future will go but have the V2 for now so works for me.

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Adobe CC - Subscription, but I negotiate it every year to give 40-50% off.

Maxon One (for 3 months)

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How do you negotiate it?

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Email Adobe saying “10rs ki Pepsi, Affinity Photo sexy” and you’ll get the discount (/s)

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Tell them you will switch

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Tally here too. Wished it was available for macOS and I would dump Windows 11 in an instant.

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For operating systems,

  1. $189 Windows Home Server v1
  2. $119 Office for mac 2011
  3. $109 Windows 98 SE

For apps, it was $99 for SoftPerfect Bandwidth Manager.

BSNL offered me a postpaid 2mbps connection in 2006 for Rs 3,300. It had a ridiculously small data limit of 20GB, and so my first bill ended up over Rs 10,000!

I got that program to help track my internet usage.

It didn’t help.

I was bankrupt by the third month and had paid almost Rs 40k for basically a short-lived adrenaline rush of downloading at 250kB/s

I need to go back in time and slap myself.

edit: that was almost $900 back then

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I did a similar thing with my dad :laughing: They had gone for a vacation so had uncontrolled access to internet for 10-12days. The trip ended up costing 30000 more because of me and my sis :rofl: This was in 2011

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NONE! Got most big software like Adobe Creative Suite, OSes, 3Ds max and so on with some good contacts, helping prof. people selflessly and thus got rewarded and gifted.

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INR 1500 for Winrar. Bought it as a troll gift for a friend who wanted a Blu-Ray movie.

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Tivimate, paid 3000Rs

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14k for swipe ERP better than tally tbh

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â‚ą99 for Nova Launcher prime.
Wallpaper Engine (don’t remember exact price).

Rest of the software I use is either open source or free. I often contribute to open source as well.

My clients/work has paid for a few enterprise licenses, but I have never known the costs (Finalcut, Premiere Pro, etc)

Rest of the digital purchases are for media. floatplane, YT premium.

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Yeah . And non ai features are free after they were bought by canva

I have tried out lawnchair, niagara, smart, kvaesitso, octopi and ms launcher in last few years and i always come back to Nova (even though it is no longer in development).

You are the one guy that keeps WinRAR alive!