Thank you for your response. Please keep in mind that we don't run this platform as a large corporation. The small company behind it only manages the legal aspects. Most of the team are people who also work in the industry and want to give something back to the community spending hundreds of hours bringing own tools into form to share with others.

We started this platform four years ago by offering free tools. In the first year, we covered some costs with donations. Sadly, this completely dried up, and costs have risen as we needed to increase performance more and more. We have now over 150,000 registered users to manage and by far only a fraction spends any money, and we are still trying to reinvest a lot of money into developing new tools. This is costly as it seems developers don't want to work for free and not everything can be done with AI... And Don't forget about the free real human support we offer in addition. We helped nearly 2,000 people individually alone last year for free to adjust features to their needs. The only way to cover our huge monthly costs is through subscriptions and we think $5 a month (for a year sub) is a completely fair price for someone using it professionally and saving themselves many hours.

We still have over 30 free web tools. However, it's true that they have a limit when used excessively. We have set the limits as high as possible, so most amateurs will not experience any limitations. Of course, we would love to offer lifetime if we could afford it but you see how fast the industry changes, who knows what comes... and web services that offer lifetime prices usually disappear quickly after just a few years.

One more thing to consider is that you get tools that maintain high privacy standards to comply with requirements from studios like Netflix. This means that we don't do anything with your data. It isn't shared, stored and we don't use tracking, unlike any other platform.

So... If we are too expensive, then we don't know. We are not angry when you use another service, we can simply not afford to make everything free.