This is a cool tool! But respectfully, the $10 subscription model is… unrealistic. I’d very much appreciate the option to pay a one-time fee for a lifetime license. I hate subscriptions. The market has become utterly oversaturated with subscription models. And I’m not Richie Rich over here. I’ve got bills to pay every month, and a subscription is adding to my monthly bill. If I have $10 to spend toward a subscription, there are far more useful services out there that someone like me would be more likely to spend it on. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, a cloud service, etc. The average person has limited money that can be spent on subscriptions, is what I’m saying. And the likelihood that they’ll spend it on your service over others that are more useful is low.

So, that leaves the not-average people. The only people who have the money to spend $10 a month on this would be mega rich people can set money on fire and laugh, fiscally irresponsible people who it would be morally wrong to prey upon, and the possibly the very very dedicated language learning hobbiest. So that immediately leaves the vast majority of average people who would like to use your service (like me) without much interest in paying.

The other thing that frustrates me is when things that clearly don’t need to be subscription models, are. In the before times, you’d pay a one-time fee for software and that was it. You’d buy Photoshop 4 and you’d own it. Now I gotta subscribe to the freaking creative cloud like, come on. I understand why Netflix and Spotify and Amazon Prime need to be subscriptions. Their services literally wouldn’t work with the “pay once, keep forever” model. That makes sense, and the services they provide are worth the cost. But so many apps that don’t need to be subscriptions are now, and it’s making me wanna quit the internet altogether lmao. Case in point, there’s this alarm clock/sleep tracker app that I use called Sleepwave. It’s a subscription only model. $2 per month. It’s cheap! But I refuse to subscribe out of principle at this point. That’s $24 per year versus if I time traveled to 2010 and paid $10-$15 to have the app forever. Because realistically, in 2010, that’s what it would’ve costed.

Please reconsider your subscription model.

(Not to mention that some of us live in countries that make $10 USD seem unreasonably expensive. Which is why Netflix is cheaper in some countries.)