tommasongr

Okk I get it but a lot of other apps do the same… consider that from our perspective the alternative would be to run a standard subscription. Is that preferable? Personally I would say no, but maybe it’s just me.

Thanks for the comment. Means a lot to see someone who recognises that.

We know that not everybody has the some financial conditions but we didn't expect such harsh reactions for the price. I agree that maybe we could improve some of the wording we're using, but the price itself seems pretty reasonable to me. Personally I have multiple pieces of software which I pay 50 bucks a month or more to use. $49 for the first year and optionally $29 after that didn't seem a problem for us...

Thank you. As I said in another comment, we know this is not a "painkiller" app, at least right now. We just wanted to create something nice to use. Everyone who's already happy with using brew in the terminal should not even try Brewer X. The app is for people who sometime prefers to have a good UI in front of them.

Of course, our hope for the future is to add enough new and cool features that brew could never offer that the app might be interesting also for everyone else. Till then keep using the terminal ;)

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much ;)

We clearly didn't expect some of these reactions but we probably didn't know the audience of this website very well... Our bad.

Thanks for the "nice looking" :)

You might be right... Honestly this is the first place where we received such comments. Definitely our mistake.

Although, I think it's worth pointing out that Cakebrew hasn't been actively maintained in 3 years and has never supported Casks. Cork on the other hand is actively developed and supports Casks, but we think the interface and user experience are not the best. For what we've seen so far Brewer X mostly appeals someone who can't get along with poorly designed UIs just to use a free tool.

I'm sorry if the website didn't convey the right idea, but we know that this is not, at least right now, a "painkiller". This is just something nice to use. Not targeted to somebody with the wet dream of macOS being a tiling window manager... We're developers ourself, we love the terminal, and we recognise its strengths. If you're already satisfied with that you absolutely don't have to purchase Brewer X. Friends as before ;)

Thanks ;)

This is the first place where we received such negative feedback. Even if we're a bit surprised, I think some of them might be quite useful and interesting. However, some of them are just not even worth responding, to use kind words ahah

We're aware of the possible issue you're pointing out. Since we're relatively new to macOS development do you have any idea on how others deal with this? There are a lot of apps out there with the same pricing model. Sketch for instance did this for years. They should have found a solution, right?

Thanks for you observation. We understand the price might seem a bit high (for the current state of the app), but the last thing we wanted for it was to be a "scam". The whole website design with the pricing always upfront was chosen exactly to convey a sense of transparency... maybe it's not as effective as we thought.

We would really like to offer some sort of trial. Can I ask you if you would prefer a perpetual one where just the basic features are unlocked or a time-limited one where you have everything availble? Maybe we can even do both... after the time-limited trial the app locks all the advanced/non-essential features. We're open to ideas here.

Hi there! Thanks for your opinion. We get that for some people the current price tag is too high. Honestly we think that going forward with everything we planned to add will be justified. However, we admit that maybe is hard to ask people to pay upfront for some benefit they will get in the future.

You don't have to pay an annual subscription for updates. If you decide to not do that you can continue using the app. Was it clear in the copy or not? Maybe we can make it even clearer. Thanks