{"id":21938,"date":"2018-06-26T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21938"},"modified":"2018-07-24T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T18:23:15","slug":"git-tower-3-switches-to-subscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/26\/git-tower-3-switches-to-subscription\/","title":{"rendered":"Git Tower 3 Switches to Subscription"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tobias Günther<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Today, after years of work, we are finally launching a brand new version of Tower! It’s packed with awesome new features like Pull Requests, Interactive Rebase, and our unique “Quick Actions”. It reinvents many existing features like Search, File History, or Blame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Here’s<\/a> some more information about the new design and features. I like the new back\/forward buttons and the quick actions. Hopefully, I won’t need to use the Reflog, but it’s good that it’s now available. Search is improved, but GitUp<\/a> is still better as searching content. The file history view is better in some ways, but it no longer lets you see the full commit messages, and there’s still<\/a> no way to invoke it without first navigating to the file within the app. The new commit details view is much better in that you can more easily see the changed files. I prefer the old icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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In this context, we can also announce that we’re finally moving Tower’s license model to an annual fee. This is probably neither surprising nor unusual news: many other companies have made similar changes already years ago.<\/p>\n

For brevity’s sake, let me just state the most important reason why we decided to make this change: Although we had shipped countless small and medium-sized features for free since we launched version 2 in 2014, we had to save up the big features for a new major release. Now, we will finally be able to ship big features more quickly to our customers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously, the app was $79; now it’s $69\/year. Including discounts, I paid $53.10 for Tower 1 in 2011, $26.55 for the Tower 2 upgrade in 2014, and $34.50 for a 1-year subscription for Tower 3 today. Presumably that will go up to $69 next year. So this is a huge price increase<\/a>. But it’s also a really good app, and I use it every day.<\/p>\n\n

Tower is an interesting case study for subscriptions because:<\/p>\n