{"id":36833,"date":"2022-08-23T10:26:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36833"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:46:22","slug":"pixelmator-photo-switching-to-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/pixelmator-photo-switching-to-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixelmator Photo Switching to Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/why-pixelmator-photo-is-switching-to-subscription-pricing-and-a-sneak-peek-at-pixelmator-photo-for-mac\/\">Andrius Gailiunas<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/pixelmator-photo-switches-to-subscription-pricing-and-provides-a-sneak-peek-at-the-apps-upcoming-mac-version\/\">MacStories<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/22\/08\/18\/pixelmator-photo-switches-to-subscription-for-new-users\">AppleInsider<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/08\/18\/pixelmator-photo-subscription-pricing\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.pixelmator.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/18\/why-pixelmator-photo-is-switching-to-subscription-pricing-and-a-sneak-peek-at-pixelmator-photo-for-mac\/\">\n<p>Pixelmator Photo will now cost $4.99 per month, $23.99 per year, or $54.99 for a lifetime license but existing paid users get unlimited access for free. Also, Pixelmator Photo for Mac is coming! What&rsquo;s more early subscribers will get access to it for the same monthly price, which will go up when the Mac version is out.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For now, a free app with locked features is the only way to provide a free trial on iOS and iPadOS.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[On] iOS, the prices of other, less powerful apps are so low that pricing the app at, say, $29.99 puts people off, especially with no free trial. However, the current low price ($7.99) isn&rsquo;t sustainable in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;d love to charge one price for the app across all platforms &#x2013; Mac, iOS, and iPadOS &#x2013; and this is only possible with a subscription.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Pixelmator Photo is their nondestructive photo editor, not the original app that&rsquo;s more like Photoshop and Acorn.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/03\/free-trials-arent-free-apps\/\">Free Trials Aren&rsquo;t Free Apps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/05\/mac-app-store-sandboxing-iap-trials-multiplatform-services\/\">Mac App Store Sandboxing, IAP Trials, Multiplatform Services<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/acorn-drops-iap-trial\/\">Acorn Drops IAP Trial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/17\/app-store-trials-no-more-free-iaps\/\">App Store Trials: No More Free IAPs?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing\/\">Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/phil-schiller-on-app-store-upgrade-pricing\/\">Phil Schiller on App Store Upgrade Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrius Gailiunas (MacStories, AppleInsider, MacRumors): Pixelmator Photo will now cost $4.99 per month, $23.99 per year, or $54.99 for a lifetime license but existing paid users get unlimited access for free. Also, Pixelmator Photo for Mac is coming! What&rsquo;s more early subscribers will get access to it for the same monthly price, which will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-08-23T14:26:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"804d89e2-882b-425e-920e-23c1e1a4ae77","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-08-24T15:46:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AgE2J4ogrQl6SDiPB4aSudw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,1421,101,31,2078,26,30,32,2077,2261],"class_list":["post-36833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-ios-15","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-12","tag-pixelmator-photo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36838,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions\/36838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}