{"id":37212,"date":"2022-10-04T14:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=37212"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:25:18","slug":"spark-switches-to-electron-and-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/04\/spark-switches-to-electron-and-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark Switches to Electron and Subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sparkmailapp.com\/blog\/all-new-spark\">Readdle<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/10\/04\/spark-email-mac-redesign\/\">MacRumors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=33081621\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sparkmailapp.com\/blog\/all-new-spark\"><p>Now people who use Windows can focus on what&rsquo;s important and enhance their productivity with Spark. [&#8230;] Please be aware that Spark is working hard towards feature parity between platforms and the experience across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows may vary.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/sparkmailapp.com\/plans-comparison\">See the full list<\/a> of free and Premium features.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The premium features are $7.99\/month or $59.99\/year. It also sounds like they are leaving the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/popular-email-client-spark-gets-major-redesign-for-mac-moves-to-subscription-model.2363830\/page-5?post=31585461#post-31585461\">Guischmitt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/popular-email-client-spark-gets-major-redesign-for-mac-moves-to-subscription-model.2363830\/page-5?post=31585461#post-31585461\">\n<p>The app size and average RAM consumption has doubled.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/11\/1password-8-for-mac-early-access\/\">1Password 8 for Mac Early Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/15\/airmail-adds-subscription-for-push-notifications\/\">Airmail Adds Subscription for Push Notifications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"spark-switches-to-electron-and-subscriptions-update-2022-10-13\">Update (2022-10-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrettmurray\/status\/1579216986575634433\">Garrett Murray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrettmurray\/status\/1579216986575634433\">\n<p>The problem here is that I don&rsquo;t need any of their Premium features, and now I&rsquo;m forced to either pay a monthly fee to remove this ad or stop using Spark. In the case, I&rsquo;m going to have to stop using Spark.<\/p>\n<p>Frustratingly, I did not notice it was adding a signature ad like this after the most recent update until today, which means I&rsquo;ve been sending business emails for a week with this ad at the bottom. Yuck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrettmurray\/status\/1580257048771854336\">Garrett Murray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrettmurray\/status\/1580257048771854336\"><p>Good news for Spark users who didn&rsquo;t want this &ldquo;Sent with Spark&rdquo; ad: Readdle is removing this from the Premium feature set[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readdle (MacRumors, Hacker News): Now people who use Windows can focus on what&rsquo;s important and enhance their productivity with Spark. [&#8230;] Please be aware that Spark is working hard towards feature parity between platforms and the experience across iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows may vary.[&#8230;]See the full list of free and Premium features. 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