I tried Day One and absolutely loved it. Then I hit the paywall, couldn’t sync between devices and immediately hated it. So then I built my own. This is Sunrise and it’s in the works. It’s a journaling app without a subscription. (Ignore my annoying entries 😅)
I pay for Apollo for Reddit, Ivory for Mastodon, I am a Mastodon Patron and even paid for Sketch for a while. I pay for Photoshop and Lightroom. I even pay for Arcade by Output! If it’s good, I pay. I just can’t justify the money for Day One
Also, there is also no need to attack my interest in making my own product that doesn’t have a subscription attached to it. If the pot wants to call the kettle black, here are some others for it
I don’t believe you think my journal app can compete with a Goliath like Automattic (who also own Tumblr, Wordpress and Gravatar, btw). I made a product that I wanted, how I wanted; I’m not going to steal their millions of dollars of revenue. Hell, I might even open source this.
I tip my hat to you. I started using Penpot (open source alternative to Figma) as well as other not open source apps that are pay-only-once (as everything used to be). Can’t stand monthly subscriptions.
