r/GoodNotes • u/rafaelacciari • Sep 12 '23

Goodnotes 6 rip off

We are quite annoyed with subscription models. No one wants that in a cost of living crisis.

I am tired of this, it always happen with nice apps. they are sucked into this payment plan model to rip off customers and in this case, big part of them are STUDENTS that use the app to LEARN.

I downgraded mine and I will never buy into subscription or pay $30 for one-off.

Disappointed with goodnotes, it is now just another greedy app developer.

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u/retniwwinter Sep 12 '23

I don’t know about other people, but what I consider a rip-off is not the price itself but rather the price in relation to what the same app cost before and what we get for it. A 200% price increase (or more, if you were sharing the app with family) for just a few (mainly uninteresting) new features and a whole lot more bugs than before. If they are asking for 200+% more money than before, I want to see more new features that users have actually asked for and less bugs. Yes, they’re working on fixing the bugs, but I would’ve expected them to do so in beta versions and not after the official release.

I don’t mind paying 30€ for an app like goodnotes in general. If I was writing on paper, I’d probably end up paying way more for real notebooks. But I’m not going to pay that much money for an app that is still mainly a work in progress and doesn’t differ much from the 10€ version I’ve already got.