Random: Apart from the games & entertainment what software or saas service do you personally pay for? And more importantly why? Has it been good value for money? Please reply in thread below.

• 1password. or just any password manager. • Evernote (might not renew, because havent fully used paid features in a while)

• gsuite • evernote • focusmate

For my personal stuff: • Office 365 home/family (up to 5 users, all shared-docs with family go here). • 1password • Pocket casts (for podcasts, which I guess falls in the entertainment category). • Turbotax (not any longer) For work related stuff: • Gsuite (although I think zoho is also a very good alternative). • Google Adwords • Zoho invoice • Zoom (not any longer since my usage has dropped). • Wix (not any longer) • Linqpad (one time purchase, useful for .net devs)

I pay for: 1. FastMail (Personal e-mail) 2. ExpressVPN (The best VPN in the world!) 3. 1Blocker (The best cross-platform Ad-Blocker) 4. iCloud Storage (Shared across family, and zero worry about backing up + saves the cost of storage on a Mac) 5. Yazio (Health & Food Tracking) 6. Reeder (RSS reader app, with cloud sync across devices; controlling the news and information I consume is essential to sanity - one time purchase, repeated for every new major upgrade for 10 years now) 7. The Economist (Expensive) 8. Wired 9. The Ken 10. Masterclass (got a year for free, will mostly renew at the end) Have paid for other things in the past, but these are the ones I use heavily and will recommend/renew in a heartbeat. PS: Ignore last 4 if they fall under “entertainment”.

1Password and hey

Right now: 1. Gsuite 2. Duolingo Discontinued: 1. Jetbrains 2. Github 3. Does Digital Ocean count?

1. Mailfence - email. Might switch over to Zoho 2. 1Password 3. Linux Academy / A Cloud Guru 4. AWS S3 for backup Mailfence because its privacy focused email. Switch to zoho because its has great suite of products. 1Password - best password manager Linux Academy / A Cloud Guru - Best learning content on Cloud with servers and sandboxes fot trial. AWS S3 - self explanatory 🙂

Pocket. Might discontinue. Front row, but it's not recurring.

1) Freedom - cross platform Distraction Blocker 2) Google Drive - planning to switch to Proton Drive and Protonmail

Screaming Frog site crawl, analyse data, technical issues, duplicate/near-duplicate content checking, etc

Good thread! 👍 Makes you think about the software you are paying for. I pay for the following services: Recurring: (Annual mostly, else monthly) 1. Jetbrains 2. Last Pass 3. Toshl (Personal Finance) 4. Toggl (Time tracking) 5. Rescue Time (Time tracking) 6. Photoshop Subscription (Photography suite) 7. Canva 8. GSuite 9. Bit Defender (AV) 10. Office 365 (5 pack) 11. Newton (Email) 12. AWS 13. Azure (Brought billing down to 0 now) 14. Brain.fm (recommended) 15. Zoom (might not renew. Got a great 50% off annual). 16. IFTTT 17. WPManage (WP backup & restore) 18. NordVPN 19. Evernote 20. ImprovMX (Email forwarding. Got a great deal). 21. IndMoney. Investment advisory for 499 bucks / mo. (recommended) 22. Strava 23. Grammarly One time: 1. Sublime Text (One time) 2. Sublime Merge (One time) 3. Balsamiq (One time) Storage 1. Google One (100 Gb) 2. iCloud (2 TB) I realise that is a lot 😬 I had a major change in behaviour once a few products that I really cared about (Newton, Wunderlist, and a few others) shut shop or got sold & shut shop due to lack of revenue. Hence if possible, always support your software companies - especially the smaller / Indie ones.

1. Canva 2. Loom

1. Protonmail 2. Bitwarden 3. Podcast addict (android) 4. Poweraudio pro (android) 5. Muslim Pro 6. Wallet by BudgetBakers 7. Proton VPN

Interesting thread. mine is 1. Google One 2. Todoist

1. Medium 2. Musixmatch (Android) 3. Google One 4. Vocabulary.com

Thanks everyone! Discovered quite some useful apps from this list. Looks like VPN, password manager and email apps are on the top of everyone's list. Followed closely by office apps & paid storage like google one. PS: Wish more apps (e.g. grammarly) offered a pay-as-you-go or ~$2/month offerings. Would buy in a heartbeat.

I personally think SaaS services would get more subscribers if they priced their subscriptions based on Purchasing Power Parity. There are a lot of services I am interested buy some of them are insanely expensive in India.

Have heard good things about 1.1.1.1 for a free VPN by Cloudflare.

I forgot to mention Dashlane - makes me super convenient to store and share credentials while working with clients. It also comes with a VPN. Their pricing and trial periods are very generous. I have been using referral credits for almost a year now 😄

paid for freedom.to for a couple of years till they stopped supporting firefox properly. helped with procrastination and kicking some bad habits, also getting off social media. works like a charm on all devices. worth it. lastpass till very recently, a bit clunky. moved to bitwarden, the app autofill is better. headspace - good introduction to meditation, helped me stay consistent and curious for a while. worth it.

1. Medium 2. TG Pro ( One Time payment) 3. Notion 4. Hosting, domain and GSuite

@crooked-daybreak-310 haven't heard of TG Pro, did you meant this https://www.tunabellysoftware.com/tgpro/

Yes @creamy-dawn-73235. Using it to keep my computer temperature under control. My laptop battery got swollen probably due to overheating and just replaced it last week. I'm finding it usefull. Have been using it for around 4-5 months now.

Oh, thanks for sharing. I might need it as well 🙂 also, been hearing 'laptop battery got swollen' couple of times now 😵

yeah @creamy-dawn-73235, my battery was swollen so much that it had pushed the back panel screws out. TGPro has 15days full fledged trial. Do give it a try to find out it if it works for you. Check this video to do the fan speed configuration.

Thank you for the info @crooked-daybreak-310 Mine had it's battery replaced a year ago and it's working fine atm but wanted to take this as a precaution.