Pricing

I wanted a pricing model that felt fair to both sides. Fair to you, fair to me.

The two options on the table both came up short.

Monthly subscription

You pay every month forever to keep using something that sits on your machine and holds your own data. Miss a payment and the app stops working, even for the years you already paid for. For a desktop companion, this is wrong. You are renting your own notebook.

Not fair for you.

Pay once, forever

This one is easier to love as a buyer, harder to sustain as a builder. Building an application takes real time and real money. Supporting one takes even more. Every new macOS release, every new AI provider, every edge case a user hits, every bug fix, every feature request. That work never stops, and most of it is invisible to anyone outside the project.

Azynote is a team of one. For the project to keep moving forward, year after year, that work has to be funded. A single payment made years ago cannot cover years of sustained effort by a single builder. That is the uncomfortable math behind this model, and it is exactly why many publishers have walked away from it.

Not fair for me.

What Azynote does instead

You pay once for your version. You use it indefinitely. You receive updates and support for one year.

After that year is over, your license keeps working. Your app keeps working. Your data keeps working. You just stop getting new features until you choose to renew.

If the next year of updates excites you, renew. If it does not, keep the version you have. Forever.

What this means for you

• The version you paid for is yours. For good.
• No forced migrations. No "your access has been revoked" emails.
• Updates and support flow for twelve months from purchase, including bug fixes, new features, and new AI providers as they come out.
• If you ever stop renewing, you lose nothing you already had.

My side of the deal

The model puts the pressure on me, not on you. Every year I have to ship enough new value to make renewing an obvious call. If I stop building, you stop paying.

That feels fair to both sides. If you disagree, or see an angle I am missing, write to support@azynote.com. Pricing is something I actively want to get right.