No more subscriptions.

Times have changed.

So much of what an app once needed a server or a whole team for, your iPhone now does on its own: reading text, comparing photos, cutting out a subject. And building a good, simple app is far quicker and cheaper than it was just a few years ago. I see it every day.

Yet plenty of apps still want a subscription for simple things. Some even bill you every week: a typical weekly plan at $4.99 to $6.99 adds up to roughly $260 to $360 a year.¹ Then there are free trials that quietly turn into subscriptions, and cancel buttons you have to go looking for. I don't think that's okay.

Not every subscription is wrong. When a service has real running costs, like servers, paying for it is fair. For a tool your iPhone can run by itself, a subscription isn't.

So I'm doing something about it. Every FairApp is fair: no account, no ads, no subscription, no tracking. Your stuff stays on your iPhone or in your own iCloud. None of it ever reaches me. Check the privacy label of any FairApp in the App Store.

It's just me, and you can help. Try an app. Tell a friend. Write to me about what's missing, I read every email. And if you like, buy me a coffee. No pressure. No app gets worse if you don't.