Buy once instead of Descript
3 apps in the directory cover what people use Descript for. Each one is a one-time purchase.
Descript costs about $288 a year. At that rate Audio Hijack, the cheapest dollar-priced replacement at $69, pays for itself in 3 months.
Read the catch on each one before you switch — a one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
The replacements
Audio Hijack
record and route any audio on your Mac, one licence per person
$69 This version
Major versions are a separate purchase — the jump from 3 to 4 cost $29
iShowU Studio 2
record and edit in one app, on a genuine perpetual licence
$79 Perpetual
$79 covers Studio 2 only — the quicker iShowU V6 recorder is a separate $89 app
ScreenFlow
screen recorder with a real multi-track editor attached, bought outright
$199 Paid upgrades
Major versions are paid upgrades, and Telestream does not publish the upgrade price