Buy once instead of iLovePDF Premium
2 apps in the directory cover what people use iLovePDF Premium for. 1 of them is a one-time purchase, and one costs nothing at all.
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
PDFgear
free PDF editor for Mac with no account and no paid tier
Free Free
Closed source with no stated business model, so nothing guarantees it stays free
PDF Squeezer
drag a fat PDF in, get a small PDF out, for twenty dollars
$19.99 Perpetual
Compression only: no editing, OCR or signing, and a future major version may be paid