Email, calendar & tasks
The hardest category to buy outright. These are the holdouts that still sell you the app instead of renting it.
Category: Email & tasks
- Design, graphics & illustration15
- Developer & terminal tools15
- Documents, PDF & office13
- Email, calendar & tasks15
- Files, disk & backup14
- Launchers, clipboard & automation12
- Menu bar & system utilities12
- Privacy, security & networking13
- Screenshots, recording & annotation15
- Video, audio & media14
- Window management & desktop control14
- Writing, notes & markdown14
Licence
- PerpetualUpdates included, forever35
- This versionThe next major is a new purchase47
- Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again25
- Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app14
- FreewareNothing to buy9
- Open sourceNothing to buy; source published36
Each mark reads left to right: this major version, the next, the one after. Filled is included, half is a paid upgrade, hollow is bought again.
Price
11 apps priced in £ or € sit outside these bands, because we don’t convert currencies.
 2DoGuided Ways Technologies (Fahad Gilani) | $49.99Paid upgrades | Updates stop eighteen months after purchase unless you pay a discounted renewal |
 BusyCalBusyMac | $49.99Paid upgrades | The licence never expires but includes only 18 months of updates |
 Calendar 366Dominik Stoisits | $49.99Lifetime tier | The $49.99 unlock is an in-app purchase, and separate iOS-only unlocks are sold alongside it |
 Canary MailCartasec Pte. Ltd. (Canary Mail) | $100Lifetime tier | Apple's store sells a $99.99 lifetime bundle; the website's Pro+ lifetime is $300 for the same name |
 DatoSindre Sorhus | $18Perpetual | None found |
 eM ClienteM Client Inc. | €39.95Perpetual | VIP Support is free for the first year only, then needs a paid extension |
 GoodTaskhaha Interactive | $39.99Perpetual | The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase from the Mac one |
 ItsycalSanjay Madan (Mowglii) | FreeOpen source | Events can be created and deleted but not edited — editing still means a trip to Calendar.app |
 OmniFocus 4The Omni Group | $74.99This version | The next major version will be a paid upgrade, historically around half list price |
 OmniPlan 4The Omni Group | $199.99This version | A future OmniPlan 5 is a separate paid upgrade, historically discounted for existing owners |
 SpamSieveC-Command Software (Michael Tsai) | $39.99This version | Filtering only happens while your Mac is awake, so your iPhone sees unfiltered mail first |
 TaskPaperHog Bay Software (Jesse Grosjean) | $24.99This version | No iPhone or iPad app — on mobile you edit the file in someone else's text editor |
 Things 3Cultured Code | $49.99This version | Each platform is a separate purchase — the iPhone app is another $9.99 |
 ThunderbirdMZLA Technologies (Mozilla) | FreeOpen source | Nothing to pay, but it is a cross-platform app that never quite feels Mac-native |
 TimematorCatforce Studio | $39Perpetual | The iPhone app is a separate $7.99 purchase, and the Mac licence covers two Macs |