Perpetual

Buy it on the Mac App Store — the developer's own site sells a separate web version

The $29.99 tier is the discounted pack; the two full unlocks are $49.99

Syncing to another Mac properly wants ChronoAgent, a separate $19.99 purchase

Company or institution machines need the $15-per-computer site licence, minimum five

None found

The free version already covers most 8-bit UHD work — check you actually need Studio

Which sites work depends on constant updates; a redesign can break one for a while

The free tier is deliberately basic — the actions worth having sit behind the $35 Pro licence

VIP Support is free for the first year only, then needs a paid extension

Some premium content is Creator Studio subscribers only, and Motion and Compressor cost extra

Nothing on the site promises free major upgrades, so a paid version 3 is possible

The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase from the Mac one

Only works as well as an app's accessibility support; some Electron apps expose almost no labels

$79 covers Studio 2 only — the quicker iShowU V6 recorder is a separate $89 app

Mac only, and Logic Pro for iPad is subscription-only rather than part of this purchase

Whether hardware brightness control works at all depends on your monitor, cable and dock

Some optional AI features call out to cloud APIs you pay for separately

App Store only, so there is no trial, and updates have slowed to occasional minor fixes

It reports that the mic or camera turned on — it cannot block anything

Compression only: no editing, OCR or signing, and a future major version may be paid

Permute 4 needs macOS 26 on Apple silicon; older Macs buy Permute 3 instead

The one-time build is drifting behind the subscription one, which gets the Warp Tool exclusively

The buy page never says how long updates last, so treat a version 3 as a likely paid upgrade

The cheap $12 tier stops getting updates after two years; $26 buys the one that never does

No upgrade policy is stated, so treat the $9 as buying the version shipping today

No published upgrade policy, so a future Rectangle Pro 2 could be a second purchase

No free trial — you pay first and rely on the 30-day refund if it turns out not to be for you

Screenshots only — there is no video, GIF or screen recording at any price

Useless without a trackpad; on a mouse-only Mac almost none of the gestures are reachable

The iPhone app is a separate $7.99 purchase, and the Mac licence covers two Macs

The iPhone and iPad app is a separate purchase from the Mac unlock

One person builds it, so "lifetime" means the app's lifetime rather than yours

Buying Ebooks then upgrading to Press costs $19.99 more in total than buying Press up front

Blocking outside Safari needs the separate, recurring Filtr subscription

One licence covers two Macs at a time, so a third means deactivating one