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> We’re charging $100/year, comparable to other prosumer tools like Dropbox, Evernote...

Well Evernote has a free tier and past that it’s really <$50 per year - plus there is currently an additional 40% off, so I think your competitor pricing research might be a little off.

I mean if you are really comparing against Evernote it’s really free for a similar service, and offer multi-device sync between mobile and their desktop app as a service, so I would say the Evernote free tier is the most comparable even though I like the look of your product.

This is a $19.99 app or $2.99 per month subscription to compete with things like notability.

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Notion has a free tier as well. I've moved to it from Evernote after paying for the full version for years. I'm not sure I'm enthralled with $99/year, given I pay that amount for O365 which gives me much more plus 1TB of OneDrive.

As you have a free tier, I'll give it a shot.

> Evernote has a free tier and past that it’s really <$50 per year

Not to mention, Evernote used to cost more, but that lost them a bunch of customers (and lost their dominant market position). So, I'm not sure that's the competitor that I'd be trying to follow for pricing.

Evernote also messed up badly by losing ot messing up customer data a few years ago IIRC.

Also doing a massive website redesign instead of investing in fundamentals like fixing the bugs in their WYSIWYG HTML editor. Lot of questionable product decisions from that company in the past half decade.

That's a reasonable objection. Muse does have a free tier also.

Notability is a great app, but it's a sketchbook so not really a comparison.

I think notability would describe themselves as a note taking app (which is what I use it for).

Your app looks great, as soon as the price point is somewhere near sensible for me I’ll be a customer, but it’s quite a way off for me personally yet.

You should make clear somewhere (in the App Store description ideally, otherwise on your website) what are the limitations of the free version.

Yeah - it's not clear at all.

To add some perspective to the price point. In New Zealand we hav 15% sales tax, plus the exchange rate. The purchasing power of the NZD when adjusted for earnings etc is pretty close to even

Which is a silly way of saying, if you think the pricing looks daft where you are, it costs almost twice as much here!

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