Hacker News Reader

Lots of photo, art, music and other hobby software is for purchase rather than subscription.

Off the top of my head Topaz Labs is a company that offers a suite of photo tools for purchase. They are aimed at both professionals and high end hobbyists.

I once bought Paste (a clipboard manager for Mac). However, they later switched to a subscription model, and I decided not to make a new purchase. Then Raycast, which is free, came out, and I stopped using Paste altogether.

Yes, I buy software …

I bought iExplorer which lets me sanely treat my iPhone like an external disk … and I bought Mountain Duck which lets me mount remote sftp as a disk in Finder …

… and some other things…

Yes. I have bought several non-DRM games from gog.com.

Edit: I also recently bought Sublime text, several Jetbrains products and some other utilities.