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What paid software is absolutely worth the money? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (12 children)

Bitwarden. It's free and open source, but you can pay for a subscription if you don't want to self host for synchronisation between devices. It's very cheap and no doubt worth it.

Also Aseprite, for pixel art and custom format exports.

Edit: looks like both these programs are just straight up fully featured and freely available now.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    For real, I had been using Bitwarden for a couple of years for free and it never once had to show an ad to ask me to buy it's subscription. I just realized that it was giving me tons of value, and that prompted me to buy the (fairly priced) subscription. That's a gold standard imo.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    what kind of synchronization between devices are you referring to? I’ve never had a subscription and have used multiple vaults on numerous different devices

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Basically storing an encrypted backup of your secure content so that a password you add to bitwarden on desktop can be accessed via your phone, accessible via a login.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    ok, that’s basic cloud sync, which is a core free feature of Bitwarden, not a premium feature. you don’t need to purchase a subscription for that, it’s literally the fundamental purpose of any modern password manager and is completely free in Bitwarden

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah it does look like cloud sync is free now. I was a pretty early adopter of bitwarden so I believe originally you had to pay for cloud sync support, but I may be wrong.

    Still, I'll continue to support them because they're the only password manager I've used that has some semblance of mutual respect.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself, isn't it?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    It used to be gpl licensed

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Right, but it's still free (even for commercial use) under the current license so long as you compile it from source yourself and don't share the binary. The author just has some weird thoughts about the GPL.

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