XYplorer Beta Club

Hello
I’ve been using XYplorer for a while now on a daily basis, mainly for file-heavy work. I went in thinking the lifetime license would mean I’d just forget about it and move on, but lately I’m hesitating with new versions and add-ons. What triggered it is a recent update I skipped, not because it’s bad, just because I’m not sure if I’m using enough of the new stuff to justify it. Could also be me, I’m not a power user and I probably underuse half the features. I like supporting tools I rely on, but I also try to stay reasonable with my spend. Curious how others approach this: do you upgrade every time, wait it out, or just stick with one version long-term?

It might help your decision-making to hear that the price for all licenses will go up later this year.

I update to the latest beta for fun, not because I use any cutting edge features. Honest, I think I use less features than most. Staples like the catalog, file-tree, tags, etc are all things I don't even use. Pretty much everything I need is done through the list and custom scripts.

Price is relative, it really comes down to your income and your values.

For instance, I can easily spend $70 on a single date night or I can spend it on a lifetime license.

Both are costs that have a return value worth more than the $70 I spent, at least in my life.

Hell, I have a $1400 set of cookware that I bought when I was 18. My family called me an idiot for spending my entire paycheck on it, but considering I have used and enjoyed that set every day for the last decade (and will continue to do so until the day I die), the initial investment was well worth the joy it has brought into my life... Not to mention that having quality tools makes it a pleasure to use them, so I rarely feel the desire to eat-out. Who knows how much money that has and will save me over the course of my lifetime...

Seeing as you have admitted to using the software on a daily basis, from my perspective, it has easily been worth those $70. If it has saved you even a few hours worth of time then you've already broken even, everything after that is free money

I know a guy who refuses to pay $5 for an app he uses daily, so every few weeks he spends hours looking for a pirated version... The guy just can't wrap his head around the fact that time has its own value (especially unpaid time), and by putting all this time into "saving money", he has set the value of his own life at less than $5

True story; I bought my license at $70, then two weeks later it went on-sale for half-off... I wasn't even mad, having already paid for itself, I bought 2 more licenses to gift out. Worth it every time

I believe a lifetime license (on a Computer Programm) is the only type of license or purchase that doesn’t wear out, but actually grows in value.

Speaking about prices, i'd mention (just as Don said), prices inevitably go up with time, and XY never becomes less precious, so lifetime licence is the 300% worth choice.
I usually stay with same version for long, but i often check beta changelogs and download betas for checking new features. When i find some improvements or stuff that i'm Really interested in - i upgrade my main XY. And for sure i'm not using XY to its fullest, i guess nobody really can since HUGE amount of features available = but that's the catch: when it's needed - it's already there.!