TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management

Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by hackerm0nkey on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:35PM (#22909408)

> After 1 year, you can continue using TablePlus without any limitations but you can't upgrade to the latest version. If you want to upgrade, you must renew the license, the renewal fee is much cheaper than buying a new one.

This sort of put me off. Personally I am fine with a single user perpetual license for my use case. But as they are claiming it being a young project and likely to have more bugs than your average mature product. Why do you expect me to renew my license to get your updates ? doesn't seem fair.

> TablePlus is a young project, we fix bugs and add new features every day, then put them together in a new update released at the end of week/month.

That week/month could fall a year after the date of my initial purchase :(

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by eugeniub on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:45PM (#22909503)

TablePlus for 2 Macs with 12 months of updates: $99

SetApp subscription for 2 Macs (includes TablePlus): $108/year

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by hackerm0nkey on Saturday April 18, 2020 @01:55PM (#22909596)

Interesting, didn't know about SetApp before, thanks.

I wonder how they manage around DRM rights with the individual app publisher?

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by filmgirlcw on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:44PM (#22982291)

They make agreements with the publishers and SetApp delivers the app updates (usually the same day as the regular app updates are released). SetApp lets you have a certain number of “active” machines. My account (which I got whenever it launched) let’s me have 5 machines but the standard plan might be 2, I’m unsure. Any annual upgrade terms don’t apply, your access is predicated on having a SetApp subscription. So for an app like Ulysses, I don’t have to pay the annual IAP or subscription (the Ulysses subscription extends to iOS too fwiw although other apps like Screens still have their own separate iOS apps, which makes sense).

I actually discovered TablesPlus thorough SetApp and liked it enough to buy the Windows version for the times I use Windows.

There are a number of apps in SetApp I’ve already paid for, but talking to a friend who is a SetApp author, if I install the SetApp version, that actually helps him get paid more so when I do have overlap, I install the SetApp version.

(My friend makes decent money off of SetApp which made me feel a lot better about the whole thing and feel comfortable it wasn’t predatory towards indie app makers).

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by tasqyn on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:18PM (#22909816)

does SetApp show ads? what is the difference between business and personal pricing? they seem to be the same.

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by hackerm0nkey on Saturday April 18, 2020 @02:47PM (#22910087)

Yeah, I am getting the same impression that the personal might have ads? not sure.

I am trying it now and the trial version doesn't show me ads, at least not yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by halostatue on Saturday April 18, 2020 @03:28PM (#22910389)

No ads in Setapp.

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Re:TablePlus – Modern, Native Tool for Database Management by skinnymuch on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:55PM (#22918319)

SetApp has business and a personal pricing? I don’t know any difference beyond number of devices. And likely business has more admin control etc.

Otherwise Setapp is Netflix for Mac apps. A pretty limited amount. But no ads and the selection is pretty good.

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