The next release: subscriptions and pricing information

[mrm]

For the past year, PhotoStructure has been available for use for free in exchange for your feedback. The thoughts and guidance our early users have shared with us has been invaluable: thank you!

Version 0.9 was the last beta release of PhotoStructure. For details about pricing, subscriptions, lite versus plus features, what happens when subscriptions lapse, and many other details, please read https://photostructure.com/about/v-0-9/#-this-_really-will_-be-our-last-beta-version

Version 1.0 is on track to be released in the next couple weeks: it’s going to be the biggest release of PhotoStructure yet!

Edit: (I said a couple months, right?)

[whoopn]

When do you think we might see support for searching? I commonly have found the image on google photos and would like download the high res version to my laptop so I can make a book or print photos online. Just image name search is all I really care about.

[mrm]

@whoopn

When do you think we might see support for searching?

Search is one of the most-voted-for feature requests:

Asset Search Capability

Search by keyword tag filesystem path first-imported time, or most-recently-imported dominant color geo (taken from the What’s Next page)

Make sure you add your vote to that. Please add any ideas you think I should consider, and vote or add any other the features you want, as well.

The next release, v1.0, is frozen for new features: I’m trying to get it out the door by the end of this month. Search is already on my todo list for v1.1 (March-ish? Take that with a grain of salt, though: my forecasting is garbage).

@whoopn

Just image name search is all I really care about.

Thanks for sharing!

[palitu]

Is there a release day? i am looking forward to trying v1.0, as teh whole random seed thing has stopped me from using it too often.

PS Thanks for the Stickers!

[mrm]

@palitu

Is there a release day?

There will be v1.0 “pre-releases”: alpha and beta builds that will almost certainly have bugs, but be available sooner.

I’m posting updates here:

New Version ETA?

Curious when we can be expecting some new features to hit the github

[raincruiser]

Really looking forward to v1.
Is there any way I can donate to a ‘coffee fund’ in the meantime?
Thanks for all your hard work brother.

[satishev]

Curious: what will the lite version see in place of Fast and fun browsing of “samples”? Just the latest and onward chronologically?

[mrm]

@satishev

Curious: what will the lite version see in place of Fast and fun browsing of “samples”? Just the latest and onward chronologically?

The UI does not change between the Lite and Plus plans.

An active Plus plan enables automatic asset organization and a couple of the new “curators” (the code that adds tags from asset metadata).

I’ll be posting a pricing page with tons of details in a day or two, but everything in this section holds true:

https://photostructure.com/about/v-0-9/#-this-_really-will_-be-our-last-beta-version

[mrm]

I’ve just published the new pricing page:

PhotoStructure pricing

and the new version 1.0 release page:

PhotoStructure v1.0

I’ll release a new beta build tomorrow, which may be the last pre-release of v1.0 if no show-stoppers are found.

[mrm]

I just published a page with a bunch of nitty-gritty license details (including the entire screen flow of setting up a subscription plan):

How does PhotoStructure licensing work?

This post is extremely detailed, and shouldn’t be necessary reading for most users. If you’re interested in the nitty-gritty details about PhotoStructure’s licensing, read on. Several people have asked how PhotoStructure manages licensing: I have burned rather badly in the past with subscription software that becomes inoperable when either validation servers go down or the vendor is sold/folds. Me too! This sort of frustration helped drive the goals I had as I built out licensing. Lic…