{"id":5523,"date":"2025-12-13T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2025-12-13T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:34:02","slug":"why-is-the-app-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/why-is-the-app-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the app free?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wish I could give a definite answer. I used to charge for it many years ago, but at the time it wasn\u2019t selling much and I thought it would be a shame if only few people got to try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another reason is that it tries to offer a minimalistic writing environment that doesn\u2019t distract from the creative process, and nowadays, with a larger user base and people wanting this or that feature or imagining that it should do things this or that way, I find it quite hard to decide what fits well and what would make the app less minimalistic, and I don&#8217;t want to disappoint paying users because I added one feature too many or decided against another one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s so many writing apps out there, that I don\u2019t quite feel like competing with all of them in terms of both features and price. Knowing that I don\u2019t have to appease any paying users allows me to view it all from a more creative angle, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, one way to sustain my work would be to buy one of my other apps if you find it useful, or make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=FJGJA3RQ33ZBC\">donation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could give a definite answer. I used to charge for it many years ago, but at the time it wasn\u2019t selling much and I thought it would be a shame if only few people got to try it. Another reason is that it tries to offer a minimalistic writing environment that doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-u-focus-help-post","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufocus-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}