Two of us are about to sell a native Mac app that turns your Apple Music library into a map you explore. Every pricing thread here says "go subscription". We didn't, and I'd like this sub to poke holes in our reasoning.

**Why one-time (€15)**

- Our users already pay for a subscription: Apple Music. Asking for a second one to browse the first felt hard to justify.

- Our costs barely grow with users. There's no account and no backend holding user data: the app talks to Apple Music directly. What we pay for is the payment provider's fee, the Apple developer account and the website.

- Mac users have a long habit of paying once for indie apps, and "no subscription" is a selling point in itself on that market.

**The middle ground we picked**

- Lifetime license, with every update released in your first year

- After that, the app keeps working on the last version you received

- Full refund within 7 days, no free trial (yet)

**The stack, if it helps anyone**

- Polar as merchant of record: it handles VAT,…