Buy Once

Pikos is free to download and use right now. When the Mac App Store version and iPhone app ship, they'll be one-time purchases. No monthly fee. No annual renewal. No "your trial has expired" pop-up after 14 days.

Why not a subscription

Subscriptions make sense when someone is running servers on your behalf: storing your files, processing data, keeping infrastructure up. That costs real money every month, so charging every month is fair.

Pikos doesn't run servers. There are no accounts, no cloud infrastructure, no ongoing costs to pass on to you. The app runs on your hardware. Your data lives on your machine. When sync ships, it'll go through iCloud. Apple's infrastructure, tied to your Apple account. There's nothing on my end that costs money per user per month, so there's no honest reason to charge you that way.

What you get

The free download is the full app. Everything works: notes, tasks, calendar, search, keyboard shortcuts, themes, export. Nothing is locked behind a paywall or upgrade.

When the Mac App Store version ships, it'll be the same app plus iCloud sync. Think of it as supporting development and getting sync as a bonus.

How this is sustainable

Honestly, it only works if enough people find the app valuable enough to buy it. There's no venture capital, no growth-at-all-costs pressure. I build and maintain Pikos myself, with low overhead. It doesn't need millions of users to keep going. It needs enough people who want a good tool and are willing to pay a fair price for it once.

If that stops working, something else will get figured out. But there will never be a subscription. That's a promise.

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