MacJournal

Posted by satis
Jul 8, 2018 at 05:16 PM

MacJournal seems to have been in maintenance mode for many years, with little beyond periodic bugfixes to the app. (We’ve seen the dev Mariner Software do this with MacGourmet as well.) From what I can tell it was last updated for the Mac in November 2016. (MacGourmet was last updated April 2016, MacGournet Deluxe got a bugfix in July 2017, and Mariner Write hasn’t seen an update since September 2015).

In the mean time Mariner bundles MacJournal with other apps on a regular basis so it barely costs anything to buy—which should worry users who want to see devs paid enough to continue to work on the app. Most recently it sold as part of a $29 bundle along with Montage, Storymill, Narrator, Contour 2, Persona and Mariner Write.

This seems more and more like a shell of a software company milking its products than developing and building up and on software.

Finally, there’s a question of whether you’re being tracked while using this software. On MacUpdate someone wrote that after installing the developer’s MacGourmet app “Simply launching the program when connected to the internet will immediately connect the user to close on 100 (yes ONE HUNDRED) monetising advertising, tagging and tracking servers.”

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15128/macgourmet