MacJournal

Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Jul 8, 2018 at 05:55 PM

satis wrote:
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

Aaaand uninstalling MacJournal now. Thanks for the heads-up!