Scrintal now available for $60US/year for first 2,000 subscribers

Posted by Darren McDonald
Oct 1, 2022 at 01:00 PM

I hear you. I was wanting to trail-test out Scrintal first to see if it was able to handle things like Japanese input before jumping into the deep end. I followed the developer’s communications with previous users and was very happy with the openness and fast response in answering queries which led to fast development. So, I had no qualms in signing up with a subscription even though Scrintal is still very much in beta.

The developers claim that they have already secured seed money, so not really sure why they asked for discounted subscriptions. Maybe it was a strategy to target the next set of serious users. Either way, I usually give donations to encourage the development of software that looks to be most useful to me (Obsidian, for instance). Even with the historic low level of the Japanese yen at the moment, it was a no-brainer for me.

Scrintal seems to check all the boxes for the type of software I am after- and it is still only in beta! I shouldn’t be so surprised though. The Scrintal team has a strong and fresh academic background, especially in the use of qualitative research. Scrintal’s allows you to bring together (see, brainstorm) seemingly random thoughts, research findings, and ideas visually using virtual cards to them be able to write long-form papers is very big to me and fits in well with the way qualitative research is done. It is software I needed to have right now to get through my research. :)

satis wrote:
This morning I got their email about this. Seems a tiny bit desperate:
>not offering free trials, just a choice between paying for a year or
>signing up for waitlist for beta access (which is what I thought I’d
>done!). Cash crunch?