Xcasca - SSH, SFTP Client

This used to be free for basic stuff, it suggests you can do a one time purchase with buy now text under a 90 day trial funnel, you get there to see $4/month or $72/year, no option to buy outright. I was an occasional user across platforms, you can tell how occasional almost two months since they made the change and I found out just now with a rude slap across the face.

I understand the need for developers to charge for the work they do when they offer a valuable service. I don’t actually mind paying for something like this, but the problem in this case is that they’re attempting to monetize something that isn’t worth paying for. I switched to Xcasca and didn’t immediately try the free trial. Instead, I tried it without opening an account and created several sessions pointed to several of my remotes. At the end of the day, I liked the app well enough, so I went ahead and started the free trial. When I did that, it DELETED all of my sessions and known hosts. So now I have to go back in and find all of those URLs and set up all of those remote hosts again. My worry now is that I’m in the free trial period, and I’m concerned that if I set up all of my hosts again, and then switched to the paid subscription, all of my host will be deleted yet again. I really and truly don’t mind paying for a service that is valuable to me. But a service as half-assed as this one, and as frustrating as this one, makes me not want to pay.

Never felt this icked out by an app launch. They’ve shut down their old app, launched a new one that seems pretty much identical, and walled off some of its features behind a subscription - and crucially, one of those features is *account importing*, so if you want to transfer your data off of the old app to the new one, you need to make an account and start a trial. I don’t mind the introduction of a paywall for stuff that used to be free in principle, but the way you’ve done it here just reeks of cynicism. PortX WAS my go-to after Termius went down the venture capital drain, and Xcasca might have been too, but now it seems I’m back to looking for alternatives.