I just downloaded the Android app to check, and it's a similar ratio as you describe for the Apple app store: £19.99 per month if paid monthly, but £7.17 per month (as £85.99 per year) if paid annually.
And on my phone at least, the monthly payment option is also hidden behind a scroll down action: https://i.imgur.com/rV0bMTH.jpg, with the yearly subscription already selected by default.
It would seem they're pushing quite strongly this annual payment option.
> £19.99 per month if paid monthly, but £7.17 per month (as £85.99 per year) if paid annually.
As someone who's worked on pricing models, this speaks either to very little thought to pricing or a monumental churn issue.
A hefty discount for an annual subscription is generally something like 20%, and companies with good retention only offer ~10%.
Discounting over 50% if someone chooses annual either tells me (1) this company is low on funding and desperately needs the immediate cash flow, or (2) this company can't retain customers and is really lacking product-market fit.
Old YC would have absolutely helped the founders straighten this out, but it seems YC is now just a big cash grab and rolodex in the form of Bookface.
I'm not too proud to admit that I spent a long time not really taking ADD/ADHD all that seriously. That was before I fell in love with someone who has ADD. Seeing on a daily basis the effect it has on him, and the extent to which, even with effective treatment, it remains a serious obstacle in terms of executive function and followthrough even for things he plainly cares a lot about - to say nothing of subscription fees, which even people without these disorders find easy enough to forget that tools for managing them constitute an entire genre in their own right...
Well, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the founders have to say for themselves here, if anything, and wondering what reasons they could give me not to warn my boyfriend off their product in the strongest of terms.
Hey, as an adhd person that really gets frustrated when people don't take adhd seriously -- thanks for changing your stance.
it generally only gets portrayed in the media based on how other people experience people with adhd -- never the actual experience of the person with adhd.
i hope that changes in the future, so more people can have a similar exposure to it that you've had as a loved one.
Thanks for the feedback - this is due to screen size on Android and we're current working on fixing issues impacting smaller screen sizes at the moment.
And on my phone at least, the monthly payment option is also hidden behind a scroll down action: https://i.imgur.com/rV0bMTH.jpg, with the yearly subscription already selected by default.
It would seem they're pushing quite strongly this annual payment option.