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Response from developer
感谢你的反馈。我要怎么做，才能让 Rainlayer 在白天对你也有用呢？欢迎给我发邮件（在主界面向下滑动即可）。
Pay Your Rent or Be Evicted from Rain Sounds
All but one of this app’s features are gated behind a monthly subscription fee. There is no way to know if it actually does what it says on the tin until you start a recurring subscription. The one feature you do have access to is activated through what I would call an egregiously artsy “roll the dice” UI that only further hinders figuring out if this app is worth paying anything for.
Subscription fees are harder to get refunded than one-time purchases.
Further, say you do like the app and you subscribe for a year, but the developer doesn’t keep updating the app or adding any of the promised content. What do you get to keep for that $60 you paid out? An ambient audio “app” with a confounding UI that only makes sounds until your lock screen kicks in. Feels exceptionally scammy.
What happens if you support this guy for years and then he just pulls the app from the store? You keep nothing. Sony can’t even get away with that without backlash.
I don’t want your work for free. I’m willing to pay a premium for your art. I support many artists and devs monthly on Patreon and Ko-fi. But I have to know I’m getting what they claimed to be offering before I hand over my money. I’m not there to be anyone’s sugar daddy.
I loved Thunderspace. I would have paid A LOT to purchase this Rainlayer app for a one-time fee. I would have made additional in-app purchases if new rain sounds were periodically offered. I would have even started a subscription to support the dev if I’d been able to confirm that any of the advanced features actually work for me, and if my subscription let me keep ANYTHING resembling a functional app if I eventually had to cancel.
Maybe there are enough wealthy people out there with infinite money to throw away on “premium audio experiences” or whatever he called this. For the dev’s sake, I hope that’s true, because the only version of the app I can rate without paying a subscription fee is the terrible trial he chose to make available.
Response from developer
Your central claim is still incorrect: you do not need to start a subscription to test Rainlayer’s paid premium features. Rainlayer provides a 30-minute full-access trial with no subscription and no commitment. A subscription also does not represent permanent ownership, and Rainlayer never claims that it does. I'm not aware of other apps that do. The subscription pays for continued access to an actively developed product, including substantial updates and new content. You’re completely free to prefer one-time purchases, Patreon, or any other business model. But disliking a subscription model does not make that model deceptive, and hypothetical scenarios about what I might do years from now do not make Rainlayer "scammy" either. For reference, my former unrelated app Thunderspace has served tens of thousands of people exceptionally well for over a decade, and most of them have paid less than $10 for it. Meanwhile competitors were charging $60 a year. Not complaining, just stating the facts. Judge the app harshly if you dislike the experience. But maybe judge what Rainlayer actually offers, rather than what you imagine it might someday become.
