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Photoshop used to be worth the money. The move to subscription based comes at a time when alternatives are starting to catch up though, so that time (of being worth it) may be coming to an end.

nzb360 that I got a perpetual license for at 10eur. It's so easy and convenient to torrent stuff for my Jellyfin.

Niagara launcher is free but I paid for the perpetual license. It's a third party launcher that I really like.

I'm also a Jetbrains fan depending on the language, they have so much support for everything just out of the box and are on Linux.

Also games, but I guess people don't want to hear those here. Factorio was definitely worth.

The only software I would buy again instantly is Tasker (Android).

If you use Android I highly recommend Niagara launcher. It's different in the best ways and very polished. I tried it for a while and happily paid for the lifetime license.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bitpit.launcher

Symphonium, a music app for android (maybe also iOS, dunno). I've tried so many other apps for both local and remote music, none of them come even close - I particularly like the pre-caching and rolling cache features, as there are some places I go regularly where connection is spotty, and they allow me to stream pretty much uninterrupted from my subsonic server.

PDF-xchange

Who knew a PDF editor would become so useful.

I'm pretty sure the free version has more features than adobe reader.

And if you don't want to pay, you can demo all of the paid features. Saving the file will put a watermark on every page, but if you print-to-pdf before you save, no watermark. Great if you just need to merge a few files or do some quick stuff once in a while.

Wip3out 2097

I paid for Ardour, but it is also free.

Games. Nothing else. Functional software should be open source.

Divemate, better than keeping logs in different apps if you change computers. Android only, sorry. If you chew the fruit you gotta find something else.

Plex Media Sever used to be great and well worth the lifetime pass. With the recent UI changes I would drop kick it if I could. Sadly the other options just don't work right with large libraries.

Torque pro is nice especially if you have a turbo charged vehicle. Free is fine if you just need to check codes.

do games count? If yes, Terraria

i have over 375 hours on 2 games(Terraria and TModLoader) for the 5 USD i paid to get the game

Mullvad VPN.

FL Studio, a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). There are different tiers which you can upgrade from any time. You get free updates forever.

For art on a Mac Sketch and Pixelmator are awesome and have fully replace the Adobe products I used to pirate to rely on.

Pdf Xchange is one I use a lot. Wish they'd make a Linux version instead of just saying to use Wine. I'd buy it again if they'd released it on Linux to get some of the newer features (correct scans, monochrome recoloring, delete all children, dark page mode).

Bitwig. Excellent DAW that has a native linux build. I tried to like Ardour and many of the other open source alternatives, but they all felt cumbersome and not very mature.

BuzzKill for Android.

PocketCasts used to be, before they went subscription.