PERMANOTE & NEBULOUS NOTES

The developer of Nebulous Notes hopes to transition users to his new Permanote product, which sells for $5.99 as of May 2, 2016. Often, a developer offers a limited discount for loyal users of the old product to transition to the new one, at a reduced price for the debut period, as an inducement. Im not aware of any inducement being the case here.

Neither am I aware of any new features in Permanote, which would justify the change. What am I missing?

If Permanote added a Dropbox history viewer and restore function internal to the app, like is available in the inimitable Editorial app and the sadly "suspended in animation" WriteUp app, then that would be a clear improvement for Permanote over the older Nebulous Notes.

Editorial goes an extra step and offers a "diff" function, which is mind-blowingly useful for detecting issues between versions of documents. Im not aware of anyone else offering that in an iOS app.

Of course, one nice thing about Nebulous Notes, and which is continued into Permanotes, is the ability to edit any plain text file in any folder in Dropbox. This makes it a good "back up emergency" tool, for those cases when other apps "bite the dust" and become a "data silo".

Anyway, I wish success to the developer, but at the moment cash is short and I wont be paying $5.99 for what only looks like "window dressing" — from seemingly merely changing the name of the app — when I cant see any incentive to pay what isnt exactly a cheap price these days in iOS app terms.

If the developer reads this and thinks I missed something, I welcome him to update his descriptions of the apps to reflect clearly what the differences are between apps … and why it is worth the investment to get the new one.

Spiffy McDuffster about Nebulous Notes