If I have money, yes;
If I have no money, no.

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That's pretty interesting! And you're right, donations are a great way to give back to plenty of projects out there too.

I remember having some bitcoin fractions at some point and donating with them at least 4 or 5 years ago... I hope they cashed them in at a good price :)

I do, if I find it useful. I'm an indie developer, too, and I want to support my fellow developers.

Paid for 2 apps, Paste and Magnet, to make my life easier.

I’ve paid for Magnet, Gifox, Dark Noise, Carrot Weather, Be Focused Pro, and probably a dozen more. Im quite willing to pay for a quality app, as a developer I know how much time and effort it takes to make good software so I want to support those efforts when I can.

I feel guilty to say no

I do. Like for Little Snitch 4, 1Password, iA Writer, Fantastical, Magnet. LanguageTool and probably many more.

I just want to support developers. I know their struggle because I am one of them :).

I wonder if WinRar's devs are really as strapped for cash as their incessant prompts make them seem...?

Do Indie games count? I usually much more prefer Indie games rather than AAA titles.

I pay for bear, an extremely fast lightweight note taking app. You can replace your apple notes with it.

I pay for indie games. Also for a couple of services.

I convinced my company that TablePlus was a worthwhile purchase because of the problems with Sequel Pro and MySQL Workbench, so though technically I don't pay for it, we do.

Honestly, for my cases, there's not much software that doesn't already have a free equivalent that's better than the proprietary ones.

Oh, the last thing I paid for was by using the "buy me a coffee thing" for someone who made a dark skin for Google Play Music.

I pay for indie software and I give donations to free software quite often. I believe paying for things I use and that help me make money.

I pay for Magnet for Mac and I'm satisfied.

I pay for Alfred on my Mac - saves me a bunch of time here and there with tasks I do all the time.

gifox: It's so easy to record a few seconds of screen and plop it into slack or wherever and it just works and loops and is as small as a gif can get. I had a hacky pipeline for this, but nowhere near as seamless, and I was pretty happy to buy a polished version.

tripmode: A bandwidth meter! When there isn't a pandemic going on, I work on a lot of different networks, including tethered to my phone. Sometimes I want to be sure I'm not accidentally downloading gigs of docker images or system updates or whatever. You can monitor and set limits, even per app!

better touch tool: There's a lot here, and it can be kinda overwhelming. I use it for three distinct purposes.

• Bought this originally to remote control my macos laptop from my iphone. I'd hdmi the laptop to the tv, and then use my phone as a remote control.
• Now my work laptop has a touchbar, and I use btt to customize it pretty heavily. Not, personally, that's a lot of work; I use the GoldenChaos-BTT presets.
• Other people have mentioned magnet, and btt has these features built in! For a while I actually didn't know it was a btt feature. I was pairing with a coworker on their machine, and was very confused when I tried to grid and resize windows by dragging them around.

krisp: I remember the day I bought it. It was supposed to be a no-meeting heads down coding day. I biked to a coffee shop with a huge windy patio and a coloured slat art installation that rattles with the wind. And I forgot my headphones. And then an urgent call came up. I downloaded the trial. I kept the volume low and talked kinda quiet. There was hardly anyone else nearby, but still, trying to minimize my breach of etiquette. The call was fine. I experimented at the end turning it off and back on and everyone was shocked at the difference.