In some cases, ads may be show to the users. Basically, a product is offered Free to Play (Freemium) and the user can decide if he wants to pay the money (Premium) for additional features, services, virtual or physical goods that expand the functionality of the game.
This license is commonly used for video games and it allows users to download and play the game for free.
There are many different open source licenses but they all must comply with the Open Source Definition - in brief: the software can be freely used, modified and shared. Programs released under this license can be used at no cost for both personal and commercial purposes.
Open Source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify or enhance.
Freeware products can be used free of charge for both personal and professional (commercial use). Always happy to see companies that respond quickly and directly to customers.Freeware programs can be downloaded used free of charge and without any time limitations.
Update: Synium Software responded via Twitter that they do support cropping multiple images out of a single photo, as well as importing and exporting that information. I hope they will offer the app through the Mac App Store, and offer the premium features and subscriptions through in-app purchasing.
It will be interesting to see how that software compares with these other programs. Reunion has separate apps for iPhone/iPod Touch ( $14.99) and iPad ( $14.99), MacFamilyTree offers MobileFamilyTree which can run independently of MacFamilyTree (normally $15.99 – now also 50% off through July 31 at $7.99), but can also share data with it, and Heredis offers Heredis for iOS (which is free).Īlso of note is that MyHeritage, which offers their free Family Tree Builder software for Windows (a $75 Premium version is also available), has said that the next version (Version 8) will be available on the Mac. One of the nice features of most of these programs (not GEDitCOM II) is the availability of a companion app that runs on the iPhone and/or iPad. Besides Reunion and MacFamilyTree ( Mac App Store), there’s Heredis (which is 35% off through June 9 – $38.99 instead of $59.99 – on their site and in the Mac App Store) and GEDitCOM II (software which has some very unique features that I like, but needs a major overhaul to make it competitive with these others). I should just add that I’m very happy that there are now several good options for genealogy software for the Mac. If I do end up switching, I’ll try to explain how I moved everything over. When I find the time to take a look in depth at MacFamilyTree 7, I will try to post a review here. Here’s a look at the new version of MacFamilyTree in a video that Synium released: I don’t know if MacFamilyTree 7 has a similar feature or not, but that’s one of the things I will be taking a look at when I look at the software. This might not seem like a major feature, but when you use it extensively to attach photos of people to their records, it’s hard to switch to a program that doesn’t offer that (and doesn’t import the cropped images I’ve already set up). For example, if you have a family portrait with ten family members in it, and it is the only photo you have for all the people, you can select out the faces from the one photo for each family member. Reunion has a very nice feature that allows you have one image, and cut out the faces of multiple people for use in your family tree. In the past, my biggest problem in switching programs was the handling of images. There are a lots of nice features of MacFamilyTree. Research Assistant feature in MacFamilyTree 7
In this case, Synium Software, the makers of MacFamilyTree, are allowing anyone to get the upgrade pricing for the first two months, which I think is quite generous (sometimes companies only offer the upgrade pricing for a week). To get around this problem, some software companies release a new version of their program on the App Store as a separate program, and then reduce the price for everyone for a limited time. When you buy an application from the App Store, you own it forever. It’s a strange quirk of the Mac App Store that in essence companies cannot really offer upgrade pricing to their existing users. It’s also worth mentioning because they are offering upgrade pricing ($29.95 instead of $59.99) to everyone who buys it in the Mac App Store through July 31. Yesterday MacFamilyTree received a major update, to version 7, so I thought it was worth mentioning again.