What product/service do you pay monthly/annually for, and feel like it's worth it?

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There are plenty of services we subscribe to because we have to, some because we want to, but what products and services do you use that you feel are truly worth the cost?

Arielle Crane · Accepted Answer

This app is truly the best for freelancers. Helps you manage your freelance business, staying on top of your clients, invoicing and expenses. Definitely something to check out for those that are working on going out on their own, have side hustles, or want to organize their existing freelance business.

Napoleon Suarez · Answer

The subscription for this also gets you a YouTube Red subscription. No ads in YouTube is everything!

Tudor Baidoc · Answer

In my opinion, the best music streaming service out there. I use it everyday.

Richard Warren · Answer

Changed my relationship with money for the better - completely removed the nagging stress of personal finances.

João · Answer

High quality music on the go or at the computer. I would be broke in no time buying music at the same rate I listen to new stuff on Spotify.

Vinit Agrawal · Answer

This software brings so much value, and definitely worth its cost

Ilya Azovtsev 💌+🤖=🚀 · Answer

there is a good free plan, but when you pay you receive much more

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Happy with their service for various privacy policies.

Lukas Rathmann · Answer

It's also worth noting that you can upload your own stuff in case it's not available from them.

Bas Grasmayer · Answer

I use this to stay connected to my network and keep them up to date about what I'm doing. Super easy to use, which helps you over the barrier of starting a newsletter in the first place. Now have about 1500 people following the list -- and managed to maintain an open rate of nearly 50% after more than a year.

Ashwin · Answer

UX is great and I find all the music I listen here. (I use Spotify too)

Tracy Marshall · Answer

Allows you to create your own universe out of your to-do and project lists via infinite outlining. Was inspired by Workflowy, but way more powerful. You can quickly create a wormhole-like link to anyother other location or topic. Comes with it's own formatting. Best of all you can seamlessly drill down via infinite outlining and puts you more in a state of hyper-focus.

Learning curve? Yes, if you want t get serious, you must learn all the keyboard shorcuts.

Vinit Agrawal · Answer

I got the subscription for this 2 days back and about to receive the first delivery using it, today. something which would usually take 1 week. i think for the price of this subscription, this service is pretty good.

Jennie Shao · Answer

receive the product so quickly.

gokul · Answer

I settled with TunnelBear for my VPN needs. The connection is quite stable and fast and I like their mobile apps. I like their privacy policy too!

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It's great value if you want a secure SaaS WebApp!

Vinit Agrawal · Answer

Also this one

Michel Rijnders · Answer

Best privacy first email out there.

Mudit Singh · Answer

Great tool to find issues on operating systems I don't have locally yet my users are using. 
Also super useful in making sure that my site is not breaking in any mobile device.

Davis · Answer

Need some good background music!

Namrutha Ramanathan Krishnan · Answer

Can't image my campaigns go live without this!

Hemanth G · Answer

Great thoughts, deserve Support.

AkhilSinghT · Answer

Environment setup + sharing workspace + pair coding and quite a few great features.

I use Docker as well, but c9.io is shareable with code pairing which is 10/10.

Adam Simonides · Answer

The best off-side backup service.

Miles Turpin · Answer

Beautiful design and innovative controls streamline the UX... allows me to completely focus on my writing. You have to pay to get syncing b/t devices but it's reasonably priced and it's run by a small team so I don't mind paying

Esmeralda Martinez · Answer

Best analytics platform for understanding customer behavior (churn, feature usage, acquisition sources, etc)

gokul · Answer

I absolutely love this product/service. Their browser extensions and mobile apps are excellent too.

Robert "רובי" Swirsky · Answer

I use it every day. High Quality software. Adobe Photoshop. Premiere, and After Effects are the best products around.

Florian Karmen · Answer

$40/yr VPN w/ unlimited bandwidth & worldwide gateways

Harry Ryan · Answer

Paperform is my go-to app whenever I need to create an online form or a landing page.

Thalassa van Beek · Answer

I second that! Although I really wish there was something in between the $10 and $99 plan... the one offers too little for me, the other too much.

By the way, I do love them not only as a product, but as a company as well. They're 100% remote but with a super strong team spirit, and they constantly get on the phone with random customers to understand their desires & frustrations.

Francis Kim · Answer

I subscribed for YouTube Red and got Google Play Music for free

Fanny Berrington · Answer

Quality and ease of use. Perhaps, these are the main reasons why I fell in love with Google Play Music.

Daniel Rouquette · Answer

Combined with ToDoist, makes it easy to achieve Inbox 0 every day

Francis Kim · Answer

Great way to quickly digest summaries of books. Text & audio so I can listen on the go.

Alin - Catalin · Answer

RescueTime is one of the best productivity tool I've been using for years now. Their weekly newsletter with the summary helps me a lot to understand my productivity patterns and where my unproductive time   goes.
This year I've become a paid user - and even if I don't think I need all the pro features - I want to keep on supporting such a great tool.

sam · Answer

I wasn't mad at them for charging the 2.99. Best 3 bucks I could spend in a month.

Davis · Answer

A smart way to save money, and gives you interest too!

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Hands down, one of the easiest social media marketing tools I have used. I use it across 3 of my personal brands and it works wonders at 10 USD a month. Fits for me.

Frederik Waller · Answer

I have a yearly subscription to Evernote and use it every single day. Definitely worth it!

Matt Heslington · Answer

The first to-do app that has actually made me more productive. And one of the most beautiful apps I've ever used.

Matt Heslington · Answer

Magical sounds that produce a marked increase in productivity, help you relax or send you to sleep.

Bogdan Dobrogaiev · Answer

This app helps me to control my incomes and expenses. This is very simple, useful and cheap app for daily life. After some period of time, I can analyze my expenses and see what I need to change.

Max Alway-Townsend · Answer

I love having all my files backed up online and being able to access them anywhere, also makes it easy for me to not use Google Docs

Amol Wagh · Answer

Very worth it if you're a blogger, writer, student or anything that involved writing on daily basis. I find it very worth it for the price, and they have good offers on annual subscriptions.

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Super secure, unique, useful features, and great customer service.

Francis Kim · Answer

Hands down the best way to listen to audiobooks.

Lenny Leiter · Answer

Same here, super reliable and absolutely worth it

Manuel Spaan · Answer

I can't imagine my life without this Password manager. I use it on all my devices, and keep everything that's private in my Vault.

Tracy Marshall · Answer

When I'm shopping, driving walking the dog, I'm listenting. Favorite reads from the past couple years, Open by Andre Agassi, Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kruger, The Jersey Brothers by Sall Mott Freeman, Head Strong by Dave Asprey, Failure is Not an Option by Gene Kranz, The Snowball by Warren Buffet, The Men Who Would Be King by Nicolo LaPorte, DisneyWar by James B. Stewart, Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha, Born to Run by the Boss, Total Recall (bio) by Arnold, Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance, Walt Disney by Neal Gabler...and on and on....

Baron Kanter · Answer

Totally worth it for long commutes, in the shower, getting dressed, while cooking, etc.

Ray Nestor · Answer

Can't live without.

Thalassa van Beek · Answer

Obviously :-)

Abraham · Answer

Movies & New Original Series.

Terri MacMillan · Answer

like a patient, knowledgeable editor friend.

Tom Declat · Answer

Great for all sorts of UX design. I use it every day and the features just keep getting better. Highly recommended if you need a vector design programme.

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NewsBlur is my secret weapon. I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds and then zero in on important articles by automatically filtering for certain keywords. I also read newsletters in NewsBlur instead of letting them pile up in my email inbox. It has eliminated so much noise from my life.

Deepak Srinivasan · Answer

Netflix and chill

Mudit Singh · Answer

They also have an automation feature that can give you VMs to run your automation scripts on. No need to maintain EC2 VMs for running selenium tests.

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I love listening too books of all kind while cooking :) relaxing

Jake Stanley · Answer

The simplicity of TunnelBear's amazing UI is the only way I can get my wife to use a VPN on public wifi. Also, great for traveling abroad!

Michael Happel Olsen · Answer

Saves me a bunch of time on server management, at a very reasonable price.

Thalassa van Beek · Answer

Absolutely!

Akash · Answer

I've never regret paying for Spotify Premium. Simply awesome.

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second that

Ashwin · Answer

Here in India, it is very affordable. Just about less than a $ per month ;) Great content and has a decent app for Android TV.

Ray Nestor · Answer

Absolutely!

Ray Nestor · Answer

Absolutely love this product. I tried many Habit Trackers before settling with HabitBull. The no-frills approach is what I love about this product and the reason why I paid for it.

tomkuhn · Answer

Mail, productivity software, and storage all in one. Could not live without it!

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Safed my ass a lot of times. And i like all the other Prime services too

Davis · Answer

Totally worth it for Marketing Campaigns

Abraham · Answer

Learn something new !

Davis · Answer

I love learning new stuff, and since I'm living in Los Angeles, this is a great way to learn the most while driving

Tushar Vaghela · Answer

Amazing Testing tool, saves time and cost.

Francis Kim · Answer

Just started using this yesterday - still on the free plan but the features look amazing.

Aleksandra · Answer

Todoist really helps to increase productivity. I use it both for personal tasks and teamwork.

Bas Grasmayer · Answer

So easy to manage my social media. Social media is about consistency. This lets you set schedules and push content out to that schedule. So I'm never worried that I'm not hitting people in certain timezones, or that my feed will go silent if I get busy for a few days... :-)

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LOVE Buffer. It saves me so much time and makes it easy to juggle multiple accounts. It's also great for teams.