Setapp reviews
The frontier platform that packs 250+ Mac apps into just one
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Everything was fine until I decided to cancel. (Cancellation was easy, getting SetApp out of my life hasn’t been.) After properly uninstalling the SetApp apps using the built-in uninstaller, and fully uninstalling SetApp using App Cleaner, Launchpad filled with dead shortcuts to all SetApp apps, even those I never installed. I reset the Launchpad database via Terminal, and was able to get back to normal - for a day. Now the nonexistent app shortcuts are back again. I’m going to have to wipe my MacBook Pro, it seems. Ran a full virus scan with. BitDefender, which is usually overzealous, and it found nothing. The empty, logo-marked SetApp folder keeps reappearing on my SSD. And now I’m going to have to pay to upgrade my occasional backup Software, Carbon Copy Cloner, to the latest version, so that I don’t have to wait ages for my Backblaze online backup to download my data. Then, I have to reinstall MacOS from scratch. Why does this software keep fighting me? I can’t think of any benefit to the company, so it makes me believe there’s some major flaw in their code. Worst of all, I’ve found numerous horror stories like this about SetApp, clearly written by intelligent people who performed uninstalls the right way, based on their descriptions. I’m usually skeptical of other reviewers who leave negative reviews, assuming they did something wrong. If I had ignored a review like this a while back, I would not be happy with myself right now.
Reliable and innovative features. The only thing I can point out is that it deserves a better approach regarding price localization. For instance, you guys surely know that I am one of the rare Brazilian subscribers. The flat international price is, by all means, inaccessible in the local context. This means the company is missing out on millions in potential revenue, and consumers are losing access to a quality product. I don’t understand what the argument against price localization would be, but it would be interesting to know—considering this seems to be a deliberate choice.
encountered an issue where one of my active devices was logged out for no reason, and when I tried to sign back in, it kept asking me to add a device I had already registered. This left me unable to access the apps I needed for work. When I contacted support, the representative was unhelpful and somewhat rude, offering no solution except to wait 48 hours. As someone who relies on daily access to my devices, this was extremely frustrating. Quick responses are pointless if they don’t resolve the issue. SetApp’s support in this case was disappointing.
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Interesting idea and concept, but not very diversefied library of apps.
