I like the concept of spectre and have tried it out, but stumbled across the fact that there is a paid subscription, eventho it claims to be 100% free.
Okay, well maintaining it costs money I get that so I was fine with just offering the option of donating some money and getting cosmetic features or maybe even something cool like biometric unlock and autofill. The latter of which I miss the most tbh. In my opinion I think it could lead to a better success for Spectre if those features were free as well and you can still have the option to just donate whatever similarly to other open-source apps. But well that's the dev's decision on how they wanna finance it.
What really caught my eye tho, was the "defense strategy" premium feature. It seems to me like it's some sort of better encryption for the on-device data? But I'm not sure as I couldn't find any other mention of this and was too lazy to look it up in the source code tbh. If it is exactly that, I think it kinda kills the open-source vibe to me. Because paying for cosmetic or "make-your-life-easier" features is one thing, but paying for having the best security feels wrong to me. It's kinda like holding my data hostage and saying "oh you want it to be secured properly? pay me". I also feel like it would drive some users away as well, those that need a good password manager because they are some activist in a pretty strict country where they might get in prison if their accounts got compromised, but they can't afford that extra security in Spectre.
I hope I got my point across and can get some clarification on the what and why, still love that concept and thank you for taking so much time to develop the apps Maarten <3
