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5 Paid Subscriptions That I Can't Live Without
Subscriptions I recommend to all developers and writers in 2025
As a developer, writer, or both, the tools we use every day are critical to getting things done faster and being productive. Especially now, when the era of one-time payments for buying software is over, and most software and services are based on subscriptions, it is very important to know the services that cost us and manage our subscriptions better.
In this article, I will introduce the software and services that I am very satisfied with and pay for their subscriptions. Almost all of these software and services have an acceptable free version and are released as Freemium products, which allows us first to try them out and check their features and quality before paying for them.
· 1- TickTick
· 2- Windsurf
· 3- Grammarly
· 4- GitHub Codespaces (or VPS from Hetzner)
· 5- RemNote
· Other software that I use is worth mentioning
· Final Thought
1- TickTick
TickTick is not only a task manager for me, it’s integrated Pomodoro and time tracking features that have helped me build my own…