The AppStore apps are now available in the stores, but requires a search exactly for “Aeon Timeline 3” to find them… even “Aeon Timeline” doesn’t find them so well right now.
Congratulations and well done to everyone at Aeon Timeline. You can all be extremely proud of what you have achieved. It is early here and I feel a little like the child who has just woken up on Christmas morning, happy that Santa has been, but aware that the other kids in different parts of the world got to play with their toys before me .
On a more grownup note, I take it the NDA is now off. I am still working on my review of Aeon Timeline 3, but is it okay now to blog about the app?
Edit: I will wait a reasonable amount of time, until your newsletter goes out so I don’t steal your thunder.
@matt - Just to say the recurring fee that is shown in the browser for continuous updates is the same as full price fee. On iOS and via the app it shows at a reduced price (which is what I’d expect).
Hi Stuart,
Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, it is an error… you wouldn’t actually be charged that value, it is just pulling the wrong value for display.
I’ve posted a short article about the release to my website, https://andrewhansonwriter.com just using an image I created for now. In the next couple of days I hope to post my review and some usage articles. I’ll use the official press pack images plus some of my own for those.
These show as in app purchases, but obviously in the app it only presents £54.99 and the the option to have updates at £30.99 a year…
Knowing appstore users this may generate a bunch of bad reviews or comms asking why they can get the app plus a year of subscription at £30.99 or the year of updates for £29.99
I assume if we want to keep beta testing, but we DO want to purchase as well… we purchase on the website, and then log into our account in the app with our actual user details but don’t install the release version? where will future beta updates be posted? can the beta’s and release version sit side by side (if you purchase from the website, as its more tricky to do that via appstore unless you create a new application for testing)… and also if we do continue beta testing, will we also need to be part of the iOS beta as well via testflight as i assume iOS and desktop beta’s need to be inline with each other (i.e. we can have a release version on iOS and a beta version on desktop if we are going to use files between the two platforms) ?
Hmm… thanks for pointing this out. I suspect there may be some weird or different rounding going on when we pull the data for display, but we will look into it.
Hi. Ongoing beta testing will be built off the same accounts as the official purchases, we will just mark some accounts as being allowed to access beta versions.
Generally speaking, download the Mac or Windows app direct from our website will be preferred to the App Store version.
For iOS, we may need to use TestFlight at times, although the released app is not available on TestFlight currently, so I would recommend switching to the official AppStore version for the time being. We can always switch iOS testers across to TestFlight again later… your Aeon Timeline account will be able to be used across both.
Quite often we hope to be able to release betas for iOS that do not actually require switching away from the official App Store release version though… it will just depend what is put into that particular update.
Didn’t even have to think twice - ordered on the App Store with the recurring subscription. It’s going to be later today before I can get time to dive into it, but I know it’s going to be great.
The macOS app store is showing £55 and direct purchase is £60. We all know about the Apple Tax, and I suspect most of us want to support the developer, so this seems a bit odd: buy direct and pay more is an unusual marketing approach.
Not bitching, I’ll upgrade anyway, but just thought I’d mention it.
yes this is what i’m seeing.. now i’ve found the Mac AppStore product it also shows the same in app purchase costs as the iOS store notably -
“Aeon Timeline 3 + Subscription (1 year) £30.99”
sort of implying that i -could- purchase the app and a years subscription for £30.99 which obviously isnt the case… I think (because I’ve seen it with some other apps) the appstore picks up a bunch of weird pricing options for any discounts as well.. so another app which I wont mention shows a year subscription for anything from £20 a year right up to £69 a year!! when I queried if I could just resubscribe at a lower price, they basically said yes and it was due to the app store somehow picking up offers and discounts and they couldnt fix it… weirdly!!!
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