Pricing & Philosophy

Your time is worth money

If GoingOffline helps you reclaim even 1 hour per week, that's 52 hours per year. That's time you can spend with loved ones, on hobbies you care about, or simply being present instead of drowning in productivity theater.

What's that worth? If you value your free time at even $20/hour (which is conservative), that's $1,040 of value per year. We're asking for a tiny fraction of that—because we want this to be accessible while still being sustainable.

Building software isn't free

Even though your data stays on your device, someone has to:

• Design and build the interface you're using
• Write the code that powers the features
• Test across different browsers and devices
• Fix bugs and add improvements
• Provide documentation and support
• Keep the landing page and hosting online

We've poured hundreds of hours into making GoingOffline fast, private, and beautiful. A small symbolic payment helps us keep improving it instead of abandoning it for paid work.

No subscriptions, no BS

Here's what we're NOT doing:

• No monthly subscription that bleeds you dry ($10/month = $120/year forever)
• No data harvesting to sell to advertisers
• No feature lockouts ("upgrade to Pro for basic features!")
• No forced cloud sync that puts your data at risk
• No dark patterns or psychological tricks to keep you hooked

You pay once. You own it forever. Your data stays yours. That's the deal.

Our business model is simple

We make money by building something genuinely useful and charging a fair price for it. Not by:

• Selling your attention to advertisers
• Selling your data to third parties
• Tricking you into subscriptions you forget to cancel
• Locking features behind paywalls after you're invested

If 1,000 people find GoingOffline valuable enough to pay $X, we can keep building. If not, we'll know the product isn't good enough yet. That's honest business.

The bottom line

We charge because your time is valuable, and we want to keep building tools that help you protect it. We keep it affordable because we remember being broke and tired too.

If GoingOffline helps you spend even one extra hour with your family this month, it's already paid for itself. That's the bet we're making.