Here are all the paid online services and apps I’m currently using:
Lifetime Accounts
- AdGuard — a sophisticated ad-blocker that blocks ads at the network level — Family Plan — $118 USD for a lifetime account
- Plex — for streaming personal media — Plus Account $149.99 USD for a lifetime account
- pCloud — for cloud file storage including encrypted storage — Premium Plan — 2 TB — $399 USD for a lifetime account
Annual Accounts
- Fastmail — a private email service with no tracking — Professional Plan — $90 USD annually
- Hushed — for creating alias phone numbers — paying ad-hoc by buying credits
- Kagi — a customizable search engine that is better than Google — good privacy policy — $110 USD annually
- Bitwarden — an open-source password manager with daily cloud back-up — $10 USD annually
- Proton — VPN, encrypted email, and encrypted cloud — $102 USD annually
Software Licenses
- 4K Video Downloader($15 USD)
- Photoscape X ($39.99 USD)
- Affinity Designer 2 ($69.99 USD)
- Sublime Text Editor ($99 USD)
