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Great app - make an option for no subscription

BoltAI Mobile

The app is great. I found no really issues so far. I’m mainly self hosting everything. Please make the possibility to out out of subscription model and give a higher one time payment option. (Also please consider to allow voice-to-text and voice-voice models not only OpenAI and Groq.

Posted by Andras Feher ·
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  • Daniel Nguyen

    Team•

    Jul 20, 2025

    Thanks for the feedback @Andras Feher. What is considered “higher one-time payment” for you? I’m asking to see if it’s sustainable for me. After 3 years building BoltAI, it still requires daily maintenance. A one-time payment option is still possible but I will need to approach it very very carefully.

    Cheers

    • Andras Feher

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      Jul 20, 2025

      I would consider 49-79 USD/EUR as something I would consider appropriate.

      • Daniel Nguyen

        Team•

        Jul 21, 2025

        Thank you. Just to confirm, that the amount for the iOS app and not including the mac app, right? Because the Mac app price is already more than that.

        • Andras Feher

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          Jul 26, 2025

          Of course. I already bought the mac app.

      • Daniel Nguyen

        Team•

        Aug 18, 2025

        Awesome. One quick question Andras, if it has to be a subscription, how much would you pay? I asked because I likely will offer lifetime license only at the beginning for early adopters.

    • kernkraft

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      Aug 28, 2025

      I would be willing $30/yr, but a few things would increase that, features I consider holy grails that no other app is providing (anymore).

      - Thorough integration with Shortcuts (app intents)
      - Local “MCP” (I mean that figuratively) that could pull in Reminders/Calendar data (just need entitlement/permission grant).
      - Local high quality ASR (I made a post about using CoreML w/ Parakeet)
      - A GOOD keyboard extension, if it supported dictation via the current workarounds that the Whisper app and Wisprflow do, then thats a HUGE deal to me). One area they fall flat is they don’t have the option to automatically send the transcript to an LLM w/ custom instructions on iOS (MacWhisper, from same dev as Whisper app, supports this)
      - A “pseudo-realtime” voice chat that has the necessary entitlements to do background conversations (like ChatGPT.app can do). I will make a separate post about this

      If all of the above items were implemented well as well as the rest of the app, I’d pay $100/yr