The author of MCC Pilot Log committed the common sin in the software business of switching the terms of their contract with their customers when it no longer suited them, when they should have simply open-sourced the old app and built something new and proved to their customers that it was worth the terms of the subscription to gain access to the new product. But some companies choose to be lazy rather than innovate, and hope and pray in the process that their customers will just bend over and take it. You can only get away with that sh!t if you have a world-class product. Clearly that is not the case here.

I evaluated MCC Pilot Log, LogTen Pro, and SafeLog. MCC Pilot Log was discarded before they shot themselves in the foot because of its 1990's era, buggy interface so if MCC dies on the vine, I don't think anyone will really miss it. LogTen Pro was discarded primarily due to the price and lock-in to the overpriced Apple ecosystem. I would have bought LogTen if they provided multi-platform support. Ultiimately I chose SafeLog because it's well performing, reasonably-priced, and multi-platform. I bought five years of SafeLog for $150 and if they continue to run their business the way they do I'll re-up in a few years. For all intents and purposes it's a subscription model without the terms of a subscription, but at less than 1/3 the price of LogTen I'll gladly pay it.