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Why Lansia is a one-time payment

April 21, 20262 min read

How many subscriptions are currently auto-charging your card?

Not the ones you remember. Add the ones you forgot. The streaming service you signed up for one Saturday. The fitness app you used for two weeks in January. The note-taking app you switched away from but somehow still pay for.

That's what software does now. It bills you forever for the same thing it sold you three years ago.

We chose not to do that with Lansia. The price is $4.99. One time. You pay once, you keep the app, you're done with us until you want to talk to us. There's no auto-renewal, no quiet price hike six months in, no email titled "Your card has been charged" while you're trying to enjoy your weekend.

The reasoning is simple. Lansia is meant to be a daily practice you keep for years. Charging you every month for something you're supposed to use forever felt off. The product doesn't get more expensive to run when you've been using it for three years. You've already built the practice. We're not doing more work. Why should we keep billing you?

A subscription also creates the wrong incentive. Subscription apps have to keep you anxious about quitting, because quitting means losing revenue. One-time apps have to actually work, because the only way we grow is if you tell a friend.

So here's what you get for $4.99. Five tasks a day instead of three. Full history forever. Full stats. Heatmaps, streaks, perfect weeks. Every future feature that fits inside the app. No "upgrade to Pro Plus." No tier above this one.

If $4.99 isn't worth it to you, the free version is genuinely free and stays that way. Three tasks a day, the evening reminder, all the basics. Use it forever.

If $4.99 is worth it to you, pay once and don't think about us again. That was the goal.

Free to download. The $4.99 is there when you want it.

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