Perpetual Fallback Licenses

List of software with a perpetual fallback licensing model

What are perpetual fallback licenses?

With “classic” licenses, customers pay for software upfront and get free updates until a new major version is released. With subscriptions, a customer “rents” software—they pay a monthly or yearly fee and lose access to it when they stop.

A perpetual fallback license is midway between those. A customer gets a period’s worth of updates every time they pay (typically one year), but they’re not forced to keep paying to continue to use the software, as the latest update they had access to will continue to be accessible.

Software using the perpetual fallback license model

Icon	Name	Homepage
	Agenda	agenda.com
	Aptakube	aptakube.com
	BoltAI	boltai.com
	Chime	chimehq.com
	Curio	zengobi.com/curio
	DevUtils	devutils.app
	Due	dueapp.com
	JetBrains	jetbrains.com
	MindMac	mindmac.app
	Nova	nova.app
	PDF Pals	pdfpals.com
	Proxyman	proxyman.io
	Quokka	quokkajs.com
	Ripcord	cancel.fm/ripcord
	Screen Studio	screen.studio
	Sip	sipapp.io
	Sketch	sketch.com/apps
	Sublime Merge	sublimemerge.com
	Sublime Text	sublimetext.com
	TablePlus	tableplus.com
	Wallaby	wallabyjs.com