Very questionable. I had to click the pricing page three times from the same menu item before the actual price showed up. Before that, it kept pushing me to the demo explanation page instead; this might be from faulty area coding in the site menu but who knows.

Overall, its nice lean package that can do all the basics within a wysiwyg environment. Some functions do not follow industry standard approach for a DTP layout program, and you may have to fiddle with it a bit as the help documentation is always spot on for typical keyword searches. But there's a bigger drawback that is even more suspicious.

iStudio's maker DOES NOT give refunds/returns, so once you've bought it, you're stuck. Combine this with the fact that the program does not let you save, export, print, or compile, and this is a deal breaker. The final product is what matters most in any application used. Without seeing whether this thing can do...

--a proper PDF (let alone have the settings for the various compatibility options) or
--an EPUB (which has growing variations even now and complex multi layered settings possible for different devices)...

...then there is no way anyone sensible would spend money on iStudio.

I already have Sigil (free), Jutoh (minimal cost), and InDesign. I was looking for something inbetween that could cut the number of intermediate steps used to tweak epub and mobi files for the different platforms I publish for without so many intermediate steps/apps.

Until iStudio realizes that a trialware limiting content is better than hiding what it can really do for a final product... NO SALE! Or until iStudio amends its return policy to at least something like one business week... NO SALE!

I recommend to anyone else to walk away unless you've got the pocket money to risk. You will not know if iStudio can live up to your expectations through to a finished product until too late.

I don't see the point. One has to upload one's music collection in order to play it locally? Forget it, since I can grab whatever I want from device to device even directly over the internet without using yet another so-cloud.

And the app isn't that special, nor worth even the cheap price, since it doesn't do half of what other full media players (let alone real "managers") can do... for free.

There really isn't much to review for this app. There is no way it could have scanned and 200+Gb drive in less than 1 second. And yes, I timed it.

Get something real in place of this. Get something that doesn't have to keep phoning home multiple times before, during, after its executed process.

For my money (which is no money, free), get Sophos instead. Though I wasn't ever infected by flashback, I did go after a copy of it to "sandbox", and Sophos found and killed it.

A moderately nice idea, though since it isn't using the encrypted P2P (apparently the public channel online), exposes IP addresses, and uses only a standard port instead of a rotating one... well, even if "legal," it is still going to get banned / blocked by ISPs. We seen this before. Socializing doesn't make up much for its shortcomings where privacy is concerning.

I'm duly impressed. I prefer PathFinder, which makes Finder look like a wimp, but there are some things I can only do effectively in Finder, such as managing integrated services like DrobBox. And this little add-on makes those moments a touch more convenient and organized. I'll be watching and waiting for the next edition.