Restriction policy / advertising

Geronimo

A word on restrictions in the latest version and the policy on advertising the changes here.
No doubt that a free version has to have limitations as the company has to earn money on a product and the 2GB limit was quite a generous one.
The announced change to unlimited size and 'completely free private use' however omits the, to my view, more important restriction on file name encryption (as well the changelog does not).

Quote :

"BoxCryptor can now be used FOR FREE by private users on all plattforms. Former restictions such as limited encryption volume or uploads restrictions in the mobile apps have been loosened".

This is not correct, sorry. Restrictions have been exchanged.
To be serious, you should mention that one essential feature, and filenames are one concerning EncFS, has been restricted, otherwise you generate a wrong picture. In fact the new free version is more crippled than 1.3.1 was.

Robert

Hello Geronimo,

Thanks for your feedback regarding our new pricing. Finding the right pricing for a product is always difficult and we wanted to give as many users as possible the power to secure their files in the cloud. At the same time, we have to earn revenue as a company by charging "power users" of our software in order to be able to continue our work.

When discussing a change in our pricing, we came to the conclusion that the need for encrypted filenames is a better indicator for a "power user" than the size of encrypted files. The basic file encryption should be free for every private user for as many files as he wants, but additional features (like filename encryption) require a license.

Best regards,
Robert

PS: Existing BoxCryptor Folders with filename encryption which have been created with previous version can still be used with the new free version.