I Was Crazy Enough to Buy 34 Appsumo Lifetime Deals — Here Are the Six I Actually Use

Recognise that lifetime deals can be a mixed bag, and you’ll be okay

Ellane W
6 min readFeb 4, 2023

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Black line drawing on white background showing a character with stars instead of eyes holding a glowing sign that reads LTDs — Lifetime Deals
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It’s true — I’m a former lifetime deal (LTD) addict. I’m currently writing about my journey from compulsive buying to mindful productivity and the vital lessons I learned along the way, but first I thought I’d show you the bright side of the LTD coin.

Here are the tools I bought lifetime access to between 2018–2021, that I use regularly to help run my business. I’ll also list those I’m not currently using, but am still happy for a number of reasons to have in the kit. All but one of them came from Appsumo (not an affiliate link).

Most of these tools didn’t take long to get to the breakeven point. Others never will, if I don’t use them!

Those I’m Actively Using

These products help my business daily. The question that comes to mind is, how many of them would I pay for in full, if I hadn’t bought them as an LTD? Those marked with ✅ are in the affirmative on that score.

Deposit Photos
Stock photos/vector images. Purchased 200 images in 2019 for $98; now $598.
It’s nice to have access to stock photography and vector images that aren’t from any of the…

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Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans