TechTool Pro 11.0.1

Originally published at: https://tidbits.com/watchlist/techtool-pro-11-0-1/

Major upgrade for the hard drive repair and system maintenance tool adds compatibility with macOS 10.14 Mojave. ($129 new, upgrades available)

I bought TechTool 10 last summer, just before Mojave release. All year I have been opening it to have it tell me not to use it on my current system. Now they want me to pay again to get it to work on a system that has been out for 9 months. Think I’ll move on to another product rather than have my money taken and held.

I was on TechTool Pro through many versions. But it has become more like a subscription lately – there was a paid upgrade in the middle of Version 9 followed fairly soon thereafter by a paid upgrade to Version 10 - and the paid upgrade in the middle of Version 9 was really more of a beta for 10.

I finally let them go entirely, figuring if I ever need it I will just buy it again. So far, I haven’t needed (nor missed) it.

If they want to make it an annual subscription of >$100, they just market it that way.