14 pay-once apps

Marketing & SEO — pay-once tools

Social scheduling, link tools, QR codes, analytics and rank tracking — the marketer's subscription pile, swapped for one-time alternatives.

Marketing tools are priced like utilities: every channel, site and contact adds a few more dollars a month, forever. This category swaps the whole pile for pay-once, mostly self-hosted alternatives. PostDock schedules social posts with queues and content recycling on your own server. Linkleaf hosts your link-in-bio page, Trimly runs branded short links on your own domain, and Scantrail generates dynamic QR codes with scan analytics that never expire behind a paywall. Statfox gives you cookie-free web analytics for unlimited sites, Serpdeck tracks daily search positions with competitor overlays, and Hawkwatch watches competitor prices and stock with screenshot alerts. Cardsmith renders unlimited OG images from templates, Postbird sends email campaigns with no per-contact pricing, UTMcraft enforces clean campaign naming, Reflink runs an affiliate program, Citewatch tracks citations, Star Stack aggregates reviews, and Bravowall collects testimonials. Your data, your infrastructure, one receipt.

Pay once, own forever

14 apps in Marketing & SEO

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PostDock

Self-hosted social scheduling — composer, queue, content recycling & webhooks. Your API keys, your data.

$129once replaces Buffer
$6/channel/mo
Available now

Linkleaf

Self-hosted link-in-bio with themes, link scheduling, email capture & analytics — no monthly fee.

$19once replaces Linktree
$5–9/mo
Available now

Scantrail

Self-hosted dynamic QR codes with scan analytics, a design studio and batch CSV generation.

$69once replaces QR Tiger
$15/mo
Available now

Cardsmith

Visual OG-image templates that become render APIs — unlimited PNGs, bulk CSV, self-hosted.

$99once replaces Bannerbear
$49/mo
Available now

Statfox

Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard.

$129once replaces Plausible
$9–19/mo
Available now

Serpdeck

Daily position history, competitor overlays and big-move alerts — BYO SerpAPI/DataForSEO key, pennies per check.

$99once replaces AccuRanker
$129/mo
Available now

Postbird

Lists, segments, a drag-block builder, throttled sending & open/click tracking — no per-contact pricing.

$149once replaces Mailchimp
$20+/mo (grows with your list)
Available now

UTMcraft

Self-hosted UTM builder with naming enforcement, bulk CSV generation and click-tracking dashboards.

$19once replaces UTM.io
$29/mo
Available now

Reflink

Self-hosted affiliate tracking with attribution, commissions, approvals and payout CSV export.

$39once replaces Tapfiliate
$89/mo
Available now

Star Stack

Self-hosted widget aggregating Google, Facebook and CSV reviews with moderation and a star badge.

$29once replaces Trustpilot Business
$199+/mo
Available now

Citewatch

Self-hosted citation tracker that diffs your listings against one canonical NAP.

$34once replaces BrightLocal
$39-59/mo
Available now

Trimly

Branded short links, QR codes and click analytics — on your domain, in your SQLite file.

$79once replaces Bitly
$29/mo
Available now

Hawkwatch

Headless-Chromium price & stock monitoring with screenshot alerts — no quotas, no subscription.

$89once replaces Distill
$12/mo
Available now

Bravowall

Hosted collection forms, moderation queue, shadow-DOM wall embed & PNG cards. No subscription.

$79once replaces Senja
$19/mo
14 apps in this category · $8,100/yr replaced

The whole suite, one payment

Every app on this page — plus the rest of the 102-app catalog — is in the OneTimeSuite bundle. The suite is $97 right now (the price rises $1 with every sale during the 100-days launch), and every app shipped later joins it for free.

subscriptions, forever $97once · everything
FAQ

Honest answers

Are these really one-time purchases?

Yes. Every app in Marketing & SEO is a single payment — prices on this page run from $19 to $149, once. No renewals, no per-seat fees, no usage meters.

Do I get updates?

Yes. Buying includes updates, and every app ships with MIT-licensed source on GitHub — so even the code is yours to keep, audit and build on. New apps added to the suite later never raise the price of what you already bought.

Self-hosted or desktop — what is the difference?

This category has 10 desktop apps and 4 self-hosted web apps. Desktop apps run locally on your machine — private, offline-capable, nothing uploaded. Self-hosted web apps run on your own server or VPS, so you and your team can reach them from anywhere while the data stays on hardware you control.