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Unrelated question since you've got the Swift experience: How would you recommend a modern day Mac utility get sold? Is grabbing some hardware ID of a device and then charging money for a license keys somehow still the way to go for some small utility (eg window management app like Rectangle) if you want to sell to users outside of the Mac app store?


With Mac, you have choices (as opposed to iOS). There’s licensing libraries that you can use. These can do things like hardware keys.

The App Store is very secure, but Apple gets their vig…




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