Flow is priced per person per month because the whole point is that several people read the same record — sales, delivery, support and finance all looking at one customer. Somebody has to run the server that makes that true, and that cost is real.
Working alone, you pay for that machinery and use none of it. There is no handover, no permission model to enforce and nobody else's view to keep in step. What is left is the part you actually wanted: the record itself.
Your contact list is a commercially sensitive asset and a set of other people's personal data. This edition stores it in a file on your Mac. There is no account to create, no server holding a copy, and nothing to export if you stop paying — because it was never anywhere else.
It works on a plane. It works when the vendor is down, because there is no vendor to be down.
The moment a second person needs to see the same record, this is the wrong edition. That is not a limitation to work around — it is the difference between the two, and it is what Flow on the web exists to do.
Look at Flow on the web instead →The app, permanently, on your own Mac — plus 12 months of updates and support. After that, $28 a year keeps new versions arriving. Renewal is optional. Let it lapse and the app keeps working — you simply stop receiving new versions.
14 days to try it first, 30 days to ask for your money back after. Every desktop price on one page.
It is the same customer record, built for one person on one machine. It leaves out what only matters when several people share a system: pipelines with enforced stages, record permissions, approvals, forecast submissions and anything that assumes a colleague.
No. You pay once and own that version permanently. The first twelve months of updates and support are included; after that you can renew for $28 a year to keep receiving new versions, or not renew and keep what you have.
In a file on your Mac. The desktop edition has no account system and sends your contact records nowhere.
Yes. It is the same record model, which is the reason for building it this way rather than as a separate product.
Only if you put the file somewhere that syncs, such as iCloud Drive. There is no sync service of its own, because that would mean a server.