Hey there @pjingles,
Yes, the free version does have 1mb limit, which we’ve found is high enough for the majority of images uploaded to the average website, which is why we went with that limit. We still wanted it to be useful even in it’s free form. We do appreciate your feedback though!
As for no pricing being listed. We are fixing that, we’re testing a new checkout process right now which is likely what you saw and you are right it doesn’t show pricing clearly until after the initial user registration. No good! We’re getting that sorted out. Our pricing is $49/mo for everything our membership has to offer – 100+ premium products, WPMU DEV Academy courses, remote site management, security/performance scanning, and more. You get a 14 day free trial to begin with so you can try it all out before any payment is made.
or another freaking subscription service which isn’t a cost effective measure given the size of my site.
You can cancel the subscription at any time so if you only needed Smush Pro version for a month to smush some large images you had or perhaps do a big bulk smush then you could do that and afterwards it would fall back to the free version capabilities.
I’d suggest trying out the free trial since it won’t cost you anything then you can try out the pro version, smush any images you aren’t able to with the free version, and perhaps try out some of our other products/services as well during that 14 days ??
Any pre-sales/pricing/billing questions you can always direct straight to our support team too: [email protected]
