Mike 2005-07-06 01:37
Ultramon has a few neat features but $40!
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Gareth Evans 2005-07-18 07:01
It's worth it, trust me.
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Too dear 2005-08-08 00:28
I agree, $40US is too much for this utility.
Whilst it is a very useful utility, it certainly isnt worth $40. Just look at around at other full blown applications for similar money.
I was ready to pull out my credit card and order the full version unti I saw the asking price.
I'm not saying this to upset the developers, but just to say you've lost a customer through your pricing being too high.
I hope you can take this onboard.
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Ryan Hardin 2005-08-08 15:56
I think $40 is a reasonable price. This is a great addon. When you are dealing with 6 monitors (click here for photo), being able to have a taskbar with apps for each monitor comes in quite handy.
I've more than made $40 in saved time and a clearer mind while I multitask.
Thanks,
- Ryan
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Paul Dyer 2005-08-14 16:43
Worth every penny
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SCG 2005-08-19 14:50
This product rocks, saves me so much time and works well. Well worth the price
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rymo 2005-08-25 23:40
I can't survive without it! I've had UltraMon almost two years now, and simply can't stand to use other dual-monitor computers with only one taskbar. Trust me, it has paid for itself in increased productivity and reduced frustration many times over.
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Drewex 2005-08-26 02:19
Ryan what kinda grafic card are u using to get up to 6 monitors?
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Drewex 2005-08-26 02:20
And on six monitors how do you play a game or something, Do you limit to one window?
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Drewex 2005-08-26 02:35
never mind the first question duh its in the photos page. Im still curious with the gaming concept tho.
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JuddMan 2007-07-08 20:30
i too was about to buy this until i saw the price. it is too much for something on my home PC that i can live without.
it was a nice quiet trial, i will give you that. Thanks for the demo, $10 cheaper and i would probably have bitten. top quality product.
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JC 2007-07-09 05:30
Yeah I can perhaps see myself paying $20-$25 for this, but $40 is WAY too high.
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Bradley 2007-07-11 11:39
I agree that it's about double what it should be, considering it's the price of many full-blown applications and you can get a free multimonitor taskbar using MultiMon and a free 2nd monitor wallpaper switcher with MultiShow. I, too, did a double take at purchase time and backed down.
1/2 the price would triple their customers.
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Andrew 2007-07-13 22:26
I agree! $40 is way to much for this product. While it has some great features and is overall a decent product if you're using XP. However given that updates for this product are very sparse, just look at the beta for version 3, last release was in March of 3.0.0 and nothing since. Vista has been out for about 10 months now and still no full support, etc... Given this I too will not be purchasing a copy of UltraMon and my only hope is that someone will come out with a decent competing product and provide a better update schedule or at least communicate better what that is.
--Andrew
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Guest 2007-07-14 00:48
While I think that $40 are worth it I still believe that there will be more sales if the price was lower.
Unless there is a high cost of administrating the sales I think that lowering the price will cause more people to buy it because it's simply not worth the hassle to obtain a cracked version. Considering the following as a loose example:
$40 = 10 people buy it = $400 = nice
$10 = 50 people buy it = $500 = even more nice ;)
Imagine if windows costed $40 I think (almost) everyone would have bought it. off course you have a problem with sales , boxing etc... but that's another story ;)
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Businessman 2007-07-15 12:50
How's Christian supposed to feed his family? Realtime Soft doesn't have a whole lot of products. Maybe there is some elasticity of demand, and maybe lowering the price will increase overall sales. Normally big companies find this out by doing tons of market research. For a one-product, one-developer company that can't afford the market research, it's an awful risk to take.
The dearth of competing products should tell you something about the size of the market. Not that many people use multiple monitors to begin with (though this is growing). Not many of those feel they need a multimon taskbar (this may surprise you, but I've observed that even multimon users don't always keep a lot of applications open).
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Culley 2007-07-18 04:21
$40 is a bit much for splurge buys, I'll agree with that.
Realtime Soft doesn't care about that though (and shouldn't imho), neither do most software companies. For serious multi-taskers using 2-6 monitors each being $200-300 (or more), $40 is a drop in the bucket compared to what they have invested in monitors. The mounts alone are 3-10x the cost of Ultramon.
$40 for a tool that saves time and thus generates money is well worth it.
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Cliff 2007-07-19 04:53
I looked into Ultramon when I was using XP - a great tool to be sure, but the price made me back off a bit, and I went and found some other tool to do the job - now the Multimonitor support seems even worse in Vista, so again I came to Ultramon - and waited patiently for 3.0 beta - we got that back in March, but it hasn't exactly been the smoothest experience.
I understand that development takes time, and I'm all for that, but I think the price should be more accurately reflective for what it is -something that should have been included in Windows in the first place, and a side project for Christian. (sorry if this is not the case, but with the development pace, I can only assume this is true)
I would more than happily chip $10-20 in to register Ultramon - and just by judging by the renewed activity this forum has seen since the Beta 3 release, I'd say there are lots out there who would probably agree - but at $40, that's a different ballgame.
I'm not the type to cheat, but those who like software and don't want to pay for it usually will find another way, and whenever someone uses a cracked copy it just costs Christian a good sale - and at a lower pricepoint, I'd say you'd see registrations increase almost exponentially.
I've fallen into the trap before of paying for a good piece of shareware that wasn't finished, hoping that would help prompt the developers to finish their product, and had that fall through.
I agree that there are those who use the program for very professional uses like the six-monitor example above (nice setup btw), but most video cards include multimonitor support out of the box, and someone who has an additional monitor at home, adding a second is very easy. Ultramon makes the whole second display thing that much more bearable, but for that home-hobbiest type of user, a lower pricepoint would seem to make more sense.
-CP2
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Eirik 2007-07-19 06:56
I live in Norway and $40 is about the same as 2 cheap bottles of wine and less than a Blu-Ray movie. $40 seems to be about right; I might have paid a lot more too.
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Jason 2007-07-20 06:41
UltraMon should've been bought by Microsoft years ago and given away for free as a "PowerTool". $40 is a lot for something that should be built-in to Windows. I was ultra disappointed that Vista did not come with something like it.
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Jason 2007-07-20 06:43
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Oscar's Multi-Mon. It's free, but barely does the job. Looks like crap too. Doesn't work on Vista.
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noetus 2007-07-21 09:22
Erik, those comparisons you made are totally irrelevant. Since I live in the US, and a cheap bottle of wine costs $5 here, does this mean I am justified in paying only $10 for the program? Are you saying that Christopher is ripping me off for $30? And if I lived in Spain, the program should cost me $6? Your comparisons are cloud-cuckooland. The price of software has nothing to do with the price of wine.
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Jon K 2007-07-23 07:16
My opinion is that this utility is worth every penny. Granted, it is a simple utility in what it does, but being a developer myself, I know that what UltraMon does is not a simple thing to program. I would guess that there are an enormous amount of complexities in trying to get a tool like this to work, especially under Vista.
the other key point is that typically when you are selling a product to a smaller audience, you need to charge a larger price to actually make a profit. I don't know what the percentage is, but I would assume that the number of users running with multiple monitors is extremely low. So based on that, I would expect a tool specifically designed for multiple monitor systems to cost a little bit more.
I do totally agree with the comment that Microsoft should have something like this out of the box with Windows Vista, and I'm sure someday, in some version of windows, they will. But until then, UltraMon is the best tool there is to accomplish this, and I look at the cost as minor compared to the improved usability I get out of it every day out of my multi-monitor system!!
Jon K
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Bradley 2007-07-26 12:13
Considering that "multimon" doesn't work on Vista (and development seems to have stopped), that's more incentive to get UltraMon (assuming a solid release comes soon). I also doubt he can cut the price now (everyone's already paid $40 and would feel very cheated). If he gets a solid release out for Vista he will own the market (at least for a while) and can charge this high price... (no competition).
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Chris King 2007-08-01 03:03
Rocks and worth it. We bought several copies at discount and I have turned several others onto this product. They all love it too.
Not worth it to you, great. Your choice.
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Rasnsasnberry 2007-08-03 02:02
Vista Sucks...
if your stupid enough to get vista you don't deserve a great application like UltraMon. $40 dollars may be expensive when comparing it to software from mega software companies but, considering the source $40 dollars is amazingly cheap.
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TomT 2007-08-03 13:45
"Vista Sucks...
if your stupid enough to get vista you don't deserve a great application like UltraMon."
That's not particularly helpful....
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Bill Gates 2007-08-08 08:23
Vista does not suck, you are just an idiot that doesn't understand why it is better.
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berg 2007-11-04 04:38
Oscar's multimon does work, because of vistas new "Aero Glass" it will no longer display the "arrow" to change screens... just use "alt" and an arrow key.. then download display fusion (another free app) to give you support for multiple background walpaper and you are set...
RTFM/over?
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Erik S. 2007-11-04 22:43
I'd have to agree myself and several coworkers love this product, but the price is entirely to steep. I agree with others even a $10 cut would have made me more likely to purchase.
For the time being I refuse to pay $40 for a product that in 7 months hasn't released a final version or even a 2nd beta to show that any progress has been made.
I am a software developer, being in beta stage this product is in feature freeze and only bug fixes should be released so either reason for a 7 month wait is scary
1) They have found some bugs and havent fixed them yet ( in 7 months for a small program like this thats crazy)
2) They havent found any serious bugs in which case someone was just to lazy to change it to RC or Final
one of the selling points for a $40 license is a year of free upgrades. with Realtime Soft thats not even going to include a single patch release
No Thanks
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Jerry 2007-11-05 09:53
Are they ever going to release a version for Vista besides this lousy beta they have out? I can't believe I paid $40 for this and there is zero support. Should I post a link here for another
application that does EXACTLY what ultramon does
and its free! I hate to say it but this company does
not appear to be legit and they are just out to take
as much money as they can and leave everyone
hanging. In America we call them thieves!
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helmut 2007-11-05 12:10
I'm about to buy it but as for Vista64, they really need get support up to scratch.
Every time I enable 2nd Monitor(TV) the cursor does a dance and moves all my desktop icons and Sidebar Gadgets around as if its being left clicked and dragged.
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raphidae 2007-11-05 22:47
I would gladly pay $250 if that'd mean the development would go faster...
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Hayes 2007-11-08 06:24
I'm a buyin..and i have Vista..even with the bugs of it resetting my screens i like it!
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silkcom 2007-12-13 01:35
I think the best option would be $10 for personal use, and $40 or $50 for business use. This way those of us that love to use it at home will buy it instead of using free "competitors", and those jobs that use multi monitors will pay the larger price because of the "higher productivity". You can charge a lot more for business use.
The only important part to me is that the products are identical (maybe the business one offers support?).
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Jack Ripper 2007-12-13 02:23
Add me to the list who would buy it if the price were lower. I think the tiered pricing is a good idea. I'm a home user and can't justify $40 for this.
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Guest 2007-12-15 12:34
Worth every penny!
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Valamas 2007-12-16 07:24
If you have a problem with paying $40 for a tool you use everyday. Then get out of the shop, you are not a craftsman, you are miserly. $40 is nothing for any tool i use that saves my time and frustration.
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Bob 2007-12-16 07:41
I paid the $40 after using multiple monitors under XP without ultramon, and think that it was a good investment. Count me in as a happy camper.
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Nate 2007-12-30 10:46
Well how about this for an idea- $10 for each monitor. Someone with two monitors would only pay $20, and they could release a version for more than say, 6 monitors, at a capped price. I was running it on two monitors and I enjoy the features such as the different desktops and screen savers, but I can get the dual-monitor task bar from Ultramon for FREE.
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Dave 2008-01-01 23:59
I use this in my office and it saves me time. When I RDP to the office remotely, I dont have to waste time trying to move apps that arent on my primary monitor. The hotkey macros also save me a ton of time to move apps out of my way. If you arent going to use all of the features, then get a free tool, but if you are serious about increasing productivity, then this is well worth the $40. I dont own a riding mower because i have a small yard, but i guess if i had a bigger yard, I would spring for the time-saving riding mower.
Besides, as long as there are free tools out there, this will never be the cheapest solution and there will still be complainers. If you just want the multimonitor taskbar, then you are missing out on the potential of this app.
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Sean 2008-01-03 03:59
Reply to: Bradley 2007-07-26 18:13
Are you sure? Have you not seen/heard what apple did w/ the iphone? Talk about shafting customers
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