It's 5 dollars. Stop being cheap. Buy it if it sounds like something you'd like, if not, don't buy it. You don't get a demo of a movie when you buy it. You can't just watch half of it and then decide if you want to buy a ticket. It's pretty obnoxious when tech-types bitch about $5 yet have no problem billing clients $100+ per hour or making $100K+ per year as a developer of the very types of things about which they complain about paying $5. It's not unlike restaurant waiters not leaving tips when they themselves go out to eat. Not everything needs a demo. Perhaps a quick screencast or something if you feel like the screenshots don't do the product justice. But it's a text editor.. how much demo is actually needed?

> You don't get a demo of a movie when you buy it

They're called "trailers".

If trailers are to films as screenshots are to software, then demos are to software as what exactly are to films?

I think your argument is defunct, and I don't think it's bad to expect a demo, no matter how expensive or inexpensive a bit of software may be.

You can use the web version for free at http://www.hemingwayapp.com/

It's the price of a beer, come on! As developers in this community we must understand how much hard work goes into these things and we should not cheapen the work of fellow devs making innovative projects.

My first thought was it's only $5 so it can't be any good.