I feel the same, I’ve already started investing my time into watching Bubble.io academy videos.
There are many alternatives to Glide, each with its learning curve and possibilities. I believe there’s no need to rush; we are waiting for them to announce a new proposal that will surely be beneficial for the entire community and for themselves as well.
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The biggest pain in the rear end is that the “Maker” (which is supposed to replace the non-profit tier) allows only one published App. This means for my other “handy” Apps, I need to create a new “Free” team for each additional App. That just seems silly. Why not just allow as many Apps as necessary as long as in total they do not exceed the other limits of the plan?
I have one main App which could possibly be on the Maker plan, except it uses just under 5GB of storage and the Maker plan has a new limit of 1GB (which used to be 1TB on the non-profit plan)…I don’t see any reason why the storage couldn’t be 10GB at least for Maker. And why not 25 Published Apps, as long as they stay under the other limits?
This change alone means I can no longer use Glide unless I subscribe to the “Team” plan.
Look, not every non-profit is huge. The only non-profits that I know have only volunteers and are local (think food pantry, etc.). Our high school started with just 7 students, and the teachers are paid $4000 a year for each class they teach (most only teach one or two classes). Most private schools are small with tight budgets and very dedicated people. I have written several Apps for the high school that will probably have to be scrapped.
My non-profit is an outreach to families. It has only three volunteers, and we get very few donations. Running this could be and probably should be called a deficit-profit org. That’s no joke.
There are different-sized non-profits, just as there are different-sized businesses, and Glide seems to accommodate both sizes of businesses (although it seems they are trying very hard to get rid of the small businesses and just focus on large businesses). Why not have two tiers for school/non-profits?
And 500 hundred updates seem awfully restrictive unless that is just for integrations. I currently run under 5000 updates - all updates on User Specific Columns in Glide Tables.
I have invested a lot of time over three years, both in learning Glide and giving back to the community by helping with support in this community. I don’t charge for helping others, as many of the experts on here do (and they can and should charge if Glide is their bread and butter). I even once got an email from a Glide staffer saying “You used to be more active in the community.” My point is that this type of community-driven support seems to be under-valued by Glide, and I really feel like my feedback has been met with a condescending attitude. I am truly disappointed.
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I believe it was said there will be no changes to existing plans in 2024, and that we would receive a few months notice (maybe I read 3?). So I would expect you’ll be forced to adopt one of the new priding models by April 1st 2025 (not a joke).
Maker is limited to one published App. Each Maker team will cost you $50/month.
Hi @David_Gabler, I appreciate the feedback. Yes, I understand each Maker plan is limited to 1 published project. I’m just asking Glide to provide the file storage information on an individual project level so account holders have everything thing they need to figure out how to re-org their projects, teams, and accounts.
Without file storage usage info for individual projects, we can’t match each project with the right feature set, while also meeting the pricing needs of individual clients.
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Flutterflow… 
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Gotcha. I agree.
Dear, I am not a member of the Glide team, nor an expert, nor anything similar, but this time I am actively participating in finding a viable solution to the community’s problem, which also benefits all clients and the company because we all need to operate according to our needs. Glide needs to be profitable to grow and provide more opportunities for us. We need very precise and beneficial plans to offer security and stability to our future clients. But I see in your case that you use Glide quite intensively and want to fit all that into a low-cost plan, which is not possible. I understand your position in helping the community you represent and more, but with the utmost respect you deserve, you should seek help from that same community to subsidize this platform, which, from what I see, is of great help to everyone’s tasks. I repeat my utmost respect for your community and for you as well. Here we are debating to create fair plans based on real income because we all need money to develop. I hope you can find a viable solution, but it is far from being free. I reiterate that I do not belong to the Glide team, but I do work in the technological field, and everything must be profitable at least in the long run. My greetings.
I feel like this might change in the near future—at least providing a “pay to publish” model.
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Dear Nath,
Those are SaaS’es this is an app development platform, not the same principles can apply, if so then Glide should hire you as experts and develop all the apps by themselves and kick everyone else.
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I very disappoinment with the new free plans and google sheet relation. I very need to start my apps with free plans and full functionality in gsheet. Start with paied plans is not an option for everybody. I think Glides try to catch big clients agains small ones.
This is a pitty
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VERY DISAPPOINTED with the new pricing plan. Thinking seriously to migrate my apps to another platform.
Does not make any sense to restrict the use of GSheets in the Free Plan. I use many functions of GSheets that can not be migrated to Glide Tables.
I will need to lose many hours to do that. Glide is not trustable anymore…
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This is it… One app!
I built one app for my customer, and I fell in love with Glide. So I’m building something small for my wife, and now I’m playing with some AI for myself. It is the NICE part of my work. Today this ability costs: 99 USD, was 25.
I think, at the end: you took away the opportunity to have fun, just work.
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Which ones for examples? Glide Tables are very powerful, the basic and computed columns alone allow you to build so much. Glide AI columns and 3rd party integrations are icing on the cake, but for personal apps, projects, and having fun, Glide Tables and their basic and computed columns are usually all one needs.
The Free plan give you unlimited visitors, 10 personal users, unlimited updates (because on Glide Tables), basic, computed and experimental columns, 25k rows like all the paid plans, and even a few integrations.
Other features that Glide does not boast but that are there: hosting, storage, maintenance of the technical complexities that happen under the hood, staying up to date with the latest design trends, security and advanced access settings are all also included, on all plans. On the free plan, that means all of this is free.
Building 10 projects for fun? Create 10 teams on the free plan. 100 projects? Create 100.
You can build bigger and more powerful apps on the Free plan than before, so one might argue that the new Free plan is better than the old Free plan.
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For example, and the most important one: my club colleagues can update the classification on the shared GSheet spreasheet. They don’t even know what is Glide, they just write numbers on an spreasheet.
With Glide tables, it will not be possible. You need to enter to Glide, etc. etc.
In your specific case for your club, if your Google Sheets spreadsheet is needed because you are running AppScript on it or because of other integrations, then I understand your predicament.
If on the other hand Google Sheets is only used to write, edit and store data, then why not migrate the data to Glide Tables. Would it make a difference where the data is stored?
Your colleagues could be writing and editing data via a nice interface, the Glide app, instead of having to open a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Working on a Google Sheets spreadsheet is not an enjoyable experience, it’s not mobile-friendly, it’s prone to error. This is precisely why Glide exists: let the app be the interface between the user and the table/sheet (don’t work on the sheet directly). Your colleagues would not enter Glide, they would open the app, update some data in a nicely-designed form, and the data would be displayed in the app. Wouldn’t that be nicer than a spreadsheet?
Granted, you would be limited to 10 personal users.
I would argue that if your app creates great value for your club or for your colleagues, then at one point it might make sense to find some budget for it. How much value would you expect for free until you, your club, your club colleagues would be willing to start paying for it?
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Glide has a JavaScript column wich will allow you to fetch Your Google Shets data and display it.
@nathanaelb GS is not enjoyble expierience? Try to edit the Glide table, and let me know how enjoible was that. 
Terrifying 
I have 15 months to learn a new platform and completely re-build my systems on it - and then hope they also don’t pull the rug from underneath me.
Maybe pen and paper are the new way forward, as a musician I always had an affinity with analogue 
15 months???!!! that is more than you need to start a real App based on your own source code, that you actualy own and do what ever you want with it.