robgendreau
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Regular Photo Mechanic does have a generous demo period (90 days) and maybe you can try the PM Plus beta at the same time. I don't know; I'm licensed. It's pretty stable in my testing, which isn't extensive.
But be aware that PM's development takes a LONG time. Not necessarily bad, as I prefer they get it right than rush out updates for cash, but still.
And it's also got a rather idiosyncratic interface. It's incredibly powerful for those who do a lot of metadata work, like constructing captions off of team rosters, keywording for say stock photos or scientific purposes, entering very detailed location data, ingesting from many sources to different locations, etc. The PM Plus adds some good filtering, caching, and finding ability to all that. But if you aren't the sort of person who adds lots of metadata, then its tools to find stuff based on that might not be that useful.
And it's no Lr substitute if you most of the other stuff LrC has, even just in photo management (as opposed to parametric editing, which PM+ doesn't have). But then again neither are most of the alternatives here. It's a matter of matching needs to the tools.
