The questions are how much will you be using the software, and what is relatively inexpensive? I use EQ7 and feel that **for me** it is a bargain for what it does. However I also bought Quilt Wizard, which is much less expensive, but doesn't do as much. (And I hardly ever use Quilt Wizard because of that.) I use EQ7 a lot and consider it an important tool in my quilting. I compare its price to the price of fabric these days, or the price of a sewing machine. I use EQ for just about every quilt I make, and lots more quilts that I don't make. I probably spend more time with EQ than with my sewing machine, rotary cutter, or longarm. (I might spend more time with my seam ripper though.) I just bought EQStitch recently, which modifies EQ so that you can design embroidery in EQ and then stitch out the designs on your embroidery machine. So, for me, EQ was a better buy than Quilt Wizard, even though it cost much more.