Being someone who is somewhat connected to CLP I decided not to speak up in this thread the first time I saw it, as I firmly believe that input from users is much more valuable than anything the product owners themselves say, but having noticed that the owner of Mighty Content Locker (albeit now banned - not sure if it's connected to MCL or not) has spoken up, I decided to do the same just quickly.
I just wanted to say that those saying that MCL has more features are absolutely correct. There are things in MCL that are missing from CLP - mainly because any new features added to CLP are always heavily tested in-house before they are released to the public, as only by doing this can CLP guarantee stability and provide top notch support.
But with that said, in my book CLP's most important advantage over any competitor is the fact that due to the large user base (over 2,000 CLP users) there are a ton of third party add-ons / snippets being shared in its private members area, meaning that almost any problem can be easily solved and any additional feature that is needed can be added using add-ons.
We realise that CLP has somewhat of a learning curve, though, and that's because when we first created the Version 1 of CLP a couple of years ago it was mainly for us to use on our own content locking sites, rather than for selling it publicly, and as such the main focus was always creating something that would help make most money, rather than something that is easy on the eye. We quickly realised that this was somewhat an issue, but instead of making CLP "look pretty" at the expense of losing some of the core functionality, we decided to offer a level of customer support that is unparalleled in the industry. And so far I think it has worked out great - we've had some competitors come and go but people still stick with CLP as they know that they'll get a working product and more importantly, they know that they will be helped out should they have any issues.
Even though I'm no longer too actively involved in CLP, I know that this (along with a bunch of other features - some that MCL offers and others that no competitors offer) is already being planned and there will soon be a brand new version of CLP out there, and in all likelihood the upgrade from v2 to v3 will be free, similarly to how we ran the upgrade from v1 to v2.
But as I said - I'm hoping more actual users (of both CLP and MCL) will jump on the thread and comment as the input that users provide is obviously much more valuable than whatever myself, the current owners of CLP or the owner of MCL says.
Bryan