Every single story about it features a comment saying "I thought you only needed a free developer account to notarize apps?" with no replies. That said, Apple'

Every single story about it features a comment saying "I thought you only needed a free developer account to notarize apps?" with no replies. That said, Apple's membership-levels page features "software distribution outside the Mac App Store" as a benefit of the paid level: https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/ https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/