For my first few years researching I did not subscribe, I made trees within Excel.
Then I tried using Visio, and Publisher.
I have quite a few Family Tree Apps and none give the quality of chart I want.
You can buy a standalone Chart making App, S&N sell it and it is called Charting Companion.
No idea what it is like.
Now I screen capture and join them together in Photoshop and print out on A3, my Wife has a 5k resolution iMac so the screen captures are very good, my Win11 PC has a 4k monitor and that is almost as good as the iMac when screen capturing.