Sync Ultra is a very reasonable $17 a YEAR. YouTube Premium is reaching that per MONTH. I have sync downloaded and it was the first thing I did. Thanks lj for the beautiful app.
[EDIT: That was a poor comparison, as pointed out in the comments. Leaving it for discussion sake.
There are many counterpoints and actually good discussion happening down below. Even if you don’t agree, thanks for showing me a different perspective!
If you want to support Sync, make sure to support the Lemmy Devs and your instance holders as well!
*This post was made early in the day before the update added the OTP option.]
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Done paid, this app rules so far thank you
I went ahead and bought a year because I want to support this project. I am hoping by the time that’s due to expire, there will be non-subscription options
That’s a mature approach to this, and one that I agree with. I didn’t think the pricing too steep. I can agree, I don’t like having subscriptions if I can avoid it. But less than $20 a year… its nothing for an app ill likely use every day (and not owned by a mega corporation)
As much as I like the app, after currency conversions that’s a lot, especially as a recurring subscription. For a one time fee, I’d just want to remove ads without any extra bells and whistles.
No. !fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world !
I would gladly pay once though.
Yep. As stupid as is sounds, I would pay even higher for a one off purchase.
Sounds entirely reasonable to me
Understandable. Dev says it’s coming, not sure what the pricing will be.
It’s here already. I subbed for a year already, so I can’t see the price to just remove ads.
You can pay once to remove ads. There’s a subscription called ultra that adds some features like translations but it isn’t necessary.
Where is the option to pay once? I can’t find it.
Yea but it’s ads only, it’s the “remove ads” option. It would be a lot nicer if it was ultra for a one-time fee
Lifetime Ultra is also now available albeit significantly more expensive.
For me it’s when you click your account icon at the top left. Then it’s right above the Ultra subscription
22€ apparently
In Beta 25, in the account switcher in the top left is a “Remove Ads” button. It’s $19.99 one time. No word yet on the price for a lifetime Ultra subscription.
Okay then how much are you willing to spend? Say around 35 bucks? Developers need to eat too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Developers make more money than I do, and I need to worry about my own food first lol. I’d pay $35 one time, but I also remember a time not that long ago where $10 one-time could buy you basically anything on the app store lol.
I like the app, but I hate recurring fees more. Jerboa is free. It might not be perfect, but it works, is ad-free, is on F-Droid, and is infinitely more affordable than $17/yr.
Fair point, though I think Voyager is better than Jerboa.
A developer of this caliber can easily get 90K CAD at his day job, and even more in the US.
Welp, there it is, second reasonable response in this thread
The why not just sub for the yearly plan, then immediately cancel - same thing as a one time payment, you get to support the dev, and you don’t have a subscription to worry about
Because then the ads come back after a year. I want no ads for life for a one time fee. Sync for reddit offered that, why not here?
I want no ads for life for a one time fee
Dev is adding that. =)
There’s an option to pay once to remove ads forever.
Because one year < forever.
I bought pro back in 2013 I believe. And lifetime ultra once it came out that reddit was banning third party apps as support.
I’m not gonna do.a.subscription. I’m just not.
I’m a day 1 Ultra! I have so missed the Sync experience since Reddit went apeshit cray cray. When sync for Reddit went dark I haven’t gone back. I left it installed just In case I clicked a reddit link. I haven’t been back to Reddit. But I will log one one final time to review my subs and then reddit is dead. Sync for Lemmy feels so familiar and awesome to use. Can’t wait to help develop new communities here in the fediverse.
a premium is worth it.
but also we need to help instance owners somehow too.
As someone from a third world country, fuck no. That shit is too expensive for me. Maybe to you privileged folk it’s reasonable. To me it’s nonsense.
I feel shitty about it too since I was a long time sync pro user, I thought sync for lemmy would also have an affordable pro version but fuck me I guess
Ultra =! Pro
Adfree is available as a separate lifetime purchase for 10 USD.
Living in a first world country is not “privilege” there are people who didn’t choose where to be born.
Just use the free app like I did when I lived in Venezuela (I was born there)
I bought a year sub to support the dev after all the reddit fuckery. We’ll see if I renew.
I did the same, though I’m not really a fan of subscriptions. I’ll probably pay to remove ads once my subscription runs out, but I wanted to support LJ. Especially now since sync for lemmy is new, and Lemmy doesn’t have that many users relative to Reddit so the audience for the app is a lot smaller
I think the main issue is we don’t know where Lemmy is one year from now. I have already started to see a decline in my usage because there simply isn’t enough content. /c/football is virtually dead it feels like and it (or rather /r/soccer) was my number one subreddit.
I would be OK with paying to just remove ads but the price (₱1100) is just too much for me.
I wouldn’t buy YouTube Premium either and they have significant hosting costs compared to the this app. So do the Lemmy server owners as well.
I think the dev deserves compensation for their app but the asking price is too much, for me anyway.
I would start by donating to your home instance, first and foremost.
But yeah if you love the all you’re using, whichever it is, donate to its devs, too
I moved to Lemmy because Sync was announced that’s where they were going, but I’m not going to pay a monthly subscription for an app. I expected a reasonable one time payment like I had on Sync for Reddit. If that’s not an option then I’ll have to figure something else out
Done.
The app is amazing and I’m not against the Dev just because of what they are charging. They can charge whatever they want, if there is a market willing to pay it’s fine.
But 115€ lifetime is like 10-20 times more than the price I would pay. So as a consumer I’ll just stay with the free version or another Lemmy app.
As a former infinity user, “Infinity for Lemmy” is the one I’m waiting for. I’m also interested in trying Voyager android app once it is released.
Now this “sync for Lemmy” app looks very well probably the best Lemmy app at the moment. Only thing is lacking for me (so far) is to have community icons in the small cards post layout. (So I can identify what’s the topic is about before reading the title).
For the text size I changed base text to Medium and then I changed the specific description and comment relative text size to “Regular”. This gives me the same text size as Infinity, at least in the comments.
