Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore

Same here, would buy the lifetime purchase straight away but holding off on the subscription, given the ad-free experience is the only thing I care about.

A one-time Lifetime payment option would be phenomenal.

Looks like he's got plans to have a one time paid option

I'm not a fan of subscriptions either but come on, it's 17 dollars a year.

I think it's definitely reasonable to expect that the app will continue to improve and there is no lifetime charge that would cover that.

The time is now to encourage and support development of the things you like and that also includes your favorite Lemmy instance itself.

Also please ditch the Google Play billing. It's the reason I had to switch to Relay for Reddit, because I simply won't have the spyware, that is Google Play Services, on my phone.

I get that lifetime subscriptions are much more palatable to users but I don't think it works if you consider that users will want lifetime support as well. So for maybe 20$ you'll get theoretically years of even decennias of support, ignoring inflation, new bugs and security concerns, etc. It just doesn't make sense and I wouldn't expect it from a dev.

This.