Sync Ultra OTP is available for 109,99 €

With that price I feel like the dev has 0 faith in lemmy getting very big and feels like they need to capitalize on the currently few users to make back costs. I mean, not even an early access price considering its in beta still

God damn that’s expensive.

Lol. I uh. Guess I didn't want a one time payment option after all.

I liked the app so far but WHAT THE FUCK. I would be willing to pay 10$ to remove ads but not fucking 100$. Subscription base services are the cancer of technology.

I know I'm cheap and I know this app is great and is a lot of work but fuck, this is expensive. Subscriptions are the worst model capitalism can offer. And the one time payment price is ridiculous, I can't afford that.

$50 wouldn't have nearly as much of a negative reaction. $100 is awfully steep for a community as small as Lemmy.

But I'm glad the yearly sub is only $17, so I may get that instead.

at that price you could afford the reddit api.. not that i'd want to

So I'm not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don't really understand a lot of the arguments against this.

Firstly, there's an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I'm looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I'm not sure how push notifications work so I can't comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn't happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn't own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.

The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.

I do not think it's fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there's more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don't have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I'm wrong I'll admit it if someone can inform me.

My last app, Now for Reddit, charged $4 to unlock all the features of the app, including no ads.

I think the ultra price for reddit was like 30 dollars for lifetime. 100+ bucks just seems like way to much.

wow isn't that like 6 years of subscription? so expensive

Just use FOSS apps for Lemmy. There are plenty good ones. Thanks to all devs and contributors!

Nope

That's wild. Like man I'm impressed with Sync and think it's great but you'd have to be using it for 7 years for this to be worth it...Lemmy is so new you'd be mad to be making a gamble like this.

I pass

Even Apollo Ultra was $50, and people thought that was expensive…

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₹9900!!!

I bought 2 smartphones for my friends last month. Combined total cost of those was roughly ₹10200.

Just run your phone through a free private DNS server and never see an ad again. I use dns.adguard.com.

None of my free apps show any ads on my phone.

Lifetime wasn't available when I subscribed. :(

I assume that's $100 USD in America?

It's expensive, but Sync is literally the best app on my phone, and has been that way for a long time. I'd consider it.

Yikes

Yea no.

My favorite lemmy app is firefox :^)

But no really, what kind of shit is this? Pay 110€ to browse social media that already has no ads?

Yeah using and loving lemmy is in part due to the solid web UI and because it doesn't nag me like a removed to install some app unlike reddit did. Same reason why I loved libreddit as my preffered frontend. Whatever sync is doing is outrageous, not getting even a "try" download from me.

It's a bit steep for my finances.

Or use one of the myriad of other ad-free apps?

I don't get the fanboi-ism, it didn't blow my socks off when I was on Reddit either. I used Slide and RIF.

then just pay the onetime $20 to remove ads instead

Yikes, that's really steep and puts a bit of a bad taste in my mouth, tbh. :(

I feel like the dev is trying to cash out, his apps good but reddit screwed him so I do kinda understand but he's priced me out.

It feels expensive, but I'm considering the annual. If I compare it to Netflix or Spotify. I spent way more time on this app

I don't think it can display upvote and downvote counts separately. For me I consider that useful information. Also, my comments written while using it don't show in my profile, so it seems a little glitchy still. And it can't create posts yet. I'll stick with the kbin PWA for now.

Yeah I'll just take the non intrusive ads on my feed.

I ues connect it looks almost the same and feels better and it is free

Why would anyone pay for this while there are better alternatives?

Is the restore previous purchases function working for anyone? Which purchases will be honored? I was a sync Pro user

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Why would someone pay monthly for a social media app... That's more fucked than spez.

Anyone remember what the Ultra sub options were on the old version?

I bought the reddit lifetime this year. Lemmy is no where near as interesting or engaging as reddit so far. I guess I'll just stick with the ad free version.

Honestly that’s fair. There’s way less of a subscriber base here, development time is expensive, and you need to foresee circumstances for the future (look how many people Apollo dev had to refund). Sync is also such a great app, I’m personally just using the ad version at the moment on my android phone (and this is from Memmy on iOS). Sync is still one of the best apps I’ve ever used and keep an android phone just for it.

Honestly I'd pay 60usd (price of a new video game). I'd probably end up getting the ad free version for 22usd though I'm still evaluating the app and seeing whether my favorite app Boost makes progress.

I think a good reader like sync, boost etc. Is still a good value if you spend a lot of time using it.

I'm definitely interested in the yearly option.

So just consider buying the ad free version for 20 bucks then?

Jesus Christ, don't pay for it then. This response is insane. Here I thought people on Lemmy might be more tech-minded and might understand that the dev making a living off of this might want to eat food. Pay the measly fee to support the app you use all the time, or deal with occasional ads. People don't do great work for free. What a disappointing response from this community.

This Dev is so greedy that even if he adjusts his prices down to earth, I'll probably just skip it and wait for one of the other 3rd party Reddit app devs to come out with their lemmy versions.

What a turn off.