Tap the account switcher in the top left corner and you should see the option.
See my comment for a screenshot. I don’t know why I can’t seem to post a screenshot in the body of post. Every time I try it gets removed.
I’ve just checked, the lifetime price is showing up as £95.99 to me ($120) that seems a bit steep!
Then don’t buy it? There’s a $20 option that only removes ads
$100 is a lifetime purchase of all the fancy features or whatever, 20 is just the one time purchase to remove ads
I’ll probably stick to something open source for myself, but wanted to clarify
I didn’t even flinch paying the money. Sync for Reddit was my most used app over the last decade and glad to have it back (I didn’t do the work around). I’ve already gotten more engaged in Lemmy and plan to be way more active.
My sentiments exactly
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People in this thread spending $100++ on SKINS in a video game : 🤑🤑🤑
Same people Spending $20 to support the app you use hundreds of times a day : 😡🤬
It’s showing up as $169 aud for me (in Australia)
Don’t buy Ultra, just click Remove Ads instead.
Actually I never buy skins for more than like $ 20 dollars either… It’s not worth more to look cool in a game.
Yeah I don’t think people who spend money on skins in games are people who use lemmy and hence by extension sync for lemmy
What’s the logic here? People that buy skins are not enough intelligent to be on lemmy?
My logic is that people that buy skins and play games with such micro transactions must not be bothered by the actions of reddit and hence few of them would have migrated to lemmy
I guarantee you there’s enough overlap. If I look at a League of Legends, lemmy community. You don’t think most of those people have spent hundreds of dollars on skins?
You can get LoL skins for free, you just have to play a lot. On the other hand, I bought a few skins and bought ad free Sync.
Yeah I don’t know man. The community has like 43 average users a month. So while the subset of people who spend money on skins and care enough about reddits anti consumer like practices is not null, it is small nonetheless.
I get that developer needs to eat and I kinda fully support it but I think it would be good to have a region based pricing. I think $20 would not be much to a person in US or other first world countries while it would be kinda bit much for people in 3rd world countries (where their currency isn’t strong) like India.
Then… Don’t buy it? Or use it with ads. Seems simple enough. There’s a ton of other apps to use if you needMy fault I misread what you said. I think regional prices would be great.
It would be nice but then everyone would use vpn right?
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Before saying that the ad-free version is not 19.99, please update your app to the latest version. You will see the new option to only buy lifetime ad-free.
I think people mean regional pricing. for example in Australia this means $34. you can buy Microsoft Office for that price. I love the product and I may spend that but it’s still high.
Where can I buy a legitimate copy of Office for $34?
the latest standalone version outside of 365 is office 2019. can buy it for $29 AUD here: https://shop.winandoffice.com/australia/product/microsoft-office-2019-professional-plus/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwoK2mBhDzARIsADGbjeoYQ-UXlPNcG4flFVZsMCT9EU3h4iE9D4956Pvc7wT6sZCPCAJTu7EaArtBEALw_wcB
but it’s $34 AUD for Sync.
Paid. Haven’t actually seen any ads. The only complaint that I have, is that u/spez doesn’t get a notification, with a comment on the value of building brand loyalty through respect and support of your user base.
Thank you! This is what I wanted. Paid as soon as it appeared. Worked out to be about $30 cad, worth it to me.
It’s pretty steep. But I appreciate the option at least. I generally hate apps that only give subscriptions so at least it’s here and the dev has every right to charge what he feels it is worth (likewise you have every right to not see that value). I’ll probably pick it up in a few weeks
Where are the ads, anyway? I don’t think Ive seen a single ad yet.
They’re spread out nicely and are just simple picture ads that aren’t trying to grab your attention.
I fully recognize I’m in a position of relative privilege, but I am more than happy paying an annual subscription of <$20 for an app like this.
Building an app of this quality with this level of polish is a massive time investment, and I’m more than happy to reward that time with less money per year than I spent doordashing lunch this afternoon because I was too lazy to make myself a sandwich.
god, honestly this has kinda turned me off even trying sync at all. liftoff works fine, and these devs are neither asking me for money, nor showing me advertisements.
i sincerely hope no one is out here thinking they’re gonna earn a living with an unofficial-app for a fledgling social media service, for which there currently exists no fewer than ELEVEN other fully featured apps in the google play store.
I’ve used 5 of them. Not a single one is what I would call “fully featured” compared to the million features I loved in Sync for Reddit. Sync for Lemmy promises to be as good, but for Lemmy. That’s worth money to me. If that doesn’t describe you, or most people, then OK.
i’ve used 3 and none of them were missing features i needed, what are you referring to exactly? lack of messages is something i’ve seen, and i don’t make use of them myself so i admit i wouldn’t notice them missing. what is there beyond that, customization options?
i’m not trying to be a shit by the way, i’m genuinely curious.
- A comment and post draft system. You can save drafts to restore them later. It’s really nice when writing an “effort comment” (kinda like this one) and you want to resume it later.
- When submitting something, it saves a temporary draft in case the submission fails. Several times I wrote a long comment in another Lemmy app and then lost the entire thing when the submission failed.
- A ton of customizations, so many options and view modes. Customizable actions menu. Excellent contextual button.
- Cleanest interface of any app I’ve used.
- Biometric lock for opening the app or changing accounts.
- Masked usernames in the account switcher for privacy when showing the app to someone.
- Can pin favorite communities at the top of the subscriptions panel.
- Separate settings per account. (Kind of a drawback sometimes. It really needs an easier way to sync settings between accounts.)
- Backup all your settings to a file. (Which can be used to sync settings between accounts.)
- Can submit a comment as a different account than the one you’re browsing with. (Useful for a quick reply which you don’t want to make as your official account. I like to keep stuff like politics out of my account that’s associated with my real-person online presence.)
- Long-pressing any setting in the app copies a link to that setting to the clipboard. When pasted in a comment or post, other Sync users can tap the link to go straight to that setting. Useful because there are so many settings!
- All replies to a top-level comment can be collapsed by default with an option. This is great because the top-level replies are the most important, and then you get to choose which conversations to open.
- Each comment has a button to jump to the patent comment, and long-pressing that button jumps to the top-level comment of that thread. This is excellent when a comment thread has hundreds of replies and you’re done with it and just want to collapse the entire thread and read the next top-level comment.
- Speaking of comment navigation, the reddit version had a handy, optional comment navigator UI.
Not sure if it’s here yet.It’s there! - You can search settings. Really nice to find A specific setting fast, or all settings related to “comments”, etc. I just used it to determine that the comment navigator does exist in the version and I just turned it on.
I could probably think of more if I spent more time on it.
Liftoff was the best alternative app I used, but it’s not as customizable. It also had a confusing account switcher. In fact, you didn’t switch accounts at all. You switched instances and had a default account per instance. Switching accounts on one instance required you to open the settings and change your default user for that instance and then switch to that instance. It was even more confusing because you were allowed to change users when viewing the Inbox, but that had no effect on who was actually logged in. I made several comments under the wrong account while using the app because it was so confusing.
golly, lotta good QOL in there! thank you for taking the time to type up this reply, and extra thank you for not talking down at all. people really do be getting spicy about this lol
I’ve got some more.
- You can long-press (and hold) a thumbnail to peek at the full image it came from without loading the link in the browser. Sometimes I see an interesting pic like some recipe, and I just want a closer look without loading the entire recipe site. Also works great to see YouTube thumbnails in detail.
- You can change the default feed from Local, Everything, Subscriptions, or even a single community (and have it be different per account).
Here’s a partial screenshot of the image peeking:
And that’s a perfectly fine and respectable position to have. In the mean time, I’m gonna go find where I can enter my credit card
hell yeah bro, i’m glad you found a client you like!
way too expensive.
also no regional pricing?
I would never pay more then 8-10$ for a full game, let alone 20$ for lack of random black rectangles in a free app.I think you are bit stingy then. Or maybe you can’t afford it I guess. But 8 dollars is nothing these days. It’s a burger.
burger is 2-3$ here, around 1-1.5$ for a McDonald’s cheeseburger (the cheapest option in the menu), i would rather buy like 10-15 burgers for that price.
Where is here? I’m jealous :) (of the mcd prices, don’t know about the rest)
Yeah sorry, math is hard for my brain right now appearently… :)
There seems to be regional pricing. At least in Europe
ah, right my fault.
apparently just having an American google account on your device forces all prices to be in usd.
installing from the play store web page remotely should make the app show the correct prices, but i haven’t tried that yet.
I don’t exactly understand why the 20$ translate to 22€, when the euro is stronger than the dollar 🤔
Taxes. US prices are always net prices, as taxes are depending on which state you live in. 20 USD = 18.28 € + 19 % taxes (let’s take the German one) = 21.75 €. If you are from Italy you are even better off, as with your VAT it would be 22 % = 22.3 €.
Love all the peoplr bitching about the price, if you don’t like it try a free/FOSS alternative, thats the whole point of having options!!
$20 is steep for an app, but I wanted to check it out to my surprise when it says lifetime is $99 in the app instead
Yeah, the $99 looks like it’s for the ultra edition - cloud sync and all. The lower price seems to be just ad removal. Correct me if I’m wrong - I’m often told I am.
Ultra is the only option I see. Is there another?
Edit: yeah I missed the “remove ads” option in the menu, I was in settings where I only see ultra.
This is why I use Connect, no one is charging me to use it, I even volunteered to pay which I NEVER do
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