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.]
I’m not comfortable with a subscription model, sorry. I will happily pay for a one-time fee. For the use I do of Lemmy I’ll pay up to €5. If they want to release a new version of the app in, say, 2-3 years down the line and ask for a new fee, I’m fine too.
I’ll wait until Boost releases (it was my default Reddit app) and will choose between Sync, Boost, Summit, and Infinity paid versions.
It already has a one-time payment option. Try update and look in the settings.
Well, that was fast :)
Anyway, it is €115. That’s way out of my league. I will wait for Boost and see.
Oh you’re talking about sync ultra? Yeah that’s expensive af but just to remove ads is cheap. Your also paying for the ability to be a power user. It’s not meant for the majority of people, people asked for more features back on reddit, so lj made ultra. It’s that and to support the dev.
I fail to see the remove ads option. On settings I can only find the Sync Ultra section with monthly, yearly and lifetime subscription. I’m on beta 26, maybe is there a newer version?
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There is an option for life time Ultra now. For the United States it’s $99 USD. Honestly at that price making it a negative for me ghost rider. Although, respect anyone getting it. Good way to support the dev for something they use every day for the most part.
Mobilsm will have a cracked version of Sync in a day or two, so no paying at all. And that’s coming from someone who wanted to pay, but not $115
Technically, they could publish a ReVanced patch…
Why are people so stingy when it comes to software pricing? I feel like the app store model of $1 apps really killed the general publics idea of the value of software and ended up driving the ad based revenue system a lot.
€5 is all you would pay? Let’s say you use the app one hour per week for two years, you are valuing that at ~0.004¢. that is astronomically low, and is already based off of a pretty low usage rate.
Do you think the app would provide less value to you over 2 years than a single beer at a bar?
At $20 us (I don’t know the cost in euros) and the same usage it puts Sync’s value at a still cheap 0.016¢ (USD)
Even if you only used it once per month over a 2 year period it’s still only about 20 cents each use.
In my opinion a $20 one time fee for an application that I will likely use daily, with a trusted track record and a quality experience is more than fair. That’s the same as a video game I would play for maybe 10 hours or a movie that I will watch once or maybe twice.
I didn’t mean to unload on you specifically, but I see this ‘outrage pricing’ a lot and it irks me.
Infinity paid version?
I mean, between those which have paid version (Boost and Sync, I think)
Infinity for Reddit has a paid version since the beginning of this year, but it’s identical to the FOSS version. Its just there so you can support the dev more easily.