Any suggestions for paid one time purchase apps on the Google play store?
Square Home.
I know the Windows Phone experiment failed but it was my first smartphone that I bought and not just inherited my dad’s work-iPhone when it became deprecated. I really love the “live tile” type home screen and Square Home improves on it as well, instead of just carbon copying it.
Other than that, the FUTO keyboard / voice input and Grayjay, although these three technically offer a lifelong free testing period, similar to WinRAR, but even less obnoxious because they don’t even remind you that they want you to pay for them.
Power amp music player
the Niagara launcher is still the only app I’ve bought on Play Store, and I’ve been very happy with it for maybe 5-6 years now
Buzzkill is good if you have one of those
Annoying friends who
Send multiple messages instead of just one, Jonny, you annoying cunt
Slay the Spire
you shouldn’t support proprietary software
It can be open source still though
You shouldn’t tell people not to buy proprietary software
I feel like it’s a very important message. You should spread it too.
Fx file manager. if you so file management locally or want to access SMB share content , cloud, bluetooth etc, this app ia awesome.
I love it but I can feel it getting neglected with each Android update.
The worst for me was transferring a video to a computer using the FX Web feature and discovering it silently truncated the video… when it was already too late…I bought solid explorer at the dawn of android and still use it to this day
Minimalist phone Launcher that helps to use addictive apps less. And overall a boring home that demotivates you to use your phone.
Plenty of those for free on F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid.
Solid Explorer
Macrodroid. It is like Tasker, but with a much much better UI.
- Password Safe Pro
- My Expenses
- FL Studio, formerly Fruity Loops (also: Desktop)
- Threema
- Through the Ages (boardgame adaption)
Otherwise, I usually prefer free open source solutions (FDroid), but I regularly donate to keep the projects alive. 1 and 2 are small dev studios that I am happy to support.
Fair Email. I grabbed it from F Droid and paid direct though.
Nova launcher prime
Not after they have been acquired by analytics company Branch
Also bought Nova Launcher Prime, but they were apparently acquired in the last year so now Nova is spyware? Anyway, I switched over to Kvaesitso and couldn’t be happier.
nova prime + netguard to keep it off the internet has kept me using it. “search focused” launchers are not how I use my phone and nothing else has all the features nova does without being able to just dump the stupid home screen search bar.
Nova was amazing but they’ve been bought out. I tried Niagra Launcher and after being frustrated with a new UI, I absolutely love it.
Interesting, i’ll have a look on it
Edit: gave it a try, but you have to remember the exact name of every app, and i dont care enough to remember if the name is ‘store’ or ‘market’ or ‘app store’ for example
Fair enough! Everyone has a different flavor palette. It also takes a week to get used to. After that one week, I never went back.
Yeah, I’m with you on that. I tend to install a ton of interesting apps when I see them, and categorize them into groups (many apps fit multiple groups) so when I’m looking to do something in particular the apps that might fill the need are together to try it with. If those search launchers allowed for adding multiple tags to each app for categorizing and searching, then they’d probably work well enough for me to try.
If your device has stylus support I recommend Artflow for drawing/image editing
Templar Battleforce is a great little turn based strategy game with a squad of persistent troops fighting across missions.
