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.
That’s realllly steep for a single app.
I also paid with my Google Opinion Rewards even though I didn’t use it, but this price is literally double what I’ve gained in a year. A bit greedy, innit?
Have you seen price growth in London (where Sync author lives) in the last couple of years?
As much as I browsed reddit throughout the day for the past 5 years…$20 seems like nothing. Hell I spend $10 a month of a few Patreons for ad free content.
Yes, but please consider donating to instance admins instead, who have monthly bills for hosting your content.
Yeah, that’s insane. Also the experience IMHO is not supreme vs something like Summit. I don’t really understand the hype.
I’m on the verge. Let’s be honest, it’s fucking expensive. Where I live it’s pretty much an entire day’s worth of work to buy this app remove ads. I understand LJ wanting to be paid for his work, but this steep pricing seems like he doesn’t believe in Lemmy and just wants to capitalise on it before it eventually goes to shit. Let me just point out greed was what originally drived us all off reddit.
Well to make it bearable, set your DNS to an adblocking like dns.aguard-dns.com and the ads will just be blank cuz they’re blocked.
I’m doing the ultra at about $23 cdn per year. $2 a month for an app I use about 300 times a day for years seems like a good deal.
I’m not going to argue with what you’re happy to pay, I’m just curious why you are doing the math based on how much you use it instead of some other metric like the amount of labour it took to produce or maybe how much ad revenue you need to replace?
I see $23/year for a few years equaling the cost of outright owning a AAA video game (that will receive support and updates for years to follow too) that took millions of dollars and many thousands of man-hours to produce and it doesn’t add up…
These triple a games are expected to be sold in the millions. $20 is about enough for one hour of works in terms of labour. This times expected sales, which are on the thousands at max for Lemmy, and you got what it takes to develop an app like this.
I can turn it back around on you and say why do you think the worth is detached from how much usage it gets from its users? If anything something we use and enjoy using should be getting more rather than a one off AAA game we’ll enjoy for 20 hours one month.
Life in London is very very expensive, it’s one of the most expensive cities in the world. And Sync author lives in London. I live in London myself and I can see his price as fair, lol.
But charging London prices for people who don’t live in London isn’t really very equitable either
Yeah, nah. That’s too pricey to remove ads for a single app.
You’re not paying to remove ads. You’re supporting the development and making it worthwhile for the developer to continue to create the app.
That it happens to remove ads is just a side benefit. You can remove ads from all apps using a VPN based ad blocker anyway (on android).
I paid €2.51 to remove ads on Sync for Reddit. I would have spent maybe a tenner but it’s over €20 for the Lemmy app. As much as I love Sync, that’s a big nope from me.
Remember, Lemmy has a lot less active users than Reddit. Even if ALL active Lemmy users on Lemmy.world buy the app at its original $2 price, it’s still not enough to sustain full time development. Both higher one time purchase price and subscription is needed for the app’s survival, even then I’m still not sure if it’s enough for the dev to sustain themselves. I’m getting the ultra subscription for this reason because I don’t want the app to go away, and I encourage people that really like the app to do so as well.
No, we’re paying to remove ads. And $26 CDN to remove ads feels really high when I paid $3.69 to remove ads in Boost and $4.49 to remove ads in Relay in 2019.
I like how you bothered to speak of supporting the dev yet mentioned how to stop ads with a VPN based blocker.
Yes it is steep for me in Quebec with taxes it is 31 $ . But I had the option to use 20$ in google play credits from Google rewards. 11$ is an ok deal. Remember that sync is the first Lemmy app from former Reddit devs and that the developer worked really hard to release it.
Paying to remove ads is supporting the dev. This is doubly true when you can get no ads without paying (though sync will still have blank spots where the ads were supposed to go).
Yes we are paying to remove ads.
If people want to keep supporting the dev, just buy the subscription or check if he has a donations link. But this purchase is just what it says: Remove Ads.
Sure, but if you’re someone who wants sync specifically (say, if you used it for reddit), then you need to support it if you want it to stay in development.
Last thread was complaints of not wanting subscriptions this thread is complaints of too expensive 🤷. By all means keep the ads or use another app. Imo it’s not super surprising to be pricey when it’s a one time purchase instead of the subscription.
Having paid $6 for reddit sync probably over a decade ago while the dev has maintained and improved the app over those years with no additional money from me, I think I got a pretty good deal. It’s definitely a calculation to make but I don’t think $20 would have been unreasonable a decade ago and I don’t really think it is now. Maybe also dont forget to put some blame on reddit, the dev got fucked there and has to rebuild the customer base that would have included recurring payment customers (unlike me).
If the subscription was $200/year, would you consider $250 for lifetime to be a deal?
The sub includes more feature unlocks than just ad removal. The pro unlock doesn’t include user tagging anymore like it did for reddit for example.
God forbid you pay $20 once to support the dev and for an app you’ll use 1-2 hours a day for potentially the rest of your life…yet you’ll pay $10 for a streaming service you’ll never touch for months on end…
My man, I’m not using lemmy 2 hours a day every day for 60 something years
Jesus, dude! It’s a one-time payment for lifetime of no adds! Plus you support the developer.
People are spoiled.
That’s so aggressive just to remove ads. I get it that devs need to eat but holy shit man.
I think people (me included) have a very poor sense of what apps are worth.
$20 for an app you use nearly every day for years is unthinkable.
$20 for a single decent meal at a restaurant is fine.
Seems odd to me that anyone should think $20 spent on an excellent app is too much.
I think the issue is that Lemmy is still developing and we don’t know what it’s going to look like even 6 months from now. $20 for unlimited access isn’t bad at all if you know you’ll get your money’s worth. I’m still hesitant with Lemmy because there are features that it lacks. I’m optimistic that they will be added, but I can’t be sure.
Except for the years of development the dev has a track record for developing the same thing but for reddit. /s
I have a hard time justifying $20 for a mobile app. I don’t think I’ve spent more than $5.99 on an app and I used play rewards money so it wasn’t even mine.
It’s okay… whiners on this thread will spend $20 for two Starbucks drinks which last you minutes of taste enjoyment…but browse Sync everyday and complain $20 for life is too much…
$33.99 AUD. I guess I’ll just wait for Boost.
Sync was Reddit for me and I didn’t even bat an eye about buying pro at the time (around 3€ I think).
Paying 23€ for ad removal is just being greedy right now, I really want to support the dev but this is just too much.
That’s lifetime for an awesome app made by an independent developer. And its being updated regularly. Honestly if I wasn’t broke I wouldn’t mind paying it. That’s like 2 pizzas
I know it’s “just two pizzas” the problem is everyone and their uncle wants two pizzas… Everywhere we turn people are extracting us for every cent at some point you’ve gotta draw lines.
I’ve already cancelled most subscriptions.
Sync lemmy is simply too much.
Compare it to nzb360, one OF THE BEST apps out there, and he’s like half the price.
Lifetime should be 9.99 MAX, then make lower tiers so people can still support the dev.
