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If you purchased Sync for Reddit in the past, can you recover that purchase in the Sync for Lemmy?
Sync is very well made in my opinion it's one of the few apps out there which I truly think deserves my support.
I bought sync pro and have sync for lemmy installed; there's no way to activate pro right now, and afaik that option is not coming.
Presently you can buy a permanent ad removal in-app for $20, you can subscribe to sync ultra for $17/yr, or you can use it free with ads.
It's a good app, and the dev absolutely deserves to make money. If I understand correctly, developing sync is his full-time job. The prices are definitely steeper than with sync for reddit, but Lemmy is a much smaller community. He can't necessarily expect as many sales.
In the lemmy community someone said that a one-time Pro version is coming later, once the app leaves beta
There already ist, it's 109€ for me.
No that's the lifetime subscription. If you only want ads-free it's about 15euros.
20€ now
Yo I just checked this.
A hundred fucking dollars?
Jesus christ, lemmy is still in a fledgling state compared to reddit i don't care if you designed the most perfect app known to man, this is some insane overvaluation.
That's for the lifetime Ultra subscription which are a set of extra features. The base features are free.
The base features include injecting ads into the site. So you at minimum have to pay for the app to not make your experience shitty.
And what defines an extra feature?
A hundred bucks for a reader app is a fucking lot.
$20 usd to remove ads
Thank you. This update went live after my comment.
The app does not have this under settings. I jumped straight into settings expecting of course that is where it must live, and the Ultra subscription does (and also mentions ads)
However as you said, there is a no ads unlock on the initial drop down for $20.
I'm gonna send that as feedback.
That's ultra, it's not similar to what Pro was. Sync Pro was like 4 EUR. It removed the ads. Option to remove ads now is 22 EUR. A huge price increase. Ultra was 36 or so, now 100+. Again a huge price increase.