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 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.
Thank you! This is what I wanted. Paid as soon as it appeared. Worked out to be about $30 cad, worth it to me.
way too expensive.
also no regional pricing?
I would never pay more then 8-10$ 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.
Yeah sorry, math is hard for my brain right now appearently… :)
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).
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.
Why not support a FOSS, then?
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.
It’s just really weird to pay twenty dollars to not have ads on a platform that doesn’t inherently have ads - a platform that has been purposefully designed to avoid the needs for ads or the trappings of capitalism. To voluntarily reinfect yourself into that ecosystem seems at best weird, and at worst sort of a violation of what the fediverse is about.
I understand the sentiment. Most devs that release Lemmy apps do so as a side projects. They don’t make money doing it. In fact, they actually losing money and time to work on their side projects. It’s actually amazing how many apps we now have in just a short time.
That being said, Sync developer is one of a few dev who work on a lemmy app full time. This results in higher quality app, even though it’s still in beta right now. But since he’s literally doing this for a living, he’ll need to make some money to continue his work. People was begging for him to make an app for Lemmy, and he actually does it. Whether he’ll continue doing this or not will depends on whether he can make a living or not. And since the market for Lemmy apps is so small, there is no other choice but to charge a higher price to make the calculus works. For a lot of people that rooting for him, paying $20 or $17/year is no brainer if it means they get to have their favorite app working on Lemmy.
If there’s no other choice why is it the only app making that choice? I also don’t think that proprietary closed, profit incentivized systems are inherently better. The kbin PWA app is beyond sufficient.
I’m not saying there is no other choice. Lemmy core devs are paid by a grant to work on Lemmy full time for example. Other apps developers may have a different funding model (donation, or even out of their own pocket), but for Sync, the dev is a commercial app developer so he does what he do best: making a paid app.
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.
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Just got the update and… Yeah, it’s almost $100 on my currency. I’m not sure if I ever saw an app this expensive before, not that I buy a lot of apps, but still. Love the app and lj has always been awesome, but will have to pass :(
Well, this is how it’s for my currency.
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.
Same here but after 6 years of using Sync I know what I get out of Sync, my hesitation is only in regard to the Lemmy project itself.
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.
That’s realllly steep for a single app.
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 appremove 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.It is but it also isn’t. I paid $5 for sync pro for reddit and have gotten literally thousands of hours out of it. $20 isn’t that significant in the grand scheme of things if you like the app.
Yeah, that’s insane. Also the experience IMHO is not supreme vs something like Summit. I don’t really understand the hype.
This might be dumb but uhhh what ads? I’ve been using the app since launch and haven’t seen a single one.
Me too I’m so confused
It’s like 1/2 of the monthly entry level income in my 3rd world country.
I paid to remove the ads. I want to support the developer and this is the best Reddit app I used as well.
Having said that, this is a really steep price tbh and will be a hard sell for my friends. I am loyal to Sync and still see value in this price since I use it so much. But it really is steep.
I don’t exactly understand why the 20$ 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 €.
I would probably buy premium if it was $20 but $99 is way too high.
And $20 just to remove ads is also a lot, at least for me. I have a dns level ad blocker and it’s needed these days in the extreamly hostile user environment we exist in.
Aaannd… Done.
Amazing work @ljdawson@lemmy.world!
It should be like $5
If it was $5 I’d buy, but $20, yeesh.
The number of users in lemmy is so low compared to reddit. Those who buy this app are way less here. In reddit there were 100k+ downloads. Here it is not even going to be half of it. So price change can be justified.
One point I like to say is yeah this price is too high for some third world countries. Region based pricing should be there. 20$ here is 10% of my income (entry level job). So it will take time for me to buy the app. Until then i support the ad driven model. I am getting far better user experience with this app than all other lemmy apps I have tried.
That is true, however this is not really relevant for buying a product. And an app that relies on ads where you can buy premium for $20 is just that in my eyes, a commercial product, and that is fine. But dividing the costs between all users to estimate a price is weird to me, that’s not how market works and ignores offer and demand. This argument is nothing a potential buyer would consider when buying an app. And $20 is a lot of money especially in todays time. I don’t think I have seen a price like that apart from really big commercial apps. But yeah if you want to support, do that, but consider spending money to your instance instead and using one of the other great apps available.
