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.]

    • Overzeetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh, but Adobe charges the very reasonable $600/yr and Autodesk a bargain $3000+ per year for their software, so clearly Sync must not be that good to only be asking $17 a year. I think I’ll look for something more professionally priced, instead.

  • Acer@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    As someone from a third world country, fuck no. That shit is too expensive for me. Maybe to you privileged folk it’s reasonable. To me it’s nonsense.

    I feel shitty about it too since I was a long time sync pro user, I thought sync for lemmy would also have an affordable pro version but fuck me I guess

    • hunt4peas@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      What’s more infuriating is that Lemmy itself doesn’t have ads but Sync has, sadly.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I understand, but the dev works on this app full time so he has to earn a living somehow. Even the core Lemmy devs are able to work on Lemmy full time because they got some funding from a grant.

        • the_gmg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          In my recollection sync for reddit had multiple long gaps in communication from the dev, including pretty shortly after subscriptions were first announced. I appreciate the desire to be paid, but I didn’t find it clear that there were ongoing development or support efforts.

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    First thing I did after opening the app was to look for the Pro (ultra) in-app purchase. But monhtly payments, no thank you.

    • lorez@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same here. I hate subscriptions but would happily buy a Pro version like I did with Sync for Reddit.

    • orntar@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yea, I would gladly pay to remove ads. Like I already did for the Sync for Reddit. Twice. But no one likes subscriptions.

  • 1ird@notyour.rodeoEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Prices are ridiculous, especially for returning users. The Lemmy app is basically the Reddit app. You can’t convince me that at least 85% of the code was re-used from it. If you used the code from the app I already paid for (twice) I feel like I should get a discount.

    Subscription models suck too.

  • zoe@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    a premium is worth it.

    but also we need to help instance owners somehow too.