R5: just started checking it out. It’s cool and has some advantages of others. It’s hella expensive. Thoughts?

  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk
    7·
    6 months ago

    I use Sync but I haven’t paid for it. I turned off all the options in the cookie banner so all I see is a grey box where ads would be and you quickly just don’t even see it after a lot of use.

    If it were a one off payment of like £5 I’d pay it, I bought it for Reddit, but I can’t justify the cost.

    If you’re a really heavy user then it might be worth it but there’s so many great alternatives out there then I think it’s hard to justify.

  • nadram@lemmy.world
    94·
    6 months ago

    Not worth it. Plenty of free apps like Voyager that are adfree and have all the features needed.

  • Teknikal@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I liked Sync Pro on Reddit but there’s no way I can justify the huge cost jump for a lemmy version.

    I hope lemmy does OK but it could be replaced anytime with something a bit better and there’s still a lot less content than Reddit had.

  • keefshape@lemmy.ca
    31·
    6 months ago

    Yes, the ad free for $20 absolutely is. $120 ultimate… Eh not so much for me, currently.

    • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
      0·
      6 months ago

      I’ve initially considered getting the ad-free version, as I did buy it for Reddit Sync, but so far I’m not getting any ads in the free version anyway.

  • MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world
    31·
    6 months ago

    I’ve been through all the apps but for me nothing feels as good as Sync. $20 a year for something I use hours every single day is a comically good value considering that’s the cost of Netflix monthly and don’t use it nearly as much.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        Removing ads in sync is $20 lifetime *

        • the time this is valid is not guaranteed to be lifetime.

        I bought Sync years ago to support the dev, and they removed and republished their app and made everyone repay the ‘one time fee’ to get rid of ads again. Don’t believe for a minute that ‘lifetime’ means anything.

  • Asudox@lemmy.worldM
    1·
    6 months ago

    I used to use it with RethinkDNS’s custom DNS so I never had those ads people buy ad-free to get rid of (there are still placeholders which kind of annoyed me). The UI is pretty nice, it also has features Jerboa does not have. Such as advanced searching that can search users and comments as well (this is possible in the web version), or mod tools. There are a few others but I still decided to switch back to Jerboa because FOSS.

  • MashedTech@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    I paid for no ads and that’s it. I don’t need sync ultra, it’s cheap, but I don’t need it. Ads didn’t bother me, but I had paid before for the reddit app, and the Lemmy one is also great, so I wanted to support the developer.