Key Messages rocks. Comes with built-in badword filter and some other nifty config.

Not open source though.

He was also doing a PhD at the same time, and writing a dissertation is not exactly a small feat.

Yep it’s still a beta, that will be coming soon.

Lemmy Ultra = Sync Ultra

Lemmy Adfree = Sync Pro

The old app was simply too cheap, that’s that. One-off purchases for $2 are hardly sustainable for individual developers.

Adfree is 20 bucks, how is that insane?

That’s for ultra. Simple adfree is 20 for a lifetime.

Exactly. And lifetime is just about 100 bucks, who cares. Sure it sounds like more than the casual $2 you throw at a random app to remove ads, but considering that I used Sync daily for ~12 years, it’s really just peanuts in the long run.

I’ve bought a bunch of seemingly cheaper apps and then used them 10 times over 2 years and they ended up discontinued, that’s like 20 cents per use.

I’d have racked up tens of thousands with Sync that way. Easily the most used app on my phone.

If it’s open source, the developer can’t monetize it. Everyone will just be able to remove ads and compile it from scratch.

FOSS is all fine and dandy, unless being a developer for a popular service (or app) is your sole source of income.

The actual blockers were fixed in the first couple days, if not hours. We are now at beta 23 within just 10 days since the internal testing began, lj has been working like a madman.

The app is asking for a million permissions that are completely unnecessary. They are just as much of a data kraken as facbeook, google and apple, with the exception of people being fully transparent about professional achievements and qualifications. That’s a definite reason to never give them access to my phone.