1y ago

What's the difference between "Remove ads" and "Sync Ultra"?

I'm loving Sync so far. I used the official reddit app ever since I was on Reddit. I sure was missing out.

I saw on the left bar there's two options "Remove ads" and "Sync Ultra". What's the difference? I understand ultra is a subscription that gets ad free browsing and more. However, remove ads looks to be a single purchase "add-on", i.e. no subscription. Is that the case? That would be nice down the line when sync for lemmy gets an official stable release.

There's also a price difference. Ultra is 1.99$/mo or 16.99$/yr, and remove ads is 12.99$.

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Remove ads is 22 euros here. That's a massive difference from the old app. Almost ten times more I believe?
- Crying in $34 Aussie dollaydoos.
  A bit of a surprise; I know I was lucky to get the old Sync pro app for under $2 a decade ago, but wow.
  
  It's unfortunate that the price is up, but it's better than spending for a subscription for ad removal.
  
  Lemmy still has a lot less users than reddit. The dev can't rely on tens of thousands of users to buy the app for $1 each. I think he's doing a great job with this app and I don't mind supporting him.
  Also, the addition of Sync to the lemmy ecosystem will draw a ton of new people in and help grow the platform.
  
  there is this thing called inflation, u know..which makes things cost more overtime :/
- The pool of people willing to buy an app for Lemmy is a lot smaller than Reddit, so it makes sense to jack up the price.
  
  Fair enough. It's still a lot of money though.
  
  My question is, what costs are associated with it? The app was essentially built, the dev needed to make some changes and link to the new API which should be free now? Generally curious, because I previously paid $3 for the pro app on Reddit.
- Its a 4x price increase Sync pro for reddit was about $4 (USD), sync for lemmy is $22 to remove ads
  
  4x4=22?
- Strange. I paid £12.99
  €22 is £18.90
  
  I bought Sync pro for $2 in 2013, but I assume it went up significantly in more recent years.
- Yeah a bit steep - I'm hoping it's a bad calculation. OP said it's 12.99$, and other's have said 19.99$, so I have no idea where EUR22 comes from.

If you click on Sync Ultra in the left bar menu, it gives a list of everything currently included as well as a few features coming at a later time:
- Ultra sounds interesting for sure, but I'm not sure it's worth it. I might try 1 month later on. I think it's just because lemmy is smaller than reddit (for now :)) which makes these features less used, at least in the short term. Who knows, maybe in a couple years, it will be a no brainer.
  
  I paid to remove ads immediately (which is also what I did with Sync for Reddit), but I'm also waiting to purchase Ultra to see if it gains any must-have features. The app is already great in its completely free version so anything else will just be cherries on top.
  
  I'm doing it up support the dev. $2 a month CDN is a pretty small price to pay to support an app I use constantly! :)

Remove ads does exactly that and only that. Ultra has additional features. I don't have a link to what they are though. maybe someone else has that for you.
- That's great that it's a one time removal of ads. I guess it kind of confused me that there were two separate options for removing ads, but I'm grateful.

Remove ads is a one time purchase that removes ads. Forever.
Ultra is a subscription service
- I guess the reason I was confused is because typically there is no one time removal and everything is just a subscription. I appreciate that, at least for removing ads. The features in ultra are interesting but not worth it right now.

You guys have ads? I just started on lemmy and tried jerboa and connect for now.
What is so good about sync ?
- Stylish looking app with smooth scrolling and so many great browsing options.
- Sync for Reddit was a hugely popular app before reddit practically shut down their api. I used it and missed it a lot, so glad to see it's gotten new life as a lemmy app.
  
  I always used RIF, it was good. Any idea if that will be redone?
- Of all the android apps I tried and I tried them all, this is the smoothest feeling of them all, it's visually nice and the dev is highly dedicated to the app which you can feel using it.
  I was using connect for the last week and I really liked that app, but Sync just feels better to me.
- I haven't seen a single ad or placeholder in Sync. Are they yet to be implemented?

I just view Ultra to be covering the costs of continued development and server for cloud backup. It was a simple choice for me.

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