I’ve registered for the app already. Every day I check Google Play for available app updates. I’ll see a notification that there are several apps with updates available… but it’s never Boost… such disappointment every time. Haha!

In all honesty, I can’t wait for the app to come out. Take your time, do it right. And don’t do what Sync did… I’ll just leave it at that.

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      It’s completely fine if we go past tonight and end up in september. I think we all just want a good app. Out of curiosity I think I speak for a lot of us when I ask how everything is going and if it’s coming now or if we should expect it to release one or two weeks into september? Thanks in advance my man!

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        The main development is finished. I want to publish it asap but I keep finding some bugs :( My plan is to upload a beta next week.

        Thanks for your patience!

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          That sounds great! The endless bug hunt can get tiring, so thank you for going through that.

          Be sure to take time for yourself too; I don’t think anyone here is going to bail if you take a bit more time for yourself :)

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          That’s so nice to hear! Better squash some bugs and have a better release than not. Take your time. We will survive.

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      lmost finished, I expect to release it before the end of August.

      Looking forward to it!

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    I think Sync definitely did it right, I’m using it right now. Their pricing model is whack though, and I’m eagerly waiting to come back home to Boost.

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          Not only the number one, but the only one. App works flawless. Is a beauty and… Yeah… monetization is fucked

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            If I knew Boost was coming out, I’d probably cave and get the $20 buy once. But right now I just bought the $2/mo since it’ll probably be ready before then I’m hoping.

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              117 dollars for lifetime Ultra is wrong. Just saying. That’s 15 Big Macs to remove ads and letting me cloud storage my settings.

              How can that be a good purchase in anyone’s book?

              Edit: Sorry didn’t anwer your question. I would set lifetime of Ultra at around 35-40 usd. And ad removal at 15 usd. I would also add a donate button for the people that wants to donate, since a lot of the Lifetime Ultra purchasers claim they bought to support the dev and nothing else. Let them do that how much they want.

              Other free apps are closing in. And the free version of Sync is still the best app. I love Sync. But I won’t paying harmful prices.

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                  Yeah I have to talk like this because apparantly the cost of food is a parameter in what price the dev has set per country. I can even quote the dev on meal costs being a factor in pricing. It’s. Wierd.

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      I remember there being just a small one time fee to get rid of ads on boost. Hopefully it will be the same this time around. The solution sync came up with just looks ridiculous in context of lemmy and all the apps for it.

      The main feature I’m hoping for is a way to block instances and keywords, but those should ideally come from the lemmy backend itself.

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      Yeah. Sync works well, I’m using it right now. But it was always my second favorite Reddit client after Boost and that pricing is just ridiculous.

      I have bought the “Pro” version of just about every single Reddit client, but 22€ to remove ads that aren’t even working on my device is just ridiculous. And all the interesting features are paywalled behind the Ultra subscription anyway.

      Can’t wait for Boost.

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        In my country it’s 117 dollars for lifetime Ultimate. 117 dollars. I don’t even know what the most expensive app I’ve ve bought cost me. Maybe 8 or 9? Was prob a game for my son. Probably one he spent 15 minutes playing. To somehow end up making it feel like a worse purchase than that is a pretty good achievement.

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        only 22€? I’m checking in at $134.99 CAD. for reference, Baldur’s Gate 3 costs $89.99.

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          22€ is the “remove the ads I’m blocking anyway” price, no extra features. That’s the one I usually always pay, for every app with a one-time-purchase ad-removal option. Because I really hate ads, don’t like to have adware on my phone and I don’t like not paying anything since my adblockers are really effective.

          The “Ultra-Lifetime-Option” is 110€, which comes to $162 CAD or two Baldur’s Gates or two Unraid OS lifetime licenses.

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              4.99 without a coupon, but there’s always a coupon. Last time I had one I paid one Euro.

              So this license is 22 Big Macs, or 110 Big Macs with coupons.

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      20usd one payment is very fair. I’d pay more for Boost, if it works well and promises proper support I think Boost is worth 60usd which is what a new video game costs.

      People are being a bit scroogey on lemmy tbh.

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        They can charge anything of course, it is a free market. It would be nice of them to spare $3 for each purchase as a donation to users current server. A checkbox perhaps?

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    Personally, I wasn’t too worried by the pricing model of Sync, and I’m usually tight AF - I think post- the great 3rd party client purge of Reddit it’s clear to me just how much value they brought to my browsing experience, so I’m happy to support the developers.

    I think people who say these apps already exist and it’s just a case of porting to the Lemmy APIs are massively underestimating the actual amount of work involved to do these apps justice on Lemmy. £20 or so to support the developer and gain an ad-free experience seems entirely fair to me!

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      Same here. I’m still on the free version of Sync because I’m holding out for boost, but if it takes a few more months I’ll definitely need to drop for a lifetime of sync. I NEVER spend money on apps, but boost I bought twice and I absolutely will again.

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    I used to use Boost for Reddit a few years back. I’ve paid for a year of Sync Ultra but I’ll still check out Boost when it releases.