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

Def check out Boost. I've used both and can't find anything in sync to warrant the coat vs. Boost. That said, Boost is worth the cost for sure, and if Boost wasn't an option, I'd consider sync.

I'm using eternity, which is open source and excellent. See https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity/releases

If you feel you need to burn your money on something that is available elsewhere for free…

Do you.

Highly recommend Boost

If you use lemmy heavily, I would say sync and boost are worth it. They are also a one off payment with plenty of options to go through.

I personally used boost on Reddit and but have been using voyager on lemmy. Voyager has been working great and the developer is very active.

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.

I switched to Voyager. Check it out..

I pay the $2/month version. Supports the dev, and keeps an otherwise unused credit card active. And considering this is now the only form of social media and/or interacting with other people online I use, I figure it's worth two bucks a month. The same way the $15 or so I didn't post month, spread across multiple patreon accounts, is worth it to support the small handful of content creators that make the vast majority of my daily entertainment.

I've been trying to take two stances lately. The first being the idea of "if you're not the customer, you're the product."

And the second being the CGPGrey method. Which is basically, if an app or service is important to me, I specifically WANT it to be a paid app/service. If the app in question doesn't have a clear path to being financially viable for those making/running it, there's too much risk that the dev may eventually have to stop working on it in order to go do something else that can earn them a living.

Or no, something being open source, or not, did not change this equation. People gotta live.

Is this about a Lemmy client app? Sounds silly. Voyager and Jerboa are both nice, depending on your UI preferences. What is so great about sync?

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.

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.

Bought the lifetime a few months ago when it came out and haven't regretted it!

I use the free version and it's fine and free?

I bought Reddit Sync years ago and loved it until Reddit shit itself. Had no issues paying for Lemme Sync. Lemme seemed to lost gas recently and I miss the size off the community Reddit has.

Definitely worth the ad free. Not the Ultra.

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

Nah, Jerboa is great, donate to the project instead, or to your local instance.

Using free version of sync. Why would I pay for those perks beyond donating?

Switched recently from jerboa to Raccoon. Tried sync and did not like it at all.

I think it is an excellent Lemmy client, I use the free version though.

I love sync. I still visit reddit for a few communities, but only on my laptop, never my phone.

I'm using it since after the reddit fiasco, no ads as of now so I'm happy with the free version :)

I bought the ultra/whatever when it first came out. Same justification as others who have purchased it. I use it for hours a day and i used it on reddit. I love the similar feel and the dev is amazing. Worth the money in my eyes but i can appreciate the people that use the free and ad block. You do you

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.

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.