The first part of localised pricing is now live
Hey everyone, I've just updated pricing points for around 100 different countries for removing ads.
Please let me know how these look, it's been quite the challenge getting this right in so many different regions.
I'll be expanding localised pricing to ultra following feedback from this thread.
Cheers, Lj
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Thanks, at a much cheaper price in India now!
What's the price over there now?
Got Sync Ultra lifetime for 849₹, that would be 10.27 USD.
That must be wrong. Sync Ultra Lifetime is 117 USD for me.
Are you getting that price in India?! Maybe you need to update the app?
Pricing is based on region, cost of a meal in that region, purchasing power and other factors.
You are doing good work but it ain't worth 15 Big Macs. I want the features. But its incorrect pricing. I can't pay this even if I was a millionaire, it's just wrong. Sorry.
Yearly works out at better value tbf
I understand Devs need to eat, but lifetime ultra is 100 USD (111 USD with tax) for Indonesians. I doubt he will get single purchase from us. We are third world country, even Americans would find that pricing distatsteful. 😂
Localised ultra pricing is next on my to-do list.
Remove ads at Rs. 200. Almost 2.5 USD
Still too much in Australia. Sorry, want to support the work like on Sync for Reddit. But this app doesn't even have functionality to post yet and is $25 to remove ads. It just doesn't feel right considering it's the fediverse and there are no ads at the source.
I know you need to make a living. So you do what you need to.
Similar feedback from NZ. $28 NZD to remove ads... I think I paid around $5 for Sync for Reddit premium. I know that was a while ago, but $28 would be the most expensive app purchase I've ever made by a long way. In fact it'd be the most expensive software purchase of any kind that I've made in years. I'd love to support and this would normally be an easy decision for me, but given that Lemmy itself is still finding its feet I just can't justify it.
Agree that it's your livelihood and your price to set 100%, just thought some feedback that this particular localised price is steep might be useful.
Should be $24.99 AUD there and I'm just finishing up posting. The price in Australia is regionalised.
Yeah I noticed it had been changed. My feedback is that it's still too high. Sorry. The app is still in beta and missing major functionality. I think you may also need to look at some competitors as I haven't seen any priced like Sync and some are actually pretty damn good. I'm really enjoying Voyager for example.
I totally understand you need to make a living, but this isn't Reddit. And I'd rather put some of my money towards supporting the instances I use, rather than just in the app I use to access them.
I'm sure you're gonna do fine. You've got a great app and plenty of support. Just wanted to provide some honest feedback.
Damn, are there no decent Lemmy apps for android or something? On iOS Memmy is amazing and free with all the features.
I agree on Aussie pricing, it’s way too high considering our current cost of living. $10 maybe but most people won’t pay $25 as they just don’t have that cash spare.
Honestly, there are actually some great apps on Android that are feature rich and I think all the others I know about are free too. I'm using Voyager and really liking it. Which is why I can't spend $25 on Sync. It's just way too much and despite having a great UI, is missing features like being able to submit a post.
Edit: To be clear, Sync is free with ads. Other apps I've tried are free and ad free.
Just added submit today.
I was so ready to drop $10-15 AUD without a thought, but at $25, I'm sticking with Connect.
Just don't buy it then? 🤷 Simple as that :)
The developer posted this and asked to let him know how it looked. Hence, I provided some feedback.
He asked for feedback about regional pricing, this is feedback about regional pricing.
You have an issue with helping the dev?
I believe the point he is making is the app is quite expensive even after adjustments. Compared indie games you are 33% more expensive than Hollow Knight. Only for ad removal.
It's skewed in a lot of our eyes.
$26.25 in Canada. Fuck me I guess. Almost pulled the trigger at $20, now I won't be.
I actually lowered the price in Canada. Wasn't ever $20 CAD
As a Canadian who bought Sync Ultra lifetime at full price before the price drop, I'm not even mad. You deserve every penny.
I'd double check on the Canadian pricing mine came out to $28.34 on day one.
I can afford that, and was going to be all in anyways, but out of pocket needs to drop below twenty bucks Canadian.
It's showing me $28.74 to remove ads in Canada right now (maybe more than the 26.25 mentioned due to tax % difference)
Either I hallucinated or it glitched but I'm pretty sure it showed up closer to $20CAD before I decided to buy it and it was closer to $30CAD.
It was above 25 for me on Day one of release.
Ok well no... Just took this.
Check the taxes. I don't set those!
It literally says in the bottom of the screenshot that the taxes come to $1.25.
Sorry not sure what point we're making here. It's $24.99 CAD base price.
Are we reading the same comment chain?
I said it wasn't $20 CAD, your screenshot confirms?
$27.99 for me in Canada price includes $3 tax
I'm sorry but what? You actually raised the price for us in Denmark?
Old cost was 20 USD, and now you're marking it at 25 USD.
Old price: $20 - 136 kr.
New price: 175 kr. - $25.77
Nope? Old cost was 175dkk and now it's 159.99dkk.
I'm also feeling a price raise in DK. At least I'd rather pay 20usd than 159dkk.
It doesn't matter, but just FYI. And I didn't check the previous price in the app.
Thank you LJ, I purchased instantly. I really appreciate your work and understand this app is your livelihood but the original asking price was a number I wouldn't be comfortable spending, even deep inside knowing I would be getting my money's worth. Perhaps in installments would be fine, but yeah
The price updated in Indonesia. New price is more reasonable now.
Would you consider a discount code for those who purchased Ultra in Sync for Reddit?
Brazil feedback:
Ultra lifetime, BRL $149.99 - Updated.
Ultra yearly, BRL $79.99 - Same as before.
Ultra monthly, BRL $9.49 - Same as before.
Ad removal, BRL $97.99 - Same as before.
Don't know if it's only the lifetime that was adjusted thought.
Keep up the amazing work LJ, the price adjust is just amazing, thanks for doing it. It was a little on the higher end here. Now it's fairly priced. Really appreciate it.
Ad removal should have been BRL $38.99, just adjusted this now. Looking to automate this process too so we don't have these issues again.
Thanks a bunch Lj, just bought it!
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Still a bit expensive for Brazil but way more reasonable
Mudou aí pra tirar os ads? Só o ultra atualizou aqui
Não vi o dos ads, só o ultra
Bought it! A lot more reasonable and affordable with regional pricing enabled.
currently priced at $7 USD in my country which is really cheap!! expect a payment from me by the end of the month. Great job on the app!! really fluid and makes the whole lemmy experience amazing!! Thank you for your efforts man!
Honestly that sounds a lot more reasonable a price than what I have been seeing ITT
The price is much better, I just bought the app. Thanks!
I'm running the poor man's version but I haven't noticed any ads. I'm I just missing them or are they coming later
I think some views like List don't have the ads.
Ditto, but I see blank "posts" here and there saying Supported content or something such.
Yea havent seen anymyself. I have a adblock on my basic browser but it shouldnt really affect the app.
Thanks, just bought the ads removal
Damnit, price increased for me. I should've jumped at ~100 for life time, now it's 149.98.
I'm in Switzerland
I think anyone will become poorer when they go to Switzerland. Why wait any longer. Taste you own medicine - becoming relatively poorer - by buying Sync at that price.
You guys can afford it... :)
Just wait for the other apps to release and live with Sync free for a week or two.
The price for removing ads in this version of sync is like 300% more expensive than it cost to remove them on reddit. I'm in Sweden.
Yeah our prices in Sweden aren't close to what they need to be. Even if prices for lifetime Ultra were halved I would feel ripped off. Let's see what the other apps bring before we make a purchase.
Ok, saw how to do the reset. I'm seeing $100 USD lifetime, location being NC, USA.
Device information
This is just the ad free regional I'm updating at the moment
There's a remove ads option in the sidebar. It does not include Sync Ultra benefits such as user tagging, cloud backup, etc.
Info with my monthly restored:
Device information
Thanks for adjusting the Norwegian price! Not cheap-cheap, but better than what it was ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪
Thank you Lj. The price for add-free in Malaysia currency is very reasonable for me. It's been reduced to 1/3 of previous price. Considering USD1.00-> MYR4.50, I think the reduction is roughly in proportion to currency rate. and the living cost in Malaysia. If you could reduce the price of Ultra in the same proportion as the add-free, I will most likely subscribe to Ultra. So I'll wait until you expand the pricing for Ultra before making my decision.
I would suggest (current Ultra price)/4.5 which is the currency rate wrt USD.
Thanks from 🇲🇾 ! It's much more reasonable now 😄
Nice :)
Super reasonable pricing in Sri Lanka. Will upgrade to Ultra Lifetime once (or if) you localise that. Keep being amazing and doing amazing work LJ! You rock.
Thanks, LJ. These prices (India) are more than reasonable, I just got lifetime ultra for ₹849
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That's bloody cheap for lifetime ultra.
@ljdawson Indonesian price is great, thank you!
Damn, yes it is. It was over 300k IDR previously, now it's just 100k. Basically 1/3 of the initial price.
Pricing for Ukraine didn't change.
It should be 249 UAH. Might need to update Googles side.
What's the new price in Austria?
No price change
Very reasonable price for Taiwan, R.O.C. Would love to see the localised prices for ultra. Thank you for bringing this fantastic app to lemmy!
Awesome! This equal a 33% sale. Would love the same price adjustment for Ultra.
Country is Sweden btw.
Danish prices seem unchanged.
$20 lifetime no ads
Without any insight into how likely people are to pay for stuff like this in Chile, I'd say the price is a bit low here considering it's a one time payment. I think you can go closer to 10000 CLP, though again I'm basing this only on how much I'd be willing to pay.
I have the same thought about the price in India. Just ₹200 for the ad free option seems lower than he needs to be. He can increase the price by 50-100% and be low enough that people who were ready to buy at ₹200 will still buy it
Is 300 more inline?
Yeah 300 seems fine
Thanks a lot lj, more than reasonable a price for an amazing app
Thank you so much! Got lifetime ultra yesterday :)
$170 AUD?!?! ..and when I thought Apollo life time purchase for $80 was too much.
He said adjusted pricing for Ultra is coming soon.
Removing ads is $25 in Australia, down from 35 or something before
It would take more than 6 years for life time to pay off, vs. yearly subscription (Norwegian pricing, assuming yearly sub remain the same). I feel like the future is too uncertain, in this space, to logically justify that commitment.
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Obligatory: Is support for a version without Google Play Services coming?
It should work without
Even the pro version? Meaning if I buy it on a phone with Play Services, will it work on my main phone which doesn't have them?
You'll need to validate your purchase with Google play services.
That sadly won't work for me. A real shame, would've loved to use Sync again.
Tbf sync for Reddit was distributed the same way
I know, I had to switch to a different app when I switched to a phone without Google Services.
Lifetime Sync for reddit pro was 3€, sync for Lemmy is 114€. With that hefty price tag, you might as well just pay for the reddit api calls... This price is borderline insane.
I have a system wide android ad blocker but I always pay for apps to support the developers, but this... nope.
That's ultra. Remove ads (pro) is ~€19.
Any adjustments for Venezuela or the north of South America?
Yup all of latam has been adjusted
Maybe someone can help me. I used to live in dubai but now live in India but still have all my Google play pricing in uae dirhams. How do i localise it to my current permanent home - India?
One other simple way is to open a new Google account by using new email and associate it with your bank account in India. You can have more than one accounts in concurrent. Then, you can install the app using the new Google account. That way, you won't lose your dubai account which might have certain regional benefit.
If your new installed app is still associated to UAE account, even though you install it through the new account, you need to install it through browser (not through Google Play app). Uninstall current app, and then sign in to Google Play with the new account through the Web browser. Install the lemmy app through there. The new install app should be associated to the new account.
This worked. Thanks! Tho weirdly yearly is double the cost of lifetime. Maybe lj hasn't done yearly yet
Glad to hear that.
Yep. Lj mentioned he hasn't finalized the the pricing for Ultra yet. So it's kind of weird when the users from India mentioned e.g. here they got lifetime ultra for a ridiculously very cheap price.
Whatever it is, Sync has become reachable and more affordable with the new pricing.
Here's something I found after a quick google search...
OP will lose his UAE localized benefit if he do that - something I won't suggest. I would suggest to just open a new account as we can have more than one concurrent accounts. That's how I did it so I currently still keep my old account. I post on this in the same comment thread.
Hi LJ, thanks a lot for the adjustments! I hope you'll also reduce the price of lifetime Ultra for Indonesia. Currently it's set at IDR 1.56mio, while the minimum wage in the capital city is at IDR 4.5mio, and most cities are at IDR 2mio. I've been a Reddit Sync user since 2014 so I definitely want to support you as much as possible, but unfortunately the price is prohibitively expensive.
I'll be localising ultra soon.
Haven't been able to find the one time purchase in the app. I did monthly when it first came out, maybe that's why?
If you have Ultra it hides the ad removal option. Which makes sense since Ultra also removes ads.
Monthly will be localised too
I had the same happen.
I had to use the "reset ultra subscription (debug or dev)" or something similar to that. And then Restart the app and it showed up.
I wonder what is the price in Estonia now. I have paid the original price and can't check now :)
Hey a while back I paid for the app but Google sent a refund a couple days later. Not sure why. Should I try to "remove ads" again?
Not sure if it matters but I've not once seen an ad on the app and I had previously purchased ad free sync for reddit. Also my phone is pretty old. Not sure if any of that is related to the refund?
Did you request a refund?
Thank you. Lifetime purchased.
Thanks
Hey man, can you release this app for lower end devices too like Android 7 and plus ??
This has been added to the Todo list. Cheers.
Thanks man. Appreciate it.
No change in pricing for Kyrgyzstan
The dev has said on discord that he doesn't have the option to localise for Krygyzstan.
Yeah that's a bummer
Sorry dude
You're no listening to anyone. No. Memberships.
Might be in the wrong community here matey
My homie. It isn't a membership.
While I wil never subscribe to any app as a matter of principle, ultra is a completely voluntary extra. The app has most functionality implemented already, and all lemmy functions have been said to be planned as part of the base app.
There is no membership required to use the app. Even the subscription isn't required
So you managed to type that comment, but you somehow can't READ. Go ahead and try.
I gladly paid for mine, as I did with Sync for Reddit before. Got extreme value out of this, will get extreme value out of the 20 € I paid here. So, yes. "Memberships". If they are worth the price.