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What Android apps are worth paying for?

What non-game paid apps do you use that are worthwhile and still relevant in 2023?

For context, I have a decent amount of Google Play credit thanks to Opinion Rewards and a gift card. I'm not looking to start a book or movie collection there, nor sign up for subscription services. But I'm happy to buy the paid/pro version of useful apps.

I'm excluding games just because that's a whole topic on its own.

Here are some one-time paid apps I've been happy with:

EDIT: Shoutout to ijeff@lemdro.id who helped get an even better thread going over at !android@lemdro.id. Check there for even more great app suggestions!

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  • Business Calendar (by Appgenix Software)

    I have multiple Google calendars to keep track of pretty much everything; birthdays, anniversaries, bills, when school is in session (I have kids), scheduled days off, various appointments, etc. I've been using this since 2011/2012 with their first version, and moved over to the 2nd version after that came out. It gives me more control over how my calendar looks on my phone, I can easily toggle calendars and tasks on or off...

    Honestly, I can't use another calendar app now. I love my color coded (you can change calendar colors in the app to any color you want) month at a glance calendar.

    And I also can't recommend KWGT enough for widget making. I originally got Zooper to try to emulate Conky (from Linux), but Zooper stopped being developed. I have a lot of fun trying to get my widgets just the way I like them - even if my code is a mess.

  • I don't have many paid apps, but one I do like is Peakfinder. It's not something I use all the time but it does become rather handy when you've climbed up a hill to a viewpoint and now want to figure out which other hills you're looking at.

  • I paid for Tilla, it's a great app to manage subscriptions. I get notifications when the next payment is due. Pretty simple UI but that's what I like about it. You can check how much you spend per week/month/year.

    • That's a good suggestion. I don't think I personally have enough subscriptions to need Tilla but I could see it helping a lot of folks.

  • Niche but very valuable for me is: symfonium which is a very complete subsonic client. Prana Breath is a lean but featureful breathing app with a ton of different exercises from beginners to advanced yoga practitioners

    Both apps are android only and are miles ahead of anything iphone can offer which is worth being mentioned imo.

    • Sync for Lemmy
    • Musicolet

    • Thanks for the reminder, I keep forgetting to try Sync. Mostly I use Voyager and have been pretty happy.

      I love Musicolet and didn't realize it had a paid version. I'll get that for sure.

      • I'm sticking with Voyager for now. Sync is too expensive for a beta app. There's no post functionality in it yet. I'm also not sure how I feel about paying so much for an app to access Lemmy. I'd rather put some of that money into the instances themselves.

      • Voyager and Sync for Lemmy are basically my only two Lemmy clients as of now, I use Sync a lot more, even when I think Voyager is more polished as a Lemmy client.

  • Im in the same boat, Ive got every imaginable app thats useful to me but Ive got about $75 in rewards

  • Hey, me too. I just started to use their new SD MAID SE. Purchase of previous SD Maid Pro doesn't count, though, unfortunately.

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