Any suggestions for paid one time purchase apps on the Google play store?

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    just scrolling trough my phone, here’s some I like

    app opps - lets you change permissions for apps, handy if you want to have multiple things playing audio or use google photos without it scanning your phone.

    calcu - it’s a calculator!

    simple draw - exactly what it says on the tin

    es file explorer pro - versatile, but not bloated

    moon+ reader pro - a handy reader for all sorts of docs, including search etc

    polarr - a photo editing app with features not a lot of apps have. The devs are pushing some dumb filters tho

    handy photo - same as polarr

    mx player pro - got videos to play?

    poweramp - a music player

    poweramp equalizer - is what it says on the tin

    sd maid pro - for clearing out old files and such

    poweraudio plus - used to be the only app with a parametric equalizer. Now poweramp does too

    ultrachron - just a nice timer/stopwatch

    unified remote - a remote control app, be careful tho, I doubt this thing is secure

    web video caster - also downloads videos from plenty of places

    and a couple more apps, where the developer has decided to pull the lifetime license and move to a subscription, even after I had bought it

    officesuite pro - it’s handy, but f them

      • dditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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        9 months ago

        So I’ve used Moon reader pro for several years and love it, but I cannot get reading states to sync between my Samsung phone and Samsung tablet. The book files are named exactly the same on both. I’ve tried syncing using Google Drive and Dropbox. It treats the books as two separate reading states, though I see the metadata/reading states file edited in Google Drive upon reading for a bit. Any suggestions?

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          I don’t have it installed right now, as I’ve been trying out a FOSS reader for a while now on my new phone, but there is a troubleshooting section about syncing on their site, and also they recommend this guide made by a user discussing sync troubleshooting.

          It’s not a feature I’ve used, so maybe those guides have something you haven’t tried. Since you replied to me though, I feel partially responsible for making sure you get helped now. 😅

    • MacroCyclo@lemmy.caOP
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for reminding me! I have the free version of unified remote and have been meaning to upgrade.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    9 months ago

    Tasker. Basically an interface for writing scripts for your phone. Even if you don’t have a use case in the beginning you’ll start finding things to do with it.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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        9 months ago

        There’s a completely free app (no ads, either) that prevents auto-rotate from actually happening unless you want it to. It pops up an icon when your phone wants to rotate, and it you don’t tap it within the timeout (adjustable up to 3 seconds) then the icon goes away and the rotation never happens. It’s highly customizable, and I just can’t live without it since I found it.

    • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I used it to identify the cell towers near my home and turn wifi off when I was out of their range and back on when I was in range. It seemed to help save battery by not constantly looking for wifi networks and I didn’t have to remember to turn it off and on manually.

      • 200ok@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        That’s smart!

        I have a few triggers that turn on Do Not Disturb mode:

        1. When I open an app that I doom scroll before I fall asleep and when I wake up.

        2. When I connect to my doctor’s or dentist’s office wifi.

        • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Never said they were lol

          At home I want wifi on, and away I want it off. This saves battery so it’s not constantly looking for wifi networks.

          I could achieve similar with location service turned on all the time, but that drains battery even more.

          Since cellular data is always connected to some cell tower nearby, and Tasker is able to identify the cell tower names, I used the ones near my home as flags to indicate “I’m close to home, therefore turn on WiFi because I’ll be home soon”. And turn it off when I leave my neighborhood.

          • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Ok. I did not see what you meant.

            I have a home zone that triggers things. I don’t think location services uses enough battery for me to worry about

            • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
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              9 months ago

              How does the home zone work?

              For me location service eats my battery up - can’t last a full day with it on.

              • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                I do mine from home assistant. I can leave location services, Bluetooth, and wifi, all on without worrying about battery life for the whole day.

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      YMMV depending on your phone manufacturer (or, really, the OS). Some are too locked down to use Tasker, or need annoying workarounds to let it always run.

      • TunaLobster@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I’ve got some that pulls the picture from Bing and the picture from NASA and set them to my wall paper and lock screen back grounds.

        I’ve got another one that silences my phone when I’m at work or church and not connected to my car blue tooth. I used something similar in college to silence my phone when a calendar event was happening. My phone never made a peep during a lecture! It resets volumes to normal levels after the silent period is done.

      • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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        9 months ago

        The main thing is a script to stop any media playing and turn off the screen after x minutes, so I can fall asleep watching YouTube or listening to something. There’s probably already an app for that but this is pretty customizable.

        Another stupid use is putting the phone on silent while using the camera app because Samsung won’t let you turn off the camera shutter sound.

      • silentdon@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Lots of things

        • Change my ringtone based on time/location
        • Silence phone if my calendar has the word meet or meeting
        • Parse a local news website and read the headlines to me after I dismiss my morning alarm
        • Set up car mode if it is plugged in and connected to my car’s Bluetooth
        • Turn on WiFi based on location
        • etc
        • allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          I have a script which saves my fine location to a Google sheet when I disconnect from my car’s Bluetooth. If, like me, you are the sort of klutz who can lose their car in a two-car garage…

      • Alice@beehaw.org
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        9 months ago

        I used to get up at 5am and had to get ready for work in the dark so I didn’t wake my family. I’m a klutz and fumbling with my phone’s flashlight constantly just got annoying.

        I ended up making a little script so that between 5am and 5:30, shaking the phone turned the flashlight on. After 5:30 the sensor turns off to save battery, since I didn’t really need it at that point.

        You can do all kinds of handy little things like that

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Tasks.org is a wonderful open-source todo/task app, that has a low-cost monthly subscription to use it’s syncing ability. It’s worth it to support FOSS wherever we can.

    • everett@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Worth noting that it also has a bunch of free alternatives for sync, some self-hostable, and you were talking about the paid service hosted by the Tasks.org devs.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Subscriptions, no matter how low, are the antithesis of a buy once app.

      Why are you even commenting with this

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Because it’s supporting FOSS, and it’s one of the few foss apps on the play store iirc that let you pay for it.

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Then make your own post. Just because its worth supporting, doesnt mean its appropriate for this.

          Have some bloody respect please

  • gt24@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    MiXplorer - https://mixplorer.com/

    A file explorer allowing for me to transfer files over the network. When Solid Explorer suddenly didn’t seem to want to do network transfers anymore (likely because Windows updated something), I waited for that app to update to fix the issue. It never did. I found that MiXplorer was a good alternative that transfers files over the network just fine and works nice and fast as well. The interface takes a bit to get used to (meaning it isn’t the same as Solid Explorer) but the app is certainly worth using. Importantly, I can transfer files over the network without issue again.

    Notably, this app is free to download (from XDA) however the Google Play version is not free. The Google Play version (which supports development) is a one time paid fee.

  • snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    the Niagara launcher is still the only app I’ve bought on Play Store, and I’ve been very happy with it for maybe 5-6 years now

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Nova was amazing but they’ve been bought out. I tried Niagra Launcher and after being frustrated with a new UI, I absolutely love it.

      • cabillaud@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        Interesting, i’ll have a look on it

        Edit: gave it a try, but you have to remember the exact name of every app, and i dont care enough to remember if the name is ‘store’ or ‘market’ or ‘app store’ for example

        • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
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          9 months ago

          Yeah, I’m with you on that. I tend to install a ton of interesting apps when I see them, and categorize them into groups (many apps fit multiple groups) so when I’m looking to do something in particular the apps that might fill the need are together to try it with. If those search launchers allowed for adding multiple tags to each app for categorizing and searching, then they’d probably work well enough for me to try.

        • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Fair enough! Everyone has a different flavor palette. It also takes a week to get used to. After that one week, I never went back.

    • DrFuggles@feddit.org
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      9 months ago

      Also bought Nova Launcher Prime, but they were apparently acquired in the last year so now Nova is spyware? Anyway, I switched over to Kvaesitso and couldn’t be happier.

      • mirisgaiss@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        nova prime + netguard to keep it off the internet has kept me using it. “search focused” launchers are not how I use my phone and nothing else has all the features nova does without being able to just dump the stupid home screen search bar.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Fx file manager. if you so file management locally or want to access SMB share content , cloud, bluetooth etc, this app ia awesome.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I love it but I can feel it getting neglected with each Android update.
      The worst for me was transferring a video to a computer using the FX Web feature and discovering it silently truncated the video… when it was already too late…