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

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[โ€“] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Read Era is technically free, but I paid for premium years ago and have never regretted it. I can open any kind of uncorrupted book file, from the Amazon reader format to PDF to epub, and everything else I've ever come across. It has a great search function, and the ability to file a book into a custom 'Collection'. You can edit the details of a book, like adding Author or pusblisher info, add your own personal notes to a page or highlighted quote, see an aggregate of all your highlights in a particular file, and adjust the font, background color, and contrast to your hearts content.

I make my whole family use it now, cause I love it so much and Premium works on Family share.

[โ€“] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I bought moon reader 7 years ago and still use it.

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[โ€“] tyrant@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Smart audiobook player, fit notes. That's all I got and they're kind of niche

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[โ€“] berryjam@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Monument Valley. Got the first one for free during a promotion but loved it enough to pay for the sequel and extra levels.

[โ€“] Zacpod@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Wanted to love this but it never seemed to get hard or tricky. Whole game kinda felt like a tutorial for the hard levels they never came.

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[โ€“] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Buzzkill is good if you have one of those

[โ€“] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Send multiple messages instead of just one, Jonny, you annoying cunt

Solid Explorer

[โ€“] 1371113@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Power amp music player

Cryptomator is a fantastic way to securely upload your stuff to cloud storage providers like Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. In my case, I use it to have an encrypted blob of my stuff with me on a drive when I'm out and about.

They also give you the ability to purchase a license independent of Google Play if you didn't want Google to get a cut.

[โ€“] jlow@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[โ€“] elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

HiPER Calc Pro. A great scientific calculator I use constantly. (There is also a unpaid, ad-supported version, and the ads weren't too intrusive the last time I tried it)

Qalculate is now on Android.

[โ€“] xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago
  1. Password Safe Pro
  2. My Expenses
  3. FL Studio, formerly Fruity Loops (also: Desktop)
  4. Threema
  5. Through the Ages (boardgame adaption)

Otherwise, I usually prefer free open source solutions (FDroid), but I regularly donate to keep the projects alive. 1 and 2 are small dev studios that I am happy to support.

[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Novalauncher Tasker Automate Fairmail

[โ€“] Baaahb@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nova launcher is a data harvester. You should be aware.

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[โ€“] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 3 days ago

Templar Battleforce is a great little turn based strategy game with a squad of persistent troops fighting across missions.

[โ€“] Rin@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FL studio is pretty good. Got it ages ago and it still gets updates

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[โ€“] gt24@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days 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.

[โ€“] greendreams@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dicey Dungeons is pretty great.

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[โ€“] Crotaro@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Square Home.

I know the Windows Phone experiment failed but it was my first smartphone that I bought and not just inherited my dad's work-iPhone when it became deprecated. I really love the "live tile" type home screen and Square Home improves on it as well, instead of just carbon copying it.

Other than that, the FUTO keyboard / voice input and Grayjay, although these three technically offer a lifelong free testing period, similar to WinRAR, but even less obnoxious because they don't even remind you that they want you to pay for them.

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