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

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[โ€“] greendreams@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

Dicey Dungeons is pretty great.

[โ€“] berryjam@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

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

[โ€“] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Game: crying suns It's a full ftl type game that's on steam as well. Big story. Took me a while to get through it

[โ€“] BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 hours 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.

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

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.

I use Paprika 3 extensively.

I find recipes online, download them to the app stripped of all the online recipe bloat. It sorts all the information automatically, including notes and nutritional info. I can check off ingredients and highlight directions, edit tags, compile menus, add my own notes and write my own recipes, it automatically provides a grocery checklist, has a serving calculator to adjust amounts for whole recipes, built in timers, and that's just the basics off the top of my head.

It's free up to a certain amount of storage but I think all the features are available.

[โ€“] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 6 hours ago
[โ€“] Shialac@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

I think my cousin told me he really likes this game. Is it really worth the price?

It is one of the best games I've played this year. Really easy to get into for short bits, I pirated it first, played for a few hours on PC, bought it, played it for a few dozen more, and happily bought it for my phone.

Really good, very addictive

[โ€“] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Very much worthwhile. Pick up Slay the Spire while you're at it.

[โ€“] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 9 hours ago

I didnt enjoy it but my friends that do have lost days to it lol

[โ€“] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I got it yesterday, it's bloody solid. Did tend to demolish my battery a bit, but that night just have been because time was dissolving before by very eyes. If you commute or have to burn time a lot (I spent a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms recently) then it's amazing m no microtransactions either

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I love Simple Audiobook Player+. The UI is super minimal (and really maxes out the whole OLED black thing if you choose it) without compromising on features that are kind of essential for audiobooks (e.g. delayed pause/sleep timers, speed settings, volume boosting, an EQ). My favorite thing is the "undo seek" button. I'm an oaf who is constantly inputting accidental touches. When I was using Audible, I'd have to manually find where I was after accidentally hitting the next chapter button or moving the dot on the progress bar. SABP lets me just undo that shit.

It hasn't been updated in a while, but it doesn't need updating when it does its job so well. There are no ads, no marketing notifications, just books. It's like a program from coreutils in app form. It might be a bit ugly or outdated looking, but I'm about that.

[โ€“] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Smart audiobook player is great, but I do wish we had an open source alternative. The audiobookshelf app is almost there, but it still requires a self-hosted server I believe.

[โ€“] Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 points 8 hours ago

Smart Audiobook Player is different from Simple Audiobook Player. I actually didn't know about Smart ABP, it looks pretty nice!

I agree, I'd prefer a FOSS option that's self-contained. The only server I need is one that I can rsync books down from.

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Torque and a $5 BT car computer dongle. It tells you everything about your car. You can see what warning lights mean and clear the codes.

[โ€“] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What are the main things you use it for? All I ever do is change tires and oil. Both my cars are old, but have never broken down.

[โ€“] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you replied to, but it's great for telling you why the check engine light is on. If you're somewhere that requires emission testing: you can diagnose if you have an exhaust leak, bad O2 sensor, clogged catalytic converter, etc. Besides that: its good just to know if the check engine light can be safely ignored.

[โ€“] MacroCyclo@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Nice, fortunately my check engine light has never been on, but when it comes on, I'm doing this!

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To oversimplify, your car maintains a list of faults, and if that list isn't empty, it'll turn on the check engine light. An obd2 code reader let's you see those codes. I can vouch that these Bluetooth readers + torque are the cheapest way to get these codes without going to a parts store. Even if you have no intention of doing your own work on your car, it's good to have an idea what the problem is so your mechanic doesn't rip you off.

They generally only return obd2 codes though, which are required by law for emissions. Many automakers keep extra, proprietary codes that require expensive, proprietary tools to read.

[โ€“] windlas@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Am I looking at the wrong Torque? Doesnt work on newer versions of Android, and their webpage recommends a bunch of $150 OBD BT readers that are all discontinued a decade ago.

[โ€“] 0ops@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

this one

It's not the freshest app but it works

[โ€“] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 38 points 15 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 13 points 13 hours 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.

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[โ€“] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sleep as Android

It's just a really great alarm clock app, but with tons of other sleep tracking functionality. I've always had trouble sleeping through my alarms, but I never do with this.

[โ€“] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If you run Home Assistant, Sleep as Android can publish events to an MQTT broker so you can create automations based on those events, like "smart_period", "awake", "not_awake", "alarm_alert_smart", etc.

[โ€“] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I used tasker to slowly ramp up my bedroom lights before my alarm goes off. Makes it easier to get up and not as jaring.

[โ€“] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 55 minutes ago

If you have Hue bulbs (and maybe some other now, haven't looked in a while) Sleep as Android can do that too!

I came to say Sleep as Android as well. Been using it since we were submitting bug reports on Google+ (anyone old enough to remember Google+ ? lol) ... absolutely love it.

[โ€“] BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Slice and Dice is a very entertaining one time buy game. No bullshit in game purchases, no ads, I think developed by a singular guy.

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[โ€“] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 9 points 12 hours ago

Stardew Valley

[โ€“] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 17 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Symfonium is an awesome music player that's a one-time $5 purchase.

Great question, btw.

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago

Xou dolved the sinhle issue I had with Finamp: Casting to audio devices.
THANK YOU

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