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Bean is a Lemmy client for iOS.

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Bean is Now Available on the App Store (apps.apple.com)

submitted 1 year ago by steve228uk to c/bean

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Hey everyone 👋

Bean for Lemmy is now available on the App Store for everyone to download!

The app is free to use with a "Pro" plan that gives you access to some premium features like push notifications and multiple accounts, as well as a bunch of customisation options with more themes and app icons available.

Thank you to everyone who tested the app over the last month. I'm really happy with what I've made in a short period of time but… This is just the beginning and I have so much more planned including mod tools, kbin supported more!

I hope you'll check it out and I look forward to hearing your feedback ❤️

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Please reconsider the lifetime price 🙏. I want to support your efforts but I don’t do subscriptions and $30/$50 is too high a price for an unproven system (lemmy) and developer, and an app that still has some large bugs/issues and lacks some (what I would consider “essential”) functionality. This sentiment has been said by others in other communities when discussing Bean as well, so I don’t think I’m off base.

I said this elsewhere, but at $10 I have a feeling you’d get a lot more sales due to the price being in the impulse buy range, and low enough you’ll get FOMOers that are willing to throw down $10 to see what happens.

$30 for the early bird price means you can never go lower than $30 for future sales (Black Friday or what have you). I think that is a mistake, personally, and you may disagree.

[–] steve228uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate the feedback but I’m happy with the pricing.

As always, please feel free to write a post with a bug report or feature request and I’ll do my best to fix it or implement it 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bummer but I understand. Appreciate the reply. When does the early bird pricing expire? I might go for it anyway, you seem like a good dude and are very respectful and responsive so I want to support.

[–] steve228uk 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I really appreciate it!

The plan is the end of the month so 31st August would be the last day

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are the lacking “essential “ functions?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here’s a few off the top of my head. I’ll start keeping a list as I use the app more.

No in-line gif or video support
Cannot tap to collapse a post
Can’t edit comments from your profile screen
Can’t tap a comment in your profile to go to that comment in the thread
No gesture to swipe from right to left to return to the previous post (ie you’re viewing the All lost, open a post/thread, read comments, swipe left to right to go back to All list, scroll down a bit, then decide to return to the previous thread - in Apollo, you could wipe right to left to return to the last thread)
No hide read posts button (you have to do it through a menu)
Not enough compact comment option(s) - ie it would be nice to have the upvote/downvote count shown at the top of the comment to the right of the username
No default sorting order by list type (ie all, local, subscribed lists)
Collapsing a comment thread from the middle of thread does not automatically bring you to the next top level comment
Not essential, but doesn’t support animated community logos