• lengau@midwest.social
    100·
    4 months ago

    I have mixed feelings here. I legitimately paid ($1, once, a decade ago) for a calculator app and feel it was a great value (I still prefer it to this day). But then again the free version was fine too and the one-time payment was essentially a donation to the developer for a great app that unlocked… Themes…

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, I paid for PCalc because someone put in effort to make it, and it’s good. Don’t feel bad about that.

      But I wouldn’t subscribe to one.

    • AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      4 months ago

      I like that model. You get to try the software for free and have a way to thank the developer and get something extra, rather than just a pure donation.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      4 months ago

      F-Droid has an Android port of the Unix maxima, which is a whole free and open-source computer algebra system, that handles all my heavier lifting. And I’m pretty sure that every phone that I’ve ever seen ships with at a software package that can act as a five-function calculator, if someone is just looking for something simple.