OneLook Thesaurus

I downloaded this expecting ads and none of the more "paid-like" features mentioned in the description. However, it requires a subscription to do anything, including searching the thesaurus. It mentions this at the very bottom of the app's page here. The subscription doesn't appear to be a great value proposition, as searching here is no faster than typing `olth! SomeWord` into DuckDuckGo. The app is also rather choppy/slow to come up, so the idea that you're paying for a "native" feel doesn't seem quite accurate. I'd really appreciate a lifetime paid (~$10-20) version alongside the subscription offering, because that'd be worth it to me. But, as-is, I'm not going to maintain another service every month/year with a subscription. As a developer, I'm getting tired of this modern "subscribe to something that's mostly static" model appearing so often in computing. Happened in my old notetaking app, workout apps, and even in several recipebooks. I'll pay once, even if it just gives me a static download of the info, as it is today, forever, but a subscription is rather unfortunate. OneLook is perhaps the best thesaurus on the web, but I cannot recommend it on Apple phones without changes to its payment model. Nonetheless, I appreciate the user care needed to create a native app, despite the lag and odd monitization. If it comes to Google Play in the near future, I'll give this another try with my next Android phone. If that does happen, I hope to see a similarly native experience there using Material 3. Thank you for reading my feedback; hope this helped!

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