I am! I'm a one man shop though and it's admittedly taking much longer than I'd like. But I like to think the result will speak for itself, otherwise I'll just be saying meaningless words.

No, that's not what I said. Someone said why is Pixel Pals getting attention right now, and I said because it's blown up and has been making more money than Apollo does on average, which warrants a bit of attention. Overall Apollo's made more than Pixel Pals.

That's totally cool, Ice Cubes is an awesome app, having options it terrific. For me, something that I use the crap out of like Mastodon/Twitter, paying a bit (even monthly) versus free isn't really a big factor given how much I use it. How much I like it is the bigger factor (otherwise we'd all be using Linux).

For me Ivory feels a bit more polished. The scrolling frame rate is smoother, the media viewer is better, etc.

Makes sense. I think some app devs get in a rut of trying to please everyone with specific designs and whatnot, but the reality is that people just have different tastes, and there's always going to be people seeking something different than what you're doing, and that's the beauty of having some options for apps. I always think back to that TED Talk about spaghetti sauce haha.

I always think of pricing with movies as a benchmark personally. I could go see a new movie at the theater for like $15 all in (provided I don't buy any food or anything), and get about 2 hours of enjoyment out of it. For an app over the course of the year I'll probably easily get 10-20x more usage and enjoyment out of it time-wise, so it feels like money well spent.

And oh yeah, the issues in Ice Cubes are very reasonable for it being the 1.0 launch, I didn't mean it as a massive criticism, the dev of it is very smart and I'm sure will hammer them out sooner than later. There's so many great options out there, I'm really enjoying Elk on my Mac too.

Thanks my friend <3