For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.

None of the free alternatives do everything I need.

I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.

EDIT:

This one’s debatable, but I use it all the time. Plasticity is 3D modelling software that attempts to bridge the gap between practical CAD programs and software meant for 3D artists like Blender. It’s not cheap considering Blender is free, but it’s buy once use forever, and at (I think) $150 it’s within reach of an individual hobbyist who knows what they want and is willing to pay for it.

  • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip
    17·
    15 days ago

    Moonreader Pro. It’s an ebook readers for Android. The Pro/paid version has any feature you could ask for:

    • reads just about any file format (epub/mobi/pdf/etc)
    • has text-to-speech (everything can now be an audio book)
    • you can add annotations/notes/bookmarks (and color code them)
    • the annotations/notes/etc will sync to a remote server (Dropbox, your own self-hosted webdav, etc)
    • it can pull/fetch books from your own remote server
    • where you are in the book is also synced to the remote server, meaning you can read on your phone, but switch to a tablet and immediately continue.

    Any feature, I wish an ebook reader would have - moon reader delivered (but finding these features is not intuitive).

    • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
      5·
      14 days ago

      Honestly I’ve use it, it’s good but uses far my resources that it should.

      KOreader is the FOSS alternative and while its interface sucks. Its reader is excellent.

      • LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip
        3·
        14 days ago

        Interesting, I’ll take a look at it. It seems to tick all the same boxes as moonreader, but also works on Linux and Mac.

        I was curious if KOreader worked on iPhones (AFAIK, it does not), but a FOSS alternative did, readest. I’ll probably take a look at that too.

        • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
          1·
          14 days ago

          The only area KOreader fails in is the lack of widgets. Coolest (or not depending on how you see it) is the Chinese ereaders use it as their devices reading engine and make their own launcher to throw you into KOreader.

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      1·
      13 days ago

      I bought the pro version of this app years ago, but after jailbreaking my Kindle and installing the open source KOreader on it, I’ve moved to the KOreader app on Android and Readest app on Ios as it comes with built in reading position sync and it can directly connect to my Calibre OPDS server to download the books