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One-time purchase
Every App Comrade review tagged One-time purchase, across every platform.
Wo.Audio-Hypnosis files itself under Medical and hopes nobody asks why.
A 99-cent self-hypnosis audio player on the Amazon Appstore, parked in a category it has no business being in, with no studies, no licensed practitioners, and no real disclosure of what's inside the recordings.
MAY 11, 2026
Pocket Dinos is a small, honest dinosaur reference for small humans.
A $2.99 illustrated species deck from Distant Train that does one thing — name and describe dinosaurs at a kid's pace — and stops before it learns any bad habits.
MAY 11, 2026
EMS ePCR is a paramedic's clipboard reimagined as a 99-cent Fire app.
An indie electronic patient care report tool that lives on a Fire tablet in the back of an ambulance. The price is right; the scope is narrow; the workflow questions are real.
MAY 11, 2026
Letter Name Flashcards is a $1.99 alphabet drill, and that's the whole pitch.
Dezol Inc.'s toddler flashcard app does one thing — show a letter, say its name, swipe to the next — and asks for two dollars instead of a subscription. On a Fire Kids tablet, that math still works.
MAY 11, 2026
Fart Prank is a 99-cent gag that does the one thing it promises.
A single-purpose Amazon Fire novelty: pick a sound, hit the button, embarrass a sibling. There is no second act, and the app does not pretend there is one.
MAY 11, 2026
Criminal Law is a pocket reference, not a defence.
A no-frills Fire tablet primer that lays out the basics of criminal statutes for readers who want to look something up — and absolutely nothing more.
MAY 11, 2026
Owls is a charming one-bird encyclopedia trapped in a 2017 Fire tablet.
A single-topic reference app about the world's owls — taxonomy, calls, range maps, photographs — that does its narrow job well and asks nothing more of the reader than curiosity.
MAY 11, 2026
Battles of World War II is a textbook chapter sold as an app.
A short reference compendium of major WWII engagements, packaged as a standalone Fire tablet title. It does one thing — and only one thing — competently.
MAY 11, 2026
Rain Sounds charges $3.45 to do what a YouTube tab does for free.
A paid Fire-tablet rain-noise app in a category drowning in free alternatives. The audio is fine. Everything around it is the question.
MAY 11, 2026
Swamp Sounds is a one-dollar bayou on loop, and it mostly works.
A single-purpose ambient app for Fire tablets — frogs, crickets, distant water — sold for ninety-nine cents and built to run in the background while you sleep or work.
MAY 11, 2026
AR Drawing turns a Fire tablet into a tracing window, and not much else.
A camera-overlay tracing app aimed at kids who want to draw cute subjects from a pre-loaded gallery — useful for the half-hour it takes to learn what it does, light on everything past that.
MAY 11, 2026
A $9.99 Fire TV screensaver that asks you to pay for what YouTube gives away.
JasmineStyle's wildlife ambience loop is competent 4K filler for an idle television, but the price tag is doing a lot of work the footage isn't.
MAY 11, 2026
BookBuddy Pro is the personal-library app that refused to die.
Fifteen years in, BookBuddy still beats Goodreads at the one job most readers actually have — keeping track of the books on their own shelves.
MAY 11, 2026
Minecraft on iPhone is still the cheapest ticket into the biggest sandbox in games.
Fifteen years on, the Bedrock build keeps pace with the console versions, holds onto its one-time price, and survives touch controls better than it has any right to.
MAY 11, 2026
Pou is a fourteen-year-old virtual pet that refuses to die.
The brown alien from 2012 still launches on a current iPhone, still asks to be fed, and still costs less than a coffee — a small miracle in an App Store that buries anything older than last fiscal quarter.
MAY 11, 2026
TypeMaster is a one-developer bet that iOS will let an AI keyboard be useful.
A 99-cent AI keyboard from an indie shop runs into the same wall Gboard and SwiftKey did — and then asks who's paying for the tokens.
MAY 11, 2026
Crypta wants to be your photo vault, but iOS already has one.
A clean, ad-free locker for photos and videos that runs into the same wall every iOS vault eventually hits: the operating system got there first.
MAY 11, 2026
Bag It! still bags groceries better than any physics puzzler should.
Hidden Variable's 2011 grocery-stacking puzzle game has outlasted every mobile gaming trend since, and the free Android version still nails the core loop.
MAY 11, 2026
Plague Inc. is still the strategy sim that turned mass extinction into a design lesson.
James Vaughan's pathogen simulator has aged into a genre fixture — recursive, replayable, and weirdly elegant a decade after release.
MAY 11, 2026
Letterpress is still the cleanest word game on a touchscreen, fourteen years on.
Loren Brichter's 2012 territory-capture word game has changed hands twice and lost almost none of its bite. Solebon's Android port is faithful, async, and refreshingly small.
MAY 11, 2026
Scribblenauts Unlimited still rewards the weirdest word you can think of.
5th Cell's type-any-noun-and-it-appears puzzle game ports its core trick to Android intact. The vocabulary is the gameplay.
MAY 11, 2026
TvMate Pro on LG webOS is a competent IPTV player held back by its own model.
The recognised IPTV-player brand arrives on webOS with the full M3U/Xtream toolkit, but the same bring-your-own-playlist caveat applies on a 65-inch screen as it does on a phone.
MAY 11, 2026
IBO VPN PLAYER bolts a tunnel onto the familiar IBO IPTV shell.
A webOS variant of the long-running IBO Player family that routes playback through a VPN before hitting the user's M3U or Xtream-codes endpoint. Useful for a narrow audience; legally and ethically dependent on what's on the other end of that playlist.
MAY 11, 2026
XTV Ultra is a competent shell waiting for a playlist you have to bring yourself.
An M3U-and-Xtream-Codes player that asks nothing about content and judges nothing about source. What you load into it is on you — and so is the experience.
MAY 11, 2026
Bitcoin Price Screensaver turns an idle TV into a market ticker.
A $1.99 Roku channel that does exactly one thing — show the current Bitcoin price when nothing else is on the screen. Niche, honest, and oddly compelling.
MAY 11, 2026
Happy Birthday TV Screensaver turns the living-room TV into a six-dollar party prop.
Storm Jam's $5.99 channel replaces the Roku default screensaver with a loop of birthday imagery — cake, candles, balloons, confetti. It does one job, charges once, and stays out of the way the rest of the year.
MAY 11, 2026
ByCoverWithLove is a sweet Korean Flipfont that knows exactly what it is.
A handwritten Korean-Latin display face from Monotype's Flipfont catalogue, sold for the price of a coffee. It does one job on Samsung phones, and on those phones it does it well.
MAY 11, 2026
MjSensibilitySans is a quiet, well-mannered Korean sans that earns its place on a Galaxy.
Monotype's Korean Flipfont catalogue is enormous and mostly interchangeable. MjSensibilitySans is one of the few you can live with for a month without flinching.
MAY 11, 2026
MjStarNight Korean Flipfont is a quiet skin for Hangul, sold one font at a time.
Monotype's Flipfont catalogue still treats Samsung keyboards like a wardrobe. MjStarNight is the late-evening outfit — a softer Korean typeface that does one job and asks for one payment.
MAY 11, 2026
MjTheRoad Korean Flipfont swaps your system type for a tidy handwritten Hangul.
A paid Monotype Flipfont that re-skins One UI's Korean characters in a casual hand-lettered style. Pleasant where it works, narrow in what it changes.
MAY 11, 2026
MjThisChristmasLatin is a December-only flourish that overstays the season.
A Monotype FlipFont in the seasonal-script tradition — looped, ornamented, and unmistakably Christmas. Pay once, install once, swap it back out in January.
MAY 11, 2026
Nabicycletrip Korean Flipfont is a one-purpose download with a curious name and a clear job.
A Monotype Hangul typeface sold through Samsung's FlipFont system. It changes the way Korean text looks on a Galaxy phone, charges once, and then disappears into the OS.
MAY 11, 2026
PKsuperhero Latin FlipFont turns your Galaxy menus into a comic-book splash page.
A Monotype FlipFont in the inflated, ink-shadowed register of mid-century superhero comics. Fun in the home screen for an hour, harder to live with in a settings menu.
MAY 11, 2026
XZ Miss You Silently is a moody Latin Flipfont sold for a single feeling.
A Monotype-built single-script Flipfont that trades range for mood. The drawing is genuinely expressive — which is also why you cannot live in it all day.
MAY 11, 2026
XZ Sleep Tight is a sleepy display face dressed up as a system font.
Monotype's Flipfont catalogue gets another bedtime-themed novelty face. It works as advertised, which is exactly the problem when the advertised job is system-wide typography.
MAY 11, 2026
ZFholidaygift Latin Flipfont dresses your phone like a Christmas card.
A festive Monotype Flipfont in the long-running Galaxy Store typography catalogue. It does one decorative job, charges a couple of dollars to do it, and then stays out of the way.
MAY 11, 2026
Talk Russian is a pocket phrasebook that knows what it is.
A small paid reference app for English speakers heading to Russia or starting Cyrillic from zero. No lessons, no streaks — just categorised phrases on a Fire tablet.
MAY 10, 2026
A 99-cent Fire utility that does one job, slowly, and asks no questions.
MP3 Converter: Video to Audio strips audio off whatever video file you point it at. It works. Whether you should be pointing it at that file is between you and your conscience.
MAY 10, 2026
Line-3 turns a centuries-old board game into a ray-traced pocket puzzle.
Nicolas Schulz's tiny indie reskins Picaria — the Native American ancestor of Tic-Tac-Toe — as a 15-round score chase rendered with realtime ray tracing on iOS.
MAY 10, 2026
Plague Inc. is still the cleanest strategy game on iPhone.
Ndemic's pandemic sim has barely changed in years, and that restraint is the point. The mechanics still hold up, the upgrade trees still teach themselves, and the price still beats almost anything else in the genre.
MAY 10, 2026
Egg, Inc. is the idle game that respects your wallet.
Auxbrain's nine-year-old hen-farming sim keeps shipping content while refusing the dark patterns that define its genre. Ads are optional, IAPs are voluntary, and the long-tail loop still rewards showing up.
MAY 10, 2026
Minecraft on Android is still the best $7 a kid can spend, and the worst storefront they'll ever touch.
Bedrock's mobile build keeps shipping feature drops on a steady cadence — Chase the Skies, The Copper Age, Mounts of Mayhem — while the in-game Marketplace quietly doubles its prices and the Realms upsell never sleeps.
MAY 10, 2026
Storm Jam's Halloween Screensaver charges a dollar extra for the same idle pumpkins.
There are at least a dozen Halloween screensavers on the Roku channel store. This one costs $2.99, ships three stills, and asks the buyer to take the developer's word on the rest.
MAY 10, 2026
Birthday Celebration Saver turns the TV into a $3.99 party prop.
A single-purpose Roku channel from Storm Jam LLC that fills the screen with celebratory imagery while the cake comes out. It does one thing, and it's honest about it.
MAY 10, 2026
Halloween Screensaver turns the TV into a $1.99 mantelpiece for October.
JP's seasonal channel does one thing — fill the screen with Halloween imagery when the box goes idle — and the question is whether one-thing-for-six-weeks is worth two dollars.
MAY 10, 2026
Santa Screensaver turns a Roku into a $2 December decoration.
A paid seasonal screensaver from a one-person developer. It does one thing for six weeks of the year and then sits dormant on the channel list.
MAY 10, 2026
Fireside Comfort turns the TV into a competent fake fireplace.
A $2.99 ambient loop channel from Storm Jam LLC. It does the one thing it advertises, and the question is whether you want that thing badly enough to pay for it instead of using YouTube.
MAY 10, 2026
New Years Eve Rockin' Musical is a $3.99 fireworks loop with a December shelf life.
A short ambient channel of firework displays set to music. Useful for one party a year, hard to justify the price tag for the other 364 days.
MAY 10, 2026
1941 Frozen Front Premium is Panzer General on a Galaxy phone, ads and all stripped out.
HandyGames' hex-grid Eastern Front campaign is dated, deliberate, and one of the few paid wargames worth installing from the Galaxy Store.
MAY 10, 2026
BaYourHeart is a handwritten Korean-Latin Flipfont that mostly does the job.
A Monotype-built FlipFont pairing a soft, handwritten Hangul face with a matching Latin set. It looks good on a Galaxy home screen, until you notice which weights aren't there.
MAY 10, 2026
MfNiceFonts is a one-decision Korean typeface for the Galaxy font picker.
Another Monotype Flipfont — this one a friendly Hangul face that lives or dies on whether you ever look at the lock screen and think your phone looks like everybody else's.
MAY 10, 2026
MjSummerHillLatin is a single handwriting font dressed up as an app.
A Monotype FlipFont that does one tiny job — install a soft, rounded handwriting typeface as your Samsung system font — and asks for a small payment to do it.
MAY 10, 2026
King James Bible on Fire is a serviceable digital pew Bible.
BiblesApps' KJV reader on Amazon is a no-frills offline scripture app. It does the basics, charges $1.99 once, and steps out of the way.
MAY 9, 2026
Letterpress survived its creator. Solebon kept the lights on.
Loren Brichter's 2012 word game was a design icon. He sold it to Solebon LLC in 2015. Twelve years later it still works — slower, plainer, but recognisably the game iOS designers cried over.
MAY 8, 2026
Worms 3 is a 2013 game on a 2026 phone, and it still works.
Team17's mobile-only artillery game is twelve years old and Android still rates it 4-plus. The card mechanic and four worm classes were the right additions to a series that didn't need them.
MAY 8, 2026
Things 3 has been the same app for nine years. That's the point.
Cultured Code's task manager hasn't changed shape since 2017. In an era where every productivity app is rebuilding itself around AI, the one that didn't is starting to look like the smart one.
MAY 7, 2026