Expanded App Store Price Points Now Available for All App Purchases

[Analog Kid]

Weird to have 900 points but bar everything in between…

 

[Supermacguy]

Should really simply be entirely open pricing, why make 100s of arbitrary tiers?

 

[compwiz1202]

This got me wondering: When was the last time I actually paid money for an app?

I looked through my purchase history: December 21, 2021. It was a tiny web browser for my Apple Watch that cost 99 cents, lol. A few months before that I bought some of the more advanced Safari extension apps when those were new.

I remember back in the day I used to browse App Shopper every day and now I don't even care, lol. My iPhone can do almost anything I need it to.

Curious what apps people are actually buying nowadays? I'm out of the game and not even sure I'm missing anything.

Mine was a few months ago. 99c one time for a basic checkbook register.

 

[compwiz1202]

I am surprised by the $0.29 option. Credit card transaction fees would usually eat away almost all the cut that Apple would get.

When I paid for more stuff, it seems they would stack them up for a week or so or until the total purchases amount reached some point. And I don't know if it still happens, but I know some cards won't run for under a dollar.

 

[arlomedia]

Why a limited set of price points rather than any price between $0.29 thru $9,999.99 ?? Does Apple have an issue if a developer chooses $9.89 (let's assume this is not a price point), and price point of $9.99 ?? Just seems weird that devs do not get to choose any price within a range...

Agreed -- this felt needlessly complicated when I set up a bunch of subscription tiers on the Apple, Google and Amazon stores and the latter two let me choose any price I wanted while with Apple I had to choose the nearest available price, which was sometimes $25 away from the desired price.

It's also good that Apple now allows pricing ending in .00 instead of all prices ending in .99. Setting a price of $99.99 instead of $100 seems cheesy and inelegant and I will be rounding off all my app prices soon!

 

[BornAgainMac]

Need a I Am Rich Subscription option.

 

[bn-7bc]

Looking through my wallet for 29¢, but the smallest coin I gots is 5¢! Tricksters!

(Does the US still have pennies? Canada doesn't.)

Lockely the app store is not a physical cash transaction anyway, so the lack of coins for exact change is a non issue.

 

[_Spinn_]

Now, I'm waiting for IAMRICH 2 App to hit the Apple App store. 😀

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