iOS raising app price and updates

[Mike¬]

Is it possible to start with a simple but useful app for a cheap price and then add functionality later but also raise the price in a way so that the early users only have to pay the difference in price for an update?

Is it perhaps even possible to discount the early clients?

 

[dejo]

Updates are always free. Customers only pay (excluding in-app) the first time they purchase the app. So, set a lower price. When your new version comes out, raise the price. Existing owners will get the new version for free.

 

[Mike¬]

Wait, so there's no way to release a new major version and charge existing owners for it?

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

Wait, so there's no way to release a new major version and charge existing owners for it?

You would have to release an entirely seperate app to charge people who have already bought it (unless you'd like a complicated system of IAPs - and you don't.)

I started with a simple app for $1 and have been slowly adding more features with each update and upping the price by $1 with each update. People who bought the first version get a discount (they only pay that initial $1,) for being early adopters.

 

[Mike¬]

Ok, thanks, that seems fair usually.