Sensor Tower: iOS Users Spent $13.5 Billion on Top 100 Subscription Apps in 2021, Up 31% Year-on-Year

[svish]

Not surprised to see Disney+ and HBO Max on the list at the top

 

[Ulfric]

Once you have gone ad-free, you can’t go back.

Why not use YouTube Vance? It will give you an ad-free experience on Smartphone. On Desktop/Laptop Ublock Origin & SponsorBlock for YouTube do the rest of the job.

 

[Abazigal]

Why not use YouTube Vance? It will give you an ad-free experience on Smartphone. On Desktop/Laptop Ublock Origin & SponsorBlock for YouTube do the rest of the job.

Because I consume YouTube primarily on my Apple TV and never got round to configuring my router to block ads at that level.

 

[Daalseth]

There is a real problem with terminology in this article. A subscription SERVICE is what most all of those shown are. I'll subscribe to a service, a VPN, a streaming vidio or music service, an AntiVirus, a gaming service like AppleArcade. Those are SERVICES with an ongoing benefit and the developer provides the service on an ongoing basis. I will NOT subscribe to an APP that requires subscribing. An App I own and the developer does nothing after the sale so they do not deserve anything after I buy my copy of the App. I will not subscribe to Office365, Adobe CreativeCloud, and such.

It is very deliberately deceptive to lump all of these very different things together as "subscription apps".

 

[mi7chy]

#2 Tinder explains why that platform is popular with perverts.

 

[txscott]

I have Hulu Live,Disney,ESPN bundle on all my apple devices that I don't buy through the App Store, because, that's just the way I did it. I don't consider it a subscription app, but a subscription service, a replacement for cable. I expect services to be subscription based. I'm not subscribing to your email client, todo list, or notes application.