(We don't want accidental customers, we want customers who intentionally choose to purchase our apps.) But maybe I was misinterpreting what they were getting at! ![]() So I was pointing out our own time-based free trials-which are full trials in the old-fashioned "no strings attached" sense: they do unlock all the features of the app, and unlike subscription trials they don't auto-convert into a subscription when the trial period ends. Oh, that's a reasonable point! Coming at it from that angle I can't disagree with their statement that "For now, a free app with locked features is the only way to provide a free trial on iOS and iPadOS." I might have been skimming too fast, but my impression yesterday was that they were saying that there wasn't a way to offer free trials of the full functionality of their app. > Aren’t your trials also free apps with locked features? That is, the app is free to download, and if the customer isn’t doing the free trial subscription (or it has ended) the app works in a minimal mode with most of the features locked? But it's certainly possible to do so, as we've demonstrated! I fully understand that most developers might not want to go to the lengths that we did to make all these options available to customers. (And we even offer subscriptions, for those who prefer that model!) Under this model, we also continue to offer upgrade discounts (50%) to customers who own previous versions, bundle and volumes discounts (up to 30%), etc. We think this model is working well, and we're planning to roll this out across all our apps going forward (as we ship new major versions like OmniFocus 4, OmniGraffle 8, etc.). We offer traditional up-front version-based pricing for our latest major app release, OmniPlan 4, with the new twist that a single universal purchase unlocks the app across Mac, iOS, and iPadOS (whether purchased from the App Store or directly from us). > We’d love to charge one price for the app across all platforms – Mac, iOS, and iPadOS – and this is only possible with a subscription. ![]() > For now, a free app with locked features is the only way to provide a free trial on iOS and iPadOS.Īt the Omni Group, we offer time-based trials of OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and OmniPlan. That said, I do feel the need to provide some counter-examples to some of their assertions about what is possible: I wish the Pixelmator team all the best with their updates and business, and fully support charging reasonable prices across platforms.
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