How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store

Re:How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store by andrewtbham on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:07PM (#8851683)

I have a similar app, onsite time tracker, and it makes way less. like a few hundred dollars per month.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onsite-time-tracker/id470803...

I have always been curious how much Hours Tracker makes. It dominates the app store searches.

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Re:How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store by ianlevesque on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @12:43PM (#8851907)

The article says free with IAP is making much more revenue. You'd probably be wise to try that with yours.

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Re:How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store by andrewtbham on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @01:37PM (#8852309)

yeh i agree. will probably make the change soon.

one struggle i had was what to make free and what to charge for. i thought about making the app free and charge only to export data, but i felt like people might feel duped by not realizing and then be forced to pay when they thought it was free. the plan with limiting the # of entries makes way more sense.

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Re:How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store by cribasoft on Wednesday January 07, 2015 @02:58PM (#8852880)

When I'm considering tweaks to IAP strategy, any ideas that entrap the user's data are non-starters. The user owns that data, they should always be able to get out what they put in.

Supertop's Unread also has a great (similar) take on IAP: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unread-rss-news-reader/id911...

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