Ask HN: How much money do you make every month from your iOS app?

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by jetupper • 14 years ago

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anonymous19836• 14 years ago

My buddy and I make between $50,000 - $60,000 per month. We have been doing this exactly 1 year.

Mitchella• 14 years ago

Which applications if you don't mind me asking?

anonymous19836• 14 years ago

Sorry, I don't want to give away my identity.

jetupper2• 14 years ago

Wow, would love to know what are the apps too. Or perhaps, in what category / categories are your apps in?

anonymous19836• 14 years ago

Entertainment, lifestyle, and games.

dear2• 14 years ago

Good for you! That is like 6MM a year! Pretty soon you can retire!

Do you get most of your revenue from Ads, paid apps or In App Purchase?

hodder• 14 years ago

Your math is off by an order of magnitude, but 50k a month is still amazing.

anonymous19836• 14 years ago

Yeah, I wish it were 6MM a year. Anyways, I get about 40% from In App purchases and 60 percent from ads.

aoporto• 14 years ago

What have you found to be most effective for marketing your apps?

anonymous19836• 14 years ago

I've tried multiple forms of marketing. 1. Admob - Got users to the app, but the app did not retain those users and it was quite expensive to even get them to the app. Over $1 per user for me. 2. Tried facebook ads. Just a complete failure for me. 3. I cross promote my apps within my own apps. That does ok. I'm not exactly sure the exact amount of traffic it drives, but it probably accounts for 5% of the user base on the apps i promote. 4. Facebook, Twitter Sharing. This probably accounts for 5 - 10% of new downloads within an app.

ansonl• 14 years ago

I make about $100 - $200 as a hobby developer of one paid app. It has been in the store about 4 years. App is Geometry Stash.

mansigandhi• 14 years ago

About $200-400 a month on one paid iPad app in the Music category

mstockton• 14 years ago

Was making between $500-$900/month consistently for 1+ year, but the release of iOS6 hit my download count significantly. The app is Group Texting Pro

Ask HN: How much money do you make every month from your iOS app?

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