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Can someone explain to me why people keep saying you can't have trials on the app store? I've seen 2 ways this is easily achieved: 1) Release your app for free

by vitd 11y ago

Can someone explain to me why people keep saying you can't have trials on the app store? I've seen 2 ways this is easily achieved: 1) Release your app for free, but make the non-trial features be a single in-app purchase for whatever the price of the app would have been. 2) Release a free or lite version, and also release a full paid version. Users can use the lite version to see if they like it, then they can buy the full version if they do. Often the lite version will inform the user they could do more if they upgraded to the paid version. Both of these currently exist. What is the impediment that makes developers think this isn't possible?

jasode 11y ago
>why people keep saying you can't have trials on the app store? >"... the non-trial features ..." "...lite version...full version..." >"What is the impediment that makes developers think this isn't possible?" It's possible to you because your idea of "trials" is crippled version vs uncrippled version. Other developers are talking "trials" in terms of time-limited-trial. The timed-trial is the full version with all features except it quits working after 30 days or whatever.
- vitd 11y ago
  Thanks for making that distinction!
bboreham 11y ago
"2.9 Apps that are "demo", "trial", or "test" versions will be rejected." https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
- vitd 11y ago
  Sure, but if it's just a free version with a single in-app purchase that unlocks key features, then it's not a demo, a trial, or a test app, so they won't run afoul of that. As proof, there are many "Lite" and "Full" versions, and I have seen a few apps that you unlock with an in-app purchase. So obviously this isn't a concern at the moment.