Apple App Store Revenue Split
The company is lowering the app store fee to 15 from 30 for developers who produce as much as 1 million in annual revenue from their apps and those who are new to the store.
Apple app store revenue split. Currently apple takes a 30 percent cut leaving developers. According to wired the developers union is also rooting for free trials for all iphone ipad and mac software in app store and mac app store by july not just subscription apps. Over the years services as well.
Apple s iphone sales accounted for 44 26 percent of the company s overall revenue in the third quarter of fiscal year 2020 the largest share of all apple products. Many developers have called on apple to update its own app store revenue sharing terms. So much so that google quickly followed suit in what appeared to be an example of healthy competition for.
Games stay at the same 70 30 split as before. Recently however companies have been actively fighting against the cut. Currently apple splits app revenue 70 30 with developers keeping 30 of the purchase price for itself.
In light of the news of the new epic games store offering an 88 12 royalty split it s expected to start selling android games in 2019 and now discord promising a 90 10 share in favour of developers we ve republished this piece on why time may be up for the 70 30 app store split. Netflix spotify and fortnite have all stopped threatened to stop paying the so called apple tax of 15 to 30 percent on app store revenues on the other hand sacconaghi acknowledges that the. By comparison microsoft just undercut apple and google with a new windows store revenue split that ll result in windows 10 developers keeping 95 of the revenue to themselves.
At a time when most mobile developers couldn t get. Other app distribution platforms including google play the amazon appstore and the samsung galaxy. Apple though will soon alter that model for developers that sell their apps as.
The change will go. This article was originally published on july 17th 2018. Since 2008 apple has implemented the same 70 30 revenue split on all app store purchases.