How to price an iPad App – is $2.99 too much of bodyCal2 BMI/BMR calculator/tracker?
How much should an iPad App cost? Having looked around the US iTunes store, and looked at the pricing it is hard to tell. Is $2.99 to much for bodyCal2 – home page – download.
As is pointed out in Apps: What prices will iPad users accept? Apps range (list from the article):
- Pages (Apple) $9.99
- Numbers (Apple) $9.99
- Keynote (Apple) $9.99
- OmniGraffle (The Omni Group) $49.99
- Scrabble for iPad (Electronic Arts) $9.99
- At Bat 2010 for iPad (MLB.com) $14.99
- Things for iPad (Cultured Code) $19.99
- The Elements: A Visual Exploration (Element Collection) $13.99
- Plants vs Zombies (PopCap Games) $9.99
- SketchBook Pro (AutoDesk) $7.99
I will be buying iWorks at those prices, I am an OmniGraffle Profession ($199) user, and love it, but can’t justify $49.99 as I don’t think I would use it that much. The other Apps on the list are not ‘my thing’, so I can’t comment.
Searching the iTunes App Store (US) with BMI (body mass index) I get 5 Apps (one of which is bodyCal2), and prices range from free, to $3.99. And, at the risk of ‘blowing my own trumpet’ I would say that bodyCal2 is the most ‘iPad looking’ of the 5, and the others seem to be oversized iPhone Apps.
Searching the iTunes App Store (US) with BMR and ‘basal metabolic rate’, a key number to know in weight control, only returns bodyCal2….
So, my guess I is I have priced bodyCal2 about right, possibly a bit low as it is the only BMR calculator and recorder out there…
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