Are all apps on the iPhone App Store paid?

No. 84% of apps are free and developers pay nothing to Apple.

As every fair marketplace, developers decide what a collection of price ranges they want to charge. Apple only receives a fee from developers when it offers a digital product or service via an app.

Below are some of the popular ways developers make money on the App Store.

1. Free

• Amazon Alexa
• Chase Mobile®
• Geico
• Wikipedia

2. Free with advertising

• BuzzFeed
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• Twitter

3. Free with physical goods and services

• Airbnb
• Amazon
• Lyft
• Target

4. Free with in-app purchase

• Candy Crush Saga
• Clash of Clans
• Skype
• TikTok

5. Free with subscription

• Bumble
• Calm
• Hulu
• Pandora

6. Paid

• Dark Sky Weather
• Facetune
• Heads Up!
• Monument Valley 2

7. Reader

• Amazon Kindle
• Audible
• Netflix
• Spotify

8. Cross-platform

• Dropbox
• Hulu
• Microsoft Word
• Minecraft

The App Store today is more colorful and creative than ever, offering developers equal opportunities to deliver content and services through iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch. Apple is proud of the store they built, and of how they designed it.