These follow the same rules as the reviews. The conflict of interest is stated before anything you might act on, every number comes from the company's own material and is dated, and the section on what the app does better is compulsory. None of them concludes that ours is the one to install.
Is Fabulous free?
The basic app is free for good. Premium has six prices on Apple, none on its own FAQ, and coaching is $87 a month with no refunds.
Read the breakdown →Is knitCompanion free?
The basics are free for good. Marking up a pattern takes a subscription Apple lists twice at $29.99 and Google Play never prices.
Read the breakdown →Is Subway Surfers free?
Yes, and paying is optional. Apple lists ten prices, none for turning ads off; the edition without ads is only on Apple Arcade.
Read the breakdown →Is Duolingo free?
Yes, and its own comparison table crosses out five of six rows. Duolingo's own page prices nothing; the two stores do, and they disagree about the trial.
Read the breakdown →Is Calm free?
Free to download, and Calm is one of the few apps that publishes a price. It publishes several: $69.99 a year in both stores, $79.99 on its own checkout.
Read the breakdown →Is ChatGPT free?
Yes, and there are now two free tiers: one with ads, one that charges you in message limits instead. OpenAI prices every paid plan and neither free one.
Read the breakdown →Is Strava free?
Yes, and Strava prices five plans to the cent. But four of its own pages describe the free account three different ways, and no store listing prints a number.
Read the breakdown →Is Finch free?
Yes, and Finch commits in writing that the core stays free. Google Play prints the price Apple leaves out, and two different trials share one name.
Read the breakdown →Is Todoist free?
Yes, for up to five projects. Todoist publishes a full price list and neither store prints a number, and the rule that decides it is in a third article.
Read the breakdown →Is MyFitnessPal free?
Yes for logging, and the free tier has a date on it: barcode scanning stopped being free on 1 October 2022. Two surfaces say the trial is 7 days, one says 30.
Read the breakdown →Is Forest free?
Yes, and the one-time Forest Pro is gone for good. Forest prices Plus on no page of its own; Apple lists it at $5.99 monthly and $35.99 a year.
Read the breakdown →Is Noom free?
Free to download, with a free tier that survives cancellation. Noom prices all twelve plan lengths, $70 to $209, in a support article no sales page links to.
Read the breakdown →How much does Fetch cost?
No money, and there are no in-app purchases. Fetch's own terms name the price instead: using it directs Fetch to share your information with its brands.
Read the breakdown →How much does Sweatcoin cost?
Apple lists Premium at $4.99 and $24.99. Sweatcoin's own website, both store descriptions and all 85 of its help articles name no price at all.
Read the breakdown →How to cancel Rocket Money
Two routes, and which one works depends on who bills you. The store steps are published only inside an article about Rocket Mortgage.
Read the breakdown →How to cancel Duolingo
Three cancellation routes, decided by who took the money. The terms say Duolingo cannot refund store purchases; its help center tells Android users to ask.
Read the breakdown →Is Headspace free?
Free to try, not to keep: Headspace's own list of free things is all outside the app. And its $9.99 student plan steps up twice after you graduate.
Read the breakdown →Is Babbel free?
The first lesson of every course is free. After that, what you buy differs by store, and a US web plan renews for its full term with no partial refund.
Read the breakdown →Is YNAB free?
No, but the trial on ynab.com needs no card and ends on its own. Start it in an app store and, on Google Play, it turns into a subscription.
Read the breakdown →Is Simply Piano free?
Partly. Piano Basics and Touch Intro are free for good, with no ads. Other courses need Premium; the US App Store lists ten prices, $19.99 to $179.99.
Read the breakdown →Is PokeArt free?
Free to download, with ads. Apple lists one purchase, Unlock All Cards at $2.99, with no renewal listed. Reviewers say many card options open only after an ad.
Read the breakdown →Why the price is so often missing
Neither app store requires a developer to explain what a subscription costs, and a company's own marketing page can name three tiers without pricing any of them. What the stores do carry is amounts without context. Apple's Information section has an In-App Purchases row that reads “Yes” and expands into up to ten items with prices and no billing periods. Google Play prints a fuller line only where a developer has filled in its optional items section — In-app items and offers on an app, In-game items and offers on a game. So the question “what would I be charged, and for what” is frequently not answered anywhere you can read before installing, even when a number is.
When that happens these pages say so and name the surfaces we checked. We do not borrow a figure from an affiliate post, since it cannot be verified and goes stale without warning. If nobody publishes the price, that is what the page reports.
The reward-app version of the same question — what an app pays you rather than what it costs — is in what they actually pay. Comparisons are in the alternatives, and the games we write about are in the games.