Buying all the 194 paid apps obtainable for Apple’s Vision Pro will solely set you again $1,100.08, in line with app intelligence agency Appfigures. Considering you simply coughed up $3,500 to purchase the firm’s latest headset, that’s form of a cut price.
Appfigures analyzed the 730 apps optimized for the Vision Pro—which incorporates apps unique to the headset in addition to iOS apps that added a local Vision Pro expertise—to get a greater understanding of how builders had been responding to Apple’s latest gadget. (There are a couple of million iOS and iPadOS apps suitable with the Vision Pro, however these aren’t designed particularly for the Vision Pro and weren’t included in the evaluation).
Appfigures discovered that 73% of Vision Pro optimized apps had been both paid (26.5%) or required a subscription (46.7%). Lively Elements, an interactive periodic desk of parts, was the highest-priced app at $98. Meanwhile, Spatial Air Timer, an app that permits you to set a limiteless quantity of 3D timers, was the lowest priced at $0.57. Only 26.7% of Vision Pro-optimized apps had been utterly free.
The breakdown is stunning and in stark distinction to the App Store, the place paid apps make up roughly 5% of the choices. But that is to be anticipated at the starting of the gadget’s life cycle. There’s merely not a ton of cash in ad-supported apps or information harvesting when a tool is so new to the market.
Some builders are already reporting making financial institution. Christian Selig, for occasion, stated his app Juno—which the developer made to browse YouTube on the Vision Pro since YouTube hasn’t launched a local app for the gadget but—had “officially paid for the price of my Vision Pro” one day after the headset went on sale.
Selig is extensively recognized on-line for being the developer behind Apollo, a third-party app for looking Reddit that closed in 2023.
Only time will inform if paid and subscription apps proceed to dominate Vision Pro’s native app choices. For now, the funniest factor is that the price of all 194 paid apps on the Vision Pro is roughly the identical as the notorious “I Am Rich” app, a 2008 joke app priced at $1,000 that actually solely displayed the following textual content: “I am rich. I deserve it. I am good, healthy & successful.”
Something tells me a couple of new proprietor of the Apple Vision Pro advised themselves the identical factor when shopping for the Cyberpunk-esque headset.