Freemium app & monetisation rules

I was wondering how everyone is handling their Freemium apps with the 'payment required' label. I see some do have it labeled, and so do not.

When you can use the app for free, and only 'premium' features are behind a paywall, is the 'payment required' label then officially needed? I always labeled my apps with 'payment required', but as it seems lot of freemium apps don't have that. So I've now removed that as it seems tolerated by the Garmin ConnectIQ team. But the rules of this are not really clear to me. Any advice on this?

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FlipStone over 2 years ago

Been thinking of making my apps paid, reason being it's just very time consuming to keep things up to date, add new features, fix stuff when a new connectiq version comes out, etc...

So far I've always made it free with donations being appreciated, had some but really few considering the amount of work and nr of downloads (though I believe when you update the app and ppl update their installed version this also counts as 'a download').

Then again, making it paid also brings responsibilities and now with them being free I can just 'wait for a moment where I might have some time'.

Meh, not really sure if it's worth it...

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 2 years ago in reply to FlipStone

hi, here is my point of view about this:

my apps are paid, I mean some functions are locked with PRO code,

so as you said I own them since you paid,

BUT since I have responsabilities, I spent 90% of my Garmin allocated time answering people who does not read anything or does not pay attention at wat they do.

So I won't complain that is my choice but here is the "reality" on my side.

Hope it will help you in your choice