Interesting: App Store Expense Monitor
December 23rd, 2009
Here’s a fun Mac app that will bring some year-end good news (or bad, depending on how you look at things): App Store Expense Monitor. It analyzes all the iPhone apps you’ve downloaded, lists their price, and adds up the total.
According to the app, I’ve spent $360 bucks on iPhone apps. That’s actually lower than I feared, but on the other hand I could have bought thirty dog Snuggies.
The Good
- Lists apps in columns of name, category, and price, all of which are sortable if you click in the top column, so you can see the most expensive apps.
- Option to have the sum total appear in your menu bar – presumably as a painful reminder of your spending habits.
The Bad
- Prices are calculated when you launch the app based on what’s in the app store right now, so the price you originally paid may not appear, if the app has dropped in price. I know this is the case for Scrabble (now selling for $4.99, while I’m pretty sure I paid about ten bucks) and iDracula (now on sale for 99 cents). You can double-click on any displayed price and updated it with your own, however.
Conclusion
App Store Expense Monitor does what it claims, plus: it’s free. And I now have some ability to budget for my iPhone app addiction next year – which is, priceless.
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I was surprised how “low” mine was as well. A reported $209.39. Mine shows Scrabble at $9.99, as well as Bejeweled 2 and TETRIS, neither of which I play often. Par 72 Golf (another flop) was $7.99, while SimCity was $5.99. Looks like the more expensive they are, the less likely I am to play.
Once you get to $4.99, the territory of HOMERUN BATTLE 3D and others, do we have some winners.
$200 – not bad. Would be nice to hear others' totals. Would not be surprised to hear we're on the high side.
I do agree, the sweet spot of iPhone Apps seems to be around $5 or less. And it's the big name game publishers (EA comes to mind) that start out at ten bucks with the price slowly dropping afterwards. So many good games and apps can be had for less.
I'll have to check out Homerun Battle 3D
$437
Impressive… that's a lot!
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