How to find an app's price before purchase

Price is shown in a blue button next to the App icon and under the title.

If it only has a Get button with no price, it means it’s free to download.

As mentioned, many free to download apps will have in-app purchases or subscriptions. You can find both of those in the “in-app purchases” section below the description.

To find the price of an app, open the its description in the App Store and read EVERYTHING ... including the fine print where some of the cost details may be hidden. If you have a question about a specific app, let us know and we can offer better guidance.

It is shown right on the button you would tap to download the app. In this example, the price would be seen where it says "Get". For an app that has in-app purchases, those are noted right next to the button used to download it, and you can scroll down on that page in the App Store to see each in-app purchase it has along with the price of each one.

DrBukk wrote:

Thanks. It's a bit nerve-wracking to click "get" because you don't know if you have a chance to back out if the price is too high.

You must have misread Mac Jim ID's post because it says the app price is displayed where, in the example provided, it says "Get"( In MJID's post that app is apparently free so there is no price, but it does have in-app purchases). You do not have to click on anything.

You will usually find, though, that even if it says it is free that in the fine print in the lower half of the information page there are almost always in-app purchases which have prices next to them. In many apps I have seen you basically can't do anything without purchases, or the app will only save half of something or the first 30 seconds of something that is usually at least 3 minutes long. Other apps you will find you can do a lot of the basic things with no issue so they are free for limited usage but cost if you want full functionality. And, of course, a few are truly 100% free.

Get is a free download and you will not be charged anything to download the app. When noted with in-app purchases as in the example, there are optional charges to increase functionality or usage and those are also seen in the App Store if you want to review what they are before you download the app, but you can still download the app for free and decide later if you want to use any of those in-app purchases.

Here is an example of an app that does charge to download. There are no surprises after tapping the button what you will pay. Note that this one does not show any in-app purchases, so there are no optional charges after you pay to download the app to increase its functionality.

Phil0124 wrote:

Sorry Phil, I took too long to get my post together and saw you explained it better than I did.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

Phil0124 wrote:

Sorry Phil, I took too long to get my post together and saw you explained it better than I did.

It’s ok. The more the merrier.

The only "surprise" is, of course, income text, if applicable. A fair number of people complain about that, particularly if trying to pay with account balance that only just meets the base price.