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(he says as he is literally sitting drinking a cup of outside coffee lol)
Yeah, I can’t remember how much it was. However, in USA and Canada and I’m not sure which other countries you can request a copy of the data associated with your Apple ID. They give you a spreadsheet. It’s as easy as picking the price category and selecting to calculate the whole row then you have the whole thing with little work. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208502. If you aren’t in the US then just change the en-us to what you need it to be.
I keep a spreadsheet 😬
It helps me when I go to do my accounts, it’s a lot, like a couple of flagship synths, or a fancy new iPad Pro kinda sum. But it seems worth it considering the time I’ve spent enjoying just playing with it all the last few years, and I’d rather the dozens of synths, fx and other things than just the two synths. Though I wouldn’t mind selling some of it on to be fair, that kinda rankles a little, then again, I’m not sure what I’d sell that other people would want 😆
Now that you get all your apps for free, you can drink outside coffee everyday.
I had to switch to instant.
Probably the reason I don’t fuss about this... never liked coffee... more left for apps
I'm lucky that I live beside a store that actually does a decent coffee and has a lovely outdoor seating area, so my morning outside coffee costs me less than a quid, and tastes better than Starbucks (yes, yes, I know that's not saying much, but it gets me out of the house of a morning at least)
I'm onto that coffee scam... I bought an Espresso machine and stopped paying crazy prices for coffee and invested the savings in IOS apps. Sure the espresso machine wasn't cheap but
it paid for itself in both 6 months and the last 6 years have all been gravy. I drink 2 Venti Mochas a day... Hershey sells their Dark Chocolate powder online and the first order is 50% off so I buy 24 cans at a shot and I'm on my 3rd email to make each re-order a new user.
Where there's a will you find the resources to feed the addiction. And we should all have a will ready, right?
Too much, when I checked last time it was 2 maxed out 2020 11" iPadPro's...
...been in the 'app game' for the past decade or so...
Currently I try to keep the app spendings <$20 per month on average...
don't count the cost; count the joy.
I still get 5-10 iOS music apps for every 1 desktop plugin I buy (price-wise)
I reckon I'm on ~$1,500 over 4 years. I've really slowed down lately.
I was at about $800 last time I checked...
Yes, around 400$, little more as of now. I bought most of my stuff during black friday and x-mas sales last year and had set myself a budget of 200$ back then. Around 400$ more since then. Totally worth it though, all the software I got now is still less then a single piece of hardware.
I bought my iPad in 2019 specifically for music production. I checked my spending about a year ago. I thought it will be huge, but the number I calculated was shocking, almost double what I expected. So I decided to never check it again
and I've been trying to be a bit more conscious with app purchases since then.
However as long as I can 'put food on the family table' I think my approach is OK. I don't drink, smoke or gamble. These would be much worse 'hobbies'
I used to say it to my wife as well when I disappear for a few hour to my 'home studio'
like food when i am hungry, or a coffee for socialising, app purchases often nourish me
the cost of many, allow this to be so
i have not // try not to look at the cumulative total, just the flow
(though i did receive a statement from my bank, where they had helpfully pie-charted my outgoings,
and -- and this was the part i found 'interesting' in a 'just how much information does my bank have on me' kind of way -- there was a large slice of "music apps"!? --- how much info does the appstore share? --- i have since looked for this letter in my filings, but have yet to refind it, if i do i will post it, but i'm 99% certain this wasn't just a fever dream)
as @tk32 says "count the joy"
£30 to £40 a month since 2013, so probably about £3k. Worth every penny, this is has been a hugely fun and productive hobby for me.
It used to be over £400 a year in the heyday but now I’m seriously reducing my unnecessary app spend, only £34 this year so far
Just have done; I've been meaning to do it for a while and this thread spurred me on. 😉
Pleasantly surprised that my £1448.47 total since 2012 is not as high as I had predicted. Very telling that £337.40 alone was for 2020. The total doesn't include the few music download purchases I've made... these were all music apps apart from a handful of video/art/3D design tools.
my calculator won’t go that high
Oh yes, modular.... where a basic mono synth in a 104hp skiff can cost $2500. One the best/worst features of ModularGrid is you can see the total of your modular case. 😱
Disturbingly easy to go over $10k. You know you’re in trouble when you buy a Doepfer Monster case.
iOS is so minimal cost wise. If I had one complaint it would be unlike something like eurorack, it has zero resale value (like all software). There’s no way of recouping your money except actually selling music.
@Apex:
Sad but true. I recently calculated how much all my SoundCloud plays would have translated to in Spotify income, if I was on Spotify, which I am not. Over three years, maybe - £10. Or less. Lucky I’m not in this for the cash, eh?
Shhhhh... the wife might be listening.
I’ve bought almost every app mentioned in this forum over the past 2/3 years LOL or won them in a give a way
The question i ask myself is, which ones would i buy again and which ones are never to but used and would not have bought had i known.
I rarely delete apps as i fell like maybe someday I’ll open it and find a use ... but i really need a spring cleanup and to just erase space wasters on the iPad
Yeah you want dis bit, were gonna remove dis bit..... ferking brilliant!
I think we should better ask ourselves : what is the minimum amount of software we should spend to make the purchase of our iPad worthfull ?
I mean, if you buy a brand new iPad 1000$, wouldn't you actually lose money if you didn't buy any apps to leverage its capabilities ? I consider I would throw away almost 1000$ if it was just to surf on the internet.
I think spending 10-15% of the device price is a good minimum.
In November last year I went to calculate what I spent since lockdown last year March. That ended up being around €600... Was a bit of a shock as I though max half 😆 After I only got a few apps more, mainly Black Friday. Now for some months my PayPal got disconnected, no income to the bank account, and actually haven’t bought anything after that, besides Beef. When I lust after something, I proceed opening Drambo and do some experimentation to get something inspired by it, and actually that has given me a lot of satisfaction. Opening any of the dozens of apps I already have and really getting to know the inns and outs, researching the theory and history behind them in documents and videos, expanding knowledge on synthesis is very rewarding too.
No regrets though, as this has kept me occupied this past year of lockdowns, with no tourists allowed, resort closed, so nothing much to do for distractions. Surely I would have spend much more on other activities in a normal year. The pandemic got me back into music making, and the iPad saved my sanity and the apps have added to my understanding of music.
Well, that’s my confession as an appaholic 👻
A couple of other ways to ask the question:
1. What would you have spent the money on instead, and what proportion of the same satisfaction would it have given you?
2. What actual cash value (whether or not you can actually afford it) would you put on the satisfaction you've derived from your app purchases, or (to make it easier) your 1-5 favourite apps?
Don't wanna calculate that. Steam (for you PC Gamers) has an easy way to calculate how much I have there and its between 7-28k.
Let's not add music apps to the equation
For the past six months, when my friends invite me to a bar or somewhere else for fun, I say to myself:“ I should stay at home and buy some apps”
I’d be a little surprised if I’ve spent much more than $1,000 on apps over 11 years...that’s roughly 25¢ per day. Worth every penny!
Here is a newbie's perspective.
I have gotten into iOS music productions around a year ago and since then was continuously spending and overall spent around 400-500€ on
1) an all-in-1 DAW to write your ideas into (everyone has his choice, for a very cost effective start Nanostudio 2 seems to be a good start, eventually Cubasis 3)
2) a few effects to see what's further possible in terms of sound sculpting
3) a few basic synths (Synthmaster One, Model D).
And to my surprise I find first half of the year to be not less productive (when owning only a few apps) then now.
Conclusion: if you are on a budget, relax and create with what you got (it's already a lot). Don't get into habit of collecting apps because it doesn't increase creativity, but sometimes just takes time away from creating.
Conclusion 2: AUv3 FX over synths.
I've spent at least over $100 on Korg apps. Maybe another $100 on other music apps.