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How much money did you spend on apps in 2021?
I just started tallying up my expenses for calendar year 2021 for tax purposes. I’m self employed and in the music business so I write off all of my music related apps. In 2021 I spent $584.40 on iOS music apps and IAP’s. How much did you spend? Do you even want to know?!? 😁
It’s a bit of an eye opener…all of those “small” purchases really add up.
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Only things I bought last year were Loopy Pro and Animoog Z. TBH, 2021 was kind of a meh year for me when it came to iOS apps.
I just bought an iPad Air 4 at the beginning of the year so it was a whole new world for me. I’ve definitely slowed down and really KNOW what I want and need now. Some of these purchases were pricier apps like MixBox, Hammond B-3X, Fabfilter, etc…
Far, far, far too much.
Sounds like you fall into the “I REALLY don’t want to know” category. 😂
How about how much money did you spend on:
Coffee?
Beer?
Streaming services?
$584 would get me a StarBucks Venti Mocha every 3rd day. Somedays I drive through my local Starbucks twice just for comfort food. So, I bought an espresso machine.
iPad apps save me thousands very year by not buying hardware. So, I'll buy a new iPad.
Apps are the cost effective option. I haven't bought a new instrument in 3 years. Before my IOS addiction I would buy 1-2 a year. And I get to hang with a great group of people to discuss what to buy and how to make it work.
I'm too scared to look...
Funny topic. As an etiquette rule you don't talk about money that much. But I started buying stuff when there was Black Friday discount, and then X-mas sales started. I made a spreadsheet and I stopped counting at aprox. 600 euro. I did buy some more after this.
Looking backward this was a little bit sick. I could have bought a new Grado headphone, or other hardware. I should have kept my focus on guitar related apps, but I did buy a lot of synths, just because of the little prices. I keep quiet in 2022, I think I have everything covered.
An order of magnitude less than I spent on coffee.
Coffee? …not too much. I don’t do Starbucks often. I buy whole bean from a local roaster for about $6 a pound and grind it myself.
Beer?… good question. I’ve slowed down a bit on alcohol consumption over the past couple of years. Tbh, probably at least as much as I spent on apps.
Streaming services? …about $120 per year for Spotify
I’d rather not do the math, lol.
Less than 2020.
I'm with you.
I spent about 600€ last year on ipad apps.
I lost about 2000€ on all the hardware synths i sold last year.
My ipad is now a fully working synth cave which gives me pleasure every day. before it was a rarely used gadget.
my remaining hardware synths look cool, but collect dust.
best 600€ I spent on music gear ever.
Probably less than 3 hundred last years because not a lot of stuff came out I wanted but I have a ton of stuff I bought over the years and I’d easily put it in the thousands between all the Daws,synths, fx, amp sims, iap’s etc, been buying music apps since like 2012ish, I easily spent over 10 grand on hardware last year and I haven’t calculated what I spent on desktop apps, plug-ins and expansions. Oh, and I’m not even counting non music apps 🤦🏽♂️
Coffee -nothing.
Beer - nothing.
Streaming services - nothing.
Apps - something.
I just wanted to list some common addictions... Porn? Pot? Sex? Hardware? Instruments? Sports? Gambling? Pills? Just a rhetorical question.
£88 in 2021
tbh been trying to get to grips more with the apps I already have - delving deeper into the likes of Synthmaster One and StepPolyArp. And it’s paying off, I actually feel I’m getting somewhere now 🤘
It hasn’t been that much this year compared to other years.
Apple offers a service on privacy.apple.com where you can request a spreadsheet of a list and the cost of all the apps you have purchased. I think it’s not available in all countries, but is in most. They also send you way more than that spreadsheet I mentioned and it takes a week before you get it. Since it’s a spreadsheet you can just use a formula to add them all up right away.
Probably around 100$, Animoog Z, Timeless, Mela, various expansions. This year will likely be zero.
580 if I go back to Dec 1st 2021. Which is probably about 380 US.
I hate to think. I moved onto hardware now as at least it has resale value.
Maybe 100€, since I’m not that much of a spender nowadays. Now if I would amount all the apps I bought over the years (more than a decade), I’d estimate about 2000€, I don’t want to know, really...
About 325USD, about 10% of what I spent on hardware. Very pleased with my setup, both iPad and apps, and hardware and desktop.
That was one of my favorite features over on Tim Webb’s discCHORD, where it would list the apps you used in a piece, and their respective prices.
https://discchord.com/appnews/2021/05/21/edward-alexander-geoswam-tenor-sax-swam-brass-flugelhorn#comments
Waaaaay too much spent on apps in 2021 has caused me to have waaaaay too much fun making music in 2022
I also buy a lot and refund a lot. Would love it if apps had demos so that process wasn’t necessary.
I have probably spent close to $500 this year after refunds. Most of that went to Korg and Swam.
Easily that or more. I went to town on the Black Friday and holiday sales, so easily about $300+ USD dollars worth of stuff that looked like I would get use of later. Still grabbing some stuff when it comes on sale-- especially amps and other effects for guitars.
I put a rule for myself after Black Friday saying "No more synths", and I've been breaking it ever since.
Now on top of all this, I've been looking at cheap bluetooth keyboards-- even though I don't know how to play. I've been making do with the keyboard on screen, but have been wondering if it'd be a little easier with an actual keyboard.
Someone save me from myself.
Waaaaay too much. Only overshadowed by expensive hardware purchases just after Christmas, so I’m resisting any new apps at the moment, unless they help my hybrid setup. There are a couple at the moment I could probably use, but after going a bit mad during the Black Friday sales, I have more than enough apps to make pretty much anything I want to make. Need to spend a lot of time getting deeper into what I’ve got!