Where app developers actually publish their prices

Why the App Store can’t tell you

An App Store listing reports what it costs to download an app. It does not report what it costs to use one. The subscription tiers sold inside the app are a separate thing, and the listing does not carry their figures, so an app can show as free and cost $124.99 a year.

Pocket Prep’s IT & Cybersecurity app is the plainest case in this set. Its App Store listing shows the app as free to download. Its annual subscription is $124.99. Both of those are true at the same time, and only one of them appears on the listing. The two apps are set against each other in CertFlash vs. Pocket Prep.

That gap is why every price on this site is sourced to the developer rather than to Apple. The listing is accurate about the thing it describes — it simply does not describe the number most people end up paying.

Most developers publish clearly

Before any of what follows: the ordinary case is a pricing page that works. Most of the eighteen developers looked at publish one, with the tiers named, the figures printed, and the billing periods stated. No account, no sales call, no request for a quote. You open the page and the price is on it.

Cloze, Brainscape, Driversnote, MileIQ, RemNote, Contacts+, Jobber and Housecall Pro all do this. Pulling a figure from any of them took one read of one page.

This is the normal case, and it is worth saying so before the rest of this page describes the exceptions. The exceptions are interesting because they are exceptions.

One publishes for machines

Dex serves a plain-text markdown version of its pricing page at getdex.com/pricing.md, alongside the normal one. The content reads identically — same tiers, same figures, same billing periods — without the navigation, styling and scripts that surround it in a browser.

This was the only one of the eighteen doing it. The practical effect is that Dex’s pricing is trivially readable by anything that is not a browser, which is a small piece of work nobody is required to do. Dex is compared with Mesh in Dex vs. Mesh.

Some publish somewhere other than the pricing page

Pocket Prep is the clearest example in this set. Its pricing page is a directory of the exams it covers, running to roughly 17,000 characters of exam names. Reading it end to end tells you what Pocket Prep has a question bank for. It does not tell you what any of them costs.

The figures are published on each individual exam’s page instead: $20.99 monthly, $49.99 for three months, and $124.99 annually.

The information is public. It is just not where the page name says it will be, which means finding it depends on already knowing which exam page to open.

One blocks automated readers

Quizlet’s upgrade page returns HTTP 403 to a request that is not a browser. This is a normal anti-scraping measure, it is a choice a great many sites make, and there is nothing improper about it.

The practical effect for this site is narrower than that: Quizlet’s price could not be verified here, so it is listed as unverified on the comparison pages that mention Quizlet rather than filled in from memory or from a third-party summary. Those pages are Quizlet vs. Brainscape and Quizlet vs. Knowt.

Three paths were tried. quizlet.com/upgrade, quizlet.com/help and help.quizlet.com all returned the same response.

One showed two prices at once

Everlance’s pricing page returned two different sets of figures in a single fetch. One block gave Starter at $89.99 a year or $10.99 a month, with Professional at $119.99. Another block, in the same response, gave Starter at $69.99 a year or $8.99 a month, with Professional at $99.99.

That pattern is consistent with a live pricing experiment rendering both variants into the same page, where a browser would show a visitor only one of them. We do not know the reason, and we have not asked.

Because of it, no Everlance price is quoted anywhere on this site. A figure that appears twice with two values is not a figure we can attribute to the developer. Everlance vs. Driversnote carries the comparison without one.

One redirects to a different product

circleback.com/pricing does not serve a pricing page. It issues a redirect, and the redirect ends at scanbizcards.com — a different product, from a different company.

CircleBack’s own marketing site is still live, and the iOS app was updated in 2026. We do not know why the pricing path resolves the way it does, and we draw no conclusion from it.

What follows from it is only this: CircleBack’s price is unknown, and the comparison page that mentions CircleBack says so.

Two publish nothing at all

Contacts Journal CRM sells in-app purchases, and its site returns a 404 for a pricing page. There is no tier list, no figure, and no page describing what the purchases are.

The CompTIA exam-prep app from EASY PASS COMPANY LIMITED also sells in-app purchases, and passemall.com publishes no pricing either.

In both cases the only way to learn the price is to install the app and open the purchase sheet. That is a real cost to a reader deciding between two apps, and it is the reason both are carried here without a figure. Contacts Journal CRM appears in Cloze vs. Contacts Journal CRM.

How this was checked

Each developer’s site was requested directly and read as text, between 2026-08-08 and 2026-08-14. Every observation above was re-checked on 2026-08-14 before this page was published, so none of it rests on a single reading from a week earlier.

The limits are worth stating. A single automated request is not the same as a person browsing with a logged-in session, and a page can serve one of those differently from the other. Prices differ by country, and this was checked from the United States. And any of these pages could change tomorrow — a redirect can be repointed and a 404 can become a pricing page without anyone announcing it.

Where a price could not be verified, the comparison pages say so. None of them fills the gap with a guess.