Paid Tweaks
A paid tweak is an ordinary tweak with a price attached. Nothing about how it is built changes: the same bundle, the same filter, the same packaging. What changes is that the download is served from a private bucket rather than the public CDN, and the tweak checks a licence before it does anything.
Price tiers
Prices are fixed tiers rather than an arbitrary figure. Each tier is a product registered with the payment processor ahead of time, which is what lets a purchase start without the store handling card details at any point.
| Tier | You receive | Store fee |
|---|---|---|
| $1.99 | $1.39 | $0.60 |
| $2.99 | $2.09 | $0.90 |
| $3.99 | $2.79 | $1.20 |
| $4.99 | $3.49 | $1.50 |
The figures above are the split of the net amount, after sales tax has been deducted. Tax varies by where the buyer is, so the exact cents credited to you vary slightly with it.
The store fee
The store takes a flat 30%, leaving you 70%. There is no listing fee, no monthly charge, and no charge for a tweak that does not sell.
30% is not where this is meant to settle. It is set to cover payment processing, hosting and the merchant-of-record costs that come with selling software internationally, and the intention is to reduce it once those are covered by volume rather than by margin.
Submitting a paid tweak
- Build and package the tweak exactly as a free one. See Packaging.
- Add a licence check so the tweak does nothing without a valid receipt. The shape of that check matters more than you might expect, so it has a page of its own: Licensing.
- Submit through the Developer Center in the app, the same route as a free tweak.
- Once it is approved, a moderator sets the price tier. A tweak cannot price itself: the tier has to exist as a registered product first.
What the buyer gets
- A licence key, delivered by email and stored in their Keychain.
- Up to 5 Macs activated at once, and they can deactivate one to free a slot.
- A signed receipt valid for 60 days, renewed weekly in the background, so the tweak keeps working without the app running and without a network connection.
- A 14 day refund window, self-service from the app.
Refunds
A buyer can refund from the app for 14 days after purchase, without asking anyone. The refund revokes the licence everywhere, uninstalls the tweak from that Mac, and reverses the ledger entry, so a refunded sale never reaches a payout.
After 14 days the button is gone and a refund becomes a support request. This is also why earnings are held before they can be withdrawn, which Revenue and Payouts covers.