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 might check its licence before doing anything.
Price tiers
Prices are fixed tiers rather than an arbitrary figure, and you receive 70% of the tier price.
| Tier | You receive |
|---|---|
| $2.50 | $1.75 |
| $2.99 | $2.09 |
| $3.99 | $2.79 |
| $4.99 | $3.49 |
Sales tax is added at checkout on top of the tier price, so a buyer pays a little more than the figure above depending on where they are. Your share is worked out from the tier price and does not move with it.
The store fee
The store takes a flat 30%. There is no listing fee, no monthly charge, and no charge for a tweak that does not sell.
Most of that 30% goes straight back out as card processing and merchant-of-record costs, and at the lower tiers nearly all of it does. It is not where this is meant to settle; the intention is to reduce it once volume covers those costs instead of margin doing it.
Submitting a paid tweak
- Build and package the tweak exactly as a free one. See Packaging.
- You might add a licence check, so the tweak does nothing without a valid receipt. It is optional and there is more than one way to do it: 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, which can be renewed weekly in the background by installing a helper, 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 This is also why earnings are held before they can be withdrawn, which Revenue and Payouts covers.