@korina Usually a one-time fee is for a permanent license, in my experience. Your one time fee for one year is about 50% more than a subscription for the same time period. How would a user benefit from buying the one year, one time, license? I see big potential for customer confusion.

You have a great product, but for my current needs, the subscription price is a bit excessive for me.
I would certainly be interested if you had a permanent license price. I understand that you may have a recurring cost for getting source data, so perhaps you could have a version where the other weather models require a subscription.

@korina Usually a one-time fee is for a permanent license, in my experience. Your one time fee for one year is about 50% more than a subscription for the same time period. How would a user benefit from buying the one year, one time, license? I see big potential for customer confusion.

You have a great product, but for my current needs, the subscription price is a bit excessive for me.
I would certainly be interested if you had a permanent license price. I understand that you may have a recurring cost for getting source data, so perhaps you could have a version where the other weather models require a subscription.

@Korina
I’m confused

I assume that the annual subscription is $19.98, while the one time $29.95.

From the Windy iOS app itself, it pops up a premium dialog that compares the free and subscription

Buy for one year
$29.99
One-time payment, no commitment

Annual subscription
$18.99 / year
Approximately $1.6 a month

Can I get Windy Premium for a one-time payment, or is it available only by subscription?

@korina
I -am- referring to your iOS app.
I know it is not currently showing ads - thank you, but when I look at the upgrade to Premium page which compares Free vs Premium table, under Free, Privacy, it says “Targeted advertisement from 2021”.

@korina

I too found this confusing.
Suggest you call them “One Time Purchase” and “Renewing Subscription”, because the phrase “buy for one year” implies repeating cost.

Another suggestion: the main reason for upgrading for me is getting rid of advertisements. It would be nice to have a lower price to get rid of the ads, only. Just call it “Remove Ads”. Perhaps people like me would pay $20 but not $30.

Also, the differences in density, quality, and speed should be better explained. Examples:

In Density, what’s the difference between standard and high resolution? Resolution in terms of data quality, or resolution in time?

In Quality, what’s the difference between standard data and precise data? How much more precision?

In Speed, can you quantify the improvement? In low network loading conditions, wouldn’t any difference be negligible?