WPtouch 2.0 Pro Pricing Details, Beta 2
Coffee & Code
After several months, thousands of hours, hundreds of thousands of minutes, we’re close enough to WPtouch 2.0 Pro to announce pricing.
Premium Community
Truth be told it’s actually been difficult for us to make the decision to throw weight behind a premium version of WPtouch. We have always loved the spirit of the open-source community, and agree with the software freedoms associated with works attributed under a GPL license. And we’ve also been behind freely available plugins for our favourite publishing platform. Yet for those with successful and popular WordPress plugins, the support, update, maintenance and upkeep for such a plugin become hefty. Without financial support, they are impossible to sustain effectively, and enjoyably.
There’s a growing community of premium solutions available for platforms like WordPress, and with WPtouch Pro we’re throwing our hat into the ring.
Unlike many other paid plugins, WPtouch Pro is neither small or limited in its functionality, nor is it a premium plugin that’s come out of nowhere— people who purchase WPtouch 2.0 Pro know the quality, time, dedication and style of the work we do, based on the freely available WPtouch 1.x that’s been out for almost 3 years, and our other popular WordPress plugin, WordTwit.
Without Further Ado: Pricing
All figures in Canadian dollars (CAD).
- The price for a single license of WPtouch 2.0 Pro is only $29
- The price for a 5-pack of licenses is only $59
- The price for an unlimited, developer license is only $199
Licenses, among other things offer:
- Free automatic upgrades through a major version (all 2.x releases)
- Pro Support on bravenewcode.com/support
- Access to Docs, Knowledge Base articles
- Receive the new themes that ship with 2.x as a part of automatic updates
Note: Free direct support for WPtouch 1.9 is being discontinued. Free support will end 30 days after the release of 2.0. The Support forums will still include the community forums for 1.9 so users can share tips, and find existing answers to commonly asked questions.
Compare
Compare WPtouch Pro pricing with most other premium plugins and we think you’ll find it quite reasonable (it’s probably one of the cheapest premium plugins, really).
And for all of what WPtouch 2.0 Pro brings to the table we think it’s an incredible offer as far as premium plugins go.
Beta 2
We’ve been making good progress with beta 1 of WPtouch Pro, and plan on pushing out beta 2 early next week, likely Monday. For those in the beta program, expect a 1.4 update tomorrow which should shore up the existing issues in beta 1, and we’ll be working aggressively over the weekend to add a few more things for beta 2.
Beta 2 is an important milestone because it will mark the finished Skeleton template, complete with web-app mode, enabling those of you most interested in custom theming to get to work with what will essentially be the shipping version of the Skeleton.
More Info
You can get more information on WPtouch Pro, what’s included, feature set overviews and sign-up to be notified when its available by visiting bravenewcode.com/wptouch-pro.
23 Comments
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$30 sounds fair, I’ll be buying. Looking forward to playing with it.
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Love this plug-in, I’m definitely buying the 2.0. Great pricing by the way.
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
Thanks guys!
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The price sounds very fair, I was a little worried at first when you guys first announced that it’s going to a $ supported platform but after getting the final word I’ll be more the. Happy to buy it once it is released.
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You’ll be getting my money this is a very fair price for such hard work, top support and only the best in quality.
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BNC Development Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
Thanks Lee, much appreciated!
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It’s too expensive
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BNC Development Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
@Kiro – We recognize that not everyone wants a premium plugin with paid support. That’s why the 1.9.x version will continue to be in the WordPress repository for people that want it. We’ve spent at least three solid months making WPtouch 2.0, and it comes with several mobile themes, documentation, pro support, and lots of other features (if you look on the pricing grid on the WPtouch Pro page, you’ll see just how many features are in it). We also spent money getting WPtouch 2.0 professionally translated into several languages, including Italian, Japanese, Spanish, French and German. We think it’s a great product and that it’s priced fairly. But for those people who don’t wish to spend the money, the 1.9.x version will continue to be available in the WordPress repository.
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Yes I hunderstand, but your plug-in has been used thousands of times, and so. If your price is 29 $ you can sell how many license? 1.000? If your price is 4,99 $ you can sell 10.000 license.
So 29 x 1000 = 29.000
4,99 x 10.000 = 49.900and so on.
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I agree with Kiro. You guys are making (and made) a great work, but 29$ is definitely too expensive. Maybe for that amount I would buy a WordPress professional theme, but I wouldn’t buy a mobile theme.
Anyway, I think Kiro is right: almost any blog uses Wordpress, and iPhone is now very popular; if you make your price lower, like 5$ or even 2$, I’m sure every blogger would buy it, and you would sell many more licences.
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
Well, we knew not everyone would be happy about it. That said, it’s totally misleading to assume you can just do math like “if you sell X at Y price, you’ll make Z”. Free downloads are one thing, but the minute you put a price on something people have to decide whether they feel it’s worth it, compare it with other options, etc. Determining how many people will buy it at different price points requires market study and research, and we certainly don’t have the time and money for that sort of thing.
Nor would we, even if we could— we believe the only thing that matters is that it’s great. And we’ve invested into it almost every last penny of the company’s reserve because we believe that it is.
Most premium themes cost more than $29, and so do most premium plugins. Gravity Forms is $39, yearly. Other paid mobile theme/site options all cost more, and arguably you get less. If you compare WPtouch Pro’s price out there, it’s less. In most cases, far less.
In the end people will learn about the new features in 2.0 Pro and if they decide it’s worth it, they’ll buy it. If they decide it’s not, they won’t.
We’re confident those who do pay for WPtouch Pro will feel they get more than their money’s worth.
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At $29 – this quality plug is very fair – and all the other plans provide even greater value. I don’t think it is accurate to compare to the price of other plugins – how about comparing to other options in mobilizing a web site? Look at: http://www.mofuse.com/plans/ – they charge a monthly basic fee of $39. That is every month. For $29 you get a mobile site without those monthly fees. Plus, a lot of folks will be making money building mobile web sites with WPtouch – shouldn’t BNC benefit from that? I think so.
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I’d buy it but it is hard for me to remove things like date, written by, and other thing that make it look like a blog, I like to use this plugin for sites, not blogs and the original WPtouch makes it easy to remove those things.
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
It’s actually easier than ever to modify themes with 2.0. And, as paid customer, you can always make requests for options, features, etc.
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I couldn’t seem to be able to remove those things editing the themes pages.
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 4 weeks
In the beta of 2.0? Why don’t you post in the beta forums on BraveNewCode.com/support and we’ll help you out.
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will it be compatible with the iPad?
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 3 weeks
Out of the box, no. But it’s very easy to add iPad support, and we’ll help anyone who’d like to do that.
As we improve and add more to WPtouch Pro, iPad solutions will be a part of the picture.
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Can you help me to add iPad support on my 1.9.9.8 WPtouch version?
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BNC Design Guru
2 months, 3 weeks
Sure! Just add ‘ipad’ (lowercase, no quotes) to the custom user agent input in the admin. Presto!
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THANKS!!!
Love this plug-in, I’m definitely buying the 2.0.
:)
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I’m going to plunk down my 29 (with any needed US adjustments;)) as soon as possible. Congratulations on a great product and best wishes for your continued success with this new venture.
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The cost sounds reasonable, I was concerned about the price at first when you guys announced but after receiving the final word I am happy to purchase it.
