# Selling your app Vs. In App Purchase

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [February 28, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603 "2024-02-28T10:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lynk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lynk](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Lynk)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603/1 "2024-02-28T10:48:20Z")

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Does anyone know if “selling your app and IAP” are the same thing?  
Thanks  
Jason

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**Author:** ![njimmy10](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/njimmy10/32/23489_2.png) [@njimmy10](https://forum.adalo.com/u/njimmy10)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603/2 "2024-02-28T10:50:12Z")

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No, they’re not the same,

One is actually selling your app, not yours anymore and the other is having in app purchases

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**Author:** ![Lynk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@Lynk](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Lynk)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603/3 "2024-02-28T10:59:56Z")

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Okay, so (selling your app) you have to pay before you even let a user download the App, correct? Do you know if you can sell subscriptions as the Sell Your App option or do monthly subscriptions have to be IAP. I have been reading Apple’s docs over and over but there is a lot of details in them and I really didn’t see anything that talked about that or I misses it.  
Thanks for the response, Jimmy  
Jason

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**Author:** ![Victor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/victor/32/2054_2.png) [@Victor](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Victor)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603/4 "2024-02-29T08:14:02Z")

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Hi @Lynk,

Paid apps mean that user pays once, upon downloading the app.

Subscriptions should be done via IAPs only (unless your app falls into the exemption, like Netflix).

Best,  
Victor.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/system/32/40401_2.png) [@system](https://forum.adalo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/selling-your-app-vs-in-app-purchase/45603/5 "2024-03-10T08:14:26Z")

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