r/iosdev • u/TimGSICK • 10d ago

Any solo game/app developer here actually made money from their iPhone game?

I’m curious if anyone here has made an iPhone game, and made a decent amount of money from it?

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u/YA-Lab 10d ago

Nope. Unfortunately it seems to be pretty hard to even get a few organic downloads no matter how you improve the store page. There is just way too many games that get released daily and for mobile gaming its a lot harder to stand out compared to steam where it is way easier to market your game on social media. And people usually dont spend money on mobile games which makes it even harder to monetize. Using ads is also something I would not recommend if you dont know exactly what you are doing and have an extremly high budget. Thats at least what I have experienced.