When I bought my first iPhone, one of the applications that was recommended to me was called AppGratis. Simon, the visible face of the service, was in charge of negotiating with the developers to offer a paid application per day without having to pay anything for them. Today, after seven years, AppGratis will end a journey that has allowed 50 million installations worldwide, all of them free or at a greatly reduced price.
The problems of this application of the French Simon Dawlat began in 2013, when Apple removed the app from the App Store for, according to those of Cupertino, violating the rules of its application store claiming promotion and marketing that came from a third-party application. The service continued to work for users who did not uninstall the app, for those who had added their email on the service's website and in the Android version.
AppGratis closes after 7 years of service
According to what we can read in a statement published on the blog of its official website, the AppGratis team says that has given up on the reality of startups, when they discovered that startups are difficult to carry out and that they occupy a large part of a person's life, all without guarantees that it will be a success.
AppGratis lived and died. It was a good product with the strong advantage of being the first in a time of novelty. Some people liked it, others didn't, but that doesn't matter anymore. The world got involved and so did we. We had ups and downs, we were passionate, we had fun and we were very very lucky - until we stopped being lucky, but we didn't quit.
Although I think that the closure of AppGratis is not good news, I also believe that it is not a tragedy either. In the App Store there are dozens of applications that notify you of promotions, and not just one a day. In any case, thanks and goodbye, AppGratis.
Yes, a shame. I have it installed since it practically came out and I have gotten a few apps thanks to it.
There is another that I discovered that is very good, AppZapp, it is very complete and has personalized alerts for apps and developers. Very complete. I recommend it to you.
Greetings.
Another good one is AppShopper, when you register, for free, you can use the web page interchangeably to put the desired app, the ones you have, etc or the app. It notifies you of the desired ones and the ones you have, if there are changes in the price and if there are updates. Every day they put programs that are free, on sale or are new
Thanks to that app, I got runtastic bike pro, free, thanks for everything Simón