Apple’s New Stance: Claiming 30% of Teacher Donations for Insight Timer Meditation App
The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated.
That’s what happened with Insight Timer, a popular meditation app with around 25 million installs and 3 million monthly active users.
Because Insight Timer doesn’t take a cut of users’ donations to favorite teachers, those donations shouldn’t be subject to Apple’s commission — or so Plowman believed.
Insight Timer implemented the feature using Stripe as the payment provider on the backend, as the rule permits.
During the time the commission-free donations feature was live, Insight Timer’s users donated roughly $100,000 per month to the app’s teachers, Plowman says.
