Publish Paid app on Google Play store

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#1

I have a question -
Is that legal & comply with all Google Play Store Policies to publish 2 similar content apps -

  1. Same contents ( but with Ads ) Free
  2. Same contents ( but without Ads ) Paid

Note - I just chat with the Google executive about this but he didn’t provide me solution, he just asked me to try and found on review stage that your app is approved or not. I also read the policy of Google Play Store there is a clause for app imitation, but that clause doesn’t say you can’t copy your own app contents.

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#2

You can use in app purchase. User can pay to remove ads.

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#3

Yes I know that but I don’t want to do that I want a seperate paid app without ads. So can I do that ?

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#4

I think it is possible but you should not use same package name, version number and all to do so. Of course I am not sure

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#5

Yeah ofcourse pakage name, app name ( without ads) and version code will be different. But I want a sure thing before I publish it

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#6

Try posting this elsewhere also, if somebody has done this. Then only you can be sure
Reddit, Stackoverflow

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#7

I have seen such app on Google Play store, but I am not sure about it. Okay may be body mind Power knows the answer bcoz she published paid app on Google Play Store. But I am scared to tag her here :scream::stuck_out_tongue:.

Okay I will also post this on your recommended app

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#8

MX player has two app, one free and other paid but not sure about functionalities.

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#9

Yeahh same, there are many apps like atomic bomber and all but not sure about functionality of them. Let wait for others to reply for solution

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#10

I think google can rejected your app due to duplicate content

It’s better option

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#11

You 100% sure ?

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#12

But the reason I was looking for 2 different app is I will promote paid app at higher cost through Google ads. So the CPC don’t gave me loss as it will recover the paid price.

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#13

I found two different answers in this thread

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#14

:stuck_out_tongue::stuck_out_tongue: this thread is already confused with different answers. I need a perfect answer yes or no

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#15

Why don’t you try both in the same app? If user purchase (use gsheet to store the user id and expiry date). On every time app initialize if the logged in user matches with stored date, find the difference between stored date and current online date… if the difference is zero , and user id is not found in the gsheet just anbe the ads component, else just hide it.

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#16

You mean by in app purchase right ? Nd yearly basic subscription?

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#17

Almost same. You can set it to any level with this method, daily, weekly, monthly,quarterly,yearly,life long, etc.

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#18

Yeahh but just now I read an article and there is a risk to take down the app if we you in app purchase sometimes

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#19

Yes you can do that without any hesitation. You can publish 2 apps with same content
One app with ads
And second one without ads.
Don’t worry about any policy violation it doesn’t violated any policy I saw many apps like this.

If the developer account is same so google allow it to publish same app with same functionality but if another developer account published same app than it violate the policy.

So Publish both apps with your same Console account and yes do some changes in paid app (like some ui changes only some as user pay you so it gives a difference to google also)

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