Publish Paid app on Google Play store

[Avijit (Avijit Das)]

@Yash_Agarwal

• Same contents ( but with Ads ) Free
• Same contents ( but without Ads ) Paid

I think google can rejected your app due to duplicate content

@Lollipop

You can use in app purchase.

It’s better option

[Yash_Agarwal]

You 100% sure ?

[Yash_Agarwal]

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.

[Still-learning (1-2-3-4...)]

Publishing same app with different names in the Play store

I found two different answers in this thread

[Yash_Agarwal]

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

[Still-learning (1-2-3-4...)]

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.

[Yash_Agarwal]

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

[Still-learning (1-2-3-4...)]

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

[Yash_Agarwal]

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

[Balajidev]

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)

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Yash_Agarwal

Okay may be body mind Power knows the answer bcoz she published paid app on Google Play Store.

How to avoid violating Google's → Repetitive Content Policy

IMPORTANT UPDATE / NOTE: All my apps that were previously removed (months ago) due to an alleged violation of Google’s “Repetitive Content” policy have been re-allowed and listed in the Play Store again. I still don’t know the exact criteria with which the Repetitive Content algorithm works. It seems to be top secret. Since I did not receive a precise answer from the Google Dev Support, I assume that even they do not know this algorithm. However, it seems with a…

[Yash_Agarwal]

Thanks @bodymindpower

[Yash_Agarwal]

Hey you are saying this but bodymindpower option is completely opposite from yours.

[Balajidev]

I said what I know about that you can follow any answer but keep in mind google policy is very confusing for all even for big companies. I see many illegal apps also with huge download in playstore without suspension. So this is very confusing how google determine their rules

[MyShip]

The thing you are going to do is only possible if you have several or other Console Account, then this procedure can be done by changing keys of the app,
But if you are producing a new app ( that is same) in same console, it will not allow you to post the app again.
Also the main point to remember is that when we publish a new app to Play Store, we have go through several mandatory questionnaires, whether your app is paid or not. If you choose it to free, you will never be allowed to make it paid. But if you go with paid, you can make it free.

[Yash_Agarwal]

Yeah, very true i developed an app about coronavirus for helping peoples in 2020 march, but google rejected that. But now even its been rejected i got notification to define whether its an news app or not and i am also not able to choose because its been suspended. Seriously google is google

[Yash_Agarwal]

But i think its not allowed to publish same app from different consoles. Its against policy.

Yeah and the most confusing part if deciding age for the app because if we choose less less may be our new app will be rejected by google.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Balajidev

I see many illegal apps also with huge download in playstore without suspension.

For example?

But this is not about (il-/) legal apps, but the question of whether, and under what circumstances, two or more apps are classified as “Repetitive Content” apps. And the exact criteria for this (new) algorithm doesn’t even seem to know the Google Play Dev Support. However, I was able to narrow this down sufficiently in dozens of emails and inquiries with Google.

[Balajidev]

@bodymindpower

For example?

For example YouTube video and fb video downloader there are millions of apps with Same Project with some ui changes. And most of the apps are live and some apps are suspended.
Something depends on luck also.

[bodymindpower (Anke)]

@Balajidev

For example YouTube video and fb video downloader there are millions of apps with Same Project with some ui changes.

What does this have to do with what I said?
If there weren’t any similar apps from different developers, there would be no competition at all. The only question here is which rules must be followed by a specific app developer (developer account) so that his / her apps are not classified (detected) as “Repetitive Content” apps.