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What it costs

Pricing

One thing to understand: you buy sparks, and changes spend them. No subscription, no seat, no charge for having an account.

Start with 300 sparks, free

Enough for about forty changes — a first version standing and in front of real customers before you have paid anybody anything.

A change usually costs 3 to 8 sparks, and you are shown the likely cost before it runs, worked out from what changes on your own app have actually cost. A small edit is cheap; rebuilding a page is not.

One spark is one rupee. 300 sparks is ₹300 of credit. You can check any figure on your bill in your head.

Buying sparks

Top up when you want more

Pick a pack, pay on the payment provider’s own page, and the sparks are there. They do not expire and there is nothing recurring to cancel.

₹1,000

1,000 sparks

About 120 changes — enough to get properly started.

₹5,000

5,000 sparks most picked

About 600 changes — a first version and the polish after it.

₹10,000

10,000 sparks

About 1,200 changes — a first version and a store release.

₹30,000

30,000 sparks

About 3,600 changes — several apps, or one you keep growing.

Prices include tax. You can also type your own amount. Every purchase gets a proper invoice with both parties named — add your GSTIN and it appears on it.

The things that are free

Your account

No monthly fee, no per-seat charge, no charge for having it open.

Building a phone app file

Making an Android or iPhone file costs nothing — including a build we refuse. Nobody pays to be told what is missing.

Your own domain

Connecting a domain you already own is free, and so is the certificate.

The founder test

Free, however many times you take it. Nothing is charged before you have an account.

One thing costs extra, and only if you ask for it

Putting your app on the Play Store or the App Store has its own fee, because it is a different kind of work — an account to satisfy, a listing to write, a human reviewer to answer. It is charged when you ask us to submit, never when you build, and an app sent back for correction is not charged again when you fix it.

The figures are on the going-live page rather than here, so this page stays about the only number most founders need.

What a store release costs →

Questions about the bill

What happens at zero?

The builder stops taking changes and holds the sentence you were about to send. Topping up does not run it — money arriving is not permission to spend it. You press send.

Do sparks expire?

No.

Can I earn sparks instead of buying them?

Yes — introduce another founder and you earn ten percent of every recharge they make. It offsets your own bill first and the rest can be asked for in cash.

Do you take a cut of my sales?

No. Your customers pay you, into your own merchant account. We are paid for changes you asked for.

Do I get a tax invoice?

Yes, with both parties named, our GSTIN on it, and the tax split correctly by place of supply. Add your billing details and your GSTIN appears too.

Start with a sentence about your business

Access is by invitation and asking takes a minute. You begin with 300 free sparks.

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Access is by invitation and a person reads every request. The founder test is free, takes a few minutes, and tells you what you are getting before you commit to anything.