Pricing trends for Mobile Development: 4 tracked pricing changes across 9 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Mobile Development Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

9
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
0
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 2 deprecated 1 increased 1

Announced, not yet in effect

What this section prints is decided by the calendar, not by anything the vendor did. One record here carries a date after 2026-11-14. The vendor has announced it and it has not taken effect, so it is not part of the history below. On its own date a record here joins the Pricing Change Timeline, below.

Announced deprecated CocoaPods effective 2026-12-02 medium
CocoaPods trunk stops accepting new pods and new versions on December 2, 2026, under the CocoaPods team's read-only plan. Existing builds keep working because the Specs repo and CDN stay up, but dependencies published through trunk get no more updates. Projects with their own specs repos are not affected. Source ↗

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

increased Shake discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown high
The free tier now has unlimited bug and crash reports, 10,000 app installs, and access to the Slack community. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Shake's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
reduced InstallOnAir discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
Builds uploaded by a registered user now expire after 8 days, down from 60. Registration is still free and uploads are still free. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of InstallOnAir's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
reduced Expo effective 2025-10-09 high
Expo's Free plan went from 30 builds a month (up to 15 iOS) to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds, and gained 60 minutes of CI/CD Workflows, between the pricing-page captures of 2025-09-20 and 2025-10-09. Source ↗

We hold one more record filed under this category that is not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

Stable Picks

All 3 of the 9 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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