I'd gladly pay $50 (one time) for Auxy... – Auxy Studio Review

and an additional $5-$10 per sound pack even seems reasonable. But you guys just HAD to get on the monthly subscription bandwagon didn't you? This is frustrating because it seriously increases the entry cost for customers to simply grab a-la-carte sound packs that seem useful for their specific styles. Instead, we now have to basically commit to pay $60 every year if we want to expand our sound palette at all (and then LOSE those sounds if we decide $5 per month isn't worth it — which it isn't). Seriously guys, where's the middle ground? Ignoring your pricing strategy, you've got a *six-star* app in my opinion — and that's worth paying good money for. You've done something really great with "export to MIDI" in that it allows me to write tunes on the go, and easily get those MIDI stems off my iPhone and into Ableton for further production and refinement. This feature alone makes Auxy a serious production tool, and it's the ONLY iPhone audio app that I consider to be such. Thank you so much for keeping this part of the free feature set. Features like this are absolutely VALUABLE and I feel they SHOULDN'T be free... but y'all aren't Adobe or Ableton. You're not SO critical to my workflow that you've earned the right to just withdraw from my account on a regular basis. Although I'd happily pay a one-time fee for them, I'll continue to use the awesome free features and sing Auxy's praises... but if you'd like to collect more of my money over the long term, you'll have to make sound packs more affordable. No collection of sound packs could ever be so good that a recurring fee to access them would seem reasonable. For your sake, I hope the subscription model is all you hoped it would be — but for my sake, I hope other customers will agree that $5 every month is an absurd pay wall for what you're offering. Lastly, I strongly disagree with your copy/paste reply that "as a customer it's obviously better to get something for free." Free apps are usually not high quality. Just charge a higher one-time price and I bet you'll have more loyal, happy customers. Free apps by default are perceived as "disposable."
Review by Motor D on Auxy Studio.