Check price of an installed app?

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Check price of an installed app?

Occasionally I've wanted to remind myself what I paid for an app. But that doesn't seem possible from the regular Apps screen. Must I navigate to the developer's site with Safari to find the price?

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

PC, Windows XP Pro, iPad 3G 64 GB, Quad core 2.66 GHz PC, HTC Touch Pro 2 (Windows Mobile)

Posted on Sep 6, 2010 6:13 AM

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Answer 1

Jolly Giant

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Sep 6, 2010 6:24 AM in response to Terry P

Terry P wrote:
Must I navigate to the developer's site with Safari to find the price?

why not search the app store ?

J GG

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Answer 2

Sep 6, 2010 9:54 AM in response to Terry P

You have to do this on your desktop computer.
Open this link on you desktop computer:
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/purchaseHistory

This will open iTunes with a popup window to where you login to your account to see your app purchases.

If the above link doesn't work. The app store sends you emails from time to time showing recent app purchases. Open you email account on your desktop computer and do a search for one of those receipts. Open the email and at the bottom there is a link for app purchases. Click on that link and iTunes will open again to where you login to your account.

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Answer 3

Sep 6, 2010 2:08 PM in response to Terry P

Just look in the email receipt that Apple sends you after every App download.

This will tell you the price you paid, rather than the current price.

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Terry P Author

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Sep 6, 2010 10:14 PM in response to Julian Wright

Well, yes, obviously, but only if I've kept them. And with 3 devices (PC, iPad and WM smartphone), even locating them is not always trivial. Also, they don't get sent individually or immediately as far as I can tell.

Terry, UK

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Terry P Author

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Sep 6, 2010 10:17 PM in response to David M Brewer

Thanks David, I'll try that, although of course that's not a convenient solution.

Terry

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Terry P Author

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Sep 6, 2010 10:20 PM in response to Jolly Giant

Did you successfully try that? How do you get the price to display, rather than 'INSTALLED'?

Terry

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Answer 7

Sep 6, 2010 10:36 PM in response to Terry P

I was hoping you could just log into the Apple store to get this info, no go. If you click on downloads in iTunes on the iPad all you get is Terms and Conditions. I have a feeling there something amiss with iTunes when trying to get this info about app purchase.

(I thought I did this a few months ago in iTunes. Maybe it broke with the updates.)

I'm going to send a request to Apple for this to be added to iTunes. You can do the same:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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Terry P Author

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Sep 6, 2010 11:47 PM in response to David M Brewer

David M Brewer wrote:
I'm going to send a request to Apple for this to be added to iTunes. You can do the same:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

OK David, I've duly done so too.

BTW, I had to select an arbitrary answer from the drop-down list of OS types, as no provision is made for anyone but Mac users!

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Answer 9

Sep 7, 2010 12:18 AM in response to Terry P

Sorry to break in here, but surely all the purchase info you want is available from looking at 'Account' in iTunes on your desktop PC.
Maybe I'm missing what you want to do though.

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Answer 10

Sep 7, 2010 12:41 AM in response to Terry P

I can find the email receipt instantly simply by typing the app name into the search bar of my email program - can't you do the same?

Receipts are sent within 24 hours of the purchase and include all items purchased in that period.

As the selling price of an app often changes looking in the AppStore itself won't necessarily tell you what you paid. Obviously it's a good idea to keep receipts anyway, but particularly if you want to find out what you paid on the date you purchased.

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Answer 11

Sep 7, 2010 12:45 AM in response to Julian Wright

Julian, the OP has already said that he (like me) doesn't necessarily keep the email receipts. As I said above, all the info he wants is available from iTunes (under Account) on a desktop computer.

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Answer 12

Sep 7, 2010 12:53 AM in response to igmackenzie

I know what was said. But if looking up pricing information is important, surely starting to keep the receipts would be a good idea? That way you can look up prices wherever you are, not having to wait until you are back in front of a computer with iTunes installed. Email is accessible anywhere from any device. Your iTunes account purchase history is not.

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Answer 13

Sep 7, 2010 12:59 AM in response to Julian Wright

Very true, but I can't imagine that the situation is so desperate that it can't wait till a laptop/desktop is available.
Personally, I would rather look up iTunes purchase history than keep hundreds of emails cluttering up my Inbox, but, each to his own.

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Terry P Author

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Sep 7, 2010 1:13 AM in response to igmackenzie

Apart from the fact that I want to do this from my iPad, I just checked out your suggestion and it wouldn't work anyway for several reasons.

1. The entries there are grouped, not individual, with a total price, *no individual prices.*

2. The page is badly designed. Under 'Titles included in order', the column is restricted in size and not draggable. So I cannot even see all the items I bought.

3. *Worst of all - it's a scrambled mess!* The account summary entries just don't match with the email copies I received. Examples:

First of all, here's what my account says:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ITunesAppStoreBugs.jpg

Now here's one of my email confirmations, received 30th July, which looks pretty accurate to me:

Order Number: M2XJ353Z3V
Receipt Date: 30/07/10
Order Total: £10.16

Item Number Description Unit Price

1 Pages, v1.1, Developer: iTunes S.a.r.l. (4+) £5.99
2 GoodReader for iPad, v2.8.1, Developer: Yuri Seluko £0.59
3 Touch Physics HD, v2.3.0, Developer: Mark D Simpson £2.99
4 Best Alarm Clock + Weather and Temperature, v1.9, D £0.59

There's no match with the account summary. Here's one of many examples. I obviously bought Goodreader on or before 30th July. Yet the account says it was ordered on 18th August.

I've submitted a feature request. All that's needed is that as well as showing INSTALLED, the price should then be shown below. Even the current price if the purchased price is too difficult to access.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK

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Answer 15

Sep 7, 2010 1:23 AM in response to Terry P

Terry P wrote:
1. The entries there are grouped, not individual, with a total price, *no individual prices.*

Just click on the right-arrow to expand.

2. The page is badly designed. Under 'Titles included in order', the column is restricted in size and not draggable. So I cannot even see all the items I bought.

See above.

3. *Worst of all - it's a scrambled mess!* The account summary entries just don't match with the email copies I received. Examples:

First of all, here's what my account says:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/ITunesAppStoreBugs.jpg

Now here's one of my email confirmations, received 30th July, which looks pretty accurate to me:

Order Number: M2XJ353Z3V
Receipt Date: 30/07/10
Order Total: £10.16

Item Number Description Unit Price

1 Pages, v1.1, Developer: iTunes S.a.r.l. (4+) £5.99
2 GoodReader for iPad, v2.8.1, Developer: Yuri Seluko £0.59
3 Touch Physics HD, v2.3.0, Developer: Mark D Simpson £2.99
4 Best Alarm Clock + Weather and Temperature, v1.9, D £0.59

There's no match with the account summary. Here's one of many examples. I obviously bought Goodreader on or before 30th July. Yet the account says it was ordered on 18th August.

The account always shows when the app was updated. So, for example, you bought Goodreader v2.8.1 on 30 July, but it was updated to 2.84 on 18 August.

I've submitted a feature request. All that's needed is that as well as showing INSTALLED, the price should then be shown below. Even the current price if the purchased price is too difficult to access.

I agree, it would be a useful feature.

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