Pricing
Offhand sells usage at cost. Every figure below comes from the same table the server uses to charge you.
Free
30 minutes of recording a month, plus a few questions about it. It resets on the first of each month.
Subscription: $14.99 a month on the web
What reaches us of the price becomes your monthly allowance. Recording, answers and spoken replies are charged against it at exactly what they cost us, and so is an estimated $0.30 a month for hosting and storage. In the App Store and Google Play it costs more, by about what those stores keep, and buys the same allowance: where you buy never gets you more usage, or less.
| Bought on | Price | Fees | Your allowance | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web | $14.99 | $0.74 | $14.25 | about 41 hours |
| iPhone (App Store) | $16.99 | $2.74 | $14.25 | about 41 hours |
| Android (Google Play) | $16.99 | $2.74 | $14.25 | about 41 hours |
Recording hours are approximate: an hour costs us about $0.34 to transcribe and summarise, and the hours shown are after the hosting share. Questions and spoken replies come out of the same allowance.
Top-ups, after the allowance
For subscribers who use their month's allowance. Once you reach it, all of your usage is charged at exactly what it costs us to run Offhand, with no markup, from a top-up balance credited at what reaches us after fees:
| Bought on | Price | Fees | Added to balance | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web | $5.99 | $0.48 | $5.51 | about 16 hours |
| iPhone (App Store) | $6.49 | $0.98 | $5.51 | about 16 hours |
| Android (Google Play) | $6.49 | $0.98 | $5.51 | about 16 hours |
Outside the US
The stores set a local price in each country, and it usually includes sales tax or VAT. Your allowance is worked out from what your purchase actually paid us after that tax and the store's fee, so it can differ from the figures above. Fees here include the store's cut and the few cents left over when a store price rounds above the web's allowance. The app shows yours before you buy.