Narwal, a Reddit reader, is dead. Long live Narwal 2? The fallout continues as Reddit started to charge for API use.
Posted by
Qale
Sep 27 '23, 11:28
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Narwhal 2 is finally here! We have been working on this for years 🙃 and it is finally ready to see the light of day. We did our best to keep the "essence" of Narwhal 1 while modernizing the design and improving efficiency.
Unfortunately, Narwhal 2 will require subscriptions in a couple weeks. This is due to the Reddit API cost. We hope that after you use Narwhal 2 for a couple weeks you will realize that it is worth paying for. We will be continuing to make Narwhal 2 the best app it can be. We have a laundry list of features to implement and you can vote on features here: https://roadmap.narwhal.app
Subscription Details
Casual
5,000 API calls per month (~165 calls per day)
$2.99/month
The average Narwhal user should fit into this plan
Active
15,000 API calls per month (~500 calls per day)
$6.99/month
Power
30,000 API calls per month (~1,000 calls per day)
$11.99/month
Top-ups
In the event that you run out of API calls for the month, you will have 2 options:
Upgrade to a higher tier plan to get that total API call usage
Buy a top-up inside the app.
Adds 2,500 API calls to your amount for the month for $1 one time fee
Why are the subscriptions so expensive?
The reason these subscriptions are so expensive is because Narwhal is now going to be incurring a large amount of costs. Reddit is charging for the API, Apple will be charging us for subscription fees, server costs for monitoring API usage and more.
We are intentionally starting out conservative with pricing so that we don't dig ourselves into a hole. If we are able to lower costs without going bankrupt, we will do so. We hope that you think Narwhal is worth it, but if not, thanks for trying out Narwhal!
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