Credits, plainly: what costs and what does not

Quiny runs on credits. We chose credits over a monthly fee because most of our customers build one app, change it a few times a year, and should not pay for months in which nothing happens. Here is exactly how they work.

Free, always

Describing your business and answering the eight questions.
Attaching links, photos, price lists and files.
Previewing any screen, in the console or on a shared link.
Approving a screen, or saying what to change before it is built.
Going back to any earlier version.
Submitting to the App Store, and resubmitting after a rejection caused by our build.
Exporting your code or pushing it to GitHub.

You can reach the first finished screen without spending a single credit, because nothing is charged until Quiny starts building.

What spends credits

Building does. Drawing a screen for the first time, rebuilding a screen after you ask for a change, and running the whole app pass before submission. The console shows an estimate before every one of these steps and asks you to approve it.

Step	Typical cost
A new screen at standard effort	15 to 25 credits
A new screen at high effort	30 to 45 credits
Changing part of an existing screen	6 to 12 credits
Switching design direction after screens exist	about 40 credits
Whole app review before submission	20 to 30 credits

Effort is chosen by Quiny for each step and shown to you. Careful work like checkout runs at high effort. Copy changes run at standard.

What a first app costs

Most first apps use between 120 and 260 credits from first sentence to submission. We tell people to budget 300, which leaves room for changing your mind about a screen or two.

Refunds

If a step fails, its credits come back automatically. If a step finishes but the result is wrong, flag it in the console. A person reads every flag, and when the mistake was ours the credits are refunded, usually within a day. Some flags turn out to be a misunderstanding rather than a fault, and in those cases we explain why and often fix the underlying question instead.

Edge cases

Going back does not refund. Restoring version 23 is free, but the credits spent on version 24 stay spent. You paid for the work, not the outcome.

Design direction changes are the expensive one. Switching from the minimal look to the bold one after five screens exist means rebuilding all five. Quiny warns you and shows the total first.

Pro and Max plans exist for people who build a lot or want to pin a specific model. They are bundles of credits at a lower unit price plus the pinning control. Nothing on them is required to ship an app.

Purchased credits do not expire while your account is open.