How many people paid?
A live experiment in curiosity
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
How many people paid $1 to see how many people paid $1? There is an exact answer. It sits on a server, and it moves every time another curious person gives in.
Somebody knows the number. Right now, that somebody is not you.
How many people paid $1 to see how many people paid $1? There is an exact answer. It sits on a server, it moves every time another curious person gives in, and it is the only thing this app sells.
WHAT IT IS
A live social experiment in human curiosity. Nothing is simulated. Every figure comes from a real person, in a real country, deciding what a dollar of curiosity is worth. The moment you pay, you stop being a spectator and become part of the number the next person pays to see.
WHAT YOU GET
- The live global counter of everyone curious enough to pay
- A tug-of-war between the two phone tribes: one is measurably nosier
- A country leaderboard, with your own country highlighted
- Your personal rank: participant number X out of Y
- The hour of the day when human curiosity actually peaks
- Meta stats: who paid, who watched an ad instead, how the two compare
- Tiers to climb: The Curious, Deep Diver, Obsessed, Rabbit Hole, Whale, Legend
HOW ACCESS WORKS
Free to download. A small in-app purchase unlocks 24 hours of full access, and you can unlock it again whenever you want another look. No subscription, nothing renews, no account to create.
Too curious to wait but not curious enough to pay? Watch a rewarded video ad for three hours of the free view. Partial, and deeply unsatisfying.
THE HONEST PART
This is behavioural economics being performed on you, and it says so out loud. Four short explainers inside cover the Veblen effect, information asymmetry, collective action and sunk cost - the four reasons you are still reading this instead of closing it.
Translated into 20 languages, because curiosity is not an English-language problem.
So: how many people paid $1 to see how many people paid $1? Somebody is looking at the answer right now.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Numbers now say what they mean.
• The platform breakdown was mislabelled on Android — the iOS bar was named "Android" and the Android bar "iOS". Two chips could even end up reading "iOS" side by side. Fixed everywhere they appear.
• "You're on team …" now names the platform you actually paid from.
• Prices are shown in your own currency, exactly as your store will charge them, instead of a fixed "1 dollar".
• Payments are recorded with the currency and country they were really made in.
• Fixed a receipt check that could leave a completed purchase uncounted.
The developer, Florian Ignat, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Florian Ignat
- Size
- 63 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock Statistics $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Florian Ignat
