And what about Windows Phone 8? Is it going to be free as well? Or paid like CoronaCards for iOS and Android?
Great news, thank you Corona/Fuse team, this comes at a superb time!
Amazing! I love it! Hurray! Yeah! Great! Woo hoo! Yippee! Excellent! Fantastic! Wow! Superb! Incredible!
And computer-based apps! This just gets better and better!
- Caleb
P.S. Yes, there are 14 exclamation points in the post. This is really amazing. Thanks so much Corona!
Said this on twitter, but wow. I was still a subscriber but coming Win+Mac support was such a huge clincher for me.
David: This is excellent news! It’s good to see Corona continuing to innovate.
It’s also very decent of Corona to offer pro-rated refunds for Basic or Pro customers who bought in 2015. (Though, personally, I’m more excited by the upgrade to Enterprise, and will likely pay to keep it once I get hooked!)
There is no revenue limit listed on the free tier now unlike the old page (http://web.archive.org/web/20150219121032/http://coronalabs.com/pricing/).
What is it now? $100k? $500k? Unlimited? It should really be spelled out like the other 2 tiers.
Very nice!
Time to get caught up on a few things. 
Speaking of which, the notes on the Daily Builds still seem to be off-limits (or maybe just broken).
“all users of Corona SDK get everything the Pro tier included”
Prior to today, Pro Tier included a Corona Cards license for Windows Phone. It doesn’t look like that’s included in the new free tier. Am I reading that correctly?
Hi everyone, thanks for all the comments. And we are glad to see that people are excited by the announcements.
To answer a few questions:
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Making Corona SDK free should be a net positive to everyone and grow our community. And it does not endanger our business model. Now that we are part of Fuse, we plan to make their monetization engine available to all Corona developers (as mentioned in the blog post) and we believe this will be the best and easiest way to monetize your games. Under those circumstances, we prefer to have a larger community, rather than charging for a license fee.
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All Lua APIs were available to Pro users, and that means they are available to all users now. So basically everything here:
http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/index.html
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The 2 machine limit per account has not (and will not go away). This is because we still want to keep the sense, as much as possible, of 1 user per account. Of course, I’m sure you guys have already figured out that you can just go ahead and create a new account for your extra machines, and that is fine.
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Daily builds (and notes) should be available to all. If they aren’t (I’ll check in a bit) we will fix soon.
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CoronaCards WP8 will be available for everyone. So just like it was available to Pros before, it is now available to everyone. If this hasn’t been set up yet, then it will get done in the next couple of days for sure.
Thanks for all the questions!
This is awesome - thanks guys!!!
I take it you guys got those new engineers you were looking for? 
I congratulate CoronaLabs for this decision, however I feel like existing Enterprise users don’t really get much out of the deal (as opposed to all other tiers). Sure we get access to CoronaCards iOS/Android, but I don’t think many existing Enterprise users will see much benefit from that. At the end of the day we want to use Corona to make our apps, and CoronaCards doesn’t bring anything new to the table than we already have with Enterprise. It’s just a different way to use native with Corona.
Since Pro users get upgraded to Enterprise + a subscription extension (1.5 * months left) I think it would be fair that existing Enterprise users also get the same subscription extension as well.
What if a pro subscriber has no need or use Enterprise license? The 1.5 times in Enterprise License deal is meaningless to me. As others have chimed in I too would much prefer a prorated refund. Thanks.
Can anybody download daily builds? I thought this should be possible for free now…?!?
Short generally question. If I use corona cards or enterprise to develop my app. If my subscription run out, can I still use the last build, within my subscription time, to update my app after my license expired? Or do I have to renew my account to a build my code?
Thanks!
this is awesome news indeed!
[quote name=“ingemar” post=“285520” timestamp=“1425347226”]@David I congratulate CoronaLabs for this decision, however I feel like existing Enterprise users don’t really get much out of the deal (as opposed to all other tiers). Sure we get access to CoronaCards iOS/Android, but I don’t think many existing Enterprise users will see much benefit from that. At the end of the day we want to use Corona to make our apps, and CoronaCards doesn’t bring anything new to the table than we already have with Enterprise. It’s just a different way to use native with Corona. Since Pro users get upgraded to Enterprise + a subscription extension (1.5 * months left) I think it would be fair that existing Enterprise users also get the same subscription extension as well.[/quote] Yes I agree, since I only upgraded from pro to enterprise 6-7 weeks ago
I don’t think that it will be possible to get a refund since you still get what you payed for. The enterprise upgrade was just an act of fairness in my opinion.
This is very good news for all current devs, and even more so for those potential indie devs who have been on the fence, wanting to use Corona, but been put off by the Pro subscription price. I’ve been a Pro subscriber for two years, and I absolutely LOVE it and I find Lua is a joy to code in.
As others have mentioned, though, I don’t really need the automatic Enterprise 1.5x ‘bonus’. My sub expires at the end of May, so I haven’t got that long to go - I’m not looking for a refund, but I would like to know what the procedure will be to downgrade from my promotional Enterprise level back to the (now free) Pro level. Will this be an option I simply choose when my sub renewal comes up, or do I need to manually request to be pushed back to Pro before then?
Thank you for everything that Corona is, and everything it now has the potential to be.
[quote name=“niilotippler” post=“285571” timestamp=“1425372844”]This is very good news for all current devs, and even more so for those potential indie devs who have been on the fence, wanting to use Corona, but been put off by the Pro subscription price. I’ve been a Pro subscriber for two years, and I absolutely LOVE it and I find Lua is a joy to code in. As others have mentioned, though, I don’t really need the automatic Enterprise 1.5x ‘bonus’. My sub expires at the end of May, so I haven’t got that long to go - I’m not looking for a refund, but I would like to know what the procedure will be to downgrade from my promotional Enterprise level back to the (now free) Pro level. Will this be an option I simply choose when my sub renewal comes up, or do I need to manually request to be pushed back to Pro before then? Thank you for everything that Corona is, and everything it now has the potential to be.[/quote] You can still use the pro subscription even when you are an enterprise user, so if you don’t use the enterprise part then at least your subscription has been extended.
I like to know this too. Or I’ll assume its unlimited 
which is odd.
I am surprised corona still charges standard price per month instead of % made if revenue higher than 500k.
I am in the same situation, no need for the enterprise part and subscription for pro doesn’t matter if it is extended because it is free! But I am fine with it.
May I know if windows phone 8 is free, then what is the differents between the free version and the coronacard WP8 we get till expired date?