Sell iOS app source code by licensing it to AI labs. Swift and Objective-C iPhone apps qualify. Keep the app and get paid each time it is licensed.
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iOS fitness app, paused 2022
26,400 lines. A workout tracker with 9,000 downloads. The founders took day jobs and the repo went quiet.
Yes, Swift and Objective-C iPhone apps you own can be licensed to AI labs, live or paused. You sell a license and keep the code and the App Store listing, and a typical repo earns about $1,000 to $1,500 per license, each time it is licensed.
Yes, if you hold the rights. iOS repos are useful to AI labs because Swift code is less common in public training data than web code, and real apps carry years of changes through new iOS versions, devices and APIs.
The app stays yours. Your App Store listing, users and updates are unaffected, and the code is never published. It suits the fitness tracker that went quiet when its founders took day jobs as well as apps you still ship.
No. Licensing works on the code in your Git repos, so it does not matter whether your developer membership lapsed or the app was removed from the App Store. Keep the repos and their history, and keep any shared code such as a backend or a companion web app. Certificates, provisioning profiles and keys that were committed are stripped from the review copy before a buyer sees it.
Apps that moved from Objective-C to Swift are especially useful, because the history shows a real migration done by a real team. Keep that history intact. Do not squash it or start a fresh repo before you connect.
Value per license is source tokens at $100 per million plus history tokens at $40 per million. The specimen lot above, a paused Swift fitness app with four years of commits, shows the working. A typical repo earns about $1,000 to $1,500 per license. Licenses are non-exclusive, so the same repo can be licensed again and you are paid each time.
For the method, read how much is my code worth. For why labs pay, read sell code for AI training.
| Depth | Looks like | Per repo, per license | Log scale, $100 to $10k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | Short history, small repo | $400 to $700 | |
| Typical | A real product, a few years of commits | $1,000 to $1,500 | |
| Deep | Long-lived, deep history, tests | $2,500 to $4,000 |
Illustrative, conservative · What you take home, per license · Verified 2026-10-10
$100/M
per million tokens
$40/M
per million tokens
Value per license = source tokens × $100/M + history tokens × $40/M
Rates can change on 30 days' notice, never retroactively · Paid within 15 days of the buyer paying
Illustrative, conservative · Last verified 2026-10-10
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And it is yours, which is exactly what makes it licensable. You decide what is shared: only the repos you choose, only code you hold the rights to. Secrets, customer data and third-party code stay out. Within the repos you submit, secrets and personal data are stripped from the review copy before anything reaches a buyer.
No clean-up needed. Submit the repos as they are. Secrets and personal data are stripped from the review copy for you.
Say who you are. You get set up and sent everything you need. Once you connect Git, you see a real per-repo estimate.
Read the agreement and sign once. Give read-only access to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and pick only the repos you want to license. Submit them as they are.
Your code is scrubbed and graded on the review copy, then taken to buyers in batches. Each time a license closes and the buyer pays, you are paid within 15 days.
Yes. You grant a non-exclusive license and keep ownership. You can keep using, changing and shipping it.
No. Shelved, unfinished and abandoned code qualifies if it is real and yours.
No. There is no listing. Buyers see a scrubbed review copy.
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