[Drakim]

You assume that every app developer is out to make money. This is not more true than that every PC application developer is out to make money. Some people make free software and gives it away for free. That's not a race to the bottom, unless you think Linux being free is a race to the bottom against Windows.

[vbezhenar]

For some reason AppStore has surprisingly low amount of free software. It's either free with ads, free with in-app purchases or paid. Or free software missing marketing and it's hard to find it in AppStore or popular ratings.

Is there some compilation of free software links?

[frou_dh]

It costs money to join the Apple Developer Program so it's probably in peoples' minds to at least recoup that.