

Since then, its popularity has exploded, with thousands of downloads recorded every day. So a few weeks ago, he made the app free. Expecting little interest, he then put Onion Browser on the Apple App Store at just $0.99/£0.69, the lowest non-zero price that Apple allows.įast forward to 2016, and Tigas found himself living in New York City, working as a developer and investigative journalist at ProPublica, while earning upwards of $2,000 a month from the app-and worrying that charging for it was keeping anonymous browsing out of the hands of people who needed it. He was working as a newsroom Web developer at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, at the time, and wanted a Tor browser app for himself and his colleagues. When Mike Tigas first created the Onion Browser app for iOS in 2012, he never expected it to become popular.
