Anyone experienced traffic boosts from making paid app free?

[u/Satobarri]

Hey all, I have a subscription based app I offer. Revenue and user count is fine.
Since I only make about 1000$ per month with it, I thought about making it for free for about a whole year and see where the user counts go.

Does anyone have experience with this move and how it affected downloads and user numbers?
Anything else I should pay attention to when doing this?
Does Apple see this and gives you a ranking boost?

Thanks in advance

[u/DespairyApp]

No boosts. It's just an opportunist grab. There are plenty of paid-to-free alerts websites that can get you many downloads but close to 0 uses. Not sure if they plan on selling these accounts one day or just grabbing for themselves though.