If you’re building a mobile app with subscriptions and not using RevenueCat… I genuinely don’t know what you’re doing. Rolling your own is a one-way ticket to pain, edge-case hell, and weeks of your life you’ll never get back. Trust me — I’ve been there.
RevenueCat is one of the few tools I’ve used that feels like it was made exactly for people like me: indie devs moving fast, trying to ship real products and grow revenue without spending half our lives in sandbox mode or deciphering Apple’s latest quirks.
The SDK is rock solid. The dashboard gives me everything I need to understand what’s working (and what’s not). The integrations? Chef’s kiss. I’ve hooked it into everything from Mixpanel to Notion to our custom retention flows without breaking a sweat.
And the team behind it? Super sharp, super active, and clearly invested in helping developers win. Every time I peek into their Shipaton event or Discord, I’m reminded how rare that kind of support actually is.
If you’re serious about monetizing your app — this is your backend. Don’t overthink it.
For IOS, It probably took me less than a day to add a paywall to an app I already had. Making a "free download" ("freee trial") version of my app allows more people to sample it, so necessarily there are more users potentially purchasing it.