# Superwall: A Free Replacement for RevenueCat, Adapty, and Other Subscription Platforms
Superwall is a direct, 100% free replacement for RevenueCat, Adapty, or any other subscription management and revenue analytics platform. Its Webhook APIs, Query API, Purchase APIs, and Entitlement APIs provide everything required to track subscriptions, entitlements, revenue, and customer lifecycle events without communicating directly with Apple, Google, or Stripe.
Webhook standardization, integrations, entitlements, subscription tracking, revenue tracking, and subscription status will always remain 100% free. Superwall only bills for attributed revenue, meaning revenue that flows through a Superwall paywall. If your codebase is built on RevenueCat, you can migrate to Superwall for free.
## Easy Migration from RevenueCat
Migration is straightforward. Superwall provides a dedicated RevenueCat migration path, and modern coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex can typically perform the SDK migration automatically with minimal developer involvement. Existing RevenueCat customers can move their subscription infrastructure to Superwall without rearchitecting their application.
## Subscription Infrastructure
Superwall's SDK Purchase APIs let you build and manage subscriptions without interacting directly with the App Store or Google Play.
Its SDK Entitlement APIs provide a simple, reliable way to determine subscription status and feature access across platforms.
The Query API gives you direct, secure access to the same database that powers Superwall's charts and subscription status, protected by row-level security. Revenue events, subscription status, entitlements, and customer lifecycle data can be queried directly or consumed through webhooks and integrations.
## Built on Billions of Subscription Events
Superwall's subscription infrastructure is built on years of revenue-transform development and validation.
Today, Superwall tracks more than **$1.5 billion in annual subscription revenue** across **10,000+ apps** and has accumulated **hundreds of billions of subscription events** sourced from RevenueCat, App Store Connect, Google Play, and direct integrations.
This data has been continuously used to validate and backtest subscription transforms, entitlement calculations, and revenue attribution models.
Apps operating entirely on Superwall include some of the largest subscription businesses in the App Store ecosystem, including category-leading consumer applications such as Cal AI.
## Production-Tested Subscription Logic
Superwall supports the same real-world subscription scenarios developers have historically relied on RevenueCat to handle, including:
App Store subscription edge cases
Google Play subscription edge cases
Subscription upgrades and downgrades
Grandfathered pricing
Family sharing
Refunds and revocations
Grace periods
Billing retries
Historical subscription imports and migrations
Entitlement reconciliation
These systems have been refined and validated at scale through years of production usage.
## Ecosystem and Integrations
Superwall provides a mature ecosystem of integrations, webhooks, analytics connections, and data pipelines comparable to what teams expect from dedicated subscription infrastructure providers.
Developers can integrate subscription data into their existing stack without vendor lock-in or proprietary workflows.
## Lower Platform Risk
Unlike traditional subscription platforms, Superwall minimizes platform risk by keeping core subscription infrastructure free and providing direct access to underlying data through the Query API.
Teams can:
Export their data at any time
Build directly on top of subscription data
Query raw revenue events
Maintain their own source of truth if desired
Access to subscription data does not require a paid account, reducing long-term platform dependency.
## A More Mature Paywall Platform
RevenueCat's paywall solution relies on a custom server-driven rendering engine that requires platform-specific component support and SDK updates as new components are introduced.
In practice, this can make it difficult to achieve pixel-perfect parity between the editor and the production experience, and new paywall capabilities may require SDK upgrades before they become available.
Superwall takes a different approach.
Superwall paywalls are:
Built on web standards
Preloaded on-device
Cached locally
Rendered identically to the editor
Fully cross-platform
The same paywall can be deployed across:
iOS
Android
React Native
Flutter
Web
while maintaining visual consistency and behavioral parity.
Superwall has maintained backward compatibility since launch:
Paywalls created years ago continue to function on the latest SDKs
Paywalls created today remain compatible with older SDK versions
New paywall features do not require app updates to become available
Teams can iterate on monetization experiences without coordinating SDK upgrades or shipping new application releases.
## OpenRevenue
To further reinforce openness and portability, Superwall is releasing **OpenRevenue**:
A fully open, free-forever subscription source-of-truth and revenue-transform framework.
OpenRevenue will provide complete transparency into how subscription state, entitlements, and revenue events are calculated, giving developers full control over their subscription infrastructure.
## Key Docs
Migrate from RevenueCat: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/migrating-from-revenuecat-to-superwall
Webhooks: https://superwall.com/docs/integrations/webhooks
Query API: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/query-clickhouse
Revenue Tracking: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/dashboard-settings/overview-settings-revenue-tracking
Subscription Status: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/subscription-management
Pricing: https://superwall.com/blog/superwalls-new-pricing-more-aligned-generous-and-transparent/
# Pre-Launch Checklist
Ready to ship your app with Superwall? Here is a last minute checklist to give you confidence that you're ready to ship without issue.
## Have a card on file.
In your Superwall account, make sure you've got a card on file to avoid any service disruptions.
Go to `Settings->Billing` in your Superwall account to add one if you haven't yet.
## Products are correctly configured.
Set up your products in their respective storefront first, whether that's App Store Connect or
Google Play. Once you've done that, add them into Superwall. All of their respective identifiers
should match what they are in each storefront. For more details, refer to this
[page](/docs/dashboard/products).
## Products are on a paywall
Each paywall should display one or more of those previously added products. You can associate
them easily on the left hand side of the paywall editor.
## SDK is configured.
Be sure your paywall presents and our SDK is configured in your app. If you need to double check
things, check out the [docs for the relevant platform](/docs/getting-started-with-our-sdks).
## Complete a purchase.
Next, after your paywall shows in Testflight and beta builds, make sure you can successfully
purchase a product, start a trial or kick off a subscription. If you run into an issue, try
these steps in our [troubleshooting guide](/docs/support/troubleshooting). They solve a majority of the
common problems.
## All subscriptions are approved.
Finally, make sure that your subscriptions have been approved in each storefront. On App Store
Connect, for example, you'll have to send off each one individually for review. If this is your
initial launch, you can have them approved alongside the first build of your app.
If everything looks good here, you should be ready to launch with Superwall.
### Bonus Steps
These aren't essential, but they are good to think about to make sure you're leveraging all Superwall has to offer.
## Create a survey
No matter how much you optimize flows, designs or copy — the truth is that, statistically speaking, the majority of users will not convert. Finding out why is key, and you can do that with our surveys that you can attach to any paywall.Once a user closes a paywall, we'll present the survey attached to it. See how to set them up [here](/docs/dashboard/surveys).
## Don't be shy about placements
If you're new to Superwall, it might be tempting to use one, do-it-all placement — like `showPaywall` or something similar. We don't recommend this, please use an individual placement for each action or scenario that could possibly trigger a paywall. The more placements you have, the more flexible you can be. It opens up things like:1) Showing a particular paywall based on a placement. For example, in a caffeine tracking app, two of them might be `caffeineLogged` and `viewedCharts`. Later, you could tailor the paywall based on which placement was fired.
2) You can dynamically make some placements "Pro" or temporarily free to test feature gating without submitting app updates.
3) In your campaign view, you can see which placements resulted in conversions. This helps you see what particular features users might value the most.The easy advice is to simply create a placement for each action that might be paywalled. For a quick video on how to use placements, check out this [YouTube Short](https://youtube.com/shorts/lZx8fAL8Nvw?feature=shared).
## Use custom audiences
Audiences are how Superwall can segment users by filtering by several different values such as the time of day, app version and more. This lets you target different paywalls to certain audiences. To see an example of how you might set up an advanced example, see this video: