The main RevenueCat alternatives are Adapty, Superwall, Qonversion, Apphud and building your own setup on Apple's StoreKit 2. Adapty, Qonversion and Apphud replace RevenueCat's whole subscription backend.
Superwall started as a paywall layer that sits on top of RevenueCat, but it can now process purchases on its own.
Building in-house removes the revenue fee, but your team then owns receipt validation, entitlements and analytics.
All prices below are as of November 2026 and come from each vendor's public pricing page.
We have not used these tools ourselves. This roundup draws on vendor docs and on real paywall tests from our database.
Why teams look for a RevenueCat alternative
Most switches come down to three things: the fee, the paywall and testing tools, and web checkout.
Pricing. RevenueCat's Pro plan is free up to $2,500 in monthly tracked revenue (MTR), then 1% of tracked revenue.
Its growth tools (paywalls, web-to-app funnels and A/B/n testing) are also sold on their own at 1% of MTR from conversions through those tools.
Every competitor below has a higher free threshold, and one charges a lower rate.
Paywalls and experiments. Teams that test paywalls every week want a strong no-code editor and an experiment engine.
The gains from that work can be large.
Mojo saw +14% new subscription revenue after hiding credit packs and showing only subscriptions, and PropGPT got +47.5% proceeds per user by raising its weekly price from $6.99 to $9.99. Both results are vendor-reported in Superwall case studies.
Web checkout. Many apps now want to send some buyers to a web checkout.
The results are mixed, so your tool needs to measure the trade-off well.
In Superwall's pooled tests, a paywall button to web checkout cut initial conversion by 11.9% but raised net proceeds by about 19.85%.
Zumba saw immediate conversions fall 25% while LTV rose 17%.
For Dipsea, web checkout alone dropped initial conversion from 27.0% to 18.1%.
More detail is in our web-to-app guide and in RevenueCat vs Stripe.
Superwall
RevenueCatIs RevenueCat worth it?
For many teams, yes. It has a mature cross-platform SDK, 40+ integrations, paywalls, A/B/n testing and web billing on one plan.
Below $2,500 MTR it costs nothing. The case for switching grows as revenue rises, when you want a specific paywall workflow, or when you would rather own the stack. Our RevenueCat review covers it in depth.
| Tool | Free up to (monthly) | Fee after that | Replaces RevenueCat's backend? | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueCat | $2,500 MTR | 1% of tracked revenue | (baseline) | Teams that want the most-used, broadest option |
| Adapty | $5,000 revenue | 1% of revenue | Yes | Teams that want a paywall and flow builder plus add-ons in one vendor |
| Superwall | $10,000 paywall-attributed revenue | 1% of paywall-attributed revenue; infrastructure free | Optional | Teams that run many paywall experiments |
| Qonversion | $7,000 MTR | 0.8% of tracked revenue | Yes | Cost-sensitive teams that still want experiments |
| Apphud | $10,000 MTR | 0.99% (Pro, min $49/month) or 1.19% (Expert, min $59/month) | Yes | Small apps that want a free tier with a paywall builder |
| StoreKit 2 / in-house | No vendor fee | Engineering and server costs | Yes | iOS-first teams with backend engineers |
Adapty
Adapty's Pro plan is free until $5,000 a month in revenue, then 1% of monthly revenue.
It includes the purchase infrastructure, a flow and paywall builder, A/B tests and revenue analytics.
An Enterprise plan adds a dedicated success manager, a Slack support channel and US or EU data residency.
Adapty also sells paid add-ons: Refund Saver (0.2% after $5,000 a month), an Apple Ads manager, attribution, early payouts through Adapty Finance (from 2.5% per advance) and Adapty Mail (20% of additional revenue).
Downsides: the headline rate matches RevenueCat's once you pass $5,000, so the savings are small at scale.
The add-ons have separate fees that make the total cost harder to predict.
Not for: teams that only want a cheaper RevenueCat, or teams that already use other tools for attribution and email.
See Adapty vs RevenueCat and our Adapty review.
Superwall: paywalls on top of RevenueCat, or on its own
Superwall is the option most teams don't switch to completely, because it was built to work next to RevenueCat.
Its RevenueCat guide describes two setups: RevenueCat handles purchases Superwall starts, or RevenueCat watches transactions in observer mode.
The same docs say Superwall "works out of the box without any additional SDKs."
The pricing is the most unusual on this list.
Subscription infrastructure (entitlements, purchase APIs, receipt validation, webhooks, analytics and SQL access) is free at any scale.
The paywall product is free up to $10,000 a month in paywall-attributed revenue, then 1% of that revenue only.
Superwall's own example: $50,000 a month with half going through its paywalls costs $250 a month.
It handles App Store, Google Play and Stripe purchases.
Superwall's case studies are where many of our paywall tests come from.
Planner 5D saw +83% ARPU for its highest price tier, and Speak4Me got +27% conversion and +36% proceeds from a multi-step paywall that shows features before prices. Both are vendor-reported.
Downsides: if most of your revenue goes through Superwall paywalls, you pay 1% of nearly all of it, the same as RevenueCat.
Running Superwall and RevenueCat together means two SDKs and two dashboards to keep in sync.
Not for: apps that rarely change their paywall.
Compare it in Superwall vs RevenueCat or read the Superwall review.
Qonversion
Qonversion's Pro plan is free up to $7,000 MTR, then 0.8% of tracked revenue.
That is the lowest percentage among the hosted tools here.
By Qonversion's own math, $50,000 MTR costs $400 a month.
If a month ends at or under $7,000, it costs nothing.
Pro includes LTV and cohort analytics, A/B experiments, a no-code paywall builder, Refund Keeper, all integrations and webhooks, raw data export, and unlimited apps and seats.
Downsides: it is a smaller vendor than RevenueCat, so expect a smaller community and fewer third-party guides when you get stuck.
Moving off any of these backends later means another SDK migration.
Not for: teams that rely on a large ecosystem of community answers and integrations, or that need an uptime SLA without an Enterprise contract.
Apphud
Apphud's free plan covers up to $10,000 MTR and includes cross-platform infrastructure, real-time analytics, a no-code paywall builder, and Stripe and Paddle integrations.
Above $10,000, Pro costs 0.99% of MTR (minimum $49 a month) and adds A/B tests, cohorts and all integrations.
Expert costs 1.19% (minimum $59 a month) and adds LTV predictions, ETL exports, server-to-server webhooks and a 99.99% API uptime SLA.
Apphud's blog published multivariate tests from AEZAKMI Group.
A LED controller app tested six onboarding flows and went from 0.8% to 1.29% conversion (+61%), with ARPU up 16%.
A PDF scanner app compared plans and found weekly with a trial converting at 2.29%, against 1.63% for weekly and 1.21% for monthly. Both are vendor-reported.
Downsides: A/B tests aren't on the free plan, so a small app that wants to experiment pays from day one past $10,000. The free plan has one seat.
Not for: teams that need advanced data exports and webhooks but don't want the higher Expert rate.
StoreKit 2 or an in-house setup
RevenueCat vs StoreKit 2 is really "pay a vendor or build it."
According to Apple's StoreKit page, StoreKit 2 uses Swift concurrency to fetch products, handle transactions and check subscription status.
Its transactions are signed by the App Store in JSON Web Signature format, and it returns the same data as the App Store Server API.
Ready-made views like SubscriptionStoreView can show plans with very little code.
That covers iOS well. You still have to build Google Play Billing support, a server that stores entitlements across devices, webhooks to your other tools, and the revenue charts your team reads every day.
Paywall experiments also need their own assignment and reporting system.
Downsides: no fee, but ongoing engineering time. Bugs in entitlement logic can lock out paying users or give away access.
Not for: small teams without backend engineers, or cross-platform apps that need Android and web on day one.
Verdict: which RevenueCat alternative to pick
- Stay on RevenueCat if you are under $2,500 MTR or use its integrations heavily. The switching cost is rarely worth a fraction of a percent.
- Add Superwall if paywall testing is your main growth lever. You can keep RevenueCat underneath, or use Superwall's free infrastructure.
- Pick Qonversion if the fee matters most: 0.8% is the lowest hosted rate here.
- Pick Apphud if you are small and want the largest free tier with a paywall builder.
- Pick Adapty if you want a builder plus refund, attribution and ad tools from one vendor.
- Build on StoreKit 2 only if you are iOS-first and already have backend engineers.
Whatever you choose, the tool matters less than what you test with it.
Browse real paywall tests, read our guide to app paywalls, or compare more options in paywall tools and app A/B testing tools.