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Superwall

A paywall platform for mobile apps: it shows, targets and A/B tests subscription screens inside an app, changed from a dashboard without an app update.

What Superwall is

Written from its maker's own pages, read on 28 October 2026.

Superwall is a monetization platform for subscription apps on iOS, Android and the web. A paywall is the screen that asks a user to buy a subscription or a one-time purchase before using a feature. With Superwall, a team designs paywalls in a web editor and changes them without a new app release.

A developer adds the Superwall SDK (Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Expo, Flutter and others) and registers placements, named points in the app such as app_open or feature_locked. Campaigns decide which paywall each audience sees at each placement, with filters on user properties such as country or days since install. A campaign can split users between several paywall variants and a holdout group that sees no paywall, and the dashboard compares conversion rate and proceeds per user for each variant. Superwall also builds onboarding flows, tracks entitlements (the features each user has paid for) and can send U.S. iOS users to a Stripe web checkout.

Superwall is a hosted service. Its subscription infrastructure is free; the paywall product is billed as a share of the revenue that comes through its paywalls, plus a monthly fee on larger plans.

Made by
Superwall
Price
Indie plan: free up to US$10,000 of monthly paywall revenue, then 1% of the total; Startup plan US$49 a month plus 1% (read 28 October 2026)
Free plan
yes, up to US$10,000 of monthly paywall revenue

Who uses it, and for what

One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.

StoryWhat it does thereWhenCost statedGradeSource
Recipe OneRuns the paywalls and subscription management, and is the revenue source TrustMRR reads.ATrustMRR: Recipe One profile, Superwall-verified revenue (data as of 25 October 2026)
Lenz AI: Digital Camera EffectRuns the paywall and subscription data; TrustMRR reads the verified revenue from it.ATrustMRR: Lenz AI: Digital Camera Effect (markdown profile)
Cal AIBuilds the subscription screen (paywall) and runs hundreds of tests on it without new code for each test.CLatka interview with Zach Yadegari, May 2025: How Cal AI hit $35M ARR and 20,000 daily downloads in under a year
UmaxPaywall tool that shows different prices and subscription periods to different users, to test which earns more.CStarter Story, 29 December 2024: He made $10M with 3 iPhone apps (video interview with transcript)
ToneAdaptShows the iPhone paywalls and runs A/B tests on them.CStarter Story episode page, 14 June 2026: The First App I Ever Built Makes $25K/Month, with transcript
Sprout - AI Job SearchRuns the paywall screens that turn new users into subscribers.CStarter Story, 20 May 2026: My Two Apps Make $150K/Month Each (video with transcript, host Pat Walls)
MyFutureSelfManages the subscriptions and the paywall screens inside the app.CMyFutureSelf privacy policy, updated 13 October 2026

Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.

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