RevenueCat vs Adapty: Picking a Subscription SDK for Your iOS App. RevenueCat vs Adapty for iOS subscriptions. Free tiers, platform coverage, paywall A/B testing, and integrations, plus which one fits an indie app. RevenueCat and Adapty are direct competitors: both are subscription infrastructure for mobile apps, both handle receipt validation and entitlements, both take a percentage of your revenue, and both now ship a visual paywall builder. The short version is that Adapty's free tier is twice as generous and its paywall A/B testing is stronger, while RevenueCat covers more platforms and has a deeper integration ecosystem. Which matters more depends almost entirely on whether your bottleneck is conversion or cross-platform reach. This guide compares the free tiers and pricing, platform and SDK coverage, the paywall builders and experimentation, the integration ecosystems, and what Adapty has shipped recently, then gives a straight decision guide. One disclosure up front: Spaceport generates projects wired to RevenueCat, so I have a horse in this race. I have tried to be accurate about where Adapty is genuinely better, and it is, in a couple of places that matter. Prices and features are as of writing; both move fast. On this page. What they have in common. Unlike a paywall-only tool, these two overlap almost completely on the fundamentals. Both give you a hosted subscription backend so you are not hand-rolling receipt validation, and both answer the question your app actually asks: does this user have access right now. Both handle the unglamorous parts, verified transactions, entitlements, restores, refunds and revocation, grace periods, upgrades and downgrades. Both provide subscription analytics (churn, LTV, cohorts) so you are not rebuilding a reporting layer. Both use a percentage-of-revenue pricing model with a free tier, and both charge 1% on their paid tiers at time of writing. And both now ship a visual paywall builder, which used to be a real differentiator and is now table stakes. So the decision is not about whether the basics work. They both work. It comes down to the four areas below. Pricing and free tiers. This is the clearest practical difference, and it favors Adapty. Adapty's free tier covers up to 5,000 USD per month in tracked revenue. They doubled it in early 2026, replacing an older flat-fee plan. RevenueCat's free tier covers up to 2,500 USD per month. Both then charge 1% on the paid tiers. For an indie developer, that gap is not academic. It is the difference between paying nothing and paying a percentage during exactly the phase when revenue is small and every subscription matters. If you are somewhere between 2.5K and 5K a month in tracked revenue, Adapty is simply free and RevenueCat is not. Above that, the two converge and pricing stops being the deciding factor. Platform and SDK coverage. Here RevenueCat is ahead, and it is the single strongest argument for it. RevenueCat ships SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, Cordova, Unity, macOS and Catalyst, and Ionic. Adapty covers iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, and Unity. For a pure iOS app that difference is irrelevant. It starts to matter the moment you have a Mac app, a Cordova or Ionic codebase, or a plan to expand beyond the two main mobile platforms. The bigger version of this is web. If your subscription business spans iOS, Android, and a web product, RevenueCat's native Stripe connection for web subscriptions means one subscriber identity and one entitlement system across all three. That is genuinely painful to assemble yourself, and it is where RevenueCat is hardest to beat. Paywalls and A/B testing. Here Adapty is ahead, and it is deliberate: Adapty has repositioned itself as the subscription SDK for teams that care about paywall conversion. Adapty's visual paywall builder has matured considerably. You can start from pre-made, industry-tested templates or from a blank canvas, and crucially it ships unlimited A/B testing with real-time analytics. If your growth motion is iterating on the paywall and measuring lift, that is the product built for you. RevenueCat's Paywalls v2 is a component-based editor that renders natively (SwiftUI on iOS rather than a web view) and is included free on all plans. It is good, and for most indie apps it is not the limiting factor. But if you intend to run continuous paywall experiments as a core practice, Adapty's experimentation story is stronger. Integrations and ecosystem. RevenueCat has the deeper ecosystem. It connects natively to Stripe for web subscriptions and to a long list of analytics and marketing tools including Amplitude, Mixpanel, Adjust, AppsFlyer, and Braze. This matters more than it sounds when your subscription data needs to reach the rest of your stack: attribution that ties a subscriber back to a campaign, product analytics that segment by entitlement, lifecycle messaging triggered by subscription events. If that plumbing already exists as a supported integration, you wire it up in an afternoon. If it does not, you build and maintain it. Adapty has integrations too, including marketing attribution, and its coverage is respectable. RevenueCat's is simply broader and more battle-tested, being the larger and longer-established platform. What Adapty shipped recently. Worth knowing if you last evaluated Adapty a year or two ago, because the picture has changed. Through early 2026 Adapty shipped a CLI, geo-pricing, Autopilot, and Apple Ads Manager support, alongside the free-tier increase and the paywall builder work. The geo-pricing piece is notable for anyone selling internationally, since charging one converted price everywhere leaves money on the table in both directions. It is also a reminder that the market is converging: features that were differentiators are becoming standard on both platforms, which pushes the decision back toward free tier, platform coverage, and ecosystem. How to decide. * You are a pre-revenue or early indie, iOS only. Adapty, on free-tier grounds alone. The 5K versus 2.5K threshold is real money during the phase where it hurts most. * You span iOS, Android, and web. RevenueCat. The native Stripe connection and single cross-platform entitlement system is the thing that is genuinely hard to replicate. * Paywall iteration is your core growth motion. Adapty, for unlimited A/B testing and the more mature experimentation workflow. * You need deep integrations with analytics, attribution, or lifecycle tooling. RevenueCat, for the broader supported-integration list. * You are on Cordova, Ionic, or macOS. RevenueCat, by SDK coverage. * You have no strong signal either way. Either is a defensible choice; both solve the hard part correctly. Pick on free tier if you are small and on platform coverage if you are not. Whichever you pick, remember that both sit on top of App Store Connect, and neither creates your products or sets your prices in each market for you. That layer has to be right first. See creating App Store subscriptions with the App Store Connect API and pricing across 25 countries. If you are also weighing a paywall-only tool, see RevenueCat vs Superwall, which is a different comparison because Superwall is not a subscription backend. Faq. Which has the better free tier, RevenueCat or Adapty? Adapty. Its free tier covers up to 5,000 USD per month in tracked revenue, versus RevenueCat's 2,500 USD. For an early indie app that gap is the difference between paying nothing and paying a percentage during the phase when revenue is smallest. Is Adapty a good RevenueCat alternative? Yes, it is a genuine competitor rather than a lesser option. It handles the same fundamentals (entitlements, receipt validation, analytics), has a more generous free tier, and has stronger paywall A/B testing. RevenueCat's advantages are platform breadth and integration depth. Which should I use for a cross-platform app? RevenueCat, especially if web is involved. It ships more SDKs (including Cordova, Ionic, and macOS) and connects natively to Stripe for web subscriptions, giving you one subscriber identity across iOS, Android, and web. Do both support paywall A/B testing? Both offer paywall builders, but Adapty's experimentation is stronger, shipping unlimited A/B testing with real-time analytics and template-based paywalls. RevenueCat's Paywalls v2 renders natively and is free on all plans, which is enough for most apps that are not running continuous experiments. How much do RevenueCat and Adapty cost? Both use a percentage-of-tracked-revenue model and both charge 1% on their paid tiers at time of writing, after their free tiers (2,500 USD per month for RevenueCat, 5,000 for Adapty). Verify current pricing before committing; both change it periodically. Can I switch from one to the other later? You can, but it is real migration work: both are the source of truth for entitlements, so you are moving subscriber state and re-validating transactions. Pick deliberately up front rather than planning to switch, and weigh the free tier against where you expect to be in a year. Spaceport generates a production-ready SwiftUI Xcode project with RevenueCat subscriptions already wired up, entitlements, paywall, and restore flow working on the first build, plus your products and prices created in App Store Connect across 25 markets. Spaceport ship RevenueCat because of the cross-platform and integration story above; the App Store Connect groundwork underneath is identical whichever SDK you choose. And before any of it matters, you need users: Lighthouse is the sibling toolkit for the waitlist and newsletter that get you your first hundred. From an indie iOS dev, for indie iOS devs.

RevenueCat, Inc. partnered with Stripe so your agent can monetize your app. RevenueCat and Stripe Projects make app monetization setup as simple as one CLI command, so developers and coding agents can go from idea to payments faster. PublishedJuly 15, 2026 Summary. RevenueCat partnered with Stripe Projects to make app monetization setup available through a single CLI command, letting developers or coding agents create a RevenueCat account, provision a project, generate API keys, and write credentials to .env without leaving the terminal. With this integration, tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Warp can treat monetization as a routine setup step, then use RevenueCat's SDK, dashboard, MCP server, and AI Toolkit to configure products, entitlements, offerings, paywalls, analytics, and webhooks so developers can move from idea to revenue faster. Your coding agent can now set up RevenueCat, provision a project, generate API keys, and get your app ready to accept payments. The whole thing takes just one CLI command. stripe projects add revenuecat/app RevenueCat, Inc. built this with Stripe as part of Stripe Projects. Before this, monetization setup was still manual. Every other piece of your stack provisions in seconds. Database? One command. Auth? One command. Hosting? Done. But until now, monetization required you to stop and spend an afternoon creating accounts, reading StoreKit documentation, figuring out which shared secret goes where, generating API keys, configuring sandbox environments, and setting up server-to-server notifications. It takes hours. Sometimes days. And you haven't written a single line of product code yet. That gap between "I have a working app" and "I can charge for it" is absurdly wide for something that should be a solved problem. So RevenueCat, Inc. fixed it. One command, working credentials. If you're starting a new project today, here's what this looks like in practice. You (or your agent) run one command. A few seconds later, you have a RevenueCat account, a configured project, and working API keys written directly to your .env file. You stay in the terminal the entire time. $ stripe projects add revenuecat/app | Created RevenueCat account | Created project "my-app" | Generated API keys | Wrote REVENUECAT_APP_UUID to .env | Wrote REVENUECAT_DASHBOARD_URL to .env | Wrote REVENUECAT_SECRET_API_KEY to .env Ready. Run `stripe projects open revenuecat` to view your dashboard. Products, entitlements, and offerings can be configured from the dashboard later, or your agent can handle them via its MCP server. Agents provision it automatically. If you build in Cursor, Claude Code, or Warp, the provisioning step is something your agent handles between writing your UI code and wiring up the SDK. You don't type the command. You just say "add monetization." You: "I want to add a $9.99/month subscription to this app." Agent: [runs stripe projects add revenuecat/app] Agent: [reads .env, configures Purchases SDK] Agent: "Done. I've added the Purchases SDK to your project and configured it with your API key. Want me to create a product and build a paywall next?" The agent doesn't need special RevenueCat knowledge. It picks up the Stripe Projects CLI and the skill files that stripe projects init already created. Monetization becomes a routine provisioning step, same as adding a database or setting up auth. Account, project, keys, full platform. When you run stripe projects add revenuecat/app, the CLI provisions: * A RevenueCat account (or links to your existing one) * A new project with sandbox and production environments * API keys synced to your local .env * Access to the full platform: paywalls, entitlements, offerings, analytics, webhooks, and its AI Toolkit for ongoing management You'll still need Apple and Google developer accounts to go live on those stores. But RevenueCat itself (the account, the project, the API keys, the entitlement configuration) provisions from the terminal. And with RevenueCat's test store, you can test monetization on a real device without those store accounts. From there, you integrate the Purchases SDK for iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, KMP, or web. That's the path from "I have an idea" to "I'm making money." Try it. * Install the Stripe CLI with the Projects plugin: stripe plugin install projects * Initialize your project and add RevenueCat: stripe projects init my-app stripe projects add revenuecat/app * Your REVENUECAT_SECRET_API_KEY is in .env. Integrate the SDK and start making money. For the full lifecycle, check its documentation or ask your coding agent to handle product creation, paywall configuration, and entitlement management using the RevenueCat AI Toolkit. This is a developer preview. Give it a try and tell RevenueCat, Inc. what you think, especially if you're building with agents. * Blog post Understanding Google Play's Billing Choice: a complete guide to offering alternative billing Billing Choice comes down to two decisions - who renders the choice screen and where payment happens - over one shared setup and one mandatory sale report. * Blog post Move your rating prompt out of onboarding - or risk rejection Apple is rejecting apps that ask for ratings during onboarding. * Blog post Launch Party June '26: The New Features You Should Know A recap (and videos) of its latest launch party demos.

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