# 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/

# Layout

The **Layout** tab in the **sidebar** provides a visual outline of your paywall's components. Hovering over elements will highlight them in the device preview:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-hover.gif)

### Adding elements

Click the **+** in the left sidebar or in the **Layout** tab to select an element to add to your paywall. This will present our library of components along with any snippets you've made (along with some of our own stock recipes):

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-layout-add-element.png)

At the top, you can choose from our core, fundamental building blocks such as a stack, text and more.

> **Note:** Most of your layouts should probably start with a Stack component. From there, add child elements
> to them to construct any layout.

Our stock components include:

* **Stack:** The foundation of any layout, it works like CSS Flexbox layout. Check out this [reference](https://flexbox.help) if you're new to Flexbox rules, alignment or just need a refresher.
* **Text:** Text components that can use [variables](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-variables), different font styles and more.
* **Image:** Add any image, or URL where it's located, to your paywall.
* **Video:** Add any video, or URL where it's located, to your paywall. You can choose to loop it, show or hide playback controls, mute it or toggle autoplay. We support most file formats but we do recommend keeping the file size around 2-5 megabytes.
* **Icon:** Superwall has over 1,000 searchable icons to available, along with the ability to edit their weight and color. You can browse them by category by clicking on the right hand side:
  
![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-browse-icons.gif)

* **Lottie:** A [Lottie](https://airbnb.design/lottie/) file. Either point to a URL of where it's located at, or upload one yourself. You can also customize looping, playback speed and more.
* **Drawer:** A basic drawer which presents from the bottom that can be configured to dismiss via fluid gestures or manually.
* **Navigation:** A container to set up multi-page designs, complete with a transition style.

### Snippets

Snippets allow you to aggregate one or more components together to reuse. For example, if you have a stack component with an icon and a text label, you could group that together to use as a component either in the current paywall, or another one later.

To add a snippet, select the **component** you want to use for your snippet and click the **bookmark** icon:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-snippet-1.png)

Then, give your snippet a name and add a description. When you're finished, click **Save**:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-snippet-2.png)

From then on, you can reuse it when adding a new component to any paywall. You'll see your own snippets at the bottom. Here's an example of a few custom snippets:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-snippet-3.png)

Note that you can edit any snippet you add, it will *not* overwrite the original snippet. If you do want any edits you make to be used as a snippet, simply make another snippet with the one you've edited.

### Re-ordering components or adding them as children

To reorder components on your paywall, you can simply drag and drop them in the **Layout** tab:

1. **Hovering on** another component will add the current component you're dragging as a child of the other component.
2. **Hovering above or below** other components will reorder the component you're dragging either above or below the other component.

You'll see a box filled in when you're adding a component as a child component, or you'll see a thin line to indicate you're reordering components. In the image below, notice how "The second cool feature" should be listed in the middle. Simply dragging it above the component in the middle will correctly reorder it:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-reorder.gif)

Reordering and adding components as children is all done via the **Layout** tab. It'll always represent the current hierarchy of your paywall's components.

### Deleting, renaming and copying elements

You can delete and copy components by selecting them in the **Layout** tab and then clicking on one of the following icons as seen in this image:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-crud.png)

From left to right, here's what each icon does:

* **Trashcan:** Deletes the component.
* **Bookmark:** Creates a snippet from the component.
* **Square on Square:** Copies the component.
* **Plus sign:** Adds a new component.

You can also select a component directly in the **live preview canvas** and use `⌘+C` (Mac) or `Ctrl+C` (Windows) to copy it, then `⌘+V` or `Ctrl+V` to paste it.

To **rename** a component, **double click** on its current name to edit it.

### Context menu

You can also right-click on a component to open a context menu. It contains nearly all of the editing options you'll find in the component editor. In addition, this is a great way to see and learn the available keyboard shortcuts:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-context-menu.jpeg)

### Component editor

Any component you select will open its editable properties in the **component editor**, which is on the right side of the editor window. You can change padding, text and anything related to a component here. To learn more, check out the dedicated page over editing components [here](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-styling-elements).

### Editor toolbar

In the top right of the editor, you'll see a toolbar with a few icons:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-layout-toolbar.png)

From left to right, here's what each icon does:

* **Undo:** Undo the last action. You can also use the `command/control+Z` keyboard shortcut.
* **Redo:** Redo the last action.
* **Preview:** Preview the paywall on device. For more, read this [doc](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-previewing).
* **Duplicate:** Duplicate the current paywall within the current project, or into another one.
* **Share:** Allows you to share your paywall externally. See "Paywall sharing" below for more.
* **History:** View paywall edit history and revert to a previous version. See "Paywall history" below for more.
* **Publish:** Publish the current edits to your paywall and make them live.

### Paywall sharing

Clicking the share icon allows you to share your paywall externally. This is useful for sharing with your team or clients. Once you click on share, you'll be prompted to generate a link:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-share-link.png)

From there, you can share the link with anyone. When they open it, the paywall will be duplicated into their own Superwall project (though, without your existing products):

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-share-link-public.png)

You'll know that a paywall has a share link available when the green banner at the top of the editor is present:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-share-banner.png)

To make the paywall private again, simply click the **Share** button once more and **click** the **Make Private** option.

### Paywall history

All edits you make in the paywall editor are stored in the history view:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-history.png)

**Click** on any entry to rollback your paywall to that version. Additionally, you can rename and add more context about any entry by clicking the **pencil** icon:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/pe-editor-history-tweak.png)

Anytime you save a your paywall, a new entry will be created in the history.

> **Tip:** To quickly see a snapshot in your history, you can click on an entry and it will show a live preview in the editor.