# 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/

# Abandoned Transaction Paywalls

Learn how to respond when a user starts a purchase, then cancels the transaction.

When a user opens the store purchase sheet and dismisses it before completing the purchase, Superwall tracks a `transaction_abandon` event. You can respond to that in three ways:

1. Run an **On Abandon** action from the purchase button.
2. Show another paywall with a `transaction_abandon` placement.
3. Keep the user on the current paywall and reveal a drawer, offer, or survey using the `didAbandonTransaction` paywall state.

## Run an On Abandon action

Use the purchase action's **On Abandon** section when the response belongs to the button that started the purchase. This is the simplest option for cases like closing the paywall, moving to a recovery page in the same Flow, setting a state variable, or registering a custom placement after the user cancels the purchase sheet.

To set it up, select the purchase button, open its **Tap Behavior**, and add one or more actions under **On Abandon**. The actions run after Superwall receives the abandon result, so `state.didAbandonTransaction` and `products.abandoned` are already available when they execute.

For the full list of outcome actions and SDK requirements, see [Purchase outcome actions](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-styling-elements#purchase-outcome-actions).

## Show another paywall instead

You can add `transaction_abandon` as a placement in a campaign. If a matching paywall is available, Superwall closes the current paywall and presents the new one.

Use this approach when the recovery experience should be a completely separate paywall, such as a dedicated discount page, a transaction-abandon survey template, or a later campaign with its own audience filters.

For campaign setup details and available audience filter parameters, see [`transaction_abandon`](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-campaigns/campaigns-standard-placements#transaction_abandon).

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-LeBeSHTs4g?si=DH7sWlyF-ppoO8tp" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" />

## Use `didAbandonTransaction` in the current paywall

Use the `didAbandonTransaction` state when you want the recovery offer to feel like part of the same paywall instead of closing one paywall and opening another.

`didAbandonTransaction` is a boolean state variable that Superwall manages for you. It starts as `false` when the paywall opens or when a new purchase begins. If the user cancels the store purchase sheet, Superwall sets it to `true`.

You can use that state to open a drawer after the abandoned transaction:

## Add a drawer for the recovery offer

In the paywall editor, add a [Drawer](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-drawer-component) element. Put the follow-up offer, survey, or personalized message inside the drawer.

## Bind the drawer to the transaction state

Select the drawer and set its open state to use a dynamic value. Use the `state.didAbandonTransaction` variable as the condition so the drawer opens when the value is `true`.

## Add the follow-up purchase action

Add a button inside the drawer that starts the purchase you want to offer next. For example, you might show the same product with clearer copy, a discounted product, or a lower-priced alternative.

## Publish and test the paywall

Preview the paywall on a device, tap the purchase button, then dismiss the App Store or Google Play purchase sheet. The drawer should appear on the same paywall after the transaction is abandoned.

> **Tip:** If you need to edit or preview the drawer in the paywall editor, open the **Variables** panel and
> temporarily set `state.didAbandonTransaction` to `true`.

## Personalize the recovery offer

When a transaction is abandoned, Superwall also stores the abandoned product reference. This lets you personalize copy based on the product the user tried to buy.

For example, if the user attempted to purchase the annual product, you can use the abandoned product variables to show annual-specific copy or pricing inside the drawer:

```liquid
Still interested in {{ products.abandoned.periodly }} access?
```

You can use the same product fields available for your other product variables, such as `products.abandoned.price`, `products.abandoned.periodly`, or `products.abandoned.trialPeriodText`.

> **Note:** `products.abandoned.*` refers to the product on the current paywall that the user attempted to
> purchase. Campaign audience filters use a separate `abandoned_product_id` value, which is the
> store product identifier.