# 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/

# Creating Products

Create products in Stripe to show on your web paywalls.

### Adding products

Once your app is configured with Stripe, you can create products to show on your web paywalls. To get started, **click** on **Products** from the overview page:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_create_product.png)

> **Note:** Complete your Stripe setup first by following the steps in [Configuring Stripe Keys and Settings](/docs/web-checkout/web-checkout-configuring-stripe-keys-and-settings).

Next, **click** on the **+ Import Products** button in the top right corner:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_import.png)

You'll be given a choice to add either a:

1. **Live Product:** These are for production purchases and flows.
2. **Sandbox Product:** These are for testing purchases and flows.

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_import_ctx.png)

> **Note:** Superwall supports both sandbox and live products. To learn more about their differences, here's a
> good overview from [Stripe's documentation](https://docs.stripe.com/test-mode).

### Using Stripe products

If you've already created products in Stripe, you can import them into Superwall now. All you need to do is select the "Product" and the rest of the fields should automatically populate with its data when you select them. You will need to choose which entitlement or entitlements a product should grant a user access to:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_entitlement.png)

Once you're done **click** on the **Save** button and your product is ready to be used in a paywall.

### Creating new products in Stripe

To create new products, **click** on the **Create Product in Stripe** link:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_create_stripe_product.png)

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From there, fill in all of the fields presented to you in Stripe:

1. **Name:** The product name, i.e. "Pro", "Premium", etc.
2. **Description:** A description of the product, this will show up in checkout.
3. **Image:** An image representing the product, this will show up in checkout. Optional.
4. **Product tax code:** The tax code classification for the product. Refer to your territories tax codes for more information.
5. **Recurring vs One-off:** For subscriptions, choose "Recurring". For lifetime access, credit packs or other consumables, choose "One-off".
6. **Amount:** The price of your product, and what it will renew at if it's recurring.
7. **Billing period:** The billing period for the product, i.e. "Monthly", "Yearly", etc.

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_create_new_product_in_stripe.png)

Once you've finished filling out pricing details, product name and all other metadata, **click** on the **Add product** button at the bottom right of the form. You should be redirected to your Stripe products page:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_product_redirect.png)

Now, when you return to Superwall, select your product from the **Products** drop down, and when you select the other fields, Superwall will pull in the data for you (aside from trials, which you choose when adding a Stripe product). Here, the new "Scores Annual" product created in Stripe shows up in the products menu now:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_import_new.png)

Be sure to associate the correct entitlement to the product as well.

> **Tip:** For Stripe one-time prices, Superwall shows the period as **None (Lifetime / Consumable)**. Link lifetime products to an entitlement, and usually leave consumable products without one. Learn more in [Stripe One-Time Purchases](/docs/web-checkout/web-checkout-stripe-one-time-purchases).

### Adding products to paywalls

Adding Stripe products to web paywalls works the exact same way as it does for mobile paywalls. Check out the docs [here](/docs/dashboard/dashboard-creating-paywalls/paywall-editor-products). For a quick overview:

1. Open the paywall editor.
2. On the left sidebar click on **Products**.
3. Choose the products to add, as in the image below:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_add_product.png)

Keep in mind that to test products, it's as simple as adding a test product to a paywall and performing the checkout flow. For more information, please refer to [Testing purchases](/docs/web-checkout/web-checkout-testing-purchases).

### Sandbox products

Sandbox products are used to test purchases. When you create one, you can add it to any web paywall to test check out flows. You create sandbox products the same you create other products, just choose "Sandbox Product" when creating a product. You'll see a sandbox banner at the top of Stripe when you create these types of products:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_sandbox_product.png)

Once you've created a sandbox product in Stripe, import them to Superwall the same way as you would a normal product, and then they are ready for use in a paywall. Within the products page, Superwall will show which environment each product belongs to:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_products_test_prod.png)

When testing with sandbox products, you can see their details in the Overview page. **For this to work, all products on a paywall must be test products.** Put differently, the sandbox metrics won't show here if you mixed and matched live and sandbox products on the same paywall when testing:

![](https://2b27b750-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/web2app_sandbox_overview.png)

### Free trials

Trials are controlled by Superwall, they are not set up in Stripe. When you go to add a product, you choose the terms. You can also reuse the same product ID multiple times to create different trial lengths. This is a powerful capability, as it avoids the need to create a similar product over and over just to offer different trial terms. For example, you can use the same product ID with a one week trial, no trial, 3 day trial, and any other terms you need — these will all be represented as individual products you can add to paywalls.