RevenueCat

When I started writing my first-ever iOS app (coming from web dev) the only thing I knew about App Store subscriptions was that they were annoying and hard to get right. Being a noob to iOS, Swift, and the App Store I was not looking forward to figuring it out myself.

Fortunately these guys were launching at the same time we were and offered to let us into the beta. Dropping in the SDK saved me literally months of stumbling around in the dark trying to do it myself, poorly.

Support has been top notch and they're building out new features constantly.

The product itself just works. Did I mention already you might find yourself asking "is it just that?"

What is actually exceptional is the support. Well, it's not only support, it's more like care. We have tiny little niche app and had some issues with first Apple review and Jacob did everything he could to explain and validate all the technical issues we could face (including app setup in App Store and code review) and all the responses were almost instant (minus his sleeping time). I hope this won't pile up your inbox with too many questions, Jacob :-)

So, I do recommend the product, but it would have probably 1/4 of value without such a great team behind it.

Jacob at RevenueCat has been super helpful since before I even started using the product when I started reading his blog posts on implementing subscriptions and all the potential gotchas.

Since I signed up he as responded quickly and efficiently to all my emails and the product has worked flawlessly and has been improved continuously.

Thanks to RevenueCat I moved my first app over to subscriptions with a minimum of fuss and can see at a glance on the dashboard exactly how the app is performing in realtime (very nice when delivering new features and trying to move the needle).

I tried out RevenueCat because I never really understood the iOS subscriptions API and just cobbled together a barely-working implementation. RevenueCat gave me the peace of mind that comes with a professional, expert implementation.

Also, there are surprisingly few products out there that provide analytics on subscriptions. When gauging ad campaign effectiveness, I needed to be able to see accurate metrics on my subscribers. What's their churn? Which cohorts are staying subscribed the longest? How many subscribers do I retain after x months? RevenueCat is unmatched in this regard (believe me, I've tried them all).

Lastly, something that I love about RevenueCat is the ability to see an individual customer's transaction history. I can see when they renewed, when the started, and further, every transaction they've made in my app since the beginning.

I'm super excited by what the RevenueCat team has cooked up this far and am super excited to see what they introduce in the future! Jacob is the man!