# RevenueCat Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is RevenueCat the right Subscription Management solution for you? Explore 47 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/212540/RevenueCat/reviews --- RevenueCat 4.7 (47) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/212540/RevenueCat/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of RevenueCat Ease of use 4.7 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews DW Dong W Indie developerComputer Games, Self-employedUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “For iOS subscription, you have to use backend server to verify receipt, but for many Indie iOS developer who don't have experience on backend server, RevenueCat is a saver. If RevenueCat don't change the price for starter Indie developer, like revenue below $100,000 / month, RevenueCat will not charge for the user, I will thank for RevenueCat understand the situation of starter Indie developer. If one day, I can get revenue more than $100,000/month, I will definitely pay for the good service for RevenueCat.“ July 15, 2021 RL Robert L CTOComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I even wasted time in one of their Q&A sessions on the recommendation of their support team, which was nothing more than a shameless product pitch.“ January 12, 2025 MN Michael N Founder / DeveloperComputer Software, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “RevenueCat makes it easy to combine all subscriptions into a nice dashboard where I can go to see and manage all of my subscriptions regardless of the platform.“ August 10, 2021 SA Sophie A FounderComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It's very expensive - because you're charged based on revenue processed, it can wind up eating a huge percentage of your profits for apps with moderate or low margins.“ April 27, 2022 Minkyo J Graduate StudentEducation Management, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “I was told that this is a great program for subscription management and I suggested my acquaintances to give this a try and they love it.“ April 18, 2022 MN Michael N Founder / DeveloperComputer Software, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I somewhat struggle with the thought of paying a small percentage of my revenue rather than paying a flat, monthly rate.“ August 10, 2021 Oskar K Co-FounderComputer Software, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “It allowed us to quickly implement subscriptions and in-app purchases with Apple and Google Play.“ August 26, 2021 ZK Zafer K CEOInformation Technology and Services, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “For big companies no problem at all but when you think of a startup and integration with other third parties you must pay for it. And the payment is not affordable for startups.“ January 18, 2021 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 47 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Sudipto P. Product Owner Leisure, Travel & Tourism Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Using RevenueCat server from app inception to release to the App Store" July 16, 2021 5.0 The integration is stable. Once coded, I seldom need to revisit it. So, it's now a seamless experience for my users and the app Pros The integration mechanism into swift code base is detailed in RevenueCat docs. This made it possible to successfully integrate it. It is very helpful that testing in the sandbox is possible using a sandbox user Cons The concepts of Entitlements, Offerings, Products is difficult to memorize. It's good that RevenueCat has readily available detailed documentation to cover these concepts Review Source DM Dakota M. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Simple Solution for In-App Subscriptions" January 20, 2022 5.0 We turned to RevenueCat because of the hassle that exists trying to verify purchases manually. Doing this ourselves would mean setting up a server, handling all the different cases across the App Store and Play Store, and making sure this server is maintained and always live. For a small team like ours, this just wasn't viable and any potential money "saved" doing it ourselves would be lost in the time we would spend setting up our own solution. That would also mean extra time before an app can be released which would increase our time to market. RevenueCat handled everything we needed it to and took about a week to fully integrate. Pros RevenueCat made it really easy for us to implement In-App Subscriptions for our app with absolutely no prior experience in taking payments on mobile devices. It saved us the upfront cost of paying for our own server to verify purchases along with the potential months of headache to handle all of the different scenarios you need to plan for and handle with in-app purchases (buying, renewing, pausing, canceling, etc.) Being able to pull information directly from RevenueCat instead of hard-coding it into our app also meant we could have a single source of truth (the App Store/Google Play Store) where we would update our available products. Cons The only thing I wasn't a fan of (which has since been changed) was the payment model. When we first integrated it, the payment model was a fixed monthly rate versus the percentage cut that it is now. Extremely useful features like webhooks weren't accessible for us at the time because of this, but as I stated they've now changed this. Because of that, I cannot name anything I dislike about RevenueCat. Alternatives considered [Adapty](https://www.capterra.com/p/205858/Adapty/) Reason for choosing RevenueCat The competitor we considered didn't look bad, but we trusted RevenueCat because large app companies were already using them. Review Source RL Robert L. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great idea, terrible execution and terrible support" January 12, 2025 1.0 It takes a lot for me to leave a bad review. RevenueCat is a great idea, but poorly executed. The documentation is scatty, their API is inconsistent, there has been 2 sets of downtime since I signed up and the level of support from RevenueCat is absolutely unacceptable. For a company that takes a 1% cut of your revenue forever—potentially up to thousands of dollars per month—this is beyond ridiculous. 5-10 business days for an email response? If I’m lucky, maybe 2-3 days. Their documentation is a joke, basically saying to try the obvious and failing that “Go ask someone else on the forums” And their forums? Just a graveyard of unanswered posts with people begging for updates. I’ve been stuck trying to fix Android issues for over a week. I’m confident my setup is correct, but still, nothing works. Getting any kind of timely help from RevenueCat is like pulling teeth. I even wasted time in one of their Q&A sessions on the recommendation of their support team, which was nothing more than a shameless product pitch. Their exact words: “We aren’t answering implementation questions today.” despite half of the people on the session voting for implementation help. It’s clear to me that RevenueCat doesn’t prioritise supporting their customers. Their strategy is obvious—sign up as many people as possible, then leave them hanging. When our success is literally their success, how can they justify this level of neglect? It’s infuriating. Pros I like the idea of it, and the fact that it could consolidate.your monetisation strategy. (When it works correctly) Cons The support is terrible, the documentation is terrible. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Android Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best service for in-app purchases" January 23, 2025 5.0 Really happy with it, I like their documentations and the ease of use Pros The simplicity to setup in-app purchases for mobile apps and the pricing Cons Really I don't know what to say here. Maybe the cheaper plan could have a bit more features? Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Cofounder E-Learning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "I Need RevenueCat" December 15, 2020 5.0 Over all I am 100% happy. I can continue to be happy when you keep iterating as we all must in the subscription world. Pros I have to chose 1 thing? I can't. 1. I love how you built this for hardworking app developers. You saw the unmet need and you filled it with love. 2. I love your response from your team when I have a question or problem. 3. I love how you offer a very affordable service and when we want more features you hook us so we have to pay more but we like it ;) Cons Better communication with Apple when we update our price of subscription. Have that reflect on our charts side. Reason for choosing RevenueCat We met them at WWDC. That helps. We heard about you before WWDC too. You were the right tool for the job at a scalable price. Review Source David J. Chief Learning Officer Internet Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Critical for running my subscription business" December 2, 2020 5.0 Happy customer! Pros Just works — provides server-side software and client-side APIs the Apple and Google should provide but don't. Useful charts Supports iOS, Android and many integrations It just works! No drama. Cons Nothing comes to mind. It does its job well. Reason for choosing RevenueCat Actually we did have our own homegrown software, client-side only for a while. Then thankfully we found RevenueCat and ditched that code, which had a few bugs and did so much less. Now as Apple and Google come up with new nonsense and hoops for people to jump through, RevenueCat just takes care of it! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A good tool but still need lots of work" June 17, 2021 3.0 Ok, could be much better but still the tradeoff between implementing everything and relying on it is still worth it Pros We decided to use revenuecat in order to have "one ring to rule them all" for our IoS and Android app to manage our products and subscriptions. It works fine (most of the times) and takes away that burden from us. Cons The key points that come to my mind are: - Calculated revenue is wrong! It does not match the actual app revenue since it does not take into account neither the day of the purchase exchange for the currency and also automatically uses USD dollars for everything - When some events happens RevenueCat is often quite slow in contacting our APIs to tell us about it. I reckon it might be due to the Store updates but still want to mention this since often it gave us problems in sync subscriptions purchases - Sometimes support has taken even 4-7 days to answer our emails and we had to ping them Review Source Oskar K. Co-Founder Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Flutter App Development w/ RevenueCat" August 26, 2021 5.0 I am very satisfied with this service and hope to use it for the next years to come. Pros Implementing custom billing structures that are reliable and secure is difficult. When building our app, RevenueCat made the implementation process much easier. It allowed us to quickly implement subscriptions and in-app purchases with Apple and Google Play. Cons Since I've been working with this software (for 3 months now). I have not encountered any problems, and if so, the support team was quick to help me solve them. Reason for choosing RevenueCat Our requirements left us with no other options than RevenueCat. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Manager Sports Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Exactly what I needed!" April 14, 2021 5.0 Pros I like how the setup is very easy and fast, and it has all the feature I needed especially the one source of truth. I am currently using it for free, and thats a major plus as my app grow and sales grow I will be joining the paid plan which is very fair considering the benefits and the revenue I will be making. Having react-native library was a major plus for me as well. Cons Nothing, really. If I had to say something I would say that when I tested on sandbox, I experienced some delays for test users to show on the dashboard, but that is not really a major issue and most of the time its working just fine. Review Source Svyatoslav R. CTO Investment Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great for startup" May 24, 2021 5.0 Pros It's an easy-to-integrate and powerful product for adding in-app purchases to your app Cons I still don't have cons about RevenueCat Review Source AD Andor D. Mobile Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Don’t look further" February 20, 2021 5.0 Just amazing, everything just works as expected. No complaints. Pros Trying to implement subscription handling on my own was a time consuming mess. You have to learn multiple platforms and stay up to date if anything changes. After discovering RevenueCat I had my subscription handling in my React Native app up in a couple hours. Just amazing! Cons I think a more detailed pricing section would be good, I had to email you guys to ask if it’s really free for so long. Reason for choosing RevenueCat Because it offers a free trial which is more affordable to start out with. Review Source UB Usman B. iOS Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "RevenueCat is the Best Cat 😺" April 14, 2021 5.0 Overall experience is really satisfying. I mean implementing IAP in less than 6 hours is amazing. I can spend this else where in the development process. Pros The best thing about using RevenueCat was ease of use. The documentation is so well written. Moreover the helpful auto emails during the integration process helped me a lot ok every step. Cons So far so good. Nothing bad about the product yet. Only concern is what if Apple someday decides to stop third parties from handling IAP. What will be the get out plan from RevenueCat Review Source VY Volodymyr Y. Indie app developer Program Development Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Top-class product" July 29, 2021 5.0 Pros Super easy integration, saved me a lot of time. Cons There are no cons. I would definitely recommend RevenueCat. Review Source SB Saurabh B. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Awesome product that reduces the development time for implementing in-app purchases drastically" May 20, 2021 5.0 Pros \- Decent documentation - Easy to use and implement. - The free pricing tier truly takes the risk out of implementing this software. Cons \- None so far. I have been using them for a month now and yet to face any issues. - Documentation examples could certainly use some improvement. Review Source RC Robin C. Developer Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Life saver" April 16, 2021 5.0 Pros RevenueCat is easy to use and well documented. Highly recommend. Cons It’d be great if there’s an app version. Review Source GH Giles H. Maker Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A simple, solid tool for managing in-app purchases" January 8, 2021 5.0 It made it easy to add in-app purchases to Frames. Pros A simple, solid service. It does just what you need. Makes handling the App Store simple. Cons Further help with managing non-renewing subscriptions would be good. Review Source NH Niels H. CTO Individual & Family Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "RevenueCat Evaluation" December 10, 2020 4.0 We love the value that RevenueCat has brought us. It's honestly saved us thousands of man hours if we had not used them. During covid-19 our business has been hit hard and had to get rid of other services but RevenueCat we never one them we thought we could do without. Pros The ease of use to plug directly into our Flutter Application. Cons The Charting with Churn Reporting is completly broken. We've been keeping track of every cancellation and failed payment internally and we have drastictly different numbers on the daily numbers. Because of this our subscription count will jump up and down on the dashboard and show weird daily numbers that start off for the previous day way higher that it should be and then reduce down to where they should be in a day or two. We love RevenueCat and what it gives us and as a startup ourself, we understand growing pains. We have a internal meme that there is someone at RC is manually adding the numbers and doing it wrong and then on Mondays someone else is manually adjusting them! All in good fun! Reason for choosing RevenueCat We've been with Revenue Cat now over 2 years and been through the growing pains together and we would not have it any other way! When we first looked at the product it seemed like this would be a much better choice than trying to build all this ourselves for iOS and Android. And the decsision was the right one! Review Source SA Sophie A. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Useful but expensive solution for mobile app subscriptions" April 27, 2022 4.0 Pros RevenueCat makes it easier to handle subscriptions for mobile apps through the Apple and Google Play Stores. It handles a lot of the behind-the-scenes mechanics of checking users' subscription status and dealing with refunds and cancellations. Cons It's very expensive - because you're charged based on revenue processed, it can wind up eating a huge percentage of your profits for apps with moderate or low margins. It's tough to make a business work when Apple or Google takes 15-30% and RevenueCat takes another significant cut off the top. Other issues: the app often has significant downtime/outages which aren't always reported or resolved promptly, and the charts features are quite unpolished. Review Source ML Maciej L. CEO Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "no brainer for small mobile app" December 15, 2020 5.0 when i started building our app RevCat was a no-brainer. now, when we grow and have $30k revenue monthly, the product starts to be a little bit pricy. in the future, we may consider building our own system and use native apple api. what could hold us at RevCat is a possibility to reach to users who cancel their paying plan and send a push notification with a special offer. Pros \- easy setup for a developer - i did it a long time ago and since then it works perfectly - dashboard with charts that i check almost daily to have an idea of how many users we have on trials/how is the app performing. - MOST IMPORTANT: i can instantly see if the new version converts users to a paid plan better. Cons \- there are bugs in the iOS iAPs, so it's hard to point where the fault is, but some of our users complain that they can't restore purchases on their second device. RevCat support suggested they can remove the app and redownload - and that helps... but it is a lot of work for a new user. Review Source SP Simon P. Founder/Developer Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A must have for cross platform indie developers" December 15, 2020 5.0 Pros Super easy integration and saved months of development time for cross platform subscriptions. The SDK also helps out tremendously when doing customer support. And it saves a bunch of time when building support for new subscription features or when configuring products. Signing up for RevenueCat was one of the best things I have done for my company! Cons The charts are a bit slow to update and don't seem to be accurate when it comes to revenue from countries that have VAT added to the price. For example, the revenue from countries like Sweden, where I have a large percentage of my customers, is reported as having a take home percentage of 70%. The real number is around 55% due to VAT, so the charts are inflated. Review Source MN Michael N. Founder / Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Quick and Convenient" August 10, 2021 5.0 Fantastic! Customer service has been incredible. Very impressed by the dashboards and the SDKs that you can use to implement into your app. I am honestly amazed and would highly recommend them. Pros As an app developer, I ran into several nuances with how different platforms have different requirements for processing payments. RevenueCat made it easy to implement In-App payments in a time when I was pressed for time. I also use Stripe and will be implementing Google Play IAP when they force it in fall 2020. RevenueCat makes it easy to combine all subscriptions into a nice dashboard where I can go to see and manage all of my subscriptions regardless of the platform. Cons I somewhat struggle with the thought of paying a small percentage of my revenue rather than paying a flat, monthly rate. Currently, with revenue so low, RevenueCat is definitely worth it. As revenue increases, I may have to consider implementing some of these webhooks myself to manage my own subscriptions. Reason for choosing RevenueCat They had the SDKs I needed to integrate with capacitor applications Review Source CM Chad M. Founder, owner, and developer E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "An amazing service for facilitating the development of StoreKit-enabled apps" December 7, 2020 5.0 Pros I give RevenueCat a truly enthusiastic recommendation. Apple does not make it easy to get up and running with StoreKit-enabled apps; RevenueCat eliminates all the pain from developing those apps, cutting out months of development time. Not only is the service exemplary, but so is their documentation and their customer service, even for their lowest-level "Build" plan. The RevenueCat team know they are investing in the future of those who use RevenueCat, so they provide prompt, professional support to RevenueCat's users. I can recommend RevenueCat without reservation. Don't pass up the opportunity to use this exemplary service! Cons I can't think of anything I dislike about the service— it's really that good. Review Source HK Harry K. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great platform for integrating subscriptions into your iOS app." December 11, 2020 5.0 It's been great, no problems so far. Pros RevenueCat makes it easy to keep track of receipts, and I also enjoy using the metrics recorded as a basis for future decisions. Cons Nothing serious that I don't like. But, if I were to nitpick, the charts could use an UI refresh. They're looking a little old. Review Source TE Trond E. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Excellent, would absolutely recommend!" May 12, 2021 5.0 Pros Very easy to use, did really like how they made a complicated process easy to integrate in apps. The SDK and documentations is just awesome with good written articles, examples, tutorials and also great youtube tutorial videos for getting started. Integrating in app purchasing/subscription in apps is a big hassle, a lot of stuff must be implemented in backend/frontend and must be 100% stable. RevenueCat just fix all that hassle for you so you can use your time on the important stuff, creating apps. It's free until you reach 10k USD/month, I would gladly pay for this service when reaching that amount and maybe do it sooner to access the extra features they provide. Cons The concept of Entitlements, Offerings and Products was not so self explaining at start and I had to read the documentation to understand it. However after integrating it into my apps I understand why it's very good way to go. Review Source MEG Mehmet Emin G. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Good Job ! Thanks for developing such a good experience for us." June 25, 2021 5.0 It is really good, I really like the coming emails from the RevenueCat team. Product is really good from technical perspective but especially the charts can be more cool :) I hope you guys won't get offended but they look really old. I hope the analysis also will be improved in the future. I am in a small team but me and my business partners will continue using RevenueCat and also for the projects that we will be develop in the future. We are again considering using RevenueCat. Pros Implementation of subscription type of in-app payment actions actually hard to handle in long-term and the server-side of such an implementations also really time taking actions for small businesses like ours. So, RevenueCat provides really good way to handle in-app payments and it is easy implement. I really like that. Cons The user interface and the analysis part can be improved. Review Source Similar Products Featured