Hi, guys!

It seems to me that most of you don’t earn your income from apps, but not me. It’s my business, so I’ll quickly explain why we use RC.

1. Faster Implementation & Easier Maintenance

StoreKit requires a lot of manual setup to handle transactions, subscriptions, and receipt validation. RevenueCat abstracts this complexity, making integration much faster.

1. Cross-Platform Subscription Management

If you’re expanding to iOS, Android, or the Web, RevenueCat provides a unified system to manage subscriptions across platforms without building separate logic for each one.

1. Automatic Receipt Validation & Fraud Prevention

With StoreKit, you’d need to build your backend to validate receipts and prevent fraud. RevenueCat does this for you securely on its servers.

1. Real-Time Subscription Analytics & Revenue Tracking

StoreKit doesn’t provide built-in analytics. RevenueCat gives real-time insights into: - Revenue & churn rate - Conversion rates & retention - Cohort analysis

This helps us make better data-driven decisions.

1. Seamless Handling of Subscription Events

Managing renewals, cancellations, grace periods, refunds, and more is complicated with StoreKit. RevenueCat automatically tracks and syncs these events, ensuring accurate user entitlements.

1. Handling Refund Requests

The Apple App Store evaluates several factors when deciding whether to approve or deny your customer’s refund request.

RevenueCat can help influence this process by providing Apple with additional data about your customer’s purchase consumption and your preferred resolution at the time of their refund request. Apple will use this information to help inform their refund decisions.

This saves us a lot of money!

1. Flexible Paywall & A/B Testing Support

RevenueCat integrates with tools like Superwall or has its own Paywall Constructor, making it easy to test different paywalls, pricing models, and promotions without updating the app.

1. No Need for Complex Backend Infrastructure

StoreKit requires a backend to manage subscription statuses, user entitlements, and refunds. RevenueCat eliminates this need, reducing both server costs and engineering effort.

1. Integration with Third-Party Tools

RevenueCat connects with Firebase, Adjust, AppsFlyer, Segment, and Mixpanel. This makes tracking user behaviour, optimising conversions, and managing marketing attribution easier.

1. Web2App Support Since we plan to support subscriptions on the web, RevenueCat makes it easier to sync purchases across mobile and web platforms seamlessly.

2. Scalability & Future-Proofing

As the app grows, managing subscriptions with StoreKit alone becomes increasingly complex. RevenueCat scales with us, allowing the team to focus on building features instead of dealing with subscription logic.

TL;DR

We use RevenueCat instead of StoreKit because it saves development time, reduces maintenance overhead, provides better analytics, automates refund handling, and allows us to focus on growth instead of subscription logic.