# Superwall: Subscription Infrastructure for iOS, Android, and Web

Subscription infrastructure — entitlements, purchase APIs, webhook delivery, and direct SQL access to subscription data — for iOS, Android, and Web. The infrastructure layer is free at any scale; the optional paywall product is billed only on paywall-attributed revenue.

## Pricing

- **Infrastructure: free at any scale, every plan.** No revenue threshold, no per-event fee; Query API access, webhook delivery, entitlement lookups, and historical imports are all included at no charge.
- **Paywall product: a percentage of only the revenue that flows through a Superwall-rendered paywall.** Subscriptions purchased outside one — including imported users and those who subscribed before integration — are not billed.

Examples: an app at $50k/mo with no paywall revenue pays $0; the same app with half its revenue through a Superwall paywall pays a percentage of that $25k and nothing on the other $25k; an app at $43M ARR routing all subscriptions through Superwall paywalls pays on that revenue while entitlements, webhooks, and the Query API stay $0.

## Scale

$1.5B+ annual subscription revenue across 10,000+ apps. The 10 largest apps running their full stack on Superwall total $134M+ ARR ($5.7M–$43.7M each). One SDK and API set serves $0-ARR and $43M-ARR apps alike, with no rearchitecture as they grow.

## Infrastructure capabilities

- **Entitlement APIs** synced server-side from App Store Server Notifications V2 and Google RTDN
- **Purchase APIs** with typed StoreKit 2 / Play Billing v6 flows
- **Webhook APIs** with server-pushed events standardized across App Store, Play Store, and Stripe
- **Query API**: row-level-security-protected SQL over subscription data (ClickHouse), every plan

Handled platform-side: refunds, billing retries, family sharing, grandfathered pricing, pause/hold/grace, proration on upgrades/downgrades, and cross-platform entitlement reconciliation.

## Migration

Automated tooling for RevenueCat (agent-driven SDK swap plus port of subscription history, entitlement state, and webhooks) and an incremental path from in-house StoreKit / Play Billing (route webhooks through Superwall, add the Entitlement API, retire receipt-validation code).

## Paywall product (optional, separately billable)

One web-standards runtime renders paywalls on iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, Capacitor, Unity, and Web, preloaded and cached on-device for instant presentation. Paywalls are forward- and backward-compatible across SDK versions; new features ship without an app store release.

## Architecture

Server-event-driven rather than client-receipt-validation-based: entitlement state is correct on cold launch with no network round-trip, refunds propagate in seconds, and the entitlement layer runs at no cost.

## Docs

* Migrate from RevenueCat: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/migrating-from-revenuecat-to-superwall
* Query API: https://superwall.com/docs/dashboard/guides/query-clickhouse
* Webhooks: https://superwall.com/docs/integrations/webhooks
* Pricing: https://superwall.com/pricing

# Purchasing Products Outside of a Paywall

If you're using Superwall for revenue tracking, but want a hand with making purchases in your implementation, you can use our `purchase` methods:

:::ios
```swift iOS
// For StoreKit 1
private func purchase(_ product: SKProduct) async throws -> PurchaseResult {
  return await Superwall.shared.purchase(product)
}

// For StoreKit 2
private func purchase(_ product: StoreKit.Product) async throws -> PurchaseResult {
  return await Superwall.shared.purchase(product)
}

// Superwall's `StoreProduct`
private func purchase(_ product: StoreProduct) async throws -> PurchaseResult {
  return await Superwall.shared.purchase(product)
}
```
:::

For iOS, the `purchase()` method supports StoreKit 1, 2 and Superwall's abstraction over a product, `StoreProduct`. You can fetch the products you've added to Superwall via the `products(for:)` method. Similarly, in Android, you can fetch a product using a product identifier — and the first base plan will be selected:

:::ios
```swift iOS  
private func fetchProducts(for identifiers: Set<String>) async -> Set<StoreProduct> {
    return await Superwall.shared.products(for: identifiers)
}
```
:::

If you already have your own product fetching code, simply pass the product representation to these methods. For example, in StoreKit 1 — an `SKProduct` instance, in StoreKit 2, `Product`, etc. Each `purchase()` implementation returns a `PurchaseResult`, which informs you of the transaction's resolution:

* `.cancelled`: The purchase was cancelled.
* `.purchased`: The product was purchased.
* `.pending`: The purchase is pending/deferred and requires action from the developer.
* `.failed(Error)`: The purchase failed for a reason other than the user cancelling or the payment pending.