
The State of Subscription Apps in 10 minutes: lessons, trends, and benchmarks for 2026
Essential insights from the world’s largest subscription app dataset
Essential insights from the world’s largest subscription app dataset
On the podcast: how AI can turn your onboarding from a chore into magic, hyper-personalized experiences that drive both retention and revenue, and why your value-to-noise ratio matters more than how many features you ship.
After building between 50 and 100 apps, Frederik Riedel coded a weekend prototype to solve his own social media habit. When he accidentally triggered the app’s blocker just 20 seconds after installing it, he knew he had a real business. In a conversation with Charlie Chapman, the one sec founder breaks down how a single tweet drove months of growth, why ironic social media advertising works, and how an indie developer ended up with peer-reviewed research and a US patent.
A debate on whether the financial upside is worth the operational headache
The early-stage metrics that actually predict whether your app will succeed
Track and analyze your ad revenue alongside subscriptions and IAP all in one place.
Interviews and deep dives with the experts behind the biggest apps in the world.
Listen nowWhy your Russian subscriptions are about to churn
A step-by-step UX teardown of one of the longest onboarding flows in health and wellness apps
Why ads and subscriptions don't have to be a tug-of-war (you just need a new metric)
A third of your Google Play cancellations aren't real churn – here's how to get them back
On the podcast: the product-driven growth loop behind the #1 VPN app in the world, why they intentionally leave money on the table, and how the prettiest design often loses in their A/B tests.
This article explores the suspendCoroutine bridge pattern, showing how to convert callback APIs into clean suspend functions, handle diverse callback shapes, design proper error propagation, and how SDKs like RevenueCat apply it at scale.
On the hidden cost of AI features, and why you should treat AI usage like paid media spend
“RevenueCat enables us to have one single source of truth for subscriptions and revenue data.”
Olivier Lemarié, Photoroom










