Last year's App Week saw a mix of workshops, meetups, co-working, dinners, and run clubs pop up across the city, and 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger. Each event sets its own RSVP rules, so you don't need a conference badge to join in.
Read on for the full rundown of everything on offer.
Sunday, October 18
Welcome to NYC!
📅 4:30–5:30 PM
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Landed early? Meet local and visiting app builders before the week kicks off, with drinks on the house. Hosted by EHVM, Tangent, and RevenueCat, join for a chilled start to a busy week — sightseeing included (but weather-dependent!). Request to join →
Monday, October 19
Warm Start: An Evening at Othership
📅 7:00–8:15 PM
📍 Othership Flatiron, 23 W 20th Street
A wellness evening for mobile founders and product leaders, pairing sauna and cold plunge sessions with a candid conversation about what it takes to build great mobile products. Come to relax those tense muscles after a busy day, stay for the new connections. Hosted by STRV and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Sail & Scale: The RAGA Launch Cruise by Paddle
📅 5:00–7:00 PM
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A relaxed evening cruise to kick off New York App Week, with skyline views, drinks, bites, music, and casual app growth conversation. Hosted by Paddle. Request to join →
iOSoho IndieDev Talks
📅 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 307 West 38th Street, Studio 1701 (in person and online)
Practical app growth talks for indie iOS developers, plus community updates, pizza, drinks, and networking. Can't make it in person? Tune in online. Hosted by iOSoho and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Growth Gems & Screw-Ups
📅 6:30–9:30 PM
📍 TALEA Beer, Penn District
An opening-night meetup where consumer app founders and growth practitioners trade their best subscription growth insights (and their most expensive mistakes) over delicious tacos. Hosted by Growth Gems and RevenueCat. Request to join →
AI App Founders Dinner
📅 6:30–9:30 PM
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No speakers, no agenda. Just good food, good wine, and candid conversation for founders building consumer AI apps. Hosted by Koah and RevenueCat. Request to join →
AI For NYC Hackathon
📅 6:30–10:00 PM
📍 Pursuit, 47-10 Austell Place, Long Island City
A hands-on hackathon where you'll use open data and APIs to build practical solutions for New York City, then pitch your project for prizes. Hosted by Pursuit. Request to join →
Spirits Night: A Growth Leaders Happy Hour
📅 7:00–10:00 PM
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An open-bar happy hour for B2C app growth leaders to swap the launch flops, flatlined metrics, and failed features teams rarely talk about — plus, snacks and a Superwall-curated playlist. Hosted by Superwall and AppCap. Request to join →
Apps Capital Dinner: Founders & Investors
📅 7:30–10:00 PM
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An exclusive dinner bringing consumer app founders together with the angels, VCs, PE firms, and M&A and acquisition partners who back and buy apps. Hosted by EHVM and Tangent. Request an invite →
Tuesday, October 20
App Owners Workout
📅 8:30–9:30 AM
📍 Barry's Chelsea
A private workout and breakfast for app founders, CEOs, and growth or monetization leaders to compare notes on profitable scaling, subscriptions, acquisition, and retention. Hosted by Scalebay and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Pickleball Social by Noise & RevenueCat
📅 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
📍 CityPickle Times Square, 1501 Broadway, 8th Floor
A morning of pickleball, coaching, and friendly competition, with snacks and candid conversation about content-led app growth. Hosted by Noise and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Deadly Good Growth Session
📅 9:30 AM–4:30 PM
📍 Superwall, 135 W 20th St, Suite 600
A full-day monetization session for growth and product leaders, with a live paywall teardown, customer panel, lunch, and hands-on demo. Hosted by Superwall. Request to join →
Climb the Paywall
📅 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
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A beginner-friendly bouldering session where the routes are named after real growth challenges, followed by coffee and candid growth stories. Hosted by An Nayal (consumerxai) and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Women in Apps Brunch
📅 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
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An intimate brunch for women building, growing, designing, marketing, investing in, and shaping apps, focused on honest conversation and new connections. Hosted by Molly Williams (Wild Minds) and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Scaling Paid Ads from $100K to $1M and Beyond: Q&A for Growth Operators
📅 2:00–3:30 PM
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A no-slides Q&A on scaling paid acquisition, covering creative systems, predictive LTV, unit economics, and the dashboards behind more than $100M in ad spend. Hosted by Tyler Scheviak and Will Kent. Request to join →
Oversubscribed
📅 4:00–6:30 PM
📍 One Times Square
An invite-only gathering for C-suite product, growth, and revenue leaders at consumer subscription apps with $100M+ ARR. Hosted by RevenueCat, Houlihan Lokey, and Goldman Sachs; invitations are issued directly.
Women in Apps Art Cafe x the gapp
📅 4:00–6:00 PM
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An intentionally small art cafe for women working in apps to put their phones down, paint ceramics, and meet the people behind the products, campaigns, and growth charts. Hosted by Larissa Morimoto and the gapp. Request to join →
App Week Padel: Founders Racket Club × RevenueCat × Paddle × BlueThrone
📅 4:00–7:00 PM
📍 DUMBO, Brooklyn
An intimate padel session for founders, executives, and app builders to play, meet, and connect away from the conference floor. Hosted by Founders Racket Club, RevenueCat, Paddle, and BlueThrone. Request an invite →
The Pre Game Audit
📅 4:30–6:30 PM
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A casual pregame with free drinks, app owners, and growth practitioners. Bring your app for a live audit and leave with practical ideas for your growth plan. Hosted by Fload. Request to join →
(H) Appy Hour with Botsi
📅 4:30–7:00 PM
📍 Hell’s Kitchen
A relaxed happy hour for app founders and growth leaders, with free drinks, food, and a private lounge for swapping growth wins and losses (or just unwinding after a busy day). Hosted by Botsi. Request to join →
Dinner for App Founders
📅 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 NoMad
A small dinner for founders, CEOs, and growth leaders running subscription apps to share food, drinks, and candid stories from the trenches, with a secret guest joining the table. Hosted by Superwall. Request to join →
App Founders Dinner
📅 5:00–7:00 PM
📍 Hell's Kitchen
A candlelit dinner for a small group of founders and growth operators who've scaled real subscription businesses, designed for candid conversation away from the conference crowd. Hosted by Superwall and Elemental Growth. Request to join →
The Shippies Award Show
📅 7:00–11:00 PM
📍 Intrepid Museum
All aboard The Shippies award ceremony! RevenueCat’s annual awards celebrate the people, ideas, and apps shaping the future of the subscription economy. And this time, it’s on a literal ship. Complete with red carpet, retired space shuttle, and unbeatable views of the Manhattan skyline. Join us to celebrate the best in app growth, monetization, and subscription innovation, plus every winner of Shipaton. Request to join →
Wednesday, October 21
App Growth Annual
📅 8:00 AM–9:00 PM
📍 The Glasshouse + online worldwide
RevenueCat's flagship event for the people building, growing, and shaping what's next in apps. Keynotes include Ravi Mehta (Tinder), Julie Hansen (Babbel), Greg Cohn (Burner), and Ajay Mehta (Tolan). You'll also get a first look at RevenueCat's 2027 roadmap, side quests in The Meowtrix challenge, plenty of time to network, and six workshops from industry experts like Lisa Kennelly (Klarna), Marcus Burke (Ctrl Shift), Sven Jürgens, and Bria Sullivan (Honey B Games). Attend online for free →
Building & Scaling a Successful UGC Program with Amazing Margins
📅 6:00–7:00 PM
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A hands-on workshop for app founders. Discuss building and scaling a high-margin UGC program, leave with your own program mapped out on paper: what it costs to run, what it should return, and where your current setup is leaking margin. Hosted by GlossKit. Request to join →
Thursday, October 22
New York App Week 5K with RevenueCat & Runna
📅 8:00–10:00 AM
📍 Bluestone Lane Chelsea Piers Café
Start the morning with a relaxed 5k along the Hudson, starting and finishing at Bluestone Lane Chelsea Piers. Breakfast and coffee's waiting at the finish line (+ finisher medals and limited edition swag!). Run, jog, or walk — all paces welcome. Receive a two-week free trial to Runna ahead of the event. Hosted by RevenueCat and Runna. Request to join →
Software Sommelier by Lickability
📅 10:00 AM–12:30 PM
📍 Manhattan
A cozy, caffeinated design lab: bring an app or prototype for live, actionable product and UX feedback from the Lickability team, then compare notes with fellow app builders. Hosted by Lickability. Request to join →
Shipaton Demo Day in Times Square
📅 10:00 AM–6:00 PM
📍 Times Square
We’re taking #buildinginpublic to a whole new level as Shipaton winners take over demo pods in Times Square to show off their apps and get real feedback all day long. Open to the public, no registration required. Hosted by RevenueCat.
RAGA Apps Cowork
📅 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
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A shared workspace for app builders to get things done between App Growth Annual and New York App Week events. Open to locals and visitors, with limited, time-slotted seating. Hosted by EHVM and Tangent. Request to join →
Apple Ads Masterclass: Maximum ROI, End to End
📅 11:00 AM–12:00 PM
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A hands-on masterclass that uses a real client case to connect Apple Ads acquisition and ROAS with RevenueCat subscription and paywall data, so you leave with a practical end-to-end ROI framework. Hosted by Asapty and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Magic, Drinks & App Talk — Speakeasy Night NYC
📅 6:00–9:00 PM
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A speakeasy-style evening for indie app owners, with drinks, food, a close-up magic show, and relaxed conversation about building and growing apps. Hosted by Rounds.com and RevenueCat. Request to join →
Appstore Connect — NYC
📅 6:30–9:30 PM
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A community meetup for founders and builders in mobile apps and games to exchange ideas and explore consumer app trends, user acquisition, and monetization. Hosted by Appstore Connect. Request to join →
A/B or Not to Be
📅 6:30–9:30 PM
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An interactive evening of real growth experiments and strong opinions. Attendees vote A or B on real growth experiments before the team reveals the actual results. Followed up with Would You Rather: App Industry Edition, and a live app growth roast. Hosted by Apptuitive. Request to join →
Scaled Consumer App Founder Dinner
📅 7:00–9:00 PM
📍 Brooklyn
A small dinner for founders of scaled consumer subscription apps to share candidly what is, and isn't, working. Hosted by Will Kent. Request to join →
What’s on your schedule?
Whether you’re hosting a meetup or jogging along the Hudson, there’s an event for every type of app pro, and enough going on to quickly fill your calendar. Join as many events as you like, or show up to a single co-working session and stay heads-down. The only non-negotiable in your diary is App Growth Annual, happening October 21. We’ll see you there!