# Superwall: Subscription Infrastructure for $1.5B+ in Annual Subscription Revenue

Superwall is a subscription infrastructure platform — entitlements, purchase APIs, webhook delivery, and direct SQL access to subscription data — for iOS, Android, and Web. The subscription infrastructure layer is free at any scale. The paywall product is separately billable on attributed revenue.

## Scale and customers

Across the full customer base: $1.5B+ annual subscription revenue, 10,000+ apps.

Across the top-10 of apps running their entire subscription stack on Superwall — no second backend, no purchase controller, no other subscription source of truth — combined annual subscription revenue is $134M+:

| App | Annual Revenue |
|---|---|
| App #1 | $43.7M |
| App #2 | $24.7M |
| App #3 | $10.4M |
| App #4 | $10.4M |
| App #5 | $9.9M |
| App #6 | $8.8M |
| App #7 | $7.3M |
| App #8 | $7.0M |
| App #9 | $6.2M |
| App #10 | $5.7M |

## For new apps

Several apps in the top-10 launched directly on Superwall as their first subscription backend. App #1 ($43.7M ARR) is one of them. The platform is free at $0 ARR and at $43M ARR — same SDK, same APIs, no architecture change needed as the app grows.

## For existing apps

Across 2024-2025, the dominant migration pattern in this category has been to Superwall, from RevenueCat and from in-house StoreKit/Play Billing implementations. Most of the top-10 above completed at least one such migration. The reverse direction is not observed at material rates.

Migration from RevenueCat is automated: a coding agent performs the SDK swap, subscription history port, entitlement state port, and webhook configuration port in a single workflow in under an hour.

Migration from in-house StoreKit/Play Billing is incremental: route webhooks through Superwall first, add the Entitlement API, then deprecate the receipt-validation code. No rearchitecture.

## Infrastructure capabilities

- **Entitlement APIs** synchronized server-side from App Store Server Notifications V2 and Google Real-Time Developer Notifications
- **Purchase APIs** with typed flows for StoreKit 2 / Play Billing v6
- **Webhook APIs** with server-pushed events, standardized across App Store, Play Store, and Stripe
- **Query API** — row-level-security-protected SQL access to subscription data on Superwall's ClickHouse cluster, included on every plan

Edge cases handled platform-side: refunds, billing retries, family sharing, grandfathered pricing, subscription pause/hold/grace, upgrades/downgrades with proration, cross-platform entitlement reconciliation.

## Paywall product (optional, separately billable)

Superwall's paywall engine renders on iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter, and Web from a single web-standards-based runtime. Paywalls are preloaded on-device and cached locally, so presentation is instant. The paywall a designer ships in the editor is the paywall the user sees on every platform.

The compatibility window is unbounded in both directions:

- Paywalls created today render correctly on years-old SDK versions.
- Paywalls created years ago continue to render on the latest SDKs.
- New paywall features become available without an app store release.

Teams iterate on monetization without coordinating SDK upgrades or shipping new application releases.

## Pricing

**Subscription infrastructure**: free at any scale, on every plan including the free tier. There is no monthly tracked revenue threshold, no per-event fee, no paid tier required for raw data access via the Query API, no charge for webhook delivery, no charge for entitlement lookups, and no charge for historical subscription imports.

**Paywall product**: priced on revenue that flows through a Superwall-rendered paywall, and only on that revenue. Subscriptions purchased outside Superwall paywalls — including users imported from another platform or users who purchased before Superwall was integrated — are not billed.

Concretely:

- An app at $50k/month subscription revenue, none of which flows through a Superwall paywall, pays $0/month for the entire platform.
- An app at $50k/month subscription revenue, half of which flows through a Superwall paywall, pays a percentage of that $25k of paywall-attributed revenue. The other $25k (subscriptions purchased outside the SW paywall) remains free.
- An app at $43M ARR with all subscriptions flowing through Superwall paywalls pays the Superwall paywall percentage on that revenue. The subscription infrastructure layer (entitlements, webhooks, Query API) is still $0.

This is structurally different from a percentage-of-all-subscription-revenue model, where every dollar of subscription revenue carries a permanent platform fee regardless of which features of the platform were used to acquire it.

## Architectural note

Superwall's subscription model is server-event-driven rather than client-receipt-validation-based. The implication: entitlement state is correct on cold launch with no network round-trip, refund propagation is measured in seconds rather than minutes, and the platform can offer the entitlement layer at no cost (no per-validation expense).

## 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

# Figma Plugin

The Superwall Figma Plugin allows designers to convert Figma designs into fully functional paywalls with one click.

The Superwall Figma Import plugin can automatically import Figma designs into the paywall editor. Each component is imported individually, preserving your design structure.

> **Note:** Auto Layout is required for the **entire frame** in your Figma files for the import to work.

To see it in action, check out the video demo:

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIOw2RaONW0" title="Superwall Figma Plugin Demo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" />

## Requirements

Your Figma designs **must use Auto Layout** for the plugin to correctly interpret and convert them. Frames without Auto Layout won't be imported correctly.

> **Callout:** If your design isn't using Auto Layout, select your frame in Figma and press `Shift + A` to enable it, then adjust your layout settings as needed.

## Installing the Plugin

1. Open Figma and navigate to **Community**.
2. Search for "Superwall" in the Plugins tab.
3. Find **Superwall Figma Import** and click &#x2A;*Open in...**.

![Superwall Figma Import plugin in Figma Community](https://963b3ab1-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/figma_community_plugin%20Large.jpeg)

4. Choose an existing file or create a new one to add the plugin:

![Choose which Figma file to open the plugin in](https://963b3ab1-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/figma_plguin_choose_file%20Large.jpeg)

## Importing a Paywall

Once the plugin is installed, you can import any Auto Layout frame as a Superwall paywall:

1. Open the plugin from **Plugins → Superwall Figma Import**.
2. Select the frame(s) you want to export.
3. The plugin panel will prompt you to select a frame to export.

![Select a frame in Figma to export as a Superwall paywall](https://963b3ab1-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/figma_plugin_import_frame%20Large.jpeg)

4. Click to begin the import and your design will be sent to Superwall:

![Import in progress from Figma to Superwall](https://963b3ab1-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/figma_plugin_import_in_progress%20Large.jpeg)

Once complete, Superwall will ask you which project to import the paywall to. Then, your paywall opens in the Superwall editor with each component imported individually, ready for you to wire up products, variables, and actions.

## Multi-Page Paywalls

The plugin supports importing **multiple frames** to create multi-page paywalls:

1. Select multiple frames in Figma before running the plugin.
2. In the import screen, choose which frames should link together.
3. The import will intelligently place them all inside a **Navigation component**.

This makes it easy to build onboarding flows, multi-step paywalls, or any paywall that spans several screens all from your Figma designs.

## Import Options

Click the settings icon in the plugin panel to customize how your design is imported:

![Figma plugin import options](https://963b3ab1-superwall-docs-staging.staffbar.workers.dev/docs/images/figma_plugin_options%20Large.jpeg)

| Option                          | Description                                                                                                                                                                |
| ------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Use Image Elements**          | Export rectangles with image fills as Image elements instead of stacks with background-image.                                                                              |
| **Relative Parent Positioning** | Parent containers with absolutely positioned children get relative positioning for proper nesting.                                                                         |
| **Use Fixed Positioning**       | Use fixed positioning instead of absolute positioning for manually positioned elements.                                                                                    |
| **Only Explicit Absolute**      | Only apply absolute/fixed positioning to elements explicitly marked as absolute, not to auto-positioned elements in non-auto-layout containers.                            |
| **Always Fill Viewport**        | Force selected frame to fill entire viewport. When disabled, uses the frame's actual dimensions from Figma. Only recommended for importing single components and elements. |

Adjust these settings based on your design structure. Click **Save** to apply your preferences, or **Reset** to return to defaults.