{
  "slug": "revenuecat",
  "name": "RevenueCat",
  "url": "https://www.revenuecat.com",
  "cat": "pay",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Mobile IAP subscription layer",
  "price": "Free under $2.5k monthly tracked revenue · then 1% of tracked revenue",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Subscription infrastructure layered on top of Apple and Google in-app purchases, now extended to web billing through Stripe. It normalizes receipts, entitlements, trials and renewals across platforms and adds paywall and analytics tooling. Free under $2,500 monthly tracked revenue, then 1% of tracked revenue.",
  "why": "In-app purchase receipt validation is miserable to build and worse to maintain; RevenueCat reduces cross-platform subscriptions to a single entitlement check and stays free until you have real income.",
  "warn": "The 1% is charged on revenue before Apple and Google take their 15-30% cut, so the effective bite is larger than it appears. It is not a payment processor — on mobile the app stores remain merchant of record.",
  "install": "npm i @revenuecat/purchases-js",
  "category": {
    "key": "pay",
    "name": "Payments & billing",
    "desc": "Merchant-of-record versus gateway is the choice that actually matters.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://www.revenuecat.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T16:48:12.002+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}