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A public dataset of 550 top iOS subscription app paywalls and onboarding flows, published by PaywallPro.

Explore screenshots, pricing models, paywall patterns, onboarding previews, and monetization signals from real subscription apps.

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iOS Paywalls & Onboarding Flows


What is PaywallPro?

PaywallPro is a subscription intelligence platform for app developers, product managers, growth teams, and designers.

It helps teams study real iOS paywalls, onboarding flows, pricing models, historical changes, and monetization signals from leading subscription apps.

PaywallPro tracks:

  • 46,000+ iOS paywall screenshots
  • 2,000+ onboarding flows
  • Historical paywall versions
  • Pricing and trial changes
  • Revenue signals such as MRR, RPD, ARPU, and subscription benchmarks

Built for professionals who want real subscription insights, not just visual inspiration:

  • Explore competitor paywalls and learn what drives conversions
  • Track how pricing, trials, and design evolve over time
  • Analyze revenue with RPD, ARPU, and subscription benchmarks
  • Discover monetization strategies from top-performing apps

This open dataset is published by the PaywallPro team to give the developer and product community free access to curated paywall intelligence.


Why this exists

Subscription apps are growing fast, but most teams still make paywall and pricing decisions based on guesswork, personal taste, or isolated A/B tests.

Open Paywall Gallery helps builders study real paywall examples before deciding what to design, build, or test.

Use it to understand:

  • How top apps present subscription value
  • How pricing options are structured
  • How free trials are positioned
  • How onboarding flows prepare users for purchase
  • How monthly and annual plans are framed
  • How paywall patterns differ by category
  • What monetization signals can be learned from real apps

About this repository

paywall-gallery is an open dataset of iOS app paywall and onboarding previews, published as machine-readable Markdown files.

It is a curated subset of the PaywallPro database, designed to be:

  • Freely accessible, no signup required
  • Machine-readable, with structured frontmatter for programmatic access
  • Easy to browse, with human-readable summaries and preview screenshots
  • Useful for product research, pricing research, UX reference, and growth analysis

Current public release: 550 apps. We will keep adding 50 new apps every week.

The complete app index lives in apps/index.md. Browse all 550 apps.


What's included

This public repository includes:

  • Representative paywall screenshots
  • Onboarding flow previews where available
  • Compact app case pages
  • Pricing model summaries
  • Paywall pattern classification
  • Selected public-facing monetization signals
  • Category-level indexes
  • Links to explore more on PaywallPro

What's kept on PaywallPro

This repository offers a curated public preview of each app.

The full PaywallPro product includes:

  • Full paywall screenshot sets
  • Complete onboarding flows
  • All historical paywall versions
  • Version-by-version changes
  • Before and after paywall comparisons
  • Historical pricing experiments
  • A/B comparison references
  • Revenue, MRR, RPD, ARPU, and ranking signals
  • Advanced filters by category, region, pricing model, and app type

Explore the full database:

https://www.paywallpro.app


Data format

Each app entry lives in:

apps/{app-name}-{app_id}.md

Example:

---
app_name: "YouTube"
app_id: 544007664
developer: "Google"
category: "Photo & Video"
paywall_type: "Free Trial - Soft Paywall"
pricing_model: "2 offer sets across month"
mrr: "$55.84M"
rating: 4.68
versions_count: 1
offers:
  - period: "month"
    prices: ["$18.99", "$18.99/$29.99"]
onboarding_count: 1
walkthrough_count: 0
app_detail_url: "https://www.paywallpro.app/apps/YouTube-us?id=PAYWALLPRO_INFO_ID"
---

See Data Dictionary for field definitions.


Top 20 featured apps

App Category Estimated MRR Pattern Page
YouTube Photo & Video $3.07M No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Telegram Messenger Social Networking $2.13M No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
NFL Sports $2.04M No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
NYTimes: US and Global News News $1.48M No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
MileIQ: Mileage Tracker & Log Finance $1.26M Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Quizlet: More than Flashcards Education $1.16M Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
TIDAL Music: HiFi Sound Music $1.03M Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Peloton: Fitness & Workouts Health & Fitness $1.01M No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Lightroom: AI Photo Editor Photo & Video $1.01M Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Tinder Dating App: Date & Chat Lifestyle $921.50K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
epocrates: Drug Info & Pill ID Medical $908.38K Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
MLB Sports $870.76K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Simply Piano: Learn Piano Fast Education $852.93K Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Intuit QuickBooks for Business Business $835.84K Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Yubo: Chat Meet & Make Friends Social Networking $807.31K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall, Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Paramount+ Entertainment $756.00K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
PURE: Open-Minded Dating App Lifestyle $752.12K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Suno - AI Songs & Music Music $743.32K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Text Me - Phone Call + Texting Social Networking $727.67K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall Open
Fambase: Live & Group Chat Utilities $726.99K No Free Trial - Soft Paywall, Currency Paywall Open

The complete app index lives in apps/index.md. Browse all 550 apps.


Browse by category


Browse by paywall pattern


Coming soon

We are exploring a Skills version of this dataset so developers, product managers, and growth teams can reference real paywall examples directly in their workflows.

Imagine asking:

  • Show me 10 free trial paywalls from top fitness apps
  • Compare monthly vs annual pricing across productivity apps
  • Find onboarding flows that transition into a soft paywall

Suggested use cases

For indie developers:

  • Find pricing references before launching a subscription app
  • Study how top apps explain subscription value
  • Compare free trial and non-trial paywall structures

For product managers:

  • Benchmark paywall patterns across categories
  • Prepare paywall redesign references
  • Understand how competitors package plans and benefits

For growth teams:

  • Analyze pricing anchors
  • Study trial positioning
  • Find ideas for paywall A/B tests

For designers:

  • Study layout, visual hierarchy, offer cards, CTA design, and benefit presentation
  • Build a reference library for subscription UX

Roadmap

  • v0.1.0 - Top 500 Public Review Release
  • Weekly Drop #1 - 50 new apps
  • Weekly Drop #2 - 50 new apps
  • Category index pages
  • Paywall pattern index pages
  • Continuous weekly expansion
  • Automated update pipeline with GitHub Actions

Contributing

Found a paywall worth documenting? Spotted a data error?

See CONTRIBUTING.md for contribution guidelines.

See REQUESTS.md for the current app request list.


License and usage

Structured metadata in this repository is available for learning, research, commentary, and internal product reference with attribution.

You may not bulk copy, repackage, resell, or use this dataset to build a competing commercial paywall intelligence product.

Screenshots are copyrighted by their respective app developers.

See LICENSE for details.


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PaywallPro helps subscription app teams research paywalls, onboarding flows, pricing models, historical changes, and monetization signals from top iOS apps.

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