Subscription LTV and payback calculatorby PaywallLab

Plans to compare

Costs and time frame

App Store or Play fee

Weekly earns $0.25 more per install

Over 12 months, after store fees and refunds. Weekly pays back in 91 days. Yearly does not pay back its install cost within 12 months.

PlanPer subscriberPer installReturn on ad spendPayback
Weekly $32.025.4 payments $1.281 1.07x 91 days
Yearly $41.221.0 payments $1.03 0.86x Not within 12 months

Revenue per install over time

  • Weekly
  • Yearly
  • Cost per install $1.20
$0$0.50$1.00Day 0100200300

Assumes payments at the start of each billing period, a constant renewal rate, and refunds only on the first payment. Free trials are not modeled: enter the share of installs that end up paying. How this works