AppWage vs. RevenueCat
I want to be straight with you up front: AppWage and RevenueCat are not really competitors. They solve different problems, and plenty of developers use both. Here is how I would decide which one you actually need.
RevenueCat is subscription infrastructure. You add their SDK to your app, and it handles the messy parts of in-app purchases, things like receipt validation, entitlements, and keeping subscriptions in sync across iOS, Android, and the web. On top of that it gives you subscription analytics for everything that flows through it. If you are building a subscription business and you do not want to write all of that purchase plumbing yourself, that is what RevenueCat is for.
AppWage is the opposite end of things. It does not touch your app and there is no SDK to add. It reads the reports App Store Connect already produces and shows them to you in a native Mac app: your sales, proceeds, subscriptions, and reviews, charted over a permanent local history. It is read-only reporting on data Apple already has, not a layer your customers pass through.
The honest difference
| RevenueCat | AppWage | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Subscription infrastructure + analytics | Read-only reporting on your App Store data |
| SDK in your app | Yes | No |
| Platform | Web dashboard, cross-platform | Native macOS app |
| Covers | Purchases routed through its SDK | All your App Store sales, proceeds, and reviews |
| Reviews | No | Download, translate, and filter them |
| Where data lives | In the cloud | Locally on your Mac |
Which one you actually need
If you need to run and measure subscriptions, especially across more than one platform, and you would rather not build receipt validation and entitlements yourself, reach for RevenueCat. That is genuinely what it is good at, and AppWage does not do any of it.
If what you want is to see how your App Store apps are doing, all your sales and proceeds and reviews in one native Mac window with a history that never ages out, that is AppWage. It also covers your paid apps and one-off purchases, not just SDK subscriptions. And the two happily coexist: RevenueCat running your subscriptions, AppWage giving you the App Store reporting view on top.
If you are comparing a few options, I keep a full list on the alternatives page.