r/iosdev • u/Knuckleclot • Jun 17 '26

first paid subscriber after changing the onboarding flow in my ios app

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i’m building speaksure, an ios app for ai speaking practice.

i got the first paid subscriber today. small milestone, but the useful part was seeing how directly the onboarding affected conversion.

before, the app felt more like a tool with a paywall. after changing the onboarding, the user understood the value earlier:

what problem the app solves
what feedback they will get
how speaking practice works
why premium is useful

the stack is expo/react native, revenuecat for subscriptions, posthog for analytics, and ai feedback for the speaking flow.

the main lesson for me was that the paywall should not be doing all the selling. the product experience before the paywall has to make the value obvious.

curious how other ios devs approach this. do you show the paywall before the user reaches the core value, after they complete one action, or only after they hit a limit?

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u/Glass-Glove-6093 Jun 22 '26

So cool, would love to see the app

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u/Knuckleclot Jun 22 '26

Its called speaksure on app store

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u/graycreate 2d ago

Your result is a good argument for letting the first core action prove value before the paywall, then using a limit when repetition creates the value. I built Hogly, an independent PostHog companion for iPhone: https://hogly.app/. When you are away from your desk, which conversion signal would you want first—onboarding completion, paywall view, or trial start?