I Built a RevenueCat Paywall That Doesn’t Hold the First Lesson Hostage
The technical part of adding a subscription is only half the work.
The uncomfortable part is deciding what the user is actually paying for.
Slovo teaches Russian through one daily word, spaced review, widgets, pronunciation, and short reading. Its entire philosophy is low pressure. An aggressive paywall after a six-step onboarding would contradict that philosophy before the learner experienced a single useful moment.
So I chose a constraint for the first version:
The initial paywall can be dismissed, and the free daily word must remain genuinely useful.
Premium is not permission to find out what Slovo does. It is access to the broader system that makes the habit deeper and more continuous.
RevenueCat as the Subscription Source of Truth
Slovo uses a single premium entitlement. The app configures RevenueCat, requests CustomerInfo, and maps the entitlement state into three useful product states:
- free;
- active trial; and
- premium.
The core check is...
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