Daily Sales Email vs RevenueCat
Last updated: April 30, 2026 · Written by the team behind Daily Sales Email.
These are the two products people sometimes ask about together, but they are not in the same category. RevenueCat is subscription infrastructure that runs inside your app and replaces parts of StoreKit. Daily Sales Email is a read-only morning email that summarizes your App Store Connect data. It's worth being clear about that before comparing.
The short version
What each one is, in one paragraph
RevenueCat
A subscription infrastructure platform for mobile apps. You add RevenueCat's SDK to your app and use it instead of calling StoreKit (Apple) or Google Play Billing (Android) directly. RevenueCat handles receipt validation, entitlement checking, restore-purchase, customer-status sync across devices, paywall A/B testing, and renewal/churn analytics -- all rolled into one. Pricing is free up to a published MTR threshold (currently the first $2.5K MTR per month) then a percentage of subscription revenue beyond that. See RevenueCat pricing for current numbers.
Daily Sales Email
A read-only email service for indie iOS and macOS developers. We fetch your previous day's App Store Connect Sales and Trends report using an API key you provide, render it into a single email -- proceeds, downloads, MRR, active subscribers, trial conversions, refunds, top countries, recent reviews -- and send it to your inbox. There is no SDK, no code change in your app, no replacement of StoreKit. Currently free.
Side-by-side
| Daily Sales Email | RevenueCat | |
|---|---|---|
| Code change in your app | None | Required (replaces direct StoreKit / Play Billing calls) |
| Apple platforms | iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS | iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS (and other platforms) |
| Google Play / Android | No | Yes |
| Web (Stripe / Paddle) | No | Yes |
| Daily revenue email | Yes -- the entire product | Available, but the dashboard is the primary surface |
| Subscription / trial / MRR analytics | Yes, in the daily email | Yes, in the dashboard with cohort analysis and forecasts |
| Per-app reviews | Latest 1-star and 5-star reviews shown in the daily email | Not a focus |
| Paywall A/B testing | No | Yes |
| Receipt validation / entitlement sync | Not applicable -- we don't run in your app | Yes (this is the core value proposition) |
| Pricing | Free | Free up to a published MTR threshold, then a percentage of subscription revenue. See RevenueCat pricing |
| Best fit | Existing StoreKit apps, indie devs, non-subscription apps, simple "morning glance" use case | New or migrating subscription apps that want a unified backend |
Where RevenueCat is genuinely better
- Cross-platform subscription state. If you have iOS + Android + web users buying subscriptions, RevenueCat is the established way to keep entitlements consistent without writing your own backend.
- Subscription analytics depth. Cohort retention, churn forecasts, paywall A/B test results, conversion-funnel breakdowns -- built specifically for subscription apps and far deeper than what fits in an email.
- Receipt validation done for you. Apple's StoreKit receipts and Google Play's tokens have edge cases (refunds, family sharing, grace periods, billing retries). RevenueCat handles them in production at scale.
- Paywall infrastructure. Remote-configured paywalls, A/B tests, per-cohort offers -- features only meaningful if you've integrated their SDK.
Where Daily Sales Email is genuinely better
- No app changes required. We're a downstream consumer of App Store Connect data. Your app code never knows we exist.
- Works for non-subscription apps. RevenueCat is subscription-focused; if you sell paid apps, one-time IAPs, or a mix, the RevenueCat value proposition is weaker. Daily Sales Email reports on all revenue types equally.
- Cost: free. No revenue percentage, no MTR threshold to think about. (For pure-subscription apps RevenueCat's free tier is generous; for higher-MRR apps the percentage adds up.)
- Surface area. One read-only API integration, one email per day. Nothing in your app to break, no SDK upgrade cycle, no support burden when StoreKit changes.
- Reviews. Latest reviews land in your inbox alongside the numbers. RevenueCat doesn't focus on this surface.
Can you use both?
Yes, and many people do. RevenueCat as your in-app subscription backend; Daily Sales Email as your morning summary of total App Store performance. They are reading the same underlying data via different paths -- RevenueCat through their server-side receipt validation pipeline, Daily Sales Email through Apple's Sales and Trends API -- so the totals will match, give or take Apple's normal day-or-two reporting lag.
What this comparison doesn't tell you
RevenueCat's pricing thresholds and percentage rates change periodically; the numbers above were accurate as of the date at the top of this page, but check their pricing page for current values. Their feature set evolves quickly -- if a specific capability matters to you, confirm directly with them. If something here is wrong or unfair, tell us and we'll correct it.
Try Daily Sales Email
If you want yesterday's App Store numbers in your inbox without integrating anything new in your app, you can sign up free and get your first daily email tomorrow morning. See what the email looks like first if you'd rather preview.