Mirava, Professor J. H. Bavincklaan 7, Amstelveen (2026)

07/08/2026

Price tests are the most popular experiment in app monetization, but according to Adapty's 2026 data, they're also the weakest.

Across $3 billion in subscription revenue, price changes deliver 45.5% LTV uplift and 28.3% conversion uplift. Both the lowest of any test in the dataset. Meanwhile, locale tests, meaning currency localization and paywall translation for specific markets, deliver 62.3% LTV uplift, the highest of any experiment type. Trial structure comes in at 59.6%. Plan duration at 58.7%.

Put differently, localizing your paywall for your top five revenue markets yields a 37% higher LTV uplift than changing the price.

Why is the difference so big? A price test asks whether your existing number should be higher or lower, but it does so globally. Localization asks what's the right number and the right presentation for each specific market. One is a tweak. The other is a correction.

Most testing roadmaps are stacked with price tests because they're the most intuitive thing to try. According to the data, they're also the least effective. The higher-return work is the market-by-market calibration underneath.

23/07/2026

Almost every trend in subscription apps right now points toward shorter commitments. Weekly billing has overtaken everything else, now making up more than half of all app subscription revenue. Users want smaller, lower-risk payments, and the market aims to give them exactly that.

Fitness apps didn't get the memo, and they're winning anyway.

According to RevenueCat's 2026 data, health and fitness apps generate 60.6% of their revenue from annual subscriptions, decisively going in the opposite direction of the entire rest of the market. They also post the highest trial-to-paid conversion rate of any category, at 35%.

The reason is psychological. People don't buy a fitness app the way they buy a utility. They buy it as a commitment to a version of themselves they're trying to become. Paying for a full year upfront isn't a burden in that context. It's a signal, mostly to yourself, that you're serious this time. The annual plan is part of the product's emotional logic.

Which is the real lesson to be learned. The right billing structure depends entirely on what you're selling and why people buy it. Weekly works for the apps people use on impulse; annual works for the ones people use to change their lives. Getting that match right matters more than following the market.

21/07/2026

Did you know that users in expensive markets routinely buy subscriptions through cheaper foreign storefronts?

It's common enough to have its own guides, its own forum threads, and its own tooling. People compare prices country by country, find the cheapest storefront that will accept them, and subscribe from there. Some services fight it with regional verification, but most simply absorb the losses.

The interesting part isn't the workaround but what the workaround reveals. When someone is willing to change their storefront region, deal with a foreign payment method, and accept whatever difficulty comes with it, the price difference between two countries has become large enough to be worth the effort. That's a tell about pricing, and it points in two directions at once.

One end is priced too high for what that market believes the product is worth, which is why the user went looking. The other end may be priced lower than that market would actually support, which is why the arbitrage is attractive. Both ends were probably set by a currency conversion rather than a decision.

Prices that are calibrated to each market rather than converted into it produce smaller differences between neighbors, which makes the workaround less worth the trouble. The arbitrage exists in the space between a price that was chosen and a price that was translated.

16/07/2026

For years, the US was the assumed center of gravity for app revenue. You priced for America first, then treated Europe as a slightly smaller version of the same thing.

Adapty's 2026 data, drawn from $3 billion in subscription revenue across 16,000 apps, shows that assumption is now out of date. European users have overtaken US users in median lifetime value. European app prices rose 18% year on year. North America still drives more than half of global subscription revenue, but its share has dropped three percentage points since 2023, and the direction of travel is clear.

The interesting part is what it means practically. A lot of apps are still charging European users the same price they charge in the US, or something close to it, because that reflects how the market looked a few years ago.

But Europe isn't one market either.

Willingness to pay in Switzerland, Norway, and Germany is well above the US. Southern and Eastern Europe behave differently again. Treating the whole continent as "US pricing, roughly" leaves real money unclaimed at the top and converts poorly at the bottom.

The market moved. The assumption that America sets the standards didn't move with it. That's usually where the revenue is hiding, in the places the pricing strategy stopped paying attention to.

14/07/2026

When exchange rates move or a country changes its tax rules, Apple automatically updates the local price of your one-time purchases to keep them consistent. Subscriptions are excluded from that. Apple never auto-adjusts a subscription price. Ever.

That means that the day you set a subscription price, Apple converts it into local currency for every storefront using that day's exchange rate, and then it freezes it. A year later, after the rupee, the lira, or the real has drifted 15, 30, sometimes 50% against the dollar, your subscription price in those markets still reflects an exchange rate that no longer exists. It's not priced for purchasing power. It's not even priced for the current exchange rate. It's priced for a moment in the past that nobody chose deliberately.

Most developers have no process for catching this, because nothing makes it obvious. There's no alert, no flag in App Store Connect, no line in the revenue report that says "your Turkey price has been wrong for eight months." The number just stays there, slowly detaching from reality, in exactly the markets where currency moves most.

Subscription pricing was always going to require active management. Apple just makes that more literal than most people realize.

This is a core part of what Mirava tracks and corrects, country by country.

09/07/2026

You can find out whether your app is mispriced in about 60 seconds. Enter your App Store URL, and you get a country-by-country breakdown of where your pricing is too high, too low, or roughly right, based on what users in each market usually pay for comparable digital subscriptions.

The interesting part isn't the tool. It's the reaction.

Most developers who run it are surprised by what comes back. Not because they were careless or lazy, but because nothing ever prompted them to look. They set a price at launch, Apple converted it into 175 storefronts, and that was the last time anyone thought about it. The mispricing was there the whole time, in markets they'd never had a reason to examine.

A single global price has always been the default. And defaults are easy to never question, especially when seemingly nothing is wrong. Revenue you never earned doesn't show up as a problem. It just doesn't show up at all.

Sometimes the useful thing isn't a new strategy but seeing the map for the first time. You can run a free price audit on our website, no signup required.

08/07/2026

Apple published a study in late 2025 with a finding that says a lot about how developers think about pricing.

When EU regulation gave developers the ability to route payments outside Apple's system and avoid the commission entirely, more than 90% of them didn't lower their prices. They, instead, kept the price exactly where it was and absorbed the savings as margin.

That's a rational move, but it reveals something interesting: developers are confident that their price is right or at least confident enough that a 15 to 30% cost reduction didn't make them reconsider the price at all.

However, that confidence is mostly geographic. A price a developer has validated in the US, the UK, or Germany is usually well calibrated. The same developer has likely not validated what that price should be in Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, or the Philippines. It's the same number, converted by exchange rate, that remains untested in dozens of markets that were never priced for.

Being confident in your price at home and being right about your price everywhere are two different things. The first is common. The second takes actual per-market data.

But what if you had a way to handle that automatically? We've asked the same question when building Mirava. Turns out, there is a way.

03/07/2026

When you set a subscription price in App Store Connect, Apple takes that number and converts it into 175 storefronts using the exchange rate that day. That's the international pricing most apps are running without realizing it. A dollar figure, translated, with no consideration of what someone in São Paulo or Jakarta can realistically spend.

Mirava exists to turn that automatic conversion back into a real decision.

You connect your App Store, Google Play, and Stripe accounts, set one base price, and Mirava generates recommendations for 170+ countries. Those recommendations come from what consumers in each market already pay for Netflix, Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Premium. Real subscription prices people are actively paying, not a purchasing power ratio pulled from an economics spreadsheet or a rough GDP estimate.

Each price gets fitted to a valid Apple or Google tier, rounded to the ending that feels natural locally, and laid out in a full country-by-country preview so you can see every change before committing. Once you approve, the new prices sync to all three platforms together.

Nothing changes about your paywall, your billing, or your entitlements. RevenueCat, Adapty, Superwall, or whatever you use reads the updated store prices on its own and keeps running exactly as before. Mirava handles the layer above all of that: the price itself.

If you want to see where your current pricing stands first, there's a free 60-second audit on the homepage. No signup, no card.

01/07/2026

On June 22, Google notified developers that their Play Store app listings will be shared with third-party Android app stores starting July 22 unless they actively opt out.

This is part of Google's broader opening of the Android ecosystem following its settlement with Epic Games. Third-party stores can now sign up for the Play Catalog Access program and distribute apps directly from the existing Play catalog.

What that means in practice: your app, your screenshots, your description, and your pricing could appear in stores you've never heard of, in markets you haven't actively thought about, with prices you set in Google Play Console months or years ago and haven't revisited since.

This is mostly upside for developers who have set intentional per-country pricing. More distribution, more visibility, more users seeing a price that was built for their market.

For developers running a single global price that was never calibrated beyond the US or Western Europe, this is a different situation. That price is about to travel into new storefronts and potentially new markets without anyone reviewing whether it makes sense there.

The deadline to opt out is July 22. The deadline to review your pricing was probably a while ago.

23/06/2026

Google just launched Play Store v51.7 this month with a quiet but significant change: sale prices, discount details, and offer expiration dates are now displayed much more prominently on app listings. The checkout flow has been redesigned across phones, Android TV, and Android Auto to make pricing clearer at the point of purchase.

On top of that, store listing pages for installed apps now display localized app content more prominently and link out to Play Collections for similar recommendations.

Google is investing engineering resources into making pricing more visible, more transparent, and more localized at the exact moment a user decides whether to buy. They're doing this because they know it converts. Clearer pricing reduces hesitation. Localized content keeps users in the funnel longer.

The flip side of that visibility is exposure. If your app has a single global price while a competitor in the same category has set intentional local pricing with a well-timed promotional discount, Google's new UI will make that difference more obvious to the user than it has ever been.

Google just made localized pricing more visible. The question is whether yours is ready to be seen.

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