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    Paywall Optimization.

    The framing and default changes that lift trial starts without discounting.

    A single-surface teardown of your paywall. We read placement, plan ladder, trial clarity, anchoring, and the trust signals sitting near the purchase button, then rate the surface against paywalls in your model.

    The output is five ranked changes with impact and effort split out, and the reasoning behind each one. Most of what we find moves framing or default rather than price, which is why it lifts revenue without touching the discount.

    Deepest asset we have. It is the same method we run inside paid CRO engagements.

    What you get back

    • A rating on the surface, with what it rests on stated plainly
    • What we observed, itemized
    • Top five changes with impact, effort, and the principle behind each
    • Surface benchmarks from your matched profile, plus an ICE-ranked backlog

    We run these in batches. Expect results within a few business days.

    What it looks like

    SampleCanva· excerpt from a real run

    Start with one change: re-express the annual price as a monthly-equivalent figure on every plan card. Right now annual is a toggle that never restates itself as a smaller monthly number, so the cards read as a monthly price and the annual option is always the harder mental math. It moves revenue with no price change. Then default the billing toggle to Yearly on load, and add a short trial-timeline band under the trial CTA stating the length and that there is no charge today.

    Top changes (excerpt)
    #ChangeImpactEffort
    1Re-express annual as a monthly-equivalent figure on every plan cardHighLow
    2Default the billing toggle to Yearly on load, monthly one tap awayHighLow
    3Add a trial-timeline band under the trial CTAHighLow
    4Reframe annual savings as concrete money saved plus a per-day priceMediumLow
    5Add an Individuals / Teams view toggle and move the recommended badgeMediumLow

    One honest limit. This is the public web pricing page, not the in-app paywall trigger, and no funnel numbers were supplied. So placement, timing, and dismiss behavior cannot be seen here, and the rating rests on structure and profile-matched comparables, not on this app's own view-to-trial-to-paid.

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    Everything below is what the audit actually needs to run. Nothing extra.

    Access model

    The biggest single swing. A gated free tier with an early paywall is still freemium.

    AI-powered or not

    AI apps run about half the cross-vertical trial-start rate, so they get their own column.

    Platform

    iOS and Google Play convert differently. We never blend them.

    We only use your email to send your results and to ask a follow-up question if the audit needs one. No list, no sharing.

    Otter Growth AdvisoryProduct growth for consumer apps and products