M3 Expressive Paywall vs RevenueCat Paywalls and other options

There are three ways to put a paywall in a Compose app: build it yourself with material3, use a remote paywall builder from your billing provider, or start from code templates like this library. Each is the right choice for someone.

At a glance

	Build it yourself	M3 Expressive Paywall	Remote paywall builders
Where the design lives	Your code	Your code	Provider dashboard
Change without an app update	No	No	Yes
A/B tests and analytics	You build them	You build them	Built in
Billing provider	Any	Any	That provider’s SDK
Material 3 Expressive components	If you build them	Yes	Depends on the template
Cost	Your time	Free (MIT)	Provider pricing
Time to a first paywall	Days	Minutes	Minutes to hours

Build it yourself with material3

Better when you have a designer’s exact spec, or a paywall unlike any template. How to build a paywall in Jetpack Compose shows a complete minimal version with plain material3.

Watch out for the details that templates already handle: radio semantics, the disclosure line, the sticky button, dark mode and large fonts.

M3 Expressive Paywall

Better when you want a polished, native Compose paywall in your own codebase today, built with the newest Material 3 Expressive components, and you don’t want your UI tied to a billing provider.

Not the right fit when you need to change the paywall without shipping an update, or want built-in experiments and conversion analytics. It is a UI library only.

RevenueCat Paywalls

RevenueCat’s Android SDK includes a Compose UI module, purchases-ui, that renders paywalls you design in the RevenueCat dashboard and attach to an Offering. RevenueCat describes it as letting you configure the paywall “without any code changes or app updates” (docs). It is part of the MIT-licensed purchases-android repository.

Better when you already use RevenueCat and want to iterate on paywalls remotely.

Consider this library instead when you want the paywall in code, Material 3 Expressive design, or a UI that also works without RevenueCat. The two combine well: use RevenueCat for billing and these screens for UI. See Connect a paywall to RevenueCat.

RevenueCat also publishes open-source Compose paywall samples, such as cat-paywall-compose and compose-paywall-animations. They are sample apps to learn from rather than libraries to depend on.

Superwall, Adapty and Qonversion

These providers offer remote, no-code paywall builders tied to their own SDKs:

• Superwall’s Android SDK presents paywalls built and configured in the Superwall dashboard (repo).
• Adapty has a Paywall Builder whose paywalls the Adapty SDK renders (docs).
• Qonversion has No-Codes screens built in its dashboard and shown by a separate Android SDK (docs).

Better when you want marketing to change paywalls and run experiments without developers. This library is better when you want native Compose code you own, with no provider lock-in.

Facts about other projects were checked against their official docs and repositories on 2026-10-26. If something has changed, please open an issue.