If your app makes money from subscriptions, RevenueCat is your source of truth for revenues — and checking it usually means opening a laptop. The dashboard is built for a desk, not a quick glance on your phone, so the one number you most want to see throughout the day, your revenues, is also the one that's hardest to pull up on the move.
This guide shows you how to track your RevenueCat revenues, active subscriptions, and trials from your phone, what each number tells you, and why revenues shift as they settle.
Why checking RevenueCat on the go is a pain
RevenueCat's dashboard and Charts are excellent — on a computer. On a phone, you're zooming into a web view that wasn't designed for a thumb, and there's no dedicated app that just shows you today's MRR the moment you open it.
There's a second, bigger gap if subscriptions aren't your only revenue. Your MRR lives in RevenueCat, your ad income lives in AdSense, AdMob, and YouTube, and nothing puts them together. So the question that actually matters to a founder — how much is this app making in total, right now? — has no single answer.
How to track your RevenueCat MRR with Aperio
Aperio is mobile-first and reads your RevenueCat data, so your MRR is a glance away — sitting on the same dashboard as everything else you earn.
- Download Aperio and open it on your phone.
- Connect RevenueCat with a secure, read-only API key from your RevenueCat dashboard. Aperio reads your subscription metrics only — never your customers' payment details.
- Set MRR as your lead metric — or switch to active subscriptions or trials whenever you want a different view.
- Read your dashboard. Your RevenueCat card shows estimated MRR with a trend line and a comparison against the previous period, right beside your ad revenue.
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The RevenueCat numbers Aperio shows you
| Metric | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Estimated MRR | Your monthly recurring revenue — the predictable baseline your subscriptions generate |
| Active subscriptions | How many paying subscribers you have right now |
| Active trials | How many users are currently in a free trial |
Read together, these three tell a story that a single revenue figure can't.
MRR is your foundation — the recurring income you can count on before a single new sale. Watching it day to day is how you feel the shape of the business: steady, climbing, or quietly slipping.
Active subscriptions is the engine underneath that number. A rising MRR with flat subscriber count means you're earning more per customer; a flat MRR with rising subscribers can mean churn is eating your growth. The two only make sense side by side.
Active trials is your leading indicator. Trials are next month's MRR in waiting — a healthy, growing trial count today is the clearest early sign of where your recurring revenue is heading. Watch it climb after a launch or a marketing push and you'll know the funnel is working long before the MRR catches up.
Why your MRR is an estimate (and why it moves)
MRR is a living number. It changes the moment someone subscribes, renews, upgrades, cancels, or gets refunded, and the in-period figure is an estimate that settles as currency conversions and adjustments finalise. Aperio mirrors RevenueCat's estimates so the two stay close, but RevenueCat remains your official source of truth for subscription data.
That's the value of a live estimate: an MRR you can read in two seconds, several times a day, is far more useful for catching a churn spike or a trial surge early than a perfect figure you only sit down to review once a week.
See your subscriptions next to your ad revenue
This is where tracking RevenueCat in Aperio earns its place. On its own, your MRR is one piece of the picture. Next to your AdSense, AdMob, and YouTube earnings, it becomes part of a single total — the real answer to "what is this app making?" One dashboard, every revenue stream, on your phone.