Screens.design
A searchable video library of onboarding and paywall flows from successful apps.
Screens.design holds over 2,200 apps as onboarding and paywall videos, scored by part (for example 9 out of 10 for low friction) and set against revenue and installs. Its new Create tool turns those principles into designs, and growth comes from organic word of mouth. Lesson: study top apps' full flows before building, and avoid leaning only on Meta ads.
- 1Move into subscription appsAfter a failed web hashtag tool
- 2Break down winning flowsOnboarding and paywalls of successful apps
- 3Run many A/B testsRun with Mixpanel
- 4Reach $100k MRRBoost App Social, later sold
- 5Package it as Screens.design2,200+ apps' flows, as video
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Screens.design sells the study of winning onboarding and paywall flows. It is a searchable library of more than 2,200 apps' onboarding and paywall flows, recorded as video, with each app's revenue shown against its installs and per-part scores such as 9 out of 10 for low friction.
A newer Create tool turns the principles drawn from those flows into app designs.
Boost App Social's App Store page: free hashtag and Reels trends app rated 4.7 from 3.6K ratings. The product packages how its founder learned subscription apps. When Alex and his partner moved from a failed web hashtag tool into subscription apps with Boost App Social, they broke down successful apps' flows to see what worked, then ran many A/B tests with Mixpanel. The app reached $100k MRR.
At first they did not understand the math, the statistics or onboarding and paywalls. Alex: "we didn't understand the importance of onboarding flows and paywalls."
It grows through word of mouth to avoid paid-ads platform risk. Screens.design grows by organic word of mouth, a deliberate shift after Alex's last app depended entirely on Meta ads. About $800k of $1.5 to 1.8 million in Meta spend was wasted, and the ad accounts took six to eight bans.
Alex sold Boost App Social for seven figures after a four to five month negotiation, partly to escape bans or CPMs doubling. "It's basically taking chips off the table."
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Holds more than 2,200 apps as video, with revenue against installs and per-part scores such as 9 out of 10 for low friction. Its new Create tool turns those principles into app designs, and it grows by organic word of mouth.
Screens.design sells the study of winning onboarding and paywall flows. It is a searchable library of more than 2,200 apps' onboarding and paywall flows, recorded as video, with each app's revenue shown against its installs and per-part scores such as 9 out of 10 for low friction.
A newer Create tool turns the principles drawn from those flows into app designs.
Boost App Social's App Store page: free hashtag and Reels trends app rated 4.7 from 3.6K ratings. The product packages how its founder learned subscription apps. When Alex and his partner moved from a failed web hashtag tool into subscription apps with Boost App Social, they broke down successful apps' flows to see what worked, then ran many A/B tests with Mixpanel. The app reached $100k MRR.
At first they did not understand the math, the statistics or onboarding and paywalls. Alex: "we didn't understand the importance of onboarding flows and paywalls."
It grows through word of mouth to avoid paid-ads platform risk. Screens.design grows by organic word of mouth, a deliberate shift after Alex's last app depended entirely on Meta ads. About $800k of $1.5 to 1.8 million in Meta spend was wasted, and the ad accounts took six to eight bans.
Alex sold Boost App Social for seven figures after a four to five month negotiation, partly to escape bans or CPMs doubling. "It's basically taking chips off the table."
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