How and When Creator Payouts Work

Key Takeaways:

Your revenue flows to us from Apple, Google, Stripe, and referral commissions—each on its own schedule, and the app stores are slow by design
We run payouts on the 15th of each month, paying out every source that has actually settled by then
There's a small minimum so we're not sending you (and your bank) tiny transfers; anything under it rolls forward and is added to your next payout, never lost
Every payout in your dashboard is itemized down to the individual source, so you can always see exactly what you were paid and why
Fast Payouts is an optional upgrade that gets you most of your money the next day instead of waiting on the stores

When you build an app with us, you keep the majority of the revenue. That part is simple. The part worth explaining is the timing—because how the app stores pay is not how most people expect. Here's exactly how the money moves, on what schedule, and what your options are if you'd rather not wait on Apple and Google.

Where Your Money Actually Comes From

Your app can earn from more than one place, and each one pays out differently:

The Apple App Store and Google Play collect subscriptions and in-app purchases from your users, take their platform fee, and remit the rest to us—usually around a month or more after the sales happen.
Stripe, when your app takes payments directly on the web, settles much faster—typically within days.
Referral commissions, if you've referred another creator, are paid on their own cadence.

We record every one of these as it arrives. Your dashboard shows the actual amount received from each source, not an estimate, so there's a clean paper trail behind every dollar.

The Payout Schedule

We send payouts on the 15th of each month. When a payout runs, it sweeps in every source that has fully settled since your last one and pays you your share of all of it in a single transfer. The reason we wait for money to settle first is the same reason app-store revenue is worth being careful with: it can change after the sale. Refunds, chargebacks, currency conversion, and platform adjustments all happen after a user hits "subscribe." Paying out settled money means the number you see is the number you keep—we're not clawing anything back later.

Why There's a Minimum

Each payout has a small minimum threshold. If your share for a period comes in under it, we don't drop it or make you chase it—it simply rolls forward and gets added to your next payout. This exists purely to avoid death-by-a-thousand-transfers: tiny payments create bank fees, tax paperwork, and reconciliation noise for everyone. Rolling small balances forward keeps your payout history clean and your money intact. Your dashboard always shows the exact amount currently rolling forward, so nothing is ever a mystery.

Everything Is Itemized

Open the Payouts tab in your dashboard and every payout expands into its source lines: which store, which period, what we received, and your share of it. When a payment lands in your account, you can trace it back to the exact sales that produced it. Transparency here isn't a feature we bolted on—it's the whole point. You should never have to email us to find out what you were paid or why.

Fast Payouts: Get Paid the Next Day

The one real downside of app-store revenue is the wait. Apple and Google can take a month or more to send us your money, even though your users paid weeks earlier. Fast Payouts fixes that. For a small additional revenue share, we advance you the large majority of your eligible App Store and Play Store proceeds from the previous day—sent to your bank the next day instead of a month later. The remaining balance is trued up once the stores complete their normal payout and any final adjustments. An example: on a day your app earns $645, Fast Payouts would send you the bulk of it the following day, with the small remainder following once the stores settle. Same total, just most of it in your hands weeks sooner. It's entirely optional, and it's the kind of thing worth a five-minute conversation to see if it fits your cash flow.

Talk to us about Fast Payouts →

Questions Are Always Welcome

Money should be the least stressful part of building your app. If anything about a payout ever looks off, or you just want to understand it better, reach out—we'll walk you through it line by line.