Okuzeka
Mobile App Development vocabulary · In-App Purchases and Monetization

Subscription

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

/səbˈskrɪpʃən/nounCore term

In mobile app development, subscription means: A purchase that gives users access to content or features for a period, such as a month or a year, and renews automatically until they cancel it.

In Turkish: abonelik

How it is used

Teams talk about monthly and annual plans, renewals, cancellations, churn and subscription revenue. In the stores these are auto-renewable subscriptions, and users manage or cancel them in their App Store or Google Play account settings, not inside the app.

Example sentences

  1. Annual subscriptions now make up 60% of our revenue.

  2. Users keep asking support how to cancel their subscription.

Common collocations

  • monthly subscription
  • annual subscription
  • cancel a subscription
  • renew a subscription
  • subscription plan
  • in-app purchaseSomething a user buys inside an app, such as extra features, game coins or a subscription, paid through the App Store or Google Play.
  • free trialA period, such as 7 or 14 days, during which users can try paid features for free before the subscription starts charging them.
  • paywallA screen that blocks premium content or features and shows the paid options, such as subscription plans, that users must choose to continue.
  • receipt validationChecking with Apple or Google that a purchase made in the app is real and still valid before giving the user the paid content or features.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

More terms: In-App Purchases and Monetization

Practise with graded reading

Reading at the right level is the fastest way to make new words stick. Pick free English books by level: