paywall-design

paywall-design is a skill for Claude Code from markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A design guide for paywalls and subscription upsell screens in iOS apps. It covers how to present subscription value, prices, trials, restore purchases, and required legal links before payment.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build or improve subscription screens, present plans and introductory offers, disclose auto-renewal, and include terms, privacy, and restore-purchase controls.
Why use it?
It helps prevent confusing purchase screens and omissions that can lead to App Store rejection. It also gives users the information needed to understand what they will pay and when.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the apple-dev-skills plugin — 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps build or improve subscription screens, present plans and introductory offers, disclose auto-renewal, and include terms, privacy, and restore-purchase controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills/paywall-design
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills --skill paywall-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install apple-dev-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 25 commands, 7 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for paywall-design

README.md
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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,167 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00124 $0.01167
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00117

Measured 4d ago against content hash b09dc3478a31, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paywall-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

platforms/claude/skills/paywall-design/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paywall Design

Design paywalls that convert without getting rejected. Economics (tiers, regional pricing) live in app-store-pricing; the implementation lives in storekit-purchases; this is the screen — UX and compliance.


App Review compliance — non-negotiable (Guideline 3.1.2)

A paywall that converts but gets rejected ships nothing. Every subscription paywall must show, on the purchase screen or one tap away:

  • What the user gets (the value/contents of the subscription).
  • Price, duration, and per-period billing for each option (e.g. "$4.99/month").
  • For free trials / intro offers: the trial length, what happens when it ends, and the price that begins — clearly, before purchase.
  • A visible Restore Purchases control.
  • Functional links to Terms (EULA) and Privacy Policy.
  • Honest auto-renew disclosure (it renews until cancelled).

Missing any of these is the most common subscription rejection. Build the compliant skeleton first, then design on top of it.


The conversion structure (top to bottom)

  1. Value first, price second. Lead with the outcome the user wants ("Track unlimited habits", "Remove all ads"), not a feature checklist or the price. Show the transformation.
  2. Concrete benefits, not feature names. "Sync across all your devices" beats "iCloud integration." 3–5 benefits, scannable, each with an icon.
  3. Plan selection. If offering multiple durations, anchor: show annual next to monthly with a "Save 40%" / "Best value" badge so the annual looks like the smart default. Pre-select the plan you want most users to pick.
  4. Trial framing (if used): "Start 7-day free trial" as the primary CTA reduces friction far more than "Subscribe." Be explicit about what happens after.
  5. Social proof (optional): ratings count, testimonials, or "Join 50,000 users" — only if true.
  6. One primary CTA. A single, high-contrast button. Secondary actions (other plan, restore, close) are visually quieter.
  7. Required legal row at the bottom: price recap, Restore, Terms, Privacy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 76 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A b09dc3478a31

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paywall-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository markdavidgan/apple-dev-skills (5 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,167 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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