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Best Ways to Get Paying Users for an App

September 30, 2026 · 6 min read

Paying users are a smaller group than installers. Market to them on purpose.

1. Posts about the paid job, made in Alma

Each slideshow should be something a buyer would save: the weekly plan, the export, the reminder, the team seat. Alma drafts them from your link so you are not staring at a blank carousel. Put the real price in your own words on the last slide if the draft is vague. Then schedule the week.

Pricing: $29/month for 500 slides, or $199/month with no cap.

See how Alma automates this

The short report on how Alma turns an app link into posts that go out every day.

Read the carousel report

2. A paywall on the action they just tried to repeat

The second project, the history, the export. Not a badge pack. The post and the paywall must describe the same action.

3. A store listing that does not say "free" if the useful app is paid

Say what is included. Say the price. People who bounce there were not going to pay quietly later.

4. Conversations with anyone who opened the paywall and left

One question: what did you expect to get? Fix the sentence, then put that sentence on slide one.

5. A yearly plan for people who already decided

Show it next to monthly. Do not invent a third plan to look clever.

Get the posts and the paywall saying the same thing before you try to "increase conversion" with a countdown timer. The timer is not the product.