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All comparisonsFacts checked September 3, 2026

Revenue Sensor vs AppsFlyer

One of these answers which campaign drove the install. The other answers whether the install was worth buying. They are not the same question.

Our tool

Revenue Sensor

Marketing P&L

vs
Compared with

AppsFlyer

Mobile measurement partner

Overview

The short answer

Revenue Sensor

Pick Revenue Sensor when the question is “did we make money?”

Revenue Sensor reads your ad accounts and your store reports directly, so there is no SDK to ship and no engineering work to schedule. It puts spend next to revenue taken from the stores' own reports rather than from events your app sends, and gives you margin per app and per country. If your real problem is that nobody can say what last month actually earned, this is the shorter path to an answer.

AppsFlyer

Pick AppsFlyer when the question is “where did this install come from?”

AppsFlyer is measurement infrastructure. It needs an SDK in your app, and in exchange it attributes installs and in-app events across networks, runs SKAdNetwork and Privacy Sandbox measurement, and filters ad fraud. Revenue Sensor does none of that and does not claim to. If you buy user acquisition at scale, you need an MMP, and AppsFlyer is a good one.

Scorecard

Feature by feature

Where AppsFlyer is stronger, the section below says so.

Works without an SDK in your app

Revenue Sensor

Yes, reads platform APIs

AppsFlyer

No, SDK integration required

Pulls in your ad spend

Revenue Sensor

Yes, 5 ad networks

AppsFlyer

Yes, cost aggregation via ROI360

Revenue from the store's own reports, not your app's events

Revenue Sensor

Yes

AppsFlyer

No, revenue events from your SDK

Subtracts the store's cut

Revenue Sensor

No, buyer tax handled; commission not yet

AppsFlyer

No

Spend and revenue in one table, with profit

Revenue Sensor

Yes

AppsFlyer

Partly, ROI dashboards, not a P&L

Profit per app and per country

Revenue Sensor

Yes, campaign level on Meta

AppsFlyer

Partly, by campaign and app

Price published on the website

Revenue Sensor

Yes, flat monthly

AppsFlyer

Partly, $0.07/conversion published; ROI360 is not

Free plan

Revenue Sensor

Yes

AppsFlyer

Yes, Zero plan, 12,000 lifetime conversions
The difference

How Revenue Sensor compares

Where AppsFlyer stops short

  • No view of what the store actually paid you — revenue is what your app reports, before Apple or Google take their cut.
  • ROI dashboards stop at return on ad spend; there is no margin line and no P&L layout.
  • Cost per conversion means the bill grows with your success, and the Enterprise rate needs a negotiation.
  • Getting started means an SDK integration and an app release, not an afternoon.

Why Revenue Sensor

  • Connects in minutes with no engineering work and no app release.
  • Revenue comes from the stores' own reports, not from purchase events your SDK fired — so it reconciles against what the store tells you.
  • One P&L across ad networks and revenue sources, so margin is a number you read rather than one you rebuild in a spreadsheet.
  • Flat monthly price that does not move with your install volume, published on the pricing page.
Better together

Most studios run both

Keep AppsFlyer for attribution and SKAdNetwork, and connect the same ad accounts to Revenue Sensor for the money view. Revenue Sensor needs no SDK, so adding it changes nothing in your app and nothing in your release schedule.

Your app

Ships as it is

AppsFlyer

Attributes the install

Revenue Sensor

Prices the outcome

Cost

What each one costs

Revenue Sensor

Flat price

Flat monthly plans — a free tier, then Starter and Pro. Two sources on Free, five on Starter, unlimited on Pro, published on our pricing page.

Start free

AppsFlyer

A free Zero plan capped at 12,000 lifetime installs, then the Growth plan at a published per-conversion rate (about $0.07 at the time of writing). Enterprise rates are negotiated.

Check both pricing pages before you decide — the lines above describe the published shape of each model, not a quote for your volume.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Not if you need attribution. Revenue Sensor never claims to attribute an install to a campaign — it has no SDK and no device graph. What it replaces is the spreadsheet you build after AppsFlyer, where you paste spend and revenue together to work out margin.

No. You authorize read access to your ad accounts and store reporting, and data starts flowing. There is nothing to ship in an app update.

AppsFlyer reports revenue events your app sends it. Revenue Sensor reads the stores' own financial reports instead, so the number matches the store's record rather than your app's. Buyer tax is captured; the store's commission is not deducted yet.

It depends entirely on your conversion volume. AppsFlyer charges per conversion, so the bill scales with growth; our plans are flat. Below the free caps both are free. Run the arithmetic on your own numbers rather than trusting a general answer.

Attribution tells you where. We tell you whether it was worth it.

Connect one ad account and one revenue source on the free plan and read your real margin for last month.

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AppsFlyer is a trademark of its owner and is not affiliated with Revenue Sensor; its logo is used here only to identify the product being compared. Everything above was checked against publicly available documentation and pricing on September 3, 2026. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.