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title: "Churnkey for Consumer Apps — Retention Automation for Mobile Subscriptions"
description: "Churnkey is retention automation for consumer mobile apps. Recover billing failures, reduce cancellations, and win back churned subscribers."
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  - /feature/cancel-flows.html.md
  - /feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md
  - /feature/reactivations.html.md
  - /feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md
  - /use-case/consumer-health/index.html.md
  - /use-case/media/index.html.md
last_updated: "2026-09-11"
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# Stop the Unsubscribe Spiral in Your Mobile App

## Overview

Churnkey is a purpose-built retention automation platform for consumer mobile apps. Integrate Churnkey with your billing system and keep subscribers engaged past the first billing cycle.

Consumer apps are great at driving downloads and trial conversions. But the first renewal is a cliff: users forget they subscribed, hit payment issues, or simply move on to the next app.

Your product and marketing teams should focus on engagement and growth. Let Churnkey automate your retention efforts, intercepting cancellations, recovering billing failures, and winning back churned subscribers at mobile scale. Churnkey is everything your engagement-obsessed team needs to improve retention, automatically.

Getting started: start for free, with pricing tailored for you and ROI guaranteed. See [Churnkey pricing](/pricing/churnkey-pricing.html.md).

## Key Results for Consumer App Customers

Churnkey's typical app customer:

- **Lowers cancellations** by up to 54%
- **Recovers** up to 89% of failed payments
- **Reactivates** up to 34% of subscriptions
- **Increases subscriber LTV** by 28%
- **Boosts MRR** by 14%
- **Ups expansion revenue** by 9%

## Core Capabilities

### Intercept Cancellations Before They Reach the App Store

- Catch subscribers before they navigate to App Store or Play Store subscription settings
- Personalize retention offers by subscription age, usage frequency, and plan type
- Offer trial extensions, plan downgrades, or pauses to keep users in your app

See [Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md).

### Recover Mobile Payment Failures Automatically

- Recover failed payments from app subscriptions with smart retry timing
- Branded recovery experiences that feel native to your mobile app
- Reduce involuntary churn without creating in-app friction for active users

See [Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md).

### Win Back Churned Subscribers with Targeted Campaigns

- Re-engage churned users with personalized win-back campaigns at scale
- Personalize outreach based on past usage patterns and cancellation reasons
- Make it easy to come back with one-click resubscription from email or push

See [Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md).

### Understand Why Users Cancel and What It Costs You

- Capture cancellation reasons from within your app experience
- Spot trends in pricing, features, and competitive switching across your subscriber base
- Route actionable insights to your product and marketing teams

See [Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md).

## Customer Testimonial

> "Because of Churnkey, our marketing team was able to design the best exit funnel that increases LTV, reduced churn, and gives us the right insights to reactivate users."
> — Austin Distel, CMO of Jasper

## Integrations

Churnkey integrates with the payment processors and tools consumer app businesses use every day, and offers private APIs that can be provisioned exclusively for your business:

- [Stripe](/integrations/stripe/index.html.md)
- [Chargebee](/integrations/chargebee/index.html.md)
- [Paddle](/integrations/paddle/index.html.md)
- [Braintree](/integrations/braintree/index.html.md)
- [Recurly](/integrations/recurly/index.html.md)
- [Maxio](/integrations/maxio/index.html.md)
- And more. See [all integrations](/integrations/index.html.md).

## Related

- [Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md) — Personalized retention experiences
- [Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md) — Recover failed mobile payments
- [Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md) — Win-back campaigns for churned subscribers
- [Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md) — AI-powered cancellation insights
- [Consumer Health Use Case](/use-case/consumer-health/index.html.md) — Retention for telehealth, GLP-1, and wellness memberships
- [PLG SaaS Use Case](/use-case/plg-saas/index.html.md) — Retention for product-led growth
- [Media Use Case](/use-case/media/index.html.md) — Retention for news and media