Performance marketing for mobile apps

Your app won't grow on its own. Let's build a funnel that pays for itself.

Meta and Google ads, web2app quiz funnels, and analytics that show the return on every dollar you spend. From the founder of Mentorist — an app with 500k+ users.

  • Meta Ads & Google Ads
  • Web2app funnels
  • Sales quizzes
  • AI creatives
Smartphone showing an analytics dashboard with revenue from app ad campaigns trending up

The rule we start from

$100$150+

spent on ads → comes back as revenue

Channels and tools we work with

  • Meta Ads
  • Google Ads
  • App Store
  • Google Play
  • Web2app funnels
  • Sales quizzes

The organic growth myth

Launching your app is only the beginning.

The market is so crowded that users practically never show up on their own. If you want organic traffic, you have to fuel it with paid traffic — the kind whose return you can actually measure.

  • The app stores won't bring you traffic on their own

    Every category has thousands of competing apps, and the ones at the top of the charts have ad budgets behind them. Visibility on the App Store and Google Play is a result of growth, not its source.

  • Installs aren't revenue

    A growing download count looks great on a chart, but it tells you nothing about whether your ads pay off. Without analytics tied to revenue, you don't know if you're making money or paying extra for every user.

  • Since Apple's changes, tracking is full of holes

    Privacy changes have made it hard to tell, inside an app, whether the person who clicked an ad actually paid. Without that, you can't know which campaigns are truly profitable.

Advertising with a calculator in hand

You put in $100. At least $150 should come back.

If less comes back, you're losing money — even while installs keep climbing. That's why we start app marketing with analytics, not ads: measurement first, budget second.

Ad spend

$100

Revenue from that ad

$150+

This is a threshold, not a promised result. Below it, we fix the funnel instead of adding more budget.

  • Measurable

    You know which ad and which campaign makes money — and which one needs to be switched off.

  • Scalable

    Once an ad and a funnel start paying for themselves, they can be scaled to thousands of users.

  • Fast

    You test new ads, messages, pages, and funnels in days, not months.

Why performance

Other channels have their place. They're just hard to measure.

ASO, SEO, influencers, and social media can help. But you can almost never honestly compare what you put into them with what they earned you.

ChannelMeasurable returnEasy to scaleFast testing
Performance marketing (Meta, Google)YesYesYes
ASO and SEOHardHardHard
Influencers and sponsored articlesHardHardHard
Organic social mediaHardHardHard

Web2app funnel

The best apps make the sale before the user ever opens the App Store.

In categories like EdTech, wellness, and fitness, ad traffic doesn't go to the app store — it goes to a website. Users pay for the program before they install anything.

Web2app funnel diagram: ad, quiz, personalized plan, payment, and finally the app
  1. Ad

    A creative that speaks to one specific user problem.

  2. Quiz

    Usually a long one. It builds engagement and collects data.

  3. Plan

    A personalized result instead of a generic promise.

  4. Payment

    The offer and the purchase, right there on the web.

  5. App

    The install comes last — when they're already a customer.

Reason 1

The highest return on investment

A quiz builds engagement and lets you tailor the offer to each person. That's why these campaigns dominate Facebook today.

Reason 2

Visibility restored after Apple's changes

Selling on the web lets you connect the ad click to the payment again — and know which campaigns really make money.

How we work

We don't guess. We find out what works — and test it on your app.

AI speeds up every one of these steps, but it's generic. A specific product needs a specific approach.

  1. Market and competitor research

    Using our own tools, we look at which ads and funnels are working for companies in your category — including in other markets. No guesswork, no ego-driven marketing.

  2. Analytics and user economics

    We set up measurement so you know how much revenue comes back from every dollar spent acquiring users — broken down by campaign and creative.

  3. A funnel that sells

    We design and build the purchase path: quiz, plan page, offer, and checkout — or a campaign straight to the store, if that's what wins in your category.

  4. Creatives and fast AI testing

    AI makes it possible to test many ad concepts and funnel variants in a short time. We know which tools to use, how, and in what order.

  5. Scaling what pays off

    The budget only grows once the numbers add up. If $100 doesn't bring back at least $150, we fix the funnel instead of pouring more into ads.

What we do

From measurement, through the funnel, to campaigns.

We can start with a single piece or take on the whole thing. We work on a retainer or revenue share — never by the hour.

  • Foundation

    Funnel and analytics audit

    We check what you really know today about your ad returns, where users drop off along the path, and what your competitors are doing.

    • Measurement and attribution review
    • Analysis of competitors' ads and funnels
    • A priority list instead of a 40-page PDF
  • Web2app

    Quiz and checkout funnel

    We build sales on the web: quiz, personalized plan, offer, and payment — before the user ever opens the app store.

    • Quiz and page design and build
    • A/B tests of each new version of the path
    • Full visibility: ad → payment
  • Campaigns

    Meta and Google ads

    We run your ad account and produce AI-assisted creatives, so there are always fresh variants to test.

    • Video and static creatives
    • Ongoing tests of messaging and hooks
    • Scaling based on return, not reach
Grzegorz Świerad — founder of Subida AI and creator of the Mentorist app

Who's behind this

We've built apps ourselves. We know where the money leaks out of the funnel.

“The most expensive mistake in app marketing is guessing. Instead of going with your ego, find out what works for others — and test it on your own app.”

We work with mobile apps and other digital products every day, and we specialise in one thing: selling them online in a way that makes the ads pay for themselves. You work directly with Grzegorz Świerad, founder of Subida AI and creator of Mentorist.

  • 500k+ Mentorist users

    A B2C app in a highly competitive market, with users acquired mainly through Facebook ads.

  • 500+ A/B experiments

    Quizzes, messaging, pages, and the end of the funnel — tested to separate what lifts conversion from what only looks good.

  • Our own methodology and tools

    Systematic competitor research: what works for others, why it works, and how to build a version that works even better for you.

Read: why just publishing on the App Store isn't enough

Questions app founders ask most

Straight answers, no fluff.

There's no single number that fits everyone. The budget has to be enough to gather data from tests, and that depends on your subscription price and the cost of acquiring a user in your category. On the first call, we run the numbers with your data and tell you plainly if ads don't make sense for you yet.

Two reasons. First, a web2app funnel — ad, quiz, personalized plan, payment — delivers the highest return on investment in many categories today. Second, since Apple's privacy changes, it's hard to tell which ad led to an in-app payment. Selling on the web largely restores that visibility.

Quiz funnels are most developed in EdTech, wellness, and fitness, but the principle is universal: first we look at what works for companies in your market, then we test those patterns on your app. If a campaign straight to the app store works better in your category, that's where we'll start.

We start with analytics, not ads. We set up measurement so you know how much revenue comes back from every dollar spent acquiring users — broken down by campaign and creative. The benchmark is simple: $100 spent on ads should bring back at least $150.

No. AI dramatically speeds up creative production and testing new funnel versions, but it's generic. A specific product needs a specific approach: you have to know which tools to use, how, and in what order. That's the part we bring.

One of two models: a fixed monthly retainer or revenue share — an agreed cut of the revenue we help you generate. Never by the hour. You pay your media budget directly to Meta and Google.

Free analysis

Let's see if your marketing can pay for itself.

Tell us about your app. We'll review the path from ad to payment and tell you straight where we see room to improve — and if we don't see any, you'll hear that too. You talk directly with Grzegorz Świerad.

  • A review of the path: ad → website or store → payment
  • What apps in your category that scale their ads are doing
  • Whether a web2app funnel makes sense for you
  • Concrete next steps — or an honest no

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