Apple and Google take roughly 30% of an in-app purchase, so it's a reasonable guess that a subscription bought in Twitch's iOS or Android app pays the streamer less than the same tier bought on the web. As of Twitch's October 2024 pricing change, that guess is wrong — and getting it right matters if you're deciding whether to steer viewers toward one platform or the other.
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Twitch charges more for a Tier 1 subscription bought in the mobile app (about $7.99 in the US) than for the same tier bought on the web (about $5.99). The gap exists specifically to cover the app store's cut, so that the amount left over for Twitch and the streamer to split is the same either way. Twitch has stated plainly that a streamer earns the same amount from a subscription whether it's desktop or mobile.
Twitch does not publish the exact intermediate accounting between the mobile price and the split, and this page does not invent one. What matters for your own math is the confirmed outcome, not the plumbing behind it:
| Figure | Web subscription | Mobile (iOS/Android) subscription |
|---|---|---|
| Price the viewer pays (Tier 1, approx.) | $5.99 | $7.99 |
| Extra above the web price | — | ~$2.00, sized to cover the app store's cut |
| Your payout at a 50% split | $2.995 | $2.995 |
Same payout, same tier, different platform. So when you use the calculator, enter your subscriber counts by tier without worrying about which platform each one bought on — one Tier 1 sub is one Tier 1 sub for payout purposes.
Your revenue split. Everyone starts at 50% of subscription revenue. Sustaining 100 Plus Points for three consecutive months moves you to 60% under Twitch's Plus Program, and 300 Plus Points moves you to 70%. Moving from 50% to 60% or 70% is a real, large change to what you keep on identical sub numbers — re-run the calculator at each split to see the size of that gap for your own month.
The tier itself. A Tier 2 sub pays roughly twice a Tier 1 sub before the split, and Tier 3 roughly five times — obvious once stated, but easy to lose track of when subs of different tiers are lumped into one "sub count" in your head.
No. Since Twitch's October 2024 pricing change, a Tier 1 subscription costs more on the iOS or Android app (about $7.99) than on the web ($5.99) specifically so that the extra covers Apple's and Google's in-app-purchase fee before it ever reaches the revenue split. Twitch has stated that a streamer earns the same amount from a subscription whether it's bought on desktop or mobile.
Two things: your revenue split (50% default, or 60%/70% under Twitch's Plus Program) and the subscription tier itself. Purchase platform is not one of them, as of the pricing change described above.
Bits are priced with Twitch's own margin already built into what a viewer pays for a Bits bundle, and a cheered Bit is worth a flat one cent to the streamer regardless of platform or split. This calculator treats Bits the same way whichever platform they were bought on.
Yes. Twitch has changed subscription pricing and platform-fee handling before, and it publishes no live feed a static page could read. Treat this explainer as current as of the date on this page and verify anything material against your own Twitch dashboard and Twitch's own current help documentation.