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The Superwall Podcast · 2026-09-03

Asya Paloni - How to Build an $18M/Year Apple Watch App (FREE MASTERCLASS)

Welltory CPO Asya Paloni ($18M ARR, ~18M downloads Apple Watch stress/energy app) explains Meta ad hooks that reveal scary hidden body processes, then walks through the onboarding built on her six-part pitch formula (human problem, promise, key, mechanism, proof, FOMO): health-data sync as the first CTA (90%+ accept), early notification ask, an emotional re-anchoring question, showing the user's own stress data as proof, and a loss-framed paywall that beat a benefits ending. Annual-only hard-ish paywall; 60%+ of conversions come after day one.

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12 tactics

Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Over 90% connect their data; intro screens before it did worse
“I think probably we haven't tested it enough. But every time I tried to like do like a little like prelude, it didn't do as well.”
Workedonboarding
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Worked best in that spot, against best-practice advice; no numbers
“we ask people to turn on not notifications right away. I know you're not supposed to do this. Everyone is like, "Show some value first, and then" Uh but it has worked best for us right there”
Workedonboardingnotifications
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Succeeded after repeated failed onboardings; no numbers given
“I made them for my team as kind of like lessons uh I've learned when she failed miserably at our onboarding over and over. After like a round of failures and an eventual success”
Workedonboardingpaywall
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Guest calls it the strongest proof, above reviews and research; no numbers
“I think the most powerful proof that we use actually is that we are showing you your own data. You know it's hyper-personalized.”
Workedonboardingproduct-activation
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Beat an ending that promised more energy with a progress chart
“we tried the benefits towards the end, um like you'll have more energy, you'll feel great, and it worked worse than this”
Workedpaywallonboarding
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“We're trying to emotionally put people back in a place where they remember what that feels like. The buy-in is important, but I think we're trying to actually slow the onboarding down”
Unknownonboarding
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

50-70% of women pick low energy; men pick stressed or fine
“We want to segment our users super well. We ask them how they usually feel.”
Unknownonboarding
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Beat long-term 'feel less tired' hooks on Meta, per guest; no numbers
“Those kinds of hooks that promise a long-term value tend to work poorly in like social media, on Meta, because on Meta, you need to like break through like people's blind spots.”
Workedpaid-social
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Guest reports a big payoff after 1.5-2 years; no numbers
“I think we've spent the past year and a half, 2 years really trying to fix that rift. And we've seen uh a big payoff.”
Workedteam-processfeature-development
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

“And actually, um most of the time we just sell the annual plan.”
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Welltory · B2C · Apple Watch stress and energy app

Over 60% of conversions happen after day one, over the next couple of months
“But all of the things that we kind of think are more immediate and could be life-saving in some cases are free.”
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“here's your App Store page, and it says, "Find out how you're really feeling in 2 minutes. Let's check." Uh and it's like a video as the first tab”
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Numbers mentioned

SubjectMetricValueQuote
WelltoryarrUSD 18M/year
approximate
“Our ARR is around 18 million, and we have about 17 million downloads.”
Welltorydownloads17M–18M downloads
approximate
“we have about 17 million downloads. I guess it's closer to 18 million now.”
Welltoryconversion rate
Onboarding: share of users who connect their Apple Health data on the first CTA screen (over 90%)
90%
approximate
“Over 90% of users hook up their health data, which I think is uh remarkable in this day and age.”
Welltoryshare
Share of women who answer 'low on energy' or 'tired and drained' to the onboarding 'how do you usually feel' question; men mostly pick 'sometimes stressed' or 'pretty good'
50–70%
approximate
“Over half of women, and I think even like closer to 70% of women say they are low on energy or tired and drained.”
Welltoryprice
Annual plan on the paywall, displayed as $8.83/month; usually the only plan offered
USD 99.99/year“Cuz like it says $99.99 per year or $8.83 a month”
Welltoryshare
Share of conversions that happen after day one, over the following couple of months (over 60%)
60%
estimate
“we actually have a long tail where I think over 60% of our conversions or something like this happen over the course of the next like couple months.”