A subscription app · B2C · App Masters client
Use a yellow crown, not a star, for the button that opens the paywall
The yellow crown performed better; no numbers
Workedpaywallexperimentation
What they did
A client A/B tested the icon that leads to the paywall: a star vs a yellow crown.
What happened
Yellow crown performed better
“One of our clients actually tested a crown versus a star, saw that the crown, a yellow crown, performed better”
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