Comparison
Winback vs Slicker: which one fits your subscription app?
Slicker is an AI payments platform: it brings payment data from many providers into one view, flags drops in acceptance, and recovers failed recurring payments with smart retries and personalised dunning emails. It works with billing systems such as Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Recurly, Zuora and Recharge, and its pricing is based on results, proven with a test against your current setup. Winback is a smaller tool for apps: it writes one personal message to each subscriber who cancelled, whose card failed, or whose trial ended unpaid, works with RevenueCat apps on the App Store and Google Play as well as Stripe, and charges 15% of revenue from people who come back, for 6 months. Pick Slicker if you run web billing across several payment providers. Consider Winback if your subscribers pay inside an app.
The short version
Slicker is built for teams with web billing and several payment providers who want analytics and failed payment recovery in one place. Winback is built for app makers who want lapsed subscribers back, whatever the reason they left.
| Winback | Slicker | |
|---|---|---|
| Main job | Win back subscribers who already lapsed | Payment analytics and failed payment recovery |
| Who it reaches | Cancelled, billing-failed and expired-trial subscribers | Customers whose recurring payment failed |
| App Store and Google Play subscriptions | Yes, through RevenueCat | Not stated on its site |
| Billing systems | RevenueCat and Stripe | Stripe Billing, Chargebee, Recurly, Zuora, Recharge, in-house billing |
| How you start | Free planner on your own export, in your browser. No account, no card | Get a demo or talk to sales |
| Pricing | 15% of revenue from returning subscribers for 6 months (10% for the first 10 apps). Nothing if nobody returns | Success-based. If it does not beat your current setup in its test, you do not pay. Rate not published on its home page |
Slicker details read from slickerhq.com on 23 Oct 2026. Winback prices from winbackhq.com/pricing, read the same day.
When Slicker is the better fit
- You bill on the web through one or more payment providers.
- You want payment analytics and an AI analyst as well as recovery.
- You want recovery proven with a controlled test before you pay.
When Winback is the better fit
- You sell subscriptions inside an iPhone or Android app through RevenueCat.
- You want to reach people who cancelled on purpose and people whose trial ended, not only failed payments.
- You want to plan a campaign today in your browser, without a sales call.
How Winback works
- Export lapsed subscribers from RevenueCat or Stripe and open the planner. The file stays in your browser.
- Winback sorts them into cancelled, billing-failed and expired-trial groups.
- Each person gets one honest, personal message with a return offer inside the limits you set.
- You see who came back. You pay 15% of what they spend for 6 months, and nothing if nobody returns.
Questions
Is Winback a Slicker alternative?
Partly. Both charge on results, but Slicker recovers failed recurring payments across billing systems and adds payment analytics, while Winback wins back cancelled, billing-failed and expired-trial subscribers, including app store subscribers through RevenueCat.
Can I use both?
Yes. Slicker can handle failed web payments while Winback writes to app subscribers who cancelled or never paid after a trial. Make sure the same person is not messaged by both.
What does Winback cost?
The planner is free. Pay on success is 15% of revenue from subscribers who come back, for 6 months, and nothing if nobody returns (10% for the first 10 apps). The Win-back Sprint is $249 once.
Plan a win-back on your own export in a few minutes. Nothing is uploaded.