Disclosure first: InfluTo (this site) is one of the products below. It's listed last, its weaknesses are listed with it, and the other entries get the same fair treatment — we'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one twice.
A mobile-app affiliate platform must do three things web affiliate tools can't: attribute inside a native app (no cookies at a StoreKit checkout), verify conversions against App Store / Google Play receipts, and pay creators automatically. In 2026 that shortlist is small: GoMarketMe and InfluTo are the mobile-native platforms; web-SaaS tools and MMPs solve adjacent problems; DIY is viable if you have a payments team.
Three tests. One: native attribution — the purchase happens in StoreKit or Play Billing, so link-and-cookie tracking from web affiliate marketing physically can't see it. Two: receipt-verified conversions — you're paying real money, so commission must rest on store-verified revenue, not modeled or self-reported numbers. Three: automated creator payouts — recurring commission across dozens of creators is not a spreadsheet job. Products that fail a test aren't bad products; they're built for a different problem, and we say which.
The closest comparable to InfluTo, with a similar creator-commission model, live since May 2024.
Pros: the longer track record of the two mobile-native options; SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, React Native with a dedicated Expo path, and Flutter; payouts consolidated across 161 currencies; affiliate-aware paywalls (per-affiliate trials/discounts via store promo codes); comp models beyond revenue share, like pay-per-post and pay-per-view. $0/month with a 10% fee on the entry plan.
Cons: the SDK core is closed-source, so you can't audit what runs inside your app; multi-app support is gated to Enterprise; no AI-agent integration path. (Pricing and features verified on gomarketme.co, June 2026.)
Full head-to-head: InfluTo vs GoMarketMe, linked below.
Mature, well-liked products for SaaS affiliate programs — on the web.
Pros: years of refinement, solid dashboards, straightforward setup for products billed through web checkout.
Cons for a mobile app: attribution is built on referral links and cookies resolving at a web checkout. If your subscriptions run through StoreKit or Play Billing, there is no web checkout — no attribution, no verified conversion, nothing for a payout to rest on. No mobile SDKs.
Right choice if: your app monetizes via web billing, or you're selling a web SaaS.
Wrong choice if: revenue flows through the app stores.
These appear in every "app affiliate" search, so they belong here — as a category correction. MMPs measure install attribution, deep linking, and ad-spend ROI for paid UA. They don't recruit creators, verify revenue for payment, hold escrow, or send payouts. Excellent at their job; their job isn't this. Many apps run an MMP and a commission platform side by side. The full explanation is the MMP explainer linked below.
Everything a platform does, you can build: referral-code storage, App Store Server API / Play receipt validation, recurring commission accrual, refund clawbacks, click fraud filtering, Stripe Connect onboarding and transfers.
Pros: no platform fee, total control, no vendor risk.
Cons: weeks of initial engineering and permanent maintenance across two stores' changing APIs — none of which differentiates your app. The line-by-line list of what you'd rebuild: InfluTo vs DIY, linked below.
Right choice if: payments engineering is a core competence and your volume justifies it.
Built by a solo indie dev (me, Jan) because paid UA for my own calorie app was underwater; its first production users were my own apps, followed by organic developers.
Pros: recurring % commission paid only on verified paying subscribers — every conversion tied to a store receipt via RevenueCat webhook or direct App Store/Google Play validation (you pick exactly one path); open-source SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, Flutter and React Native/Expo at github.com/influto, ~5-minute setup; deterministic referral-code attribution with deduplicated, fraud-flagged clicks; automated Stripe Connect payouts with a $1 minimum from a refundable escrow wallet; multilingual campaigns with auto-translation; and an AI-agent path no competitor offers — one claude mcp add command, OAuth, 57 MCP tools, and the agent can integrate the SDK and verify it live with influto_test_integration before calling the job done. $0/month, free setup, 10% fee on commissions.
Cons, honestly: younger than GoMarketMe, with a shorter track record; no affiliate-aware paywalls or pay-per-post/pay-per-view comp models; focused on subscription apps — if your revenue is web-billed, the web-SaaS tools above fit better.
Subscription app, revenue through the stores, want creators on recurring commission: GoMarketMe or InfluTo. Read the head-to-head; the differences (SDK openness, multi-app, agent tooling vs. track record, Expo, paywall features) are real and cut both ways.
Web-billed product: Tolt, Rewardful or FirstPromoter.
Measuring paid ads, not paying creators: an MMP — different question entirely.
Payments team in-house and large volume: consider DIY, eyes open.
Both mobile-native options are free to start, so the cheapest evaluation is empirical: integrate, run five creators for a month, read the conversion data. Start with InfluTo free — the escrow deposit is refundable if we're not the right fit.
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