No-code app builders like Appmaker give you a separate store to maintain. MobiLoud builds a custom native app on top of your existing Shopify store, giving you greater flexibility, without the app builder limitations or a second storefront to worry about.
Appmaker vs MobiLoud, at a glance
| Question |  Appmaker |  MobiLoud
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|---|---|---|
| What it is | A no-code app builder for Shopify brands | A custom native app built from your existing website, with your store’s features intact |
| How the app is built | A React Native app, built from blocks in Appmaker Studio | Your existing site powers a custom native app with navigation designed for your brand |
| Platforms | Shopify and Shopify Plus | Shopify, Shopify Plus, Magento, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and any other platform |
| Integrations | 160+ integrations, including Klaviyo, Yotpo, Judge.me, Rebuy and LoyaltyLion | Every app and feature on your store works in the app |
| Where it’s managed | In Appmaker Studio | In Shopify (or any other web backend) |
| Custom features | React Native code blocks and extensions, with full developer access on the Enterprise plan | Custom native features (e.g. Face ID, barcode scanning) scoped on request, built by our team |
| Push notifications | Built in and unlimited, sent through your own Firebase project | Built in, with OneSignal on every plan and Klaviyo on Business and Enterprise |
| Who does the work | You build and maintain the app through their dashboard | Your site powers the app and updates it automatically. MobiLoud handles launch and maintenance |
| Revenue share | 0.5% of in-app sales on Growth, 0.3% on Enterprise | None |
| Starting price | $999 a month, plus 0.5% of in-app sales | $799 a month |
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MobiLoud lets you get a custom native app for your brand, without the cost of custom development or a second codebase to maintain.
MobiLoud transforms your Shopify store into a custom native app. The underlying code and features from your website power the app, with a native, custom app built on top of it: native navigation, app-only screens, and the UI and features that customers expect from an app.
You get all the benefits of a custom native build, without an expensive second storefront to maintain.
You’re not starting from a blank canvas. You’re starting from what already works. Everything you’ve built on your site works in the app: your checkout, loyalty program, subscription portal, search, bundles, personalization and more. No rebuilding required.
With MobiLoud, you get two unique channels, managed from the same place. Launch a collection, change a price or start a sale in Shopify, and it’s in your app the moment it’s on your site. Your team keeps working the way it does now, with no second storefront to design, update or keep in sync.
Push notifications put your drops, restocks and offers on your customers’ lock screens. Customers stay signed in, links in your emails, texts and ads open the right product in the app, and you can offer products and discounts that only app customers see.
When you need more, we’ll build it for you: custom features such as Face ID, barcode scanning and location tools, scoped to your needs.
MobiLoud’s team handles the design, build and publishing for your app. We keep it maintained through each Android and iOS update, and work together with you on app growth and making it a plus channel for your business.
Customers who download your app come back more often and spend more each time, because buying from you is always one tap away.
Cold Culture
Streetwear Shopify
>250K App Downloads
Kiokii
Asian skincare and cosmetics Shopify
35% of Online Revenue
Your existing website gives your custom app a head start. Your checkout and tools carry over, and site updates appear in the app automatically.
We build a live, interactive preview from your website, so you can see your app before you decide.
Our team builds your app on your store and designs it around your brand. You review it and sign it off before it goes to the stores.
We submit your app to the App Store and Google Play and handle both reviews. If you already have an app, the new one goes out as an update to your listing, so your ratings, reviews and users stay.
Your app goes live with a launch plan to win installs, and we keep it updated and help you grow it from there.
“We needed to turn our Shopify store into an app while keeping all our third-party integrations. Other platforms couldn’t handle the complexity, but MobiLoud made it possible.”
Michele B. FoodsB2B “We wanted everything to reflect on the mobile app. We have a lot of features and a lot of apps right now installed on our website, and all of them are reflecting seamlessly to the mobile app as well.”
Zawar Kamal Ecommerce Specialist Have any more questions we didn’t answer? Book a call or send us a message to clear it all up.
Book a callAppmaker no longer works with WooCommerce. It now works with Shopify and Shopify Plus, and its WooCommerce plugin has closed. MobiLoud works with WooCommerce, Shopify and any other platform, including Magento, BigCommerce and custom builds.
Appmaker takes 0.5% of your in-app sales on Growth and 0.3% on Enterprise, on top of the monthly price. MobiLoud doesn’t take a share of your app sales.
MobiLoud starts at $799 a month, and Appmaker starts at $999 a month plus 0.5% of your in-app sales. MobiLoud’s price covers the design, the build, the launch and a team that keeps your app updated.
Developers can customize an Appmaker app with React Native code blocks, extensions and native libraries, with full developer access on Enterprise. With MobiLoud, your developers keep working on your store, and our team builds any custom native features your app needs.
A MobiLoud app is a native iOS and Android app, built in Swift and Kotlin. It uses a mix of your existing web code and custom elements built for the app, such as native navigation, push notifications and login, and customers get an app that looks and feels like any other on their phone.
Your Shopify apps work in a MobiLoud app from day one. Reviews, loyalty, subscriptions, search, bundles and any other app on your store are in your app at launch, so there’s no integrations list to check.
You can move your Appmaker app to MobiLoud without losing your users, because your app is in your own Apple and Google developer accounts. We publish the new app as an update to your existing listing, so your ratings and reviews stay, and we time the switch so the new app is live before you cancel Appmaker.
You don’t build or maintain the app yourself with MobiLoud. We design and build it, publish it to both stores and update it for every new iOS and Android release, while your team keeps working on your store.
Get in touch and we’ll put together a free preview of your mobile app, so you can see what’s possible with MobiLoud.
