Compare how Reactiv and MobiLoud build apps for Shopify brands. See the differences in custom design, website functions, app management and pricing.
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At a glance
Reactiv builds your app as a separate storefront, in its own platform. MobiLoud builds it on your website, so everything carries over and you manage both in one place.
| Question | Reactiv | MobiLoud
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|---|---|---|
| What it is | A mobile commerce platform for Shopify, with native apps and App Clips built by Reactiv’s team | A managed service that helps you build and maintain a custom mobile app, powered by your website |
| How the app is built | A React Native app, with screens edited in Reactiv’s App Studio and data from Shopify | Pages and content powered by your website, with native UI and app-only features added on top |
| Platforms | Shopify/Shopify Plus | Any website: Shopify, Shopify Plus, Magento, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, custom and headless |
| Integrations | ~60, including Klaviyo, Yotpo and Recharge | Every app, integration and script on your site |
| Where you make changes | In Reactiv’s dashboard | Through your existing web platform |
| Checkout | Your Shopify checkout, with Shop Pay and Apple Pay | Your site’s checkout, including Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and every app and extension |
| Push notifications | Through Klaviyo, Firebase or another push tool, plus built-in App Clip notifications | Through OneSignal, or Klaviyo on Enterprise, plus native sequences such as abandoned carts |
| App Clips | Built in | Not offered |
| Quoted time to launch | 2 to 4 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Revenue share | None | None |
| Starting price | $1,499 a month, plus any custom dev costs | $799 a month |
What it is
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How the app is built
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Platforms
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Integrations
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Where you make changes
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Checkout
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Push notifications
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App Clips
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Quoted time to launch
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Revenue share
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Starting price
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How they work
With app builders like Reactiv, you’re managing two separate storefronts: your website and your app. MobiLoud keeps it all unified: one storefront, two unique channels.
The app builder model
Your app exists separately from your site
Good for
The trade-off
Every integration and feature lives in a second storefront, which you keep in step with your site.
The MobiLoud model
Everything on your site, in your app
Good for
The trade-off
Your app is managed through your web platform; not a dedicated CMS (if that’s what you want).
Integrations
Reactiv comes with integrations for about 60 well-known Shopify apps. MobiLoud integrates with all of them. Every app, integration, custom feature and theme customization carries over to your mobile app, by default.
Reactiv
Each tool, with its own integration
A tool that isn’t on Reactiv’s list needs a custom integration, just to carry over what already works on your site.
MobiLoud
Every integration, carried over with your site
If an integration works on your site, it works in the app. No separate integration adding more complexity to your app.
Website improvements
Reactiv provides a separate workspace for building and updating your app. With MobiLoud, changes you make on your website appear in the app too.
Reactiv
Reactiv builds and edits screens from a prompt, an image or your voice. Its scheduler refreshes your layouts on a schedule, with your approval.
MobiLoud
Your team keeps improving the website it already manages. Those changes reach your app automatically, without another editor or publishing workflow.
Reactiv’s app-specific features give your team another place to make changes.
With MobiLoud, your team keeps one website to manage.
Your search, recommendations and personalized content work on both channels.
Customer stories
“We didn’t have to build our app from scratch — everything syncs seamlessly with Shopify, including real-time inventory updates and push notifications.”
Ahmed Ayman eCommerce Director at Pharmazone “We wanted to give our loyal customers a convenient way to keep coming back and reach them directly with push notifications. Our app now drives 10% of our total revenue with minimal effort from our team.”
Damien Smith CTO at Bottle Stop Pricing
MobiLoud starts at $799 a month, while Reactiv Standard starts at $1,499 a month. Here is what each includes.
Reactiv
Standard
Native apps, App Clips, screen editing, analytics, and unlimited push and integrations
$1,499 a month
Enterprise
Adds the SDK and UI kit, a success manager and priority support.
Custom
What the price covers
You pay for the platform and Reactiv’s team, and your team runs the app’s content in App Studio. Custom development is quoted separately.
Reactiv’s pricing page MobiLoud
Starting price
Design, build, launch on both stores and ongoing updates by our team. No share of your sales.
$799 a month
What the price covers
You pay for the build, the launch and our team. We design, publish and update the app, and help you grow it. We can also build custom features for your app, scoped to your requirements.
Our pricing pageSwitching
If you’re already using another app builder, we’ll help you migrate your app with a minimum of fuss, and no disruption to your existing user base.
We build a live, interactive preview from your website, so you can compare it with your Reactiv app before you decide.
Our team builds the new app on your website, including any app-only screens and offers you want to keep.
We publish the new app as an update to your existing App Store and Google Play listing, so your ratings, reviews and users stay.
Most apps are live in 2 to 4 weeks. After that, we keep the app updated and help you get the most out of it.
Have any more questions we didn’t answer? Book a call or send us a message to clear it all up.
Book a callYes. Reactiv is built exclusively for Shopify. If your store runs on Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce or another platform, Reactiv isn’t an option. MobiLoud works with all of them, Shopify included.
Yes. You can easily create app-only pages and designs through your web platform; we’ll help you tag these pages so they exclusively show up in your app. We can also build custom native features for your app, such as Face ID integrations, barcode scanners and custom SDK integrations. Book a free demo and let us know what you need, and we’ll create a custom proposal for you.
MobiLoud starts lower. Our price starts at $799 a month, and Reactiv’s Standard plan is $1,499 a month. Both offer custom-scoped pricing for stores with more extensive needs.
Reactiv quotes a 2-4 week launch time, we quote 2-4 weeks. The difference is negligible; Reactiv’s quoted number is slightly faster.
Yes. The apps you use for reviews, loyalty, subscriptions, search, bundles and everything else on your store work in the app the way they do on your site. No separate integrations needed.
Reactiv builds every screen in React Native, separately from your website. A MobiLoud app is built on your website, with native tabs, navigation and push added on top, so it looks and works like your site. Whichever one is “more native” is beside the point. Your customers don’t care: they care that it’s a real mobile app that works, and both app builders do that for you.
Yes. As long as the app is in your own Apple and Google developer accounts, we can publish the new app as an update to that listing. Your users get a normal update, and your ratings and reviews stay. We time the switch to make sure there’s no downtime for your users.
We’ll build a live, interactive preview from your website, so you can see what’s possible with MobiLoud.
