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If you're a Shopify merchant looking to launch a mobile app, you've probably come across Tapcart.
Tapcart is one of the most popular app builders on the market, known for its drag-and-drop editor and strong track record with successful DTC brands. But Tapcart requires you to rebuild your entire store inside their platform, manage two separate experiences, and pay premium prices that can quickly escalate to over $1,000 per month.
MobiLoud takes a completely different approach — one that's faster, more affordable, and eliminates the maintenance headaches.
Instead of rebuilding your store from scratch, MobiLoud converts your existing Shopify site into a full-featured native app in weeks.
Read onto learn why MobiLoud is the smarter Tapcart alternative.
Tapcart follows the "rebuild philosophy." You start from scratch inside their visual editor, dragging and dropping blocks to recreate your store.
While this gives you some design control, it comes with significant drawbacks:
Every website update (new products, design changes, or promotions) requires duplicate work in your app.
This doubles your workload and creates inconsistency between channels.
Independent reviews note that Tapcart achieves only about 85% design parity with your website.
Collection pages look similar across brands, and certain design elements can't be replicated.
If you've invested heavily in your website's distinctive look, watching it get diluted in a template is frustrating.
Tapcart starts at $250/month for basic features, but most brands need $500-$1,000+ plans for advanced push notifications and automation.
Developer tools cost an additional $1,500/month.
Adding that to the time your team spends managing the app, and the investment starts to look a lot different.
While Tapcart offers 25+ integrations, you're limited to their pre-built list.
Using tools outside their ecosystem means switching providers or accepting reduced functionality in your app.
We solve the same problem — mobile retention and engagement — in a fundamentally different way.
MobiLoud converts your existing Shopify site into a native mobile app, preserving 100% of your design, features, and integrations.
Your app looks exactly like your mobile website. Every custom feature, every integration, every design element, it all works from day one.
No rebuilding. No compromises.
Here are the three biggest reasons why it's smarter to choose MobiLoud.
When you choose MobiLoud, your entire tech stack comes with you.
That custom product configurator? It works. That loyalty program integration? It works. That optimized checkout flow? It works.
Because we convert your actual website into a native app rather than recreating it, you get 100% feature parity, automatically.
This eliminates the integration bottleneck plaguing app builders.
You're not waiting for Tapcart to support your specific tools. Everything that works on your website works in your app, immediately.
With MobiLoud, you manage everything in one place.
Update your website, and your app updates automatically in real-time.
Launch a new product? It appears instantly. Change your homepage? The app reflects it immediately. Run a flash sale? Your app shows the same promotions with no extra work.
Brands switching from Tapcart to MobiLoud consistently report saving 10+ hours per week in app maintenance. As one customer said, "We didn't have to rebuild anything — our entire site just worked."
MobiLoud isn't just a tool. It's a fully managed service.
Our team handles the entire build process, configures your app, submits it to app stores, and provides ongoing support.
We teach you proven strategies for promoting your app, crafting high-converting push notifications, and turning your app into a reliable revenue channel.
We've worked with 2,000+ businesses over the last 13 years, including hundreds of ecommerce brands, helping these companies launch LTV-driving mobile apps that run on autopilot.
Not only that, these apps make an impact. Our customers consistently report that MobiLoud apps generate 10-35% of their total online revenue.
Here are some examples:
Kiokii: Their app, built with MobiLoud from their existing Shopify site, delivers 35% of total online revenue while engaging just ~10% of users, with 2x higher conversion rate, 3x more monthly engaged sessions, and 6.7x higher ARPU compared to mobile web.
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Pharmazone: They launched a full-featured native app in just two weeks with MobiLoud. It now drives 63% of their online revenue, converts 7x better than mobile web, and delivers 15x more revenue per user.
MASC: Their MobiLoud-powered app contributes a 3x higher conversion rate and 5.1x higher revenue per app user, adding up to 20% of their total online revenue. They switched to MobiLoud from another app builder, which simplified their workflow and finally let them achieve full feature parity with their website.
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Country Life Natural Foods: By converting their Shopify site into an app with MobiLoud they achieved 2.4x higher conversion rates, a 20% higher average order value, and an impressive 15x higher revenue per app user compared to mobile web; all while keeping the team’s launch effort under 10 hours and maintaining one codebase.
XCVI: Switching to MobiLoud allowed them to wipe out ~10 hours per week in app maintenance, while their app has 2x higher conversion rate, 30% higher average order value, and 4.8x more revenue per user compared to mobile web.
Read more MobiLoud customer case studies here
MobiLoud's pricing is transparent.
Our Startup plan starts at $299/month plus an $850 one-time setup fee.
Our most popular Growth plan is $549/month with a $1,500 setup fee, providing fully managed service with priority support and advanced features that would cost $1,000+ monthly with other app builders.
The real advantage is lower total cost of ownership.
You're not maintaining two platforms, so your team spends less time on app management.
All your integrations work automatically, so you're not paying developers for custom work. We handle build and submission, so you're not hiring and managing developers or dealing with the app stores yourself.
Learn more about MobiLoud's pricing
If you want to leverage the website you've already built, launch faster, maintain less, and pay less, all while getting 100% design parity and complete feature coverage, MobiLoud is the smarter choice.
We've worked with over 2,000 brands since 2013, from startups to Fortune 500 companies.
We don't just build your app — we partner with you to make it successful.
Ready to see how MobiLoud can transform your Shopify store? Get a free app preview today and discover why leading brands choose MobiLoud.
