If you're running your ecommerce site on Spryker, that means you understand the value of a custom, high-performance tech stack.
Now, you’re looking to take the next step and launch a mobile app. It’s a logical move — mobile apps are the single most powerful channel for driving retention and increasing customer lifetime value.
Your most loyal customers want an app. It offers a more convenient, focused, and personal shopping experience.
But for a brand on a platform as specialized as Spryker, the path to a mobile app can seem daunting. How do you translate the power and complexity of your custom-built Spryker site into a high-quality mobile app without a massive, budget-draining project?
This article will show you how. We’ll explore why traditional app development is a challenge for Spryker users and reveal a smarter, faster, and more cost-effective solution that aligns perfectly with the Spryker philosophy.
The Challenge: Why Building an App for Spryker is Inherently Difficult
Spryker is not like Shopify or other template-based platforms. Its strength lies in its headless, API-first architecture.
This composable commerce model gives you the freedom to build exactly the customer experience you want, connecting any frontend, third-party tool, or touchpoint.
While Spryker provides the powerful Glue API to connect a mobile app, it does not offer a simple, out-of-the-box app builder.
This is by design; the platform is built for custom solutions, not one-size-fits-all templates.
This leaves Spryker users facing a difficult choice, often leading them down the path of full native app development. This involves:
- Building from Scratch: Your development team would need to build separate apps for iOS (using Swift or Objective-C) and Android (using Kotlin or Java), or use a cross-platform framework like React Native.
- High Costs: A custom native app project is a significant investment. Agencies can charge well over $100,000 for the first version alone, and internal costs for a dedicated mobile team are even higher.
- Long Timelines: Developing, testing, and launching a custom app can take anywhere from 6 to 12 months, if not longer.
- Duplicated Effort: You are essentially rebuilding your entire frontend. All the logic, features, and integrations you’ve perfected on your Spryker site must be recreated for the app. This creates a second codebase that needs to be managed, updated, and maintained separately from your website, creating a huge operational drag.
This traditional approach seems to contradict the very reason many brands choose Spryker in the first place.
The Spryker Philosophy Meets its Perfect Match
Spryker’s homepage states the following:
Build Faster. Lower Your IT Costs.
When you want more than your standard platform can deliver, but your CFO wants you to save costs.
This is the core dilemma for ambitious ecommerce brands: how to achieve a superior, custom experience without the associated costs and complexity.
The traditional route of building a native app directly conflicts with this goal. You want more than a generic app, but you don’t want to drain your IT budget and distract your team for the next year.
This is where MobiLoud comes in. MobiLoud is a full-service solution that was built to solve this exact problem, especially for brands on custom, headless, or niche platforms like Spryker.
It offers a “third way” that aligns perfectly with the Spryker philosophy: get the high-quality, custom app you want, but do it faster and at a fraction of the cost.
What is MobiLoud and Why is it Ideal for Spryker?
MobiLoud is not another restrictive, template-based app builder. It’s a fully managed service that converts your existing, high-performance Spryker website into premium native mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Here’s how it works:
MobiLoud uses a sophisticated and perfected hybrid app approach.
Your existing Spryker site, with all its custom features, complex logic, and third-party integrations, is the core of your app.
Our platform then layers on native mobile UI elements, such as a native tab menu, navigation, splash screens, and settings.
Crucially, our team of experts handles the entire process for you. This includes initial configuration, design tweaks to optimize the mobile experience, publishing to the App Store and Google Play, and all ongoing technical maintenance and updates.
This approach is the ideal solution for Spryker brands for several key reasons:
Let’s dive deeper into why MobiLoud is the best way to build an app for your Spryker site.
You Get to Leverage Your Existing Investment
You’ve invested heavily in creating a powerful, optimized ecommerce experience with Spryker. MobiLoud honors and extends that investment, rather than forcing you to discard it and start over.
All the custom work, unique merchandising, and complex backend logic you’ve built will work seamlessly in the app from day one.
Speed and Cost Efficiency
With MobiLoud, you can have a premium mobile app live in the app stores in under a month, for less than 10% of the cost of a traditional native build.
This allows for an immediate ROI and frees up your resources to focus on growth, not complex IT projects.
Zero Added Complexity
Perhaps the most significant benefit is the operational simplicity.
Your team’s workflow does not change. You continue to manage your Spryker site as you always have.
Any change you make to your site — adding a new product, updating a feature, publishing content — is instantly reflected in the app.
There’s no new codebase to manage and no new team to hire. Your app is an asset that works for you, not a project that drains your resources.
The Full Power of Native Apps
Despite the simplicity, you get all the key benefits of a native app. Most importantly, this includes unlimited push notifications.
MobiLoud integrates with OneSignal to send rich, targeted push notifications to drive engagement, announce promotions, recover abandoned carts, and bring customers back to your store again and again.
How to Turn Your Spryker Site into a Mobile App: The 4-Step Process
Getting started with MobiLoud is straightforward and requires minimal effort from your team.
- Book a Consultation: Start with a free, personalized demo with a MobiLoud app expert. They’ll discuss your goals, walk you through the platform, and show you examples of apps built for other high-growth brands.
- Configuration and Design: The MobiLoud team works with you to configure your apps. This involves defining your app’s design, including colors, logos, and native navigation. They will make small adjustments to your site’s code to ensure a perfect, app-like experience on mobile devices.
- We Build and Publish: MobiLoud’s team handles all the technical heavy lifting. They build the app files and manage the entire submission and approval process with Apple and Google, guaranteeing approval.
- Launch and Grow: Within a few weeks, your app will be live for your customers to download. MobiLoud provides ongoing support and maintenance, ensuring your app remains updated and compatible with future iOS and Android versions.
Ready to learn more? Get a free preview of your app now, or book a consultation to discuss your project with our team.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Spryker Site Owners
1. Will all of my custom Spryker features and integrations work in the app?
Yes, 100%. Because MobiLoud uses your existing website as the foundation, every feature, plugin, and piece of custom code will work exactly the same in the app. There are no new integrations to build.
2. How are the apps updated?
The app content and features update automatically with your website. For technical updates to the native app shell (e.g., to support a new iOS version), the MobiLoud team handles everything for you as part of your subscription.
3. Can we customize the app’s design?
Yes. While the core is your website, MobiLoud adds a native UI layer that is fully customizable to match your brand. You have full control over the app’s navigation, menus, colors, and overall aesthetic.
4. Is this just a webview? Will it feel like a real app?
MobiLoud uses webview technology, but it’s far more than a simple webview. It’s a hybrid approach that has been perfected over a decade of building ecommerce apps. By combining your optimized web frontend with native navigation, a powerful push notification system, and dozens of small optimizations, the result is an experience that looks and feels fully native to the end-user.
Launch a Mobile App for Your Spryker Site Now
For a brand running on Spryker, MobiLoud is the missing piece of the puzzle.
Your mobile site works great. Your tech stack is powerful, flexible, fully optimized for your business goals.
MobiLoud allows you to launch a premium, custom mobile app that enhances your customer experience and drives revenue, without compromising the principles of speed and cost-efficiency that led you to Spryker in the first place.
Ready to see how your Spryker site would look as a mobile app? Get a free preview now, or book a free consultation with our team of app experts.
