Switch to MobiLoud
Unlike app builders and custom builds, MobiLoud builds your app on your live store, no rebuilding, no second storefront to maintain. You get a custom native app with no app builder limits, and a team that looks after it for you.
2,000+ apps published since 2013
Brands usually switch to MobiLoud from two kinds of app. Some started with an app builder and ran into the limits of traditional “no-code” tools. Others paid for a custom app, built from scratch, and found that the upfront cost was only a small part of the final bill.
Quick to launch, but not truly in sync with your site.
No limits - other than the time and cost it takes to run.
What changes
We design and build your custom app on your existing store. You get the freedom of a custom app, with our team handling launch and upkeep.
Our team designs your tab bar, navigation, push notifications and sign-in around your store, and builds them in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android.
Your extensions, plugins and customizations just work in your new app, so there’s no integration list to check and no catalog to keep in sync.
Need a custom native feature or a vendor’s SDK? We scope it with you, price it before any work starts and build it into your app.
Change your store and your app follows. We handle the releases, the iOS and Android updates and the store reviews as part of the deal.
We’ll help you switch to a new app, with little to no disruption for your users. Your current app stays live while we build the new one. When it’s ready, we publish it as an update to your existing listings, so all your customers carry over.
We build a live, interactive preview of your new app from your store, so you can see it before you decide.
MobiLoud designs and builds your custom app on your live store, around your brand.
You try every part of the new app and approve it. Anything new it needs is scoped with you first.
We submit the new app as an update to your existing App Store and Google Play listings and handle both reviews.
Customers get the new app as a normal update, and we plan a relaunch with you to announce it.
We can help you relaunch your app in 2 to 4 weeks, from kickoff through to the new app going live.
Switching to MobiLoud gives you a better way to maintain your app, and a channel that’s automatically in sync with your site, offering a better UX for your existing customers.
Customer stories
These brands came to MobiLoud with an app already live, some from app builders and some from custom development.
Jack & Jones
International fashion brand
1M+ App Downloads
4.7/5
of 2.7K Ratings
Junior Couture
Luxury childrenswear Salesforce Commerce Cloud
~50% of Peak Season Revenue
HouseFloral
Faux florals and home décor Shopify
Maintained 40% Online Growth Year Over Year
"I didn’t want customers to have to delete and re-download a new app. MobiLoud made that transition seamless."
"The price was very similar between you and them, but they had no support. You guys have been very, very helpful all the way through."
MobiLoud vs the alternatives
Whether your app came from a builder or a development team, here’s what changes when you move it to MobiLoud.
MobiLoud
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Custom apps
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Book a callYou keep your App Store and Google Play listings, ratings and reviews when you switch to MobiLoud, as long as your app is in your own Apple and Google developer accounts. We publish the new app as an update to that listing, so to the stores and to your customers it’s the same app.
Your customers don’t need to download a new app. The new version arrives as an update to the one they already have, the same way any app update does, so you keep your install base.
Your current app stays live until the new one is approved and ready to launch. We time the switch so the new version is live before you cancel your app builder or agency.
Switching to MobiLoud takes 2 to 4 weeks from kickoff for most brands. That covers the build, your testing and sign-off, and the App Store and Google Play reviews, which usually take one to two weeks.
Switching to MobiLoud starts at $799 per month, with no revenue share. Our team designs, builds, publishes and maintains your app. See our pricing page for details.
Your new app keeps everything your store does, because it’s built on your store. Features that only lived in your old app, such as a custom native feature or an SDK, can be built into your app on Enterprise as separate projects, which we scope and price with you before any work starts.
You can switch to MobiLoud from any app builder, including Tapcart, Shopney, Appbrew, Plobal and Superfans, or from a custom app built by an agency or your own team. MobiLoud works with Shopify and Shopify Plus, and with any other ecommerce platform or custom stack your store runs on.
A MobiLoud app is a native iOS and Android app, built in Swift and Kotlin, that loads your live store and adds native navigation, push notifications, login and other native features on top. Jack & Jones moved its custom native apps to MobiLoud and saw no drop in the app experience, with a much simpler workflow behind the scenes.
Our team looks after your app once it’s live. When your store changes, your app follows, and when Apple or Google release new OS versions or change their requirements, we make the native updates and ship the releases as part of your subscription.
If you leave MobiLoud later, your listings and your users stay with you. Your apps are in your own developer accounts, so a future app ships as an update to the same listing, and on request we hand back an export of your app configurations and native build settings within 30 days.
We’ll build a live, interactive preview of your new app from your own store, so you can compare it with the app you have today.
