You picked Fabric because it gave you modular, API-first commerce infrastructure: a PIM that handles your catalog complexity, an OMS that orchestrates fulfillment across channels, and a storefront layer you could build exactly the way you wanted.
That investment is real. Six or seven figures of architecture decisions, integrations, and frontend development sitting behind a modern headless stack.
Now you want a native mobile app. And you're probably bracing for another massive project: another codebase, another team, another 6-12 months before anything ships.
Or maybe you already have an app that's not keeping up. It was built separately from your web storefront, and now it's lagging behind on features, falling out of sync, and costing more to maintain than it delivers in revenue.
There's a faster path. You can go from your existing Fabric storefront to a live app on iOS and Android in weeks, without rebuilding anything.
Can You Build a Mobile App with Fabric?
Not with Fabric itself. Fabric is a headless commerce engine. It powers your catalog, orders, inventory, pricing, and promotions through APIs. It was designed to be the back-end infrastructure for modern commerce, not to produce consumer-facing mobile apps.
That's the whole point of composable architecture. You pick the right tool for each layer. But it means there's no "generate app" button in your Fabric dashboard.
What Fabric does offer for mobile
If you're using Fabric XM (their experience management and storefront product), you can build a responsive, mobile-optimized web storefront using React components.
This storefront works well on mobile browsers and could technically function as a Progressive Web App.
But a PWA isn't a native app. The "add to home screen" process is unintuitive, and very few customers actually do it. You don't get App Store or Google Play presence. Push notification support is limited, especially on iOS.
And for enterprise brands, your customers expect to find you in the App Store, not through something that feels like a workaround.
Fabric's APIs: building blocks, not shortcuts
Fabric provides a comprehensive set of commerce APIs: PIM, OMS, Offers, Marketplace, and more. These are excellent for building custom experiences, and they're technically everything you'd need to power a native mobile app.
But "powering" an app and "building" one are very different things. Using Fabric's APIs to create a native mobile app means building a complete iOS and Android frontend from scratch: product browsing, search, cart, checkout, account management, order tracking.
Every screen, every interaction, every edge case, developed and tested from the ground up.
No app builder ecosystem exists
Unlike platforms with large plugin marketplaces, Fabric doesn't have third-party app builders offering drag-and-drop mobile app creation.
The platform is designed for enterprise brands that build custom frontends. That's a strength for web development, but it means there's no shortcut to a native app within the Fabric ecosystem.
Your Options for Launching a Mobile App
For brands running on Fabric, the realistic paths come down to two.
Custom Native or Cross-Platform Development
You can build a native iOS and Android app (or use React Native or Flutter) that connects to Fabric's commerce APIs.
This is the traditional enterprise route. You engage a mobile development agency or system integrator, go through discovery, design, frontend development, API integration, QA, and deployment. Your team spends months wiring up Fabric's PIM, OMS, and Offers APIs to a completely new frontend built in Swift, Kotlin, or a cross-platform framework.
The problem is you're rebuilding your entire shopping experience from scratch, in a different technology.
All the work that went into your web storefront, your React components, your checkout flow, your content management through XM, your search experience, none of it transfers. You're starting over.
The cost and time investment is significant, but more damaging is the operational drag: you're maintaining two completely separate frontends, doubling your workload for new features, promotions, UX changes.
The most likely situation is your app slowly falls behind, and eventually stops being maintained, just because it’s too much work to keep it in sync.
Website-to-App with MobiLoud
There's a simpler approach: take the Fabric storefront you've already built and extend it into a native mobile app, with MobiLoud.
MobiLoud takes your existing web storefront and delivers it as a native iOS and Android app. Your storefront is the app. Everything you've invested in, your React frontend, your Fabric integrations, your checkout flow, your content, carries over automatically.
MobiLoud adds native capabilities on top: push notifications, native navigation, deep linking, app icon, splash screen, and full App Store and Google Play presence.
The cost is a fraction of custom development. The timeline is weeks, not months. And because the app renders your live storefront, every update you make on the web is instantly reflected in the app. No duplicate work. No channels drifting apart.
Why MobiLoud is the Best Way for Fabric Brands to Launch an App
MobiLoud converts your existing Fabric-powered storefront into native iOS and Android apps.
It's dramatically more efficient than building a custom native app, yet the end result is the same: a fast, polished native app your customers can download from the App Store and Google Play.
Here's why this approach fits Fabric brands specifically:
Your modular stack stays intact
You chose Fabric because you wanted best-in-class, composable infrastructure. Your PIM handles your catalog. Your OMS orchestrates fulfillment. Your Offers engine manages pricing and promotions. Maybe you've integrated Algolia or Bloomreach for search, a headless CMS for content, Stripe or Adyen for payments.
All of that is wired into your web storefront. With a custom native app, every one of those connections has to be rebuilt or adapted for mobile. Some services may not have native SDKs. It's months of integration work just to get back to where your website already is.
With MobiLoud, your app renders your storefront. Every integration that works on the web works in the app. No new API connections. No compatibility headaches. No integration layer to build or maintain.
Your frontend investment does double duty
You've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars building a custom frontend on Fabric XM or your own React stack. That's not wasted money sitting on the bench while you rebuild everything in Swift or Kotlin. With MobiLoud, that frontend investment powers both your web and mobile experience.
Built for enterprise complexity
MobiLoud works with brands running multi-region, multi-language, multi-currency setups. Whether your Fabric storefront serves five countries or fifty, whether you need one app for all regions or separate apps for different markets, the existing localization, currency handling, and regional catalog logic all carry over. There's no per-region rebuild.
One storefront, always in sync
When your team updates the web storefront, the app reflects it automatically. New product collection launched? Already in the app. Updated your checkout flow? Already in the app. Seasonal homepage redesign? Already in the app.
You're not coordinating releases across web, iOS, and Android teams. You're not worrying about version parity or regression testing across codebases. Changes happen in one place and go live everywhere.
Native push notifications for real engagement
This is where MobiLoud fills the gap that a PWA or mobile website leaves wide open. Native push notifications reach your highest-value customers with far higher engagement rates than web push or email.
For abandoned cart recovery, flash sale alerts, back-in-stock notifications, and loyalty engagement, that reliability translates directly to revenue.
Your team stays focused on what matters
MobiLoud handles everything: the build, app store submission for Apple and Google, ongoing maintenance, OS update compatibility, and support. Your engineering team stays focused on your Fabric stack and your storefront. Your marketing team gets a new channel without adding operational burden.
How It Works
Getting from your Fabric storefront to a live native app is straightforward, and it doesn't require your engineering team to pick up a new project.
- See your app before you commit. We build a free, interactive preview so you can see exactly what your Fabric storefront looks like as a native app. No commitment, no cost.
- We build it. Once you're happy with the preview, we put together your iOS and Android apps. Push notifications, native navigation, deep linking, app icon, splash screen, and whatever else your setup needs.
- You test it. We run QA across devices and operating systems. You test on your own devices, share feedback, and request adjustments.
- We handle submission. MobiLoud manages Apple App Store and Google Play submission, including compliance, metadata, and screenshots.
- Launch, then hands-off. Your app goes live. From here, MobiLoud handles OS updates, app store policy changes, and ongoing maintenance. You keep doing what you're doing on your website.
Your Fabric infrastructure stays untouched. Your composable stack keeps running exactly as it does today.
Next Steps
You've invested heavily in a modern commerce stack with Fabric. You've built a storefront that handles your catalog, checkout, content, and fulfillment exactly the way your business needs.
Getting that same experience into a native mobile app shouldn't cost another half-million dollars and a year of development time.
MobiLoud lets you launch a native app built on everything you've already invested in, at a fraction of the cost, in a fraction of the time.
Want to see what it looks like? Book a strategy call to talk through whether it's the right fit.
We've built 2,000+ apps, including successful shopping apps for brands across every major commerce platform. Your Fabric store is ready. Let's make it happen.
