MobiLoud – WordPress Mobile Apps – Convert your WordPress Website to Native Mobile Apps

MobiLoud lets you turn your WordPress site into quality apps for iOS and Android phones and tablets, published for you to the App Store and Google Play!

Please note that MobiLoud is a premium service, and this plugin is for MobiLoud customers. To learn more request a demo with one of our app experts

What is MobiLoud?

MobiLoud is for any WordPress-based business to turn its site into mobile apps.

You can build native apps for a blog or news site, or transform your site directly into iOS and Android apps using MobiLoud Canvas.

MobiLoud is not just a WordPress plugin – we’re a complete service. We help you build the apps on our platform. Then we handle testing the apps and submitting them to the App Store and Google Play. It doesn’t stop there, we provide ongoing maintenance and updates for the lifetime of the apps, saving you thousands of dollars a year in development costs.

How Does it Work?

We have two platforms – News, and Canvas.

• News for WordPress-based news sites, blogs, magazines, online newspapers, digital publishers and larger media organizations. News lets you build fully featured content apps like those from top publishers like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. If you’re a publisher, run a news site or blog built on WordPress, nothing can compete with native mobile apps for boosting loyalty, engagement and revenue on mobile.
• Canvas for building hybrid iOS and Android apps from any WordPress site. Canvas lets you build apps with WordPress using your existing theme, all your plugins and site features: everything will work straight out of the box. Canvas is ideal for ecommerces, marketplaces, deals sites, directories, communities, and eLearning sites. It’s ideal for sites built with BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, Peepso, Learndash and many other platforms.

What Do They Have in Common?

Although News and Canvas work differently, they all have some key factors in common.

• Simple, fast — You’ll be ready to launch in just weeks, and won’t need to touch a line of code – if you don’t want to – while allowing plenty of customization and opportunities to get hands-on with the code for developers and agencies.
• Full service — Our team can handle all the technical tasks necessary to get your app live. You can rely on our experts to completely configure the app for you (read more about our Full Service Package).
• No risk guarantee — MobiLoud has no long term contracts, and we offer a 60-day guarantee with a full refund if you are not happy with the apps for any reason. We also offer an approval guarantee i.e. if your app is not approved by Apple and Google you can cancel the project and have your money back.
• Manage the apps through WordPress — You can send push notifications and manage the configuration of the apps from a simple dashboard that sits in your WordPress admin dashboard.
• Updates and Maintenance included — Ongoing maintenance of mobile apps costs businesses thousands per year. With MobiLoud it is all handled under our ongoing monthly or annual fees at a fraction of the cost. We’re there to assist you with any issues you might have with your app or changes you’d like to make. Stress free.
• Synced with your site — You won’t need to add anything to your workflow, or allocate your team’s time to managing the apps. They’ll sync completely with your WordPress site and update with any new content, product or changes.
• Integrate (almost) everything from your site — MobiLoud lets you leverage the whole ecosystem of WordPress plugins within your apps, and recreate the functionality and features you already built with no limiting templates.
• Full featured — All MobiLoud apps come with unlimited push notifications as well as useful features like native sharing, app analytics, advertising integration, message centers, push preferences, and much more.
• Native UX — News produces fully native mobile apps, with a native UX. Although Canvas is for building hybrid apps, the native tab bar and navigation added give the apps a native look and feel.

Which is Right for You?

Let’s take a look at the three platforms in a little more detail, so that you can see which is best for your business.

Canvas

Canvas is perfect for community sites, startups, social platforms, deals sites, eLearning businesses, and in general any mobile optimized site based on WordPress.

Canvas lets you build an app with all the plugins, themes, custom code you used to build your site.

All other WordPress app builders force you into their themes and templates, and don’t let you fully leverage the flexibility of the WordPress platform like Canvas does.

We’ve published hundreds of apps with Canvas, powered by sites running on LearnDash, BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, PeepSo, and a wide range of other plugins and themes.

Canvas gives you all the key advantages of native mobile apps like:

• A Better Mobile UX — Your users can just tap once on their home screen and instantly open your app. When inside, the native navigation and tab menu provide a fast and intuitive experience.
• More Loyalty and Engagement — Apps are great for driving loyalty and engagement. The icon on the home screen and push notifications are a constant reminder of your app – helping you to boost return visits, dwell time, and LTV.
• Push Notifications — MobiLoud integrates with OneSignal, allowing you to send unlimited push notifications to iOS and Android devices right from your WordPress back-end.
• An App Store Presence — A brand presence on the App Store and Google Play shows that you are serious about mobile user experience, and makes you look good in the eyes of potential users, partners and investors.

Canvas features

Canvas is packed with all the features you need to turn your site into great mobile apps. Let’s take a look at some of the key ones.

• Native Tab Menu — The native tab menu is a key piece of your app. It makes the most important parts instantly accessible and gives a native experience to your users.
• Native Navigation — iOS and Android users will be able to easily navigate through your app with a familiar native interface.
• Message Center — Every push notification that your users receive will be accessed in the app’s message center so that they can explore them later.
• Push Preferences — Your users can choose which kind of messages they want to receive. This improves their experience and makes your messages more impactful.
• Customizable Splash Screen — Your users will see a branded splash screen while your apps load and get visual feedback with a loading indicator.
• Configuration Dashboard — You can control everything about your app from a simple web interface.
• Fully Customizable — Make the apps yours with a custom color scheme, logo and splash screen. Control every aspect of your app from our advanced JSON configuration if you know your way around code.
• Automatic Rating Prompts — Gently nudge your users to review your app after they’ve used it for some time to help with your app marketing.
• Firebase Analytics — With unlimited reporting and audience segmentation, Firebase will give you everything you need to understand your app users.
• Handle External Links — Your app will be able to handle internal and external links, detecting the link tyle and either opening the device’s browser or keeping the user in-app
• Code Editor — Inject any custom CSS to change how your pages are displayed in the app.

In summary, Canvas is for you if you want apps that mirror your existing WordPress site’s features and functionality. Anything you can build for the web with WordPress, you can now have an app for too!

News

News is a custom app building service specifically designed for WordPress based digital publishers. Major publishing brands like Foreign Policy and Business Insider use News to provide a superior mobile user experience to their readers – and you can too!

Our native mobile apps are the perfect channel for boosting audience loyalty, engaging readers with push notifications and generating revenue through ads or subscriptions.

News is a premium software platform and a complete service to have news apps built and published for you. The apps will be just as good as those from major publishers and packed with all the features that a growing media organization needs.

How does News work?

We work with you and your team and build apps to your exact specification. We publish them to the App Stores, and handle all ongoing updates and maintenance for the lifetime of the apps.

Working with MobiLoud instead of hiring an agency or your own app development team means saving tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars and months of work. On top of the time and cost savings, you get to leverage a platform years in development, used by hundreds of publishers worldwide, with all the features publishers needs in a native mobile app. And the platform keeps getting better with time!

Need a custom app? Email us at [email protected].

How is News Different?

News is different from all the other app builder plugins on the market. Let’s look at how.

• News apps are true native apps — Native apps are fast, feature-rich, and give the best possible user experience for your readers. They are the best opportunity for you to create a unique and custom app.
• News isn’t just a tool, it’s a full service — Our team configure the apps to your specification, build them on our platform, help you to launch them on the App Store and Google Play, and handle all ongoing updates and maintenance
• MobiLoud is designed specifically for digital publishers –No other mobile app solution gives you this level of integration with WordPress, your content and third party plugins.
• News gives you everything you need to monetize — MobiLoud supports a number of mobile app specific advertising, analytics and membership solutions to give you all you need to monetize and grow your revenue through a new channel.

News Features

No matter what you use in your current monetization, engagement, and editorial stack – News can recreate that in mobile apps. Our platform powers apps from top publishers like Foreign Policy, Business Insider, Simple Flying – and many more.

News has been specifically designed to give you all the features you need to make your app successful, drive more engagement and traffic and generate additional revenue from advertising and/or subscriptions.

• Automatic content updates — Your mobile app updates without any work required. New content on your site is immediately visible in your app
• Full customization of your mobile app’s style — It’s your mobile app, so it’s all about your brand. Add colors, your logo, customize the app menu and more
• A mobile app that works on all major platforms — Guaranteed to work on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets.
• No-hassle publishing — MobiLoud gets your app published for you, on your own accounts, saving you tens of hours of work.
• Effortless push notifications — Send push notifications to your app users for new content automatically with new content, or manually, as often as you want.
• Mobile advertising and monetization — Make more money from your mobile traffic. Use banner ads, interstitials and native ads designed specifically for mobile apps.
• Sell subscriptions or require a login — You can use in-app purchase to sell subscriptions and memberships within your app, or require a login for users to get access to premium content with an existing account.
• Sell subscriptions to remove ads — Generate more revenue and improve your user’s experience by making it easy to remove advertising in your app with in-app purchase subscriptions.
• One-tap commenting — Make commenting on mobile easy. Your mobile app will store your user’s details so they can comment on content in just one tap.
• Easy social sharing — Encourage sharing from mobile devices. With just a single tap, your app allows users to share on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, email, or SMS.
• Full Support for Google Analytics — Keep track of traffic. Use Google Analytics for mobile apps to track how many people use your app, how they use it, and what content works best. Integrate it with your website analytics if you want to.
• Unmatched WordPress support — Your mobile app supports all the commonly used WordPress elements including custom post types, custom fields, tags, categories, posts, pages and more.
• Out of the box support for most WordPress plugins — MobiLoud is the only mobile app solution providing simple access to functionality offered by most third party plugins (some customization might be required for the most complex ones)
• Advanced HTML/CSS/PHP editor — Your app is fully native, but you still get to change the presentation of your content in your mobile app, just like on your WordPress site. Use the code editor to customize all screens, add custom fields, fonts and styling – and much more.

If you’re a serious publisher and want an App Store presence that rivals internationally acclaimed media brands – then News is for you.

News is a complete app development service

App development agencies charge you a fortune, DIY builders are cheaper but leave you alone to struggle.

We give you the best of both worlds – a high level of service at an affordable price tag.

Our service includes the initial app customization, configuration, build and submission and once your app is live, ongoing updates and premium support.

You or your team won’t need to do any of the work to get your mobile app published or to maintain it. We take care of all the development and maintenance work for you.

Our Process

Whether you go with News or Canvas – the process is the same.

It starts with a demo call with one of our team members. We go over the platform in depth, share example apps with you – and outline a plan for bringing your apps live.

You’ll use our dashboard to customize the apps with your colors and branding, font styling, menus and more navigation options.

Next our team will get to work building the apps for iOS and Android. You’ll be able to test the apps within two to three weeks to make sure you’re happy with the look and performance.

After a round of thorough testing, we’ll handle submitting and publishing the apps to Google Play and the App Store.

Finally, our team takes care of all ongoing updates and maintenance of the apps month after month.

How is MobiLoud Different?

There are other WordPress app builders out there, but none match the level of service or the quality of the end result that MobiLoud provides.

Flexibility

News and Canvas allow you to integrate the power and flexibility of the web into your mobile apps. Anything you can build on WordPress you can have in your apps too.

The flexibility doesn’t stop with integrating themes, plugins, and widgets.

We also give you access to a code editor that allows you to customize and style parts of the app how you see fit and create a truly custom app (or we can do it for you!).

Customized

We don’t just sell you software – we partner with you to ensure the success of your apps. This starts from the initial planning session, and extends to rigorously testing your apps and preparing them for launch on the App Store and Google Play.

We’re obsessed with the small but important details.

We customize everything from the push notification icons that will pop up on users’ screens, to the native splash screens and App Store icons – personally taking care of all the details that usually get skipped over or templated.

A Service, Not Just a Tool

We take a very proactive approach to customer service.

You’ll know our team members by name, and will always be able to count on fast, helpful support. We’re real people that you can chat with directly via email – but also on the phone or Zoom whenever necessary.

We solve any issues that crop up directly, you’ll never be left to fix something yourself or on hold with some unhelpful chatbot.

No Risk

We have no long-term contracts, and you can cancel within 60 days and receive a full refund.

If you don’t like the apps or decide that you don’t want to go through with the project within that period – you get your money back.

Since we oversee both the app build and publishing process we can guarantee that your apps will be approved on the stores.

We’ve been through the process 1200+ times, so we know what we’re doing!

What some of our customers say about MobiLoud

“If you’re set up on WordPress and you’re serious about WordPress – MobiLoud really gets WordPress. They can really be there for you in whatever capacity you need them to be for your team”
Adam Griffiths, Product Manager, Foreign Policy

“I’ve seen return visit rates go up since launching the apps – people will get notifications on their phone and end up going on the site or vice versa. The daily active users are growing nicely and the uninstall rates are really low. Once I’ve got someone on the app they’ll stay on the app and keep consuming our content – which is what we want”
Arran Rice, CEO and Founder, Simple Flying

“Pietro and his team have found the best solution for a WordPress to mobile app solution. Their plugin is very robust and I was very pleased with the pre-build options that I had control over. I can’t recommend Mobiloud enough.”
Jason Rollison, Pirates Breakdown

“I highly recommend MobiLoud! We had a few additional requirements for our mobile apps that needed the team’s help. They responded quickly and worked directly with our dev team in order to make all the changes we needed.”
Roy Pessis, CTO & Founder, Allmyfaves

“Exceptional service for a great price. Very responsive customer service and truly a one-of-a-kind product.”
Chris Burhans, Founder, Sports Mockery

“I had previously worked with four different mobile app developers and none of them were able to get the job done for me the way I wanted it. It took just two days for MobiLoud to get my WordPress website into an iPhone and Android mobile app.”
Nick Coffey, The Cardinal Connect

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