Everything you need to know about building your app with Appspotr

Appspotr is a cheaper, faster and easier way of creating and maintaining native IOS and Android apps and PWAs.

Some would say Appspotr. We would say they're right. Make up your own mind here.

Anywhere between two hours and a lifetime. Only you can decide when you have the perfect app for your needs.

That would be by modifying one of our existing Templates.

There is no limit but your imagination to the types of apps you can build. For ideas and suggestions, see our Templates.

Appspotr lets you build mobile apps visually without coding. The platform’s biggest strengths are its flexibility and its richness in features.

Our mission is to make app building available to everyone. As such, Appspotr is built to be intuitive and easy to learn with information and guidance inside the platform from the second you start using it. That being said, it can still take a while to familiarize yourself with the menus and features.

You can access our platform documentation and training materials in our Academy. For support and other questions, visit the Help Center.

The idea behind Appspotr is to provide the tools you need to create your own app. However, not everyone can or wants to build themselves. That’s why we started Appspotr Studios. Just send them a request and they’ll get you the help you need.

There are no Appspotr ads in the published apps.

Patchwork is a drag-and-drop logic builder that lets you configure how your application behaves. You can connect views and logic blocks via "patches" to customize input, output, navigation, rules, logic and structure. For more information, see Patchwork.

Heck yes. All users with administrator privileges for your app can update content and send push notifications from their phone.

Yes. Login functionality can be created in the Patchwork tool by using predefined logic blocks.

A progressive web application (PWA) is a type of application software delivered through the web, which allows for a user experience similar to desktop and mobile native applications. Functionality includes working offline, push notifications (not all web browsers support push notifications), and device hardware access.

The default payment method is via credit card. We do not currently offer invoicing.

Is anything ever truly free in this world? Philosophical pondering aside, you do need your own developer account to publish apps to Apple App Store and Google Play and that comes with a fee.

You can build as many apps as you like and want to pay for. We offer app bundles and special volume discounts. For details, see Pricing.

We offer flexible plans to fit your specific needs, paid monthly or annually

Yes. Just click “Copy” on the app you want to clone in your app list. After the cloning is complete you can re-style and re-assemble your creation in Patchwork to build a new app based on the old one.

You will receive an email once the app is published on App Store or Google Play store. PWAs are published instantly.

Only major changes require you to republish your app. Changes to content, navigation, views, styling, or data are automatically applied to published apps. You do not need to submit a new build to the app store. If you add new features to your app, you will have to build and publish a new version for users to download.

Appsolutely.  Appspotr lets you create binaries that can be published to both Apple App Store or Google Play.

Currently, PWAs can only be published to an Appspotr subdomain.

Appspotr is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This is an extremely rare occurrence, but if it does happen your apps will still function properly. You may not be able to make changes or send push notifications during this time, however.

We gladly take on resellers. Fill in this contact form and we’ll get back to you.

Maybe. Contact us here and we’ll see what we can do.

You can download the IPA and APK files from the CMS.

For security reasons, Appspotr does not allow third-party SDKs to be included in the apps. But if you need a particular functionality in the platform we'd love it if you sent us a feature request.

Currently, Appspotr does not offer a public API with access to the CMS. Of course, apps built with Appspotr can be used to connect to any modern API.

Yes, it does. The app caches the data when connected to the internet. When using the app offline, the cached version will be displayed. You will not be able to send push notifications or update your app while offline.

There is currently no public SDK for Appspotr, but we are hoping to make it possible to build custom components for our platform in the future.

We grant you a license to use and modify the app however you see fit. You build, design, add content and publish your creation under your own license on the Apple App Store and Google Play. But as your app cannot operate without the Appspotr backend, which is our intellectual property, you cannot own or move the source code.

Currently, app source code cannot be exported from the platform.

Appspotr is fully compliant with the European accessibility act of 2021, but it’s your responsibility to make sure your app and its content is.

Appspotr is fully GDPR compliant.