appful® is a SaaS company focused on enterprise software. Our mission is to help companies, publishers & magazines to reach their customers, employees & users with their content – through one of the most powerful content channel: mobile apps. Why is appful different? Forget monotonous mobile App Builder with one or two cheap-looking templates and a range of unnecessary functions, because they will never have a chance against native mobile apps from professional app agencies. However, agencies are slow, offer a weak background system in most cases, and are extremely expensive. So we thought, there needs to be another, better way – so here we are: appful represents the golden mean between mobile App Builders and agencies. We offer a selection of different Top-Notch mobile App Designs for a fair price. In the case that you would like to have a completely custom design, we are happy to do that for you. You are still not convinced yet? Try it yourself for free as long as you like. Only as soon as you like to publish your mobile app to the App Store, we charge affordable fees. For any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We would love to help make your dreams a reality! Core Features of our native mobile Apps Read Later Comments Native Social Media Sharing...
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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.4.8 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.8.3 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days
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The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.
About appful Mobile App Plugin – Create a iOS & Android mobile App with our WordPress App Builder
Description
appful® is a SaaS company focused on enterprise software. Our mission is to help companies, publishers & magazines to reach their customers, employees & users with their content – through one of the most powerful content channel: mobile apps. Why is appful different? Forget monotonous mobile App Builder with one or two cheap-looking templates and a range of unnecessary functions,....
appful® is a SaaS company focused on enterprise software. Our mission is to help companies, publishers & magazines to reach their customers, employees & users with their content – through one of the most powerful content channel: mobile apps.
Why is appful different?
Forget monotonous mobile App Builder with one or two cheap-looking templates and a range of unnecessary functions, because they will never have a chance against native mobile apps from professional app agencies. However, agencies are slow, offer a weak background system in most cases, and are extremely expensive.
So we thought, there needs to be another, better way – so here we are: appful represents the golden mean between mobile App Builders and agencies. We offer a selection of different Top-Notch mobile App Designs for a fair price. In the case that you would like to have a completely custom design, we are happy to do that for you. You are still not convinced yet? Try it yourself for free as long as you like. Only as soon as you like to publish your mobile app to the App Store, we charge affordable fees.
For any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch. We would love to help make your dreams a reality!
Core Features of our native mobile Apps
Read Later
Comments
Native Social Media Sharing
Offline Reading
YouTube Support
Logo Placement
Own Advertisement
Benefits of a mobile App
More traffic – Users who love your mobile app, will use it regularly
Provide great user experience on mobile devices – A mobile app feels better than a HTML mobile site
Stronger connection to your community – User will NOT only click at one article and leave again
Earn more money – AdBlockers can’t block the ads inside of your mobile app (Especially on iOS)
Android app – We offer both an mobile Android app and an mobile iOS App for your blog
What our customers say about us
“My company was looking for a quick solution for launching a native mobile app for our WordPress site. We chose Appful because they offered the most beautiful app themes I found across the web. […] The team has been extremely helpful and responsive in walking us through the process to get our app into the app store. […] They truly go above and beyond to help you create a great app.”
Jordan Lejuwaan – futurism.com
“We searched for a possibility to create an own mobile app for a long time. With appful this desire was more than satisfied! Top Service, super easy and above all a great mobile app!”
Niclas Schmidt – iOSPilot.de
“The solution of appful.io is easy to use, has a modern and attractive design and offers all the features you might need. In addition, appful.io has the best value for money, not only for bloggers and YouTuber!”
Renato Mitra – ApfelBlog.ch
What problem do we solve?
As soon as publisher decide on setting up an mobile app they face the choice between monotonous low-quality “mobile app builders” lacking the opportunity to create custom designs, because they will never have a chance against mobile apps from professional mobile app agencies. However, agencies and freelancer are slow, changes can be implemented only by the developer and are tremendously expensive. We are a solution to this problem.
What is your solution?
We combine all advantages of mobile app builders, freelancers and agencies and additionally clear up all disadvantages. Sounds great, but let us explain how we achieve this: We offer a sophisticated system allowing publishers to create their very own top-notch native mobile app for their WordPress blog or YouTube channel for ios and android. In addition to that we only charge a small monthly fee and take over the hosting and general technical care. Furthermore, if requested, we develop a completely distinct and exclusive own custom mobile app design hand in hand with our customers – the same applies to specific desired functions. appful represents the golden mean between mobile app builders and agencies.
All Features
PUSH – Unlimited Push Notification
LIVE EDITING – Edit your mobile app live, when and where you like
CACHING – Caching provides fantastic speed
ADS – Place your own Advertisement inside your mobile app
NATIVE COMMENTS – Top-notch mobile app comment system
READ LATER – Save posts for later
SOCIAL SHARING – Native Social Sharing Button
TWITTER – Integrate Twitter profile page into your mobile app
YOUTUBE – Automatic YouTube Video Import
OFFLINE READING – Even offline, posts stay available in the mobile app
IPAD – All our native mobile apps are iPad optimized
APPLE WATCH – All our native mobile apps run on the Apple Watch
GOOGLE ANALYTICS – Use Google Analytics to analyze your mobile app traffic
SEARCH – Super fast search
High performance content caching Our sophisticated, redundant high-performance network acquires a real-time cache of your whole blog content in order to provide the best user-experience possible for your mobile app. Multiple servers balance the load and traffic generated by users through our system and make sure that your WordPress blog will not experience any traffic peaks because of your content app. Therefore, your WordPress blog app will seamlessly integrate into your existing eco-system and lift the heavy load from your blog installation so you can focus on what is really important: Making an impact with content publishing. Adding to that, your readers or customers can enjoy the full power and speed of your native content app.
Native comments in your mobile app An elaborated native commenting system empowers you to integrate the best social interaction experience possible, right inside your mobile app on the user’s phone. Multiple solutions such as a native Disqus app integration or a native WordPress comment app integration make sure that users can interact and discuss with your whole community.
How the magic works
1. Install and activate the appful plugin
The plugin enables us to import your blog content into your mobile app. Moreover, the mobile blog plugin of us makes it possible that changes to your content sync live with your mobile app.
2. Sign up at appful.io and create your mobile app
From your dashboard you can create your first mobile app for ios and android, choose a beautiful design and upload your logo to customise your mobile app. You’ll be able to add an icon and launch image later on in the process.
3. Preview & Test your mobile app
As soon as you are finished with your mobile app, you can download our appful-App from the App Store or Play Store in order to test your mobile app on your own mobile devices (iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets).
4. Choose one of our plans and go live!
Finally, you click Test & Publish at the top of our Dashboard. Follow the final mobile app setup, choose one of our plans and place the order. In a matter of days we’ll submit your mobile app to App Store and Google Play Store.
Custom mobile App Design
A huge advantage of our mobile app solution is the option of a Custom-Design. In case, you wish to go live with a fully unique mobile app design, contact us, we can make this possible. We even can realize custom function for your mobile app.
Enterprise mobile app
Since we have got great feedback of enterprise customers, we offer your company special enterpise plans in order to get your mobile app to the next level. Simply contact us!
Ads in the mobile app
With a mobile app you have the full control about the displayed ads in your native mobile app. A Mobile app in our “Starter” plan is completely ad-free. With our plus and Business plan you can start earning money with your mobile app.
Thanks for your aweseome feedback. We have got surprising much and helpful suggestions regarding our mobile app system, our appful Dashboard and our mobile app. Keep on sending us your thoughts!
Mobile app for iOS and Android
In addition, we provide you with an own appful test-app. The mobile app for iOS and Android allows you to preview your just created mobile app on your own device. So use this opportunity to test your mobile app. You can adjust every detail and preview it right on your phone. This way, before you submit your mobile app into the store, you can make sure that everything works exactly like you want it to – no surpises. In addition to that, we provide exact statisticts on the use of your mobile app to create highest transperancy. Our aim is to make both our customers and their readers happy. Your mobile app will build brand cognizance. A mobile app for your business can greatly contribute to your brand vigilance.
Why we started
Mobile apps became one of the driving forces of modern civilization. Studies recently discovered that we spend more than 80% of our time on our mobile devices in mobile apps. As a result, bloggers are required to follow this trend and create a mobile app – otherwise they are not able to reach their audience. The most important feature of a mobile app is push notifications. Through them, bloggers can directly reach their audience. A mobile app has many advantages, however it is usually very expensive in development. Our aim was to create a real alternative and set a new standard in the process of creating a mobile app and we think that we succeeded. All of this thanks to a mobile app built in a couple of seconds utilizing our astonishing mobile app plugin for WordPress.
Who we are
Two years ago, one member ran a blog and was desperatly looking for somebody that would develop him an mobile app for his blog. For the same reasons metioned above, he insisted on trying an mobile app in the form of an ios and android app because he was sure that a mobile app makes a huge difference in comparison to browsers. At first he did not find anybody who was able to develop his mobile app as an android app until he found the developer of our current team. We developed the mobile app together and it had tremendous success. We were so proud of our work and discovered a whole new world and everything that was possible in it – the world of mobile apps. What started as a little idea soon became a passion. We planned to build a company that provides the tools for bloggers to do the same. appful has been in development for 2 years and we are now very close friends. The love to mobile apps for ios and android and our passion is what keeps the company running. The times where you have to go to an agency and pay thousands of dollars to get a middle-class looking mobile app for ios and android are over. We provide you with a very affordable, stunning app for android and ios that can easily keep up with competitiors – more over your chances are good to get a very successful mobile app. We only take little fees to keep your app updated and running. Our mobile app company is now based in Germany and has a great success. We are very proud of what we already accomplished and looking forward to seeing what is going to follow. Be part of our story an try us free and get your own mobile app for your blog!
Differences between mobile apps and mobile sites
In every area of our lives we recognize the trend to mobiles devices and smartphones. Mobile Devices (Android Apps and iOS Apps) are everywhere and they are talking over task by task. We use a mobile app for communication, a mobile app for entertainment, a mobile app for booking, a mobile app for eating, a mobile app photos, a mobile app for meeting new people and especially a mobile app for getting informations and news on both android and ios. A mobile app accommodate many functions: they can provide general info, contact prices, reserve forms, search engines, utilizer accounts, heralds, news victuals, events, special deals and even more. Thanks to push notifications you can get even more proximate and directly interact from your mobile app to your client. Make it facile for your readers or customers to contact you – your mobile app plugin will avail you build better customer cognations. Having a mobile app for is still quite recherche, this can give you a leap in advance against your competition. mobile App vs. mobile Web App vs. mobile site
In every area of our lives we recognize the trend to mobiles devices and smartphones. Mobile Devices (Android Apps and iOS Apps) are everywhere and they are talking over task by task. We use a mobile app for communication, a mobile app for entertainment, a mobile app for booking, a mobile app for eating, a mobile app photos, a mobile app for meeting new people and especially a mobile app for getting informations and news on both android and ios.
Did you know that we spend more than 80% in native mobile apps when we use our android and ios devices? As a result, less than 20% of our smartphone use time is spend in browsers where people read your blog, and the trend is growing towards a mobile app.
If you are a publisher with a large audience and do not have a mobile app yet, your readers have no possibility to be up-to-date with your news. Only through a native mobile app you can unfilteredly reach your target group through push notifications. In addition to that, a native mobile app creates a whole different feeling when using it. It can use the core advantages of native software and access powerful frameworks and offer tremendous features.
Since you are on our page, chances are that you have already tried out different mobile app builder solutions. You may have also noticed that a vast majority of mobile app builders are complex to use, look unprofessional and unclean and are very limited in both function and design. Furthermore, they are very expensive and often require a developer account that also costs more than 100$/year. On top of that, they limit push notifications for your mobile app.
We are bloggers ourselves and also discovered these issues when trying to create a mobile app. You can either use an overpriced mobile app builder or offer a professional agency that takes very long and is very expensive as well.
So we thought there has to be a better way and we invented appful – the golden mean between mobile app builders and agencies for an android app and an ios app. We offer a strong background system, take care of the whole process of publishing, managing and updating your mobile app for ios and android and offer affordable prices. Furthermore we enable you to better monetize your mobile app for android and ios and earn more money. We do not limit push notifications. Once set up, you never have to worry about your mobile app again. Push notifications are sent completly automatically – no action required. In our strong analytics system you can watch your mobile app growing.
The best thing is that we want you to be happy with your app so we decided not to charge any money until you are 100% satisfied and decide to release your mobile app for ios to the app store and your android app to the play store. You can try and experiment with every function and design your mobile app as long as you like for free and test your android app and ios app on your devices.
Once you are content with your mobile app you can hand it over to us and we will take care of the remaining process. We will hand your iOS App over to Apple and your Android App to Google and offer strong servers that process the content of your mobile app. Your site does not have to struggle with an extra amount of traffic.
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Performance
Memory Usage
Average memory usage is 71.51 KB
This is less than 99% plugins
Page Speed
Average page loading time is increased by 0.06 s
This is faster than 99% plugins
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Pros & Cons: This is a review from the Editorial staff of WP Hive for test purposes. We are sure the plugin made it with good heart for WordPress users and we want to encourage his/her efforts by the first review.
Overall:The plugin should be working great. Even if it does not, we respect the time and effort. If you are using this plugin - leave a review with more information.