Three-quarters of your visitors are on a phone and buy less there than they would in an app.
An agency quotes five figures and five months. Agora builds a genuine iPhone and Android app from the products you already have.
Against the alternative
What an app usually costs.
| Agency build | Agora | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | $80,000–180,000 | Included |
| Time | 5–8 months | App review is the only real wait |
| Changes | Scoped, quoted, waited for | You make them yourself |
| Both platforms | Usually priced separately | Included |
| Updates | Billed | Included |
Agency figures are a range from quotes merchants have shown us, not a published price list. Treat them as indicative.
How it gets built
An afternoon, not five months.
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It starts from what is already there
Your products, prices, categories, stock and customer accounts — and they stay in sync afterwards, rather than being copied once.
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You arrange it yourself
Ready-made screens for home, categories, product, search, basket, checkout, account, tracking, wish lists and loyalty.
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It looks like you
Logo, colours, type and photography applied across the whole app at once, not screen by screen.
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You try it before anyone else does
The real app runs in your browser first. What you approve is what gets submitted.
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We handle the stores
Building, signing and submitting to Apple and Google, including the certificates. Updates the same way.
Whose app is it
Published under your name, not ours.
Your own Apple and Google developer accounts, your listing, your reviews, your relationship with the customer.
- Your accounts — we submit on your behalf; the app belongs to you
- Your listing — your name in the store, not a white-label wrapper
- Your data — the same customer record as the website and the till
- Platforms
- iPhone and Android, both included
- Powered by
- Zust — also sold standalone for Shopify and WooCommerce
- If you switch platform later
- The app carries on. You do not rebuild it
"Not a website in a wrapper. Push notifications, a real basket, an account that travels, and it opens when the phone is offline." What "real app" means here
A wrapped website cannot send a push, cannot be opened from the home screen with state intact, and gets rejected by Apple more often than anyone admits.
Next step
See it with your own products in it.
We'll load a sample of your real catalogue so you're looking at your business rather than a demo shop — and tell you honestly what moving would involve.
- What we'll want
- A sample of your catalogue, and whatever you sell on today
- What you'll see
- Your own products, in your own language, on your own domain
- What we'll tell you
- Honestly, whether this is worth moving for — and if it isn't yet, why