You can have an app for your business today. No quote and no six-week project. A finished app, installed on your phone with your name on the icon and your colour on every screen, free, and changed afterwards by asking in plain English. The one catch: it starts as one of our templates, so the question is whether one of them does what your business does all day. For most local businesses, one does.
Which app is yours
- An app for your salon, barber shop, clinic or studio: Appointments. Customers book a slot, staff run the diary.
- An app for your restaurant or takeaway: Food Delivery. Customers order to an address and watch the order move; your kitchen moves it along.
- An app for your shop, bakery, farm shop or market stall: Shop. A catalogue, a bag, order history, card payments once you connect your own processor.
- An app for your gym or coaching business: Fitness Coach. Plans, guided sessions, progress and records for every client.
- An app for your coffee shop or deli: Loyalty Rewards. A stamp card customers carry and staff scan.
- A course you teach: Courses. Lessons, quizzes and notes, with your name on the front.
- Invoices for a trade or freelance business: Invoices. Quotes, invoices and who has paid.
- Events, a members’ club, a jobs list, a property portfolio: there is a template for each, and its page says exactly who it is for and what it does not do.
What it costs, in full
The template is free, every time, with no card to enter. The Basic plan is $5 a month and comes with 50 credits; a small change is a few of them, and templates never use any. Android installs by a link and a QR code, and the link always serves the newest version. iPhone needs an Apple developer account, which is $99 a year and has to be yours, because Apple only installs apps that way. Putting the app on Google Play is a one-off $25 to Google.
What you get that a website does not
An icon on your customers’ home screens, two taps from Instagram, with accounts, bookings and orders that live on their own backend. Sign-in, a database and file storage are switched on for you from the first minute. When the business grows past the managed one, the whole thing moves into a Supabase project you own.
What it does not do yet
Every template page lists what it does not do yet, and you should read that line before you claim one. Payments are the common one: most templates track money rather than move it, and the shop takes cards only once you connect your own card processor. Anything beyond that is a change you ask for in the chat, priced in credits, not a reason to wait.
The first hour
Pick the template, name it after your business, choose a colour, send the install link to your phone. Then ask for the three things you would have told a developer first. If you typed “an app for my business” into a search box because the quotes came back in the thousands, this is that, for the price of a coffee.