Plobal is a low-cost way to build a Shopify app yourself. MobiLoud’s team builds, launches and maintains a custom native app on your existing store, so you get a flagship app without taking on a second storefront.
Plobal Apps vs MobiLoud, at a glance
| Question |  Plobal |  MobiLoud
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|---|---|---|
| What it is | A low-cost, no-code app builder for Shopify | A managed service helping ecommerce brands launch custom native apps |
| How the app is built | Screens designed in Plobal’s drag-and-drop editor, with data synced from Shopify | Your existing site, extended to a custom native app designed by our team |
| Platforms | Shopify only | Shopify, Shopify Plus, Magento, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and any other platform |
| Integrations | 41 integrations, such as Klaviyo, Yotpo, Recharge and Judge.me, with 2 to unlimited depending on the plan | Truly unlimited - every app and feature on your store works with the app |
| Where it’s managed | In Plobal’s editor | In Shopify (or any other web backend) |
| Custom features | Your own code, added through Plobal’s Code Blocks | Custom native features (e.g. Face ID, barcode scanning) scoped on request, built by our team |
| Push notifications | Unlimited on every plan, with segments from Essential | Built in, running through OneSignal or Klaviyo |
| Who does the work | You build and maintain the app in Plobal’s editor | MobiLoud’s team builds and maintains your app. You manage the content through your existing site |
| Time to launch | Days | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Share of app sales | 3% on the free Starter plan, 1% on Enterprise | None |
| Starting price | Free, plus 3% of in-app sales; paid plans from $199 a month | $799 a month |
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MobiLoud’s team designs, builds and maintains a custom native app for your store, so your team can stay focused on selling.
Our team designs and builds a custom native app on your existing Shopify store, with native navigation, app-only screens and your brand throughout.
It holds its own next to the apps of much bigger brands, and nobody on your team has to build it.
Your checkout, reviews, loyalty program, subscriptions and the custom features your developers have built are all in the app from the first day. Nothing needs rebuilding before you go live.
There’s no app editor to learn and no second set of pages to keep in step. Products, prices, promotions and content all come from your store, so your app is current the moment your site is.
Send campaigns, cart reminders and back-in-stock alerts by push, through OneSignal or Klaviyo, and offer products or discounts that only app customers see. Customers stay signed in, so buying again takes a few taps.
If your app needs something custom, such as barcode scanning, we scope it and build it.
MobiLoud’s team takes care of the design, the build, publishing to both stores and every update after that. We also help you plan your launch and grow your installs, so the app earns its place as a sales channel.
For a brand with loyal customers, an app turns repeat visits into repeat sales, without paying for every click.
Pharmazone
Online pharmacy Shopify
63% of Online Revenue
PetShop.co.uk
Pet supplies
10% of Total Revenue
MobiLoud makes it simple to go live with your own branded mobile app. We handle the difficult parts, and you just sign off at each step.
We build a live, interactive preview from your website, so you can see your app before you decide.
Our team builds your app on your store and designs it around your brand. You review it and sign it off before it goes to the stores.
We submit your app to the App Store and Google Play and handle both reviews. If you already have an app, the new one goes out as an update to your listing, so your ratings, reviews and users stay.
Your app goes live with a launch plan to win installs, and we keep it updated and help you grow it from there.
“The ability to have all the features in the app was what was different… MobiLoud was the only one that translated the full site with all the features that we found.”
Scott Campbell CIO / CTO at reLink Medical “Turning our website into an app was perfect for us because it meant managing just one store, but being able to say we have an app and connect with customers who wanted an app experience.”
Mitch Free Developer at Impact Wholesale Have any more questions we didn’t answer? Book a call or send us a message to clear it all up.
Book a callPlobal Apps works with Shopify stores only. If your store runs on Magento, BigCommerce, WooCommerce or another platform, Plobal isn’t an option. MobiLoud works with all of them, Shopify included.
Plobal takes a share of your app sales on two plans: the free Starter plan takes 3% of in-app sales, and Enterprise takes 1% on top of its monthly price. MobiLoud doesn’t take a share of your app sales.
The number of integrations you can use with Plobal depends on the plan: 2 on Starter, 4 on Growth, 7 on Essential and unlimited on Enterprise, from a list of 41. With MobiLoud, there’s no list: every app on your store works in the app.
Plobal is cheaper on the monthly price. It starts free with a share of sales, and its paid plans run from $199 to $1,199 a month. MobiLoud starts at $799 a month with no share of your sales, which covers the design, the build, the launch and a team that keeps your app updated.
Plobal is faster to launch, at under a week in its case studies. MobiLoud apps usually go live in 2 to 4 weeks, including the store reviews, because our team designs, builds and tests the app for you.
A MobiLoud app is a native iOS and Android app, built in Swift and Kotlin. It runs on a mix of your existing web code and custom elements built for the app, such as native navigation, push notifications and login, and customers get an app that looks and feels like any other on their phone.
You can move your Plobal app to MobiLoud without losing your users, as long as the app is in your own Apple and Google developer accounts. We publish the new app as an update to that listing, so your users get a normal update and your ratings and reviews stay, and we time the switch so the new app is live before your Plobal plan ends.
You don’t build or maintain the app yourself with MobiLoud. We design and build it, publish it to both stores and update it for every new iOS and Android release, while your team keeps working on your store.
Get in touch and we’ll put together a free preview of your mobile app, so you can see what’s possible with MobiLoud.
