Mobile apps powered by PHP
Get native iOS and Android apps built on the PHP code you have, with nothing to rebuild. Custom PHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter and WordPress all work.
2,000+ apps published since 2013
Nothing to rebuild
The app runs on the pages your server already renders, so every feature works on iOS and Android, and your team keeps working in the code it knows. There's no API to build and no second app to maintain.
Twig, Smarty or plain PHP templates render in the app exactly as they do in the browser.
PHP sessions and your login cookies keep working, and users stay signed in between visits.
Forms post to the same scripts and controllers, with validation and redirects that behave as they do on the web.
The app talks to the same code and the same database, so there's nothing to duplicate on the server.
Every package and PHP extension your app depends on stays exactly where it is.
Shared hosting, a VPS, containers or a managed platform: wherever you serve PHP today works.
Payment forms, chat widgets and analytics tags keep working, and we set up the few that need native handling.
A ten-year-old app works as well as last year's, and you can keep upgrading on your own schedule.
For your developers
Your PHP code can tell when a page is opened in the mobile app, so you can change what app users see before the page is sent. Here, the layout leaves out the web footer for app users and links push notifications to whoever is signed in.
One check on $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] lets any template, controller or plugin change what app users see, before the page is sent.
Print the user's ID into a short script, and the app links their device in OneSignal, ready for transactional push from your PHP code.
Add pages only the app links to, like onboarding or member offers, with the routing you use now.
Dismiss the app's login screen once someone signs in, bring it back after logout, and add haptic feedback, from your own pages.
<?php
// The MobiLoud app adds "canvas" to its user agent
function is_mobiloud_app(): bool
{
$agent = strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '');
return strpos($agent, 'canvas') !== false;
}
?>
<?php if (!is_mobiloud_app()): ?>
<?php include 'partials/footer.php'; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if (is_mobiloud_app() && isset($_SESSION['user_id'])): ?>
<script>
// Tie push notifications to the signed-in user
const userId = <?= json_encode((string) $_SESSION['user_id']) ?>;
let tries = 0;
const wait = setInterval(() => {
tries += 1;
if (window.nativeFunctions || tries >= 50) {
clearInterval(wait);
window.nativeFunctions?.onesignalSetExternalUserId(userId);
}
}, 100);
</script>
<?php endif; ?>Case studies
Each of these companies put its site in the App Store and Google Play without hiring a mobile team. Their web developers kept working on the site, and every update reached the app too.
Kazderni
Travel booking app
>400,000 Downloads
8:32
Average Session Time
TradeZing
Trading education platform
4.7/5 App Store Rating
JF Petro
Fuel equipment supplier
"We literally had a dev team of about 30 people. We were able to cut the entire head count down to just a couple of core people working on our web tech stack."
"When we want to change something, we only have to change our mobile website and boom, it's live on the app."
MobiLoud vs the alternatives
A native app usually means building an API first, then paying for a Flutter or React Native app on top of it, or two fully native apps. MobiLoud turns the PHP site you have into the app, so none of that comes first.
MobiLoud
An API plus Flutter or React Native
Swift and Kotlin
The operating model
Your codebase, hosting and deploy process don't change. We build the native apps, keep them working through every iOS and Android update, and deal with Apple and Google.
Your team
Keeps working in PHP
Our team
Builds and maintains the apps
Getting live
You'll spend a kickoff call with us and sign off a test build. The rest of the native work is ours.
Week 1
We go through your site with your team: the pages for the tab bar, how login works and anything to hide or change in the app. Then you add us to your Apple and Google developer accounts.
Weeks 2 to 3
We build the apps on your production site, add the tab bar and push notifications, and map your URLs for deep links, query strings included. You'll have a test build on your phone in week two.
Week 4
Real-device testing covers login, forms and payments. We finish the splash screen, icons and back button, connect GA4 and Firebase, and hand over the build for sign-off.
Weeks 5 to 8
Apple and Google review both apps, usually within one to two weeks, and we handle the submissions from your accounts and any questions. Once live, your PHP deploys update the app.
We can deliver everything your legal, security and finance teams will ask for:
Have any more questions we didn't answer? Book a 30-minute call or send us a message to clear it all up.
Book a callNo. A separate native app needs an API to talk to, but MobiLoud builds on the pages your server renders, so your existing controllers and templates are enough. Pages that already call an API keep doing so.
All of them: Symfony, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Laminas, Yii and plain PHP, plus platforms like WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento and Drupal. If a page works in a mobile browser, it works in the app. Laravel teams can read our Laravel page.
NativePHP only works with Laravel. It puts a separate copy of your app on each phone, with its own local database, and since version 4 its screens are built from NativePHP's own native components. MobiLoud works with any PHP app and loads your live site, so there's nothing to sync or rebuild.
Yes. The app loads whatever your server sends, so a codebase on an older PHP version works as well as a new one, and you can upgrade whenever suits you.
Yes. It opens from the home screen like any app, with a native tab bar, push notifications, persistent login, deep links, a splash screen and haptic feedback. Your pages keep their design, and we adjust mobile details like the back button.
Through your own OneSignal account, or Klaviyo on the Enterprise plan. A short script links each device to the signed-in user's ID, and your PHP code can then send transactional push with one call to OneSignal's REST API. Campaigns can go out from the OneSignal dashboard.
Yes. We've guided more than 2,000 apps through app store review since 2013, and we manage yours. The native navigation, push notifications and persistent login we add are what Apple wants to see, and we answer every reviewer question.
The Business plan is $1,499 a month, or $1,274 a month billed annually, plus a one-time fee to build and publish the apps, with up to 10,000 monthly active users. Enterprise, with native SDK integrations, a dedicated success manager and an SLA, is custom-priced. Neither plan takes a share of your revenue.
Most teams are live in 6 to 8 weeks: four weeks to build, test and approve the apps, then one to two weeks of app store review. Your team can keep deploying the whole time.
You do. The listings are published under your own Apple and Google developer accounts, and every line of your PHP stays yours. MobiLoud holds the intellectual property in the platform that builds the native apps. If you move on, your listings and users go with you.
We'll put together a free, live preview of your site as a mobile app. Explore it, and share it with your team.
