In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook proudly announced that over 130 million people joined the ranks of iOS users that year.
This figure is primarily made up of iPhone users, which accounts for nearly 25% of the population in the United States, according to the NPD Group. You can think of this as 25% of the people in your city or town, or a quarter of your potential customers. And without an Apple app, you're not reaching those customers.
- The Kindle app gives users the ability to read eBooks on a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. You may also read your book on your phone, tablet and Kindle e-Reader, and Amazon Whispersync will automatically sync your most recent page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights, so.
- Window managers. Window management on MacOS isn't particularly great. Sure, you can make.
- Amazon's App and Website is fantastic. But there app is wonderful. You can shop for anything at the top of your fingers. There app is easy to us and have great products and have a lot different items. It's so easy to use and the app is well organized. You are able to track and see where your packages at without any hassle.
But maybe you want to join the mobile revolution and create an app for your business, but you just don't know how. Well if that's the case, Como's got your back!
Creating an Apple app is essential to the success of your business
Search on the App Store and Mac App Store allows customers to find apps, games, stories, categories, in-app purchases, and developers. Searches use app and in-app purchase metadata from your product page to deliver the most relevant results. We're constantly evolving how search works to serve the best results to customers' queries. Native Mac apps built with Mac Catalyst can share code with your iPad apps, and you can add more features just for Mac. In macOS Big Sur, you can create even more powerful versions of your apps and take advantage of every pixel on the screen by running them at native Mac resolution. Apps built with Mac Catalyst can now be fully controlled using just the keyboard, access more iOS.
By creating an Apple app, you're not only tapping into a pool of millions of potential customers, you're also guaranteeing that your business won't get left in the dust. An app lets you compete not only with other small businesses, but with industry giants. Still, this is just one reason to make an iPhone app, while there are plenty of others:
Want to enable customers to easily make orders, reservations, locate your business, and read reviews?
Want to lure customers with holiday coupons, a loyalty card, and enticing push notifications that appear directly on their iPhones or iPads?
Want to increase sales by letting your mobile customers purchase your products instantly, at any time of the day, without having to step foot in your store?
Printers for macbook pro. If you do, then it sounds like it's time you considered creating an Apple app.
And if you create your app with Como, you'll reach customers on iPhone, iPad, and Android too because your app is compatible with both Apple & Android devices. Read about the benefits of having an Android-compatible app.
Wait, isn't building an app hard?
You probably think that building an app is hard. And the truth is, it was. Years ago, building an app on your own was pretty much impossible to do if you weren't a talented developer with brilliant design skills, but today you can do it on your own in a snap.
Como's do-it-yourself (DIY) platform lets you create your app in minutes using content from your existing Facebook page or website, or you can make it from scratch. So if you have a Facebook page or a website, type it in and start building your app.
To get started, watch our video tutorials on how to start creating your app.
Now that you've built it,
what's next?
Once you've created your app, the real fun begins. You can pick and choose designs, add and customize over 25 awesome features like coupons, a loyalty card, a mobile store, social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), menus, user reviews, and more.
And if you need any help, visit Como's Help Center. There, you'll find comprehensive articles, how-to videos, and tutorials on topics including:
- Designing your app
- Adding content and features to increase revenue
- Engaging customers
- Promoting your app once it's live on the App Store
After you've put the finishing touches on your gorgeous app, it's time to send it to the Apple App Store. And we're happy to help you with that too!
You've got questions?
We've got answers.
From the instant you click 'Create My App,' our customer success team is ready to walk you through every step of the process. In addition to the FAQs, articles, tutorials, and videos you'll find on site, there's an entire team ready to answer all your questions. Adobe premiere pro cs5.5.
You can also get in touch with Como through Facebook, Twitter, and our blog. Visit the blog to get great tips on how to use your app to boost sales, connect with customers, and keep customers coming back.
Still not sure you need an Apple app?
Mobile commerce is on the rise, making up more than $58 billion in 2014.
And remember that a huge chunk of that came from iPhone users—over 79 million people in the United States.
Obviously, having an Apple app won't mean that you'll be automatically in the pockets and minds of millions of users, but it does give you the opportunity to stay connected with and keep tabs on your customers and potential customers in your local community who have iPhones.
You can tell those customers about upcoming sales through push notifications, engage them through social media, or simply remind them that they can shop not only at your store in town, but they can shop directly through their phones at home or wherever they may be. Now that sounds like a pretty good reason to have an Apple app.
CREATE MY APPThe App Store and Mac App Store showcase your amazing apps and help customers find new favorites. They're also where our editors share stories about inspiring developers and their incredible work. Find out how customers can discover your apps, and learn how our editors select apps and developers to feature.
Categories
Categories on the App Store and Mac App Store sort apps based on their main function or subject matter. Customers can browse categories, such as Entertainment, Shopping, or Social Networking, to find related apps. You can assign a primary and a secondary category to your app. The primary category is particularly important for discoverability, as it helps users find your app when browsing or filtering search results, and it determines in which tab your app appears on the App Store.
To learn more, see Choosing a Category.
Today Tab
The Today tab on the App Store is a daily destination with original stories from our editors around the world, featuring exclusive premieres, new releases, a fresh look at our all-time favorites, an App of the Day, a Game of the Day, and more. It offers tips and how-to guides to help customers use apps in innovative ways, and showcases interviews with inspiring developers. Stories share Apple's unique perspective on apps and games and how they impact our lives, using artwork, videos, and developer quotes to bring your apps to life.
Games and Apps Tabs
The App Store is also the world's best game store, with dedicated experiences for games and apps that inform and engage customers through recommendations on new releases and updates, videos, top charts, and handpicked collections and categories. Both tabs also feature app preview videos that autoplay with muted audio as customers scroll through the tabs, and selected in-app purchases — which customers can start buying directly on the App Store.
Promoted In-App Purchases
Customers can browse in-app purchases directly on the App Store and start a purchase even before downloading your app, helping your app's content gain exposure. You can promote up to 20 in-app purchases, including subscriptions, on your app's product page. They can also appear in search results and may be featured by our editorial team.
For details, see Promoting Your In-App Purchases.
Discover
Discover is where customers find the best new releases and updates on the Mac App Store. Each week, our editors shine a light on incredible apps and games with in-depth stories, behind-the-scenes interviews, and curated collections to help customers do more of what they love with their Mac.
Create
Create is where customers find powerful apps that make creating on a Mac intuitive, efficient, and fun, with helpful tips and tours that even experts will find useful.
App Store
Work
Work is where we showcase new favorites that support focus and organization. With curated collections and how-tos from our editors, finding the right business, productivity, and utility apps is easy.
Play
Play is where we highlight great games and entertainment apps, with recommendations of new releases, all-time favorites, and handpicked collections.
Develop
Develop is where our editors curate the best developer tools and utilities to help bring your creativity and imagination to customers around the world.
Getting Featured
App Store editors write stories that showcase apps in interesting and informative ways. Our editors base their decisions on a variety of factors, all of which amount to a great product that customers will love. There is no paid placement or checklist of requirements for apps we write about or feature.
Stories.App Store editors talk about apps that have a unique story for example, a behind-the-scenes look at how a developer launched an app that disrupted an industry or how an app helped a customer solve a unique problem.
Apps and Games. When considering apps to feature, our editors look for high-quality apps across all categories, with a particular focus on new apps and apps with significant updates. Factors that our editors consider include:
- UI design: the usability, appeal, and overall quality of the app
- User experience: the efficiency and functionality of the app
- Innovation: apps that solve a unique problem for customers
- Localizations: high-quality and relevant
- Accessibility: well-integrated features
- App Store product page: compelling screenshots, app previews, and descriptions
- Uniqueness
Apple Mac App Store
For games, editors also consider:
But maybe you want to join the mobile revolution and create an app for your business, but you just don't know how. Well if that's the case, Como's got your back!
Creating an Apple app is essential to the success of your business
Search on the App Store and Mac App Store allows customers to find apps, games, stories, categories, in-app purchases, and developers. Searches use app and in-app purchase metadata from your product page to deliver the most relevant results. We're constantly evolving how search works to serve the best results to customers' queries. Native Mac apps built with Mac Catalyst can share code with your iPad apps, and you can add more features just for Mac. In macOS Big Sur, you can create even more powerful versions of your apps and take advantage of every pixel on the screen by running them at native Mac resolution. Apps built with Mac Catalyst can now be fully controlled using just the keyboard, access more iOS.
By creating an Apple app, you're not only tapping into a pool of millions of potential customers, you're also guaranteeing that your business won't get left in the dust. An app lets you compete not only with other small businesses, but with industry giants. Still, this is just one reason to make an iPhone app, while there are plenty of others:
Want to enable customers to easily make orders, reservations, locate your business, and read reviews?
Want to lure customers with holiday coupons, a loyalty card, and enticing push notifications that appear directly on their iPhones or iPads?
Want to increase sales by letting your mobile customers purchase your products instantly, at any time of the day, without having to step foot in your store?
Printers for macbook pro. If you do, then it sounds like it's time you considered creating an Apple app.
And if you create your app with Como, you'll reach customers on iPhone, iPad, and Android too because your app is compatible with both Apple & Android devices. Read about the benefits of having an Android-compatible app.
Wait, isn't building an app hard?
You probably think that building an app is hard. And the truth is, it was. Years ago, building an app on your own was pretty much impossible to do if you weren't a talented developer with brilliant design skills, but today you can do it on your own in a snap.
Como's do-it-yourself (DIY) platform lets you create your app in minutes using content from your existing Facebook page or website, or you can make it from scratch. So if you have a Facebook page or a website, type it in and start building your app.
To get started, watch our video tutorials on how to start creating your app.
Now that you've built it,
what's next?
Once you've created your app, the real fun begins. You can pick and choose designs, add and customize over 25 awesome features like coupons, a loyalty card, a mobile store, social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram), menus, user reviews, and more.
And if you need any help, visit Como's Help Center. There, you'll find comprehensive articles, how-to videos, and tutorials on topics including:
- Designing your app
- Adding content and features to increase revenue
- Engaging customers
- Promoting your app once it's live on the App Store
After you've put the finishing touches on your gorgeous app, it's time to send it to the Apple App Store. And we're happy to help you with that too!
You've got questions?
We've got answers.
From the instant you click 'Create My App,' our customer success team is ready to walk you through every step of the process. In addition to the FAQs, articles, tutorials, and videos you'll find on site, there's an entire team ready to answer all your questions. Adobe premiere pro cs5.5.
You can also get in touch with Como through Facebook, Twitter, and our blog. Visit the blog to get great tips on how to use your app to boost sales, connect with customers, and keep customers coming back.
Still not sure you need an Apple app?
Mobile commerce is on the rise, making up more than $58 billion in 2014.
And remember that a huge chunk of that came from iPhone users—over 79 million people in the United States.
Obviously, having an Apple app won't mean that you'll be automatically in the pockets and minds of millions of users, but it does give you the opportunity to stay connected with and keep tabs on your customers and potential customers in your local community who have iPhones.
You can tell those customers about upcoming sales through push notifications, engage them through social media, or simply remind them that they can shop not only at your store in town, but they can shop directly through their phones at home or wherever they may be. Now that sounds like a pretty good reason to have an Apple app.
CREATE MY APPThe App Store and Mac App Store showcase your amazing apps and help customers find new favorites. They're also where our editors share stories about inspiring developers and their incredible work. Find out how customers can discover your apps, and learn how our editors select apps and developers to feature.
Categories
Categories on the App Store and Mac App Store sort apps based on their main function or subject matter. Customers can browse categories, such as Entertainment, Shopping, or Social Networking, to find related apps. You can assign a primary and a secondary category to your app. The primary category is particularly important for discoverability, as it helps users find your app when browsing or filtering search results, and it determines in which tab your app appears on the App Store.
To learn more, see Choosing a Category.
Today Tab
The Today tab on the App Store is a daily destination with original stories from our editors around the world, featuring exclusive premieres, new releases, a fresh look at our all-time favorites, an App of the Day, a Game of the Day, and more. It offers tips and how-to guides to help customers use apps in innovative ways, and showcases interviews with inspiring developers. Stories share Apple's unique perspective on apps and games and how they impact our lives, using artwork, videos, and developer quotes to bring your apps to life.
Games and Apps Tabs
The App Store is also the world's best game store, with dedicated experiences for games and apps that inform and engage customers through recommendations on new releases and updates, videos, top charts, and handpicked collections and categories. Both tabs also feature app preview videos that autoplay with muted audio as customers scroll through the tabs, and selected in-app purchases — which customers can start buying directly on the App Store.
Promoted In-App Purchases
Customers can browse in-app purchases directly on the App Store and start a purchase even before downloading your app, helping your app's content gain exposure. You can promote up to 20 in-app purchases, including subscriptions, on your app's product page. They can also appear in search results and may be featured by our editorial team.
For details, see Promoting Your In-App Purchases.
Discover
Discover is where customers find the best new releases and updates on the Mac App Store. Each week, our editors shine a light on incredible apps and games with in-depth stories, behind-the-scenes interviews, and curated collections to help customers do more of what they love with their Mac.
Create
Create is where customers find powerful apps that make creating on a Mac intuitive, efficient, and fun, with helpful tips and tours that even experts will find useful.
App Store
Work
Work is where we showcase new favorites that support focus and organization. With curated collections and how-tos from our editors, finding the right business, productivity, and utility apps is easy.
Play
Play is where we highlight great games and entertainment apps, with recommendations of new releases, all-time favorites, and handpicked collections.
Develop
Develop is where our editors curate the best developer tools and utilities to help bring your creativity and imagination to customers around the world.
Getting Featured
App Store editors write stories that showcase apps in interesting and informative ways. Our editors base their decisions on a variety of factors, all of which amount to a great product that customers will love. There is no paid placement or checklist of requirements for apps we write about or feature.
Stories.App Store editors talk about apps that have a unique story for example, a behind-the-scenes look at how a developer launched an app that disrupted an industry or how an app helped a customer solve a unique problem.
Apps and Games. When considering apps to feature, our editors look for high-quality apps across all categories, with a particular focus on new apps and apps with significant updates. Factors that our editors consider include:
- UI design: the usability, appeal, and overall quality of the app
- User experience: the efficiency and functionality of the app
- Innovation: apps that solve a unique problem for customers
- Localizations: high-quality and relevant
- Accessibility: well-integrated features
- App Store product page: compelling screenshots, app previews, and descriptions
- Uniqueness
Apple Mac App Store
For games, editors also consider:
- Gameplay and level of engagement
- Graphics and performance
- Audio
- Narrative and story depth
- Ability to replay
- Gameplay controls
Tell us your story.
If your app has a unique story that our editorial team should know, tell us about it. For new apps or a significant update, let us know six to eight weeks in advance of your launch.
