Mobile App Builders Buying Guide

The increasing popularity of mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and the like, brings the big change in how many businesses operate. Many businesses now will require them to build mobile apps in order to keep their business running smoothly in today?s business world. Not only will you need to build a website, but you have to build the presence for your business in the mobile world as well.

Why Mobile App Creators?

Building a good app for your business is a complicated thing to do. You need to hire some good programmers to build the app from scratch, along with full technical staff to integrate it with your existing business platform. In other words, it will require a lot of investment in time and money in order to create the best app that will represent your business in the mobile world. Remember that there are millions of potential customers you can reach via your mobile app, and if you can successfullAy launch and promote your app in various mobile platforms, it means that you can potentially grow your business very quickly.

The good news is that there is an easier solution for creating mobile apps. You can build apps for your business from scratch with a DIY app building tool for a monthly or yearly fee. You don't need to know any programming language in order to be able to build those apps from scratch. With that DIY app building tool, you just need to follow a few easy steps. However, with many DIY app building tools available in the market today, you will have a difficulty in choosing the right tool for your business. Here are some factors that you need to consider before choosing the right app building tool for your business.

Simplicity, Ease & Features

With most DIY app building tool, creating an app is no longer a complicated thing to do. You can always create your app by yourself in a simple and easy way. What you need to look at in a good app builder tool is the simplicity of the tool itself. It should give you the most convenient way to create your app, with various features that will help to create the best quality app for your business. You should not need to be knowledgeable about app programming in order to build your first business app from scratch.

Pricing & Limitations

You should also take a look at the pricing and limitations offered by each app building service. Some services will allow you to create your business app for free, but some other services will not provide any free trial option for the app creation software. The price that is offered by the service should also be reasonable for your business, because some services can offer a really expensive pricing plan, which may not be suitable for your current business budget. You should also be aware about the feature limitations that are given with each plan and choose the one that is most suitable for your business needs.

Promotion & Publishing

While it might be easier to build your app with those app builder tools, it might not be too easy for you to promote your app and market your business using your app. Thus, you should ensure that the app builder tool will provide easy promotion and marketing tools for you to spread the word about your app to your audience. This will allow you to gain the return of your investment as quickly as possible.

Multi-Platform Support

Whatever your business type, you need to find an app builder tool to help you build the app according to your business type. Some app creation tools that are available on the internet today may offer very limited categories to your app type. Ensure that the software will support any type of app to create according to the type of your business. Also, you should ensure that you can publish your app to the platforms of your choice, because some mobile development tools will only support limited platforms, while the other tools will support multiple mobile platforms.

Conclusion

Choosing a good app builder tool for your business will help to spread the word about your business even further. By creating the mobile app that represents your business and brand, you will be able to attract more customers to your business. With those factors, you will be able to choose the best mobile app builder software that will help to build the best app for your business, which will in turn help to bring more profit to your business.

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that the app economy has uprooted how we think about the technology market. In a landscape formerly dominated by hardware titans and products that targeted the IT crowd and not the everyday consumer, the app has become not only a legitimate startup idea but the foundation of the hottest, fastest-growing industry — mobile.

Which is why it stands to reason that there’s plenty of interest not only in developing apps but in developing tools for developing apps (say that three times fast). Apps are supposed to be inherently simple and enjoyable on the user-end — and now that’s being applied to the developer side of things as well.

One startup attempting to infuse some ease and accessibility into this process is Tiggzi. Founded last year, the company falls under the umbrella of software engineering company Exadel, and it’s a cloud-based mobile app platform that relies on the simplest of the simplest actions for app creation: Drag and drop.

“We started Tiggzi as a prototyping tool so that developers could create their UI,” says head of community and developer relations Max Katz. “We just realized, ‘Well we can’t go much further than just building the UI with that.’ So it grew from there.”

With Tiggzi, you’re launched into a digital workshop where, to put this in the simplest terms possible, you drag and drop the elements you want over to the device image. You can use these functions to create iOS, Android, HTML 5, and Windows Phone apps.

Of course, while the action itself is familiar and easy, don’t confuse Tiggzi with something you can pick up sans developer skills. “At the end of the day this is a development tool, and you’ll need to have Web development skills,” Katz says, adding that HTML, Javascript, and CSS proficiency are generally what you’ll find necessary to use Tiggzi. But these skills, combined with the action-orientation and immediacy of Tiggzi, turn it into a great productivity tool for developers.

The fact that Tiggzi is entirely cloud-based and runs in the browser with no download or install necessary is also part of its allure.

New to Tiggzi is its database. The platform previously announced it would be adding some a backend and storage for developers’ Tiggzi-made apps. It also comes with plug-ins so that developers can auto plug pre-made functionalities into their apps — as an example, Katz showed me how a developer could pull and put in the AT&T sms messaging feature via the available plug-in.

“We started as just the builder, but the backend services make us a platform,” says Katz. “A lot of companies have the backend, but they don’t have the builder, but we have both. We can offer the entire stack.”