Custom iOS shopping app development for online stores
A custom iPhone and iPad app for your store, built to App Store rules and wired to your catalog, checkout and customer accounts.
An iOS shopping app puts your store on the home screen of your customers' iPhones. It shows your real catalog, takes real orders through your existing checkout and payment setup, and uses the phone's own features: Face ID sign-in, Apple Pay, push notifications, the camera and the share sheet.
We build for iPhone and iPad, and handle App Store Connect, TestFlight beta builds, review submission and the privacy declarations Apple asks for. If your app offers an account, Apple expects customers to be able to delete it inside the app. We build that in from the start.
Who this is for
Stores whose shoppers skew toward iPhone, stores with repeat buyers who would use an app weekly, and brands that want a loyalty or membership program living on the phone.
What you get
- A native or cross-platform build, chosen with you
- Sign in with Apple, email and Face ID
- Apple Pay alongside your other payment methods
- Push notifications through APNs
- TestFlight beta builds and App Store submission
- Crash and performance monitoring
How it works
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1
Scope
We list the screens and features, confirm which parts of your platform the app reads from and writes to, and agree what is in the first release.
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Design
You review clickable screens for browsing, product pages, cart, checkout and account before any code is written.
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Build and test
We build in short cycles and send you TestFlight builds so you can use the app on your own phone while it is being made.
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Launch and support
We prepare the store listing, handle review, and stay on for fixes and updates after release.
What we need from you
- Access to your store platform and a test environment
- Brand assets: logo, colors, fonts, product photography
- An Apple Developer account in your company's name, which we can help you set up
What we do not do
- Publish under our own developer account and hold your app hostage
- Promise App Store approval on a date
- Copy your mobile website into a wrapper and call it an app
iOS shopping apps questions
Yes. The account should belong to your business so you own the app and its listing. Apple charges an annual fee for it. We guide you through enrollment and then work from your account.
Review times vary and Apple does not guarantee one. We leave a buffer in the schedule and prepare the review notes, demo login and privacy answers so the first submission is less likely to be sent back.
Yes. The app reads products, prices, stock and orders from your platform and sends orders back through it, so you keep managing the store the way you do now.
More answers are in the full FAQ.
Want this for your store?
Tell us about your store and we will say whether this service fits and what it would involve.
Plan Your App