Make Your Community Mobile

Our app is a web wrapper (WebView). The native part powers the header, sidebar, notification pop-ups and the bottom navigation. It also routes your website traffic within itself, including handling notifications.

Thanks to the WebView approach, the app generally inherits your website’s content and styling, but sometimes some extra work might need doing to adapt your website better (for example to hide an unnecessary header or menu).

PeepSo App Lite: you can use a custom CSS section in the plugin’s config to hide, adjust parts of your website. It’s a simple DYI solution and requires some CSS knowledge.

PeepSo App Plus: in addition to that, we can provide some support around custom CSS and plugin compatibility

PeepSo App Service: we solve everything – the styling, the conflicts, the cache issues. On top of custom CSS, we also create PHP overrides to ensure the app always works perfectly.

PeepSo App Lite: Push notifications are only possible with a Plus subscription (see below).

PeepSo App Plus: PeepSo notifications are sent to the app via push. That includes pop-up notifications, sound, vibration, and badge count. the notifications arrive in about five minutes from the action triggering them.

PeepSo App Service: All of the above, and the notifications arrive under two minutes. If you prefer to use Better Messages instead of PeepSo Chat, it’s also possible – we integrated that plugin with our app, push notifications included. There is also a Broadcast Push feature allowing you to send a custom notification with a link to all app users, or only specific roles.

PeepSo App Lite & PeepSo App Plus: Universo App name, shows “developed by PeepSo”, has PeepSo app icon, PeepSo branding in the splash screen and login screen. After login, the app uses your logo and colors to match the website better.

PeepSo App Service: The app is completely white label, meaning it is completely tailored to your brand – it will have a name, icon, splash image, logo, and colors of your choice. The name “PeepSo” does not appear anywhere.

In general, all apps will follow a similar design:

• App header with logo, notification icons and user avatar. The color, logo, and size are based on your preferences. The user avatar will open the Sidebar.
• App header can also have a “search” icon, linked to the PeepSo Early Access: New Search functionality.
• Sidebar – available for logged-in users, loads user cover, avatar and profile/community navigation. We can customize the sidebar navigation with a PHP filter – but we will need FTP access for that.
• Bottom tab navigation – the buttons users will use to switch between major app features. We can hide some of these from users who are not logged in (for example Profile and Messages)

PeepSo App Lite / PeepSo App Plus: you can choose one – whether the app is in light or dark mode – the app supports only one mode at a time; there is no mode picker for the users.

PeepSo App Service: with Gecko Theme and PeepSo Block Theme, the app supports both dark and light modes out of the box. Users can choose one, or enable automatic mode, so the app follows the system setting. With PeepSo Block Theme, the color switch is instant (without reloading), with Gecko Theme the app switches instantly, but the website needs to reload. Support for light/dark switching might be possible in other themes, but it’s subject to availability based on how they implement it, and if we are able to enforce a switch programmatically.

PeepSo App Lite: the app chooses menu items automatically, based on PeepSo features present on the website.

PeepSo App Plus: You are able to customize four tabs after the Home tab. You can change the icons, labels and links any time. They need to be pointed at your own website.

PeepSo App Service: We build the navigation for you. We recommend at most 5-6 tabs in the bottom tab navigation, perhaps more if you choose not to display any labels and just have icons there. We can also add a “more” button at the end, opening a pop-up with additional menu items. The only required tab is the Community tab, but we also recommend having a Messages and Profile tab, so we can route notifications and menu clicks there. 

PeepSo App Lite: the app generally inherits the PeepSo Profile & Community navigation.

PeepSo App Plus: In addition to the above, you can create simple sections with links below the two defaults. The links must point at your own website. All open in the Home tab with a button to go “back”.

PeepSo App Service: We manage the sidebar for you. The layout and navigation are completely flexibe. We build it according to your design: we can remove, reorder, edit items, divide them into more or less sections, change colors, spacing, etc. All sidebar elements (avatar, buttons, user name, etc.) are fully customizable.

PeepSo App Lite / PeepSo App Plus: no, your app is using a shared Universo app that is already in the Stores.

PeepSo App Service: for Apple App Store we can deploy the apps via our own Apple Developer Account at  no extra charge. But if you have an Apple Developer Account (organization), we will deploy the apps under your account. For Google Play Store, you will need your own developer account (organization).

The app stores won’t approve of any apps that allow anything that can be considered illegal (copyright infringement, drugs, guns, ammunition), nudity/pornography, or realistic depiction of violence. Restrictions and deep scrutiny apply to apps related to gambling, health features, or financial services.

If your app has any form of social login (with Google, Facebook, etc) you are required to also have Login With Apple in your app. In that case, you are required to have your own App Store Developer Account.

Any sort of digital goods sales must go through in-app-purchases (IAP). Our current app does not offer IAPs, so if your website has any sort of digital goods sales, we would need to surgically hide it from the application context.
Users are still allowed to use the app “consume” digital content purchased on your website. But the app cannot have a shop, checkout or even a link or information about where things can be bought.

The app currently does not support paid memberships – the e-commerce rules apply here as well. If your site is using PMP or similar, we will require a free membership level to use for registrations coming from the app, and we will use overrides to hide the paid memberships from the app.

If you prefer to monetize the app, we have an option of selling it instead of releasing it for free. If you prefer to make your app paid, we will need to deploy it via your own Apple Developer account.