Bandsintown has earned a lot of goodwill, and rightly so. It is a genuinely powerful promotion engine: more than 90 million fans use it to follow artists and discover live music, and its tools for venues, promoters and artists let you announce shows, run presales, email the right fans and push ticket links from a…
Read More
Vajro has a genuinely clever party trick: live-stream shopping built right into a Shopify app, so customers watch and buy in real time. It is a strong, well-supported app builder, and for the right store that live-selling angle is a real draw. So let me give it its due before I draw the contrast, because…
Read More
If you run a Shopify store and you want a mobile app, Tapcart is probably the first name you hear, and for good reason. It is the category leader, deeply wired into Shopify, and very good at turning a store into an app. So I want to be fair to it before I draw the…
Read More
Most church tech is shaped by where it started, and Tithe.ly started with giving. That heritage shows: it is excellent at collecting donations, and it has grown management and an app around that core. AppBuild.diy comes from the opposite direction, starting with the branded app and the congregation’s experience, with giving connected in. Knowing which…
Read More
I have a soft spot for churches trying to choose tech, because the budget is usually tight and the stakes feel personal. So here is the honest tension I want to name when we look at AppBuild.diy vs Subsplash: Subsplash is a genuinely powerful all-in-one church platform, and it is priced like one. AppBuild.diy is…
Read More
I have a lot of time for GlossGenius. It is one of the more elegant pieces of salon software out there, and beauty pros genuinely love it. But there is a design choice at its core worth understanding before you commit: GlossGenius deliberately does not give your clients an app to download. Booking is login-free,…
Read More
Here is something I have watched play out in salon after salon. An owner signs up for free booking software, fills the diary, and then notices a line item they did not expect: a commission on every new client who found them through the software’s own marketplace. The booking was free. The customer was not….
Read More
Let’s take a look at AppBuild.diy vs Trainerize… Here is a distinction I wish more fitness business owners drew early: there is a difference between software that helps you coach a client, and an app that carries your whole brand. Trainerize is superb at the first. It is not really built for the second, at…
Read More
I have watched a lot of gym owners buy expensive management software, get a branded member app bundled in somewhere on the higher tier, and then realise the app is the part their members actually touch every day. That ordering of priorities is backwards more often than not, and it is the thing I want…
Read More
Here is a fork in the road every growing restaurant hits: do you buy a single system that runs the till, the kiosk, the website and the app all wired together, or do you own a branded app you build and shape yourself, starting free, that is not tied to one restaurant stack? That’s the…
Read More