Agency case study
We joined TalkBox.Mom to enable mobile learning for their language learners with a custom mobile app solution powered by WordPress, AppBoss & LearnDash.
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The client
About TalkBox.Mom
TalkBox.Mom helps families to start talking in a foreign language the same exact day they start. Language guides are delivered to families in the mail. They also use their AppBoss powered mobile app to practice the new language using the audio player.
The challenge
Challenges
Challenge 01
Accessing the audio was difficult
The families receiving the language boxes had difficulties accessing the audio to practice their new language.
The families were going into the TalkBox.Mom website on the computer to listen to the audios. The experience was OK, but families wanted to have the audios on their phone, for ease of access.
Challenge 02
The cost of creating an app was too high
When the team at TalkBox.Mom were looking for a service provider, they were getting very high quotes, way beyond the budget allocated for the project.
The client also had a family member who owned a large mobile app development agency, but the quotes received were still too high.
Challenge 03
Mobile development companies don’t understand WordPress & LearnDash
The client initially could not find a company that understood LearnDash well and could build a native mobile application for it.
The large majority of WordPress developers don’t know much about mobile apps, and most mobile app developers know nothing about WordPress.
Finding a developer or a team that specializes in both technologies is extremely rare.
“If you want to work with a team that is organized and if you want to get the results you’re looking for, I absolutely recommend working with AppBoss.”
Adelaide Olguin
Founder & CEO at TalkBox.Mom
The solution
Solutions
Solution 01
Leveraging AppBoss to speed up implementation and reduce costs
Our AppBoss mobile app solution was the perfect foundation for the TalkBox.Mom mobile app.
AppBoss already integrates with LearnDash, and since it is built on React Native it allows us to generate both an iOS and an Android app from the same codebase, saving us precious development time.
So we focused most of the budget on building the audio player and other custom features that are unique to the TalkBox.Mom mobile app.
Solution 02
Rebranding the existing AppBoss app to reduce project costs
Rather than coming up with a totally different design, we took the AppBoss solution’s existing designs and rebranded them to match the TalkBox.Mom branding.
This allowed us to avoid having to develop a new interface for the complete app. Instead we only focused our custom design efforts on the screens that were unique to the TalkBox.Mom app, such as the custom audio player.
Solution 03
Creating an audio player for families to listen and practice with
We created a custom audio player for TalkBox.Mom that synchronized data with the WordPress powered website.
The backend functionality was built in WordPress, allowing us to use the same functionality to power the website front end and the mobile app screens.
We then custom designed the audio player screens and did the mobile app implementation.
The results were pretty amazing!
In the app stores
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TalkBox.Mom is accessed via our free app, available now on the Apple App and Google Play Stores.
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