The BuddyBoss team understands the needs of the mobile learner and knows how to incorporate these very specific elements into your mobile-powered learning program. If you’re in the market for a native LearnDash app, then the BuddyBoss App for LearnDash with my highest recommendation. You won’t be disappointed.
FROM THE SHOWCASE
NATIVE MOBILE APP
Stand out from the crowd and use the BuddyBoss App to launch your very own native mobile app for iOS and Android!
We provide you with all the options you need to customize the look and feel of your app to match your branding.
Anna Sharp
Founder & CEO
Jack Tisdall
Founder & CEO
Cat Topham
Co-founder, Tech Manager
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
The BuddyBoss App integrates with the LearnDash Learning Management System, allowing you to create and manage your courses from your WordPress Dashboard.
We did not want to reinvent the wheel but rather integrate the powerful LMS as a key component of the BuddyBoss App solution.
Multi-Tier Courses
Advanced Quizzing
Certificates & Badges
User Reports
Assignment Management
Intelligent Course Builder
Lesson Timer
Drip Feed Content
Course Points
Flexible Prerequisites
Email Notifications
Expire AccessMOBILE LEARNING
A native mobile learning app allows you to provide offline support for your courses to your students. This creates an enormous amount of convenience for your students by giving them access to your course materials anytime and anywhere, even without an internet connection.
Increase retention and course completion rates with a unique mobile learning experience to serve your community.
Your students will have the ability to stay logged in throughout the day, so they can quickly resume their lessons and not have to log in on every visit.
The BuddyBoss App for LearnDash automatically synchronizes between your website and your mobile app in real-time, so your students can switch from desktop to mobile without losing their course progress.
Use push notifications to alert your students about new course materials, discussions, special events, and much more.
This allows you to remind your students to stay engaged in your community and the learning experience.
Microlearning is a method of teaching that has been proven to increase retention and course completion rates.
Mobile learning is the most effective approach for delivering a microlearning curriculum. Allowing students to engage with your content throughout the day, wherever they go.
You can bring knowledge sharing in real-time between students through forums and discussions to create a unique collaborative learning environment.
Using a seamless integration between your website and the BuddyBoss App for LearnDash, your students can continue to engage in conversations with each other from anywhere.
Many studies have reported that Social Learning is one of the top ways to increase retention, course completion rates, and student satisfaction.
MOBILE LEARNING BENEFITS
A native mobile learning app allows you to provide offline support for your courses to your students. This creates an enormous amount of convenience for your students by giving them access to your course materials anytime and anywhere, even without an internet connection.
Mobile Learning is proven to create higher student engagement, retention, and satisfaction so that your students have higher completion rates, which means real results for your students.
Most course creators make the ferocious mistake of ignoring just how important and profitable it is to get students to complete your course, engage in your community, and enjoy the process.
Push notifications are the quickest way to engage, alert, and remind your students of all the relevant information they need to succeed.
Quickly communicate key learning content and events like upcoming courses, reminders, and deadlines, and encourage your students to jump back into the last course or lesson they were working on or respond to the last conversation they were a part of.
Push notifications are an effective tool to increase engagement and retention and gather feedback from your students.
We pride ourselves on helping online schools build real communities that engage with each other in the learning experience.
We have seen time and time again that when your students engage inside your community, you will create a true and sincere connection with your students, build a loyal following, and create a powerful brand experience.
The BuddyBoss App for LearnDash allows you to update your course content from a single central hub across multiple platforms.
You can manage all your content from your WordPress-powered website, so you can save time and easily keep your curriculum consistent.
Each change is instantly synchronized across all your students’ devices.
Mobile Learning is proven to create higher student engagement, retention, and satisfaction so that your students have higher completion rates, which means real results for your students.
Most course creators make the ferocious mistake of ignoring just how important and profitable it is to get students to complete your course, engage in your community, and enjoy the process.
COMMUNITY
Enable your followers or customers to connect with your brand from anywhere they are. Increase engagement and retention, and gather valuable feedback.
Allow your people to learn from each other, increase your brand’s value, and reduce your workload.
Your mobile app comes with community features such as user profiles, groups, activity feeds, forum discussions, and more.
Members Profiles
Social Group
Forum Discussions
Members Connections
Private Messaging
Group Messaging
User Invites
Notifications
Network Search
Activity Feeds
Albums & Media
Private CommunityMONETIZE
Charge subscriptions or one-time payments to access your community, courses, digital downloads, groups, and more.
Use our in-app purchases feature to integrate with Apple Pay for iOS and Google Pay for Android and make the buying process seamless for your members.
Make it super easy for your members to subscribe, upgrade, and buy more from you.
Send personalized and segmented push notifications to your users to promote new products, sale events, or remind them to upgrade.
The BuddyBoss App supports a number of membership plugins, allowing for direct synchronization of purchases and access levels between your mobile app, the App Stores, and your WordPress backend.
The BuddyBoss App currently supports the following membership plugins, and we’ll continue to add support for more membership plugins as we get more requests from the community.
GAMIFY
Empower your people to work towards common goals and earn points, badges, rewards, ranks, certificates, and achievements.
Give your people a sense of autonomy, mastery, purpose, and progress. Increase member retention with gamification that rewards users with points.
GamiPress Integration
Points
Badges
Rewards
AchievementsADVANCED NATIVE MOBILE APP TECHNOLOGY
The BuddyBoss App uses React Native to build native mobile apps. This is the same technology used by apps such as Instagram, Facebook, Airbnb, SoundCloud, and other popular apps we use every day.
Your mobile apps come packed with advanced features that enhance the experience for your users.
Native iOS and Android Apps
Rest API Data Synchronization
Advanced User-based API Caching System for speed and scalability
React Native
Custom Mobile CONTROL & FLEXIBILITY
Translation Ready
Custom Menus
Your Branding
Open Access
Native Blog
Multisite Support
Developer Friendly
RTL Support
Google Analytics
Homepage
Built In Search FunctionalityYOUR WEBSITE IS OPTIONAL!
The BuddyBoss App connects directly to the WordPress backend. It pulls and sends data, to and from the WordPress database. All you need is a WordPress installation so you can use the WordPress CMS, BuddyBoss Platform plugin and/or LearnDash to power your mobile app.
You do not need to have a website front end, in order to launch your mobile app. In fact, you can launch your program, mobile only and then decide if you really want to add a web interface for your audience or not.
THEME AGNOSTIC
The BuddyBoss App can work with any WordPress theme! As long as you have the BuddyBoss Platform, LearnDash, or both plugins installed, your BuddyBoss App will work perfectly no matter what theme you are running.
TRANSLATION READY
The BuddyBoss App can be translated into any language and supports Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Just like your website, the BuddyBoss App uses language files that can be uploaded to translate your mobile app into a different language.
Localize your mobile app content and easily configure push notifications and many more options in any language for maximum flexibility and control.
LAUNCH YOUR MOBILE APP IN 5 EASY STEPS
Start your mobile app building journey with the BuddyBoss App!
Configure your mobile app’s navigation, app icon, splash screen, change colors, fonts, icons, and more.
Configure your app’s functionality and enable the features you need.
Prepare your app for publishing, generate an app build from your WordPress Dashboard, and publish your app into the Apple App Store using your own Developer Account.
Prepare your app for publishing, generate an app build from your WordPress Dashboard, and publish your app into the Google Play Store using your own Developer Account.
DONE FOR YOU PUBLISHING Included
Our team will handle the process of reviewing and ensuring that your mobile app is compliant with Apple App Store guidelines and Google Play Store guidelines. When your app is ready, our team will get it live in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store using your developer account.
STEP 1
We submit your iOS app for publishing onto the Apple App Store using your account, with the final mobile app build and assets.
STEP 2
We submit the Android app for publishing onto the Google Play Store using your own account, with the final mobile app build and assets.
DONE FOR YOU SERVICE Add-on Service
Our team handles the process of creating, customizing, building, and preparing your mobile app for publishing, saving you the time involved in learning and doing everything yourself.
STEP 1
The BuddyBoss App team takes care of the whole process of installing the BuddyBoss plugin, configuring features and creating your mobile app.
STEP 2
Our design team learns about your business and branding, and then works to customize and match the look and feel of your mobile app to your brand.
The team adjusts fonts, colors, backgrounds, and icons. The team also creates a custom app icon, login screen, and splash screen backgrounds, giving your app a premium branded look.
STEP 3
We prepare the screenshots required for publishing your app on the Apple App Store. You can choose from existing layout templates and mobile app screens. You can also provide suggested content changes.
STEP 4
We prepare the screenshots and other graphics required for publishing your app on the Google Play Store. You can choose from existing layout templates and mobile app screens. You can also provide suggested content changes.
DEVELOPER FRIENDLY
The BuddyBoss App is built in React Native, one of the most popular cross-platform development frameworks that allows the creation of native mobile apps for both Android and iOS with just one codebase.
This is the same technology used by apps such as Instagram, Facebook, Airbnb, SoundCloud, and many other popular apps we use every day.
You will use your own Git repository to make changes to the appearance and features of your mobile app. Your Git repository will be combined with the app’s core Git repository during the build process.
Customizations done in your Git repository are automatically included in the next iOS and Android builds of your mobile app.
We are constantly working on adding new features and integrations based on the
BuddyBoss App roadmap and the feedback we get from our community.
The BuddyBoss App can be translated into any language and supports Right-to-Left (RTL) languages. Just like your website, the BuddyBoss App uses language files that can be uploaded to translate your mobile app into a different language.
Localize your mobile app content and easily configure push notifications and many more options in any language for maximum flexibility and control.
Guides available to help you get started quickly with setting up your online courses, community, or membership site.
We have created dozens of short and to-the-point video tutorials to guide you through every step. We’re constantly adding new videos to our library.
You can follow the step-by-step documentation available both online and in your WordPress dashboard. And if you’re a developer, our developer documentation will come in very handy!
We take support seriously and employ a dedicated support team and ticketing system. With our knowledgeable staff, we’ve always got you covered.
TESTIMONIALS
For small businesses: Get Started with an essential app for your online courses
Use For 1 App on both
For serious creators: Deliver a complete social learning experience
Use For 1 App on both
For small businesses: Get Started with an essential app for your online courses
Use For 1 App on both
For serious creators: Deliver a complete social learning experience
Use For 1 App on both
OUR GUARANTEE
If you realize you no longer want the product between now and when the product is delivered to you and up to 21 days after it is delivered to you, we’ll be happy to give you a full refund. No questions asked!
IncludedWe will provide you with onboarding training on how to create and prepare your mobile app for publishing.
Our team does a thorough manual review of your mobile app before submitting it to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Your mobile app is built and submitted to the Apple App Store and Google Play store under your own Apple and Google Developer Accounts.
Our team assists you with submitting your app into the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as well as responding to requests, questions or rejections from the App Stores.
OptionalWe create, customize and prepare your mobile app for publishing Our team of experienced designers, implementers, and app publishers will handle the process of creating, customizing, and preparing your mobile app for you so you can save time and focus on your business.
$299
One time Investment
For one app
Included in 2 Apps Plan & HigherIf you are a developer or work with a team of developers, you can modify and extend the BuddyBoss App with your own custom features.
The BuddyBoss App is built in React Native, one of the most popular cross-platform development frameworks that allows the creation of native mobile apps for both Android and iOS with just one codebase. This is the same technology used by apps such as Instagram, Facebook, Airbnb, SoundCloud, and many other popular apps we use every day.
You will use your own Git repository to make changes to the appearance and features of your mobile app. Your Git repository will be combined with the app’s core Git repository during the build process.
Customizations done in your Git repository are automatically included in the next iOS and Android builds of your mobile app.
$299
One time setupand $79/month
The beauty of the BuddyBoss App is that all of the content inside your App is completely dynamic, and updates in real time as soon as you make changes inside your plugin on your website.
That means for almost all updates you will want to do; like changing menus, adding content or pages, you actually won’t need to push an update at all and your own users will see changes reflected in their hands immediately as soon as you hit save! (Cool right!)
Yes. Your purchase comes with an on-boarding and publishing package, which includes Done For You publishing.
Our team does a thorough manual review of your mobile app before submitting it to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Your mobile app is built and submitted to the Apple App Store and Google Play store under your own Apple and Google Developer Accounts.
Our team assists you with submitting your app into the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as well as responding to requests, questions or rejections from the App Stores.
If for some reason your payment fails, or we are unable to process your subscription, we will make several attempts to contact you and try to process your payment again to make sure there is no disruption to your service.
If after several attempts we are still unable to contact you, and a reasonable grace period has passed, your license will be deactivated, you will lose access to support and updates, and your App will be disabled.
If that happens, you will be able to re-enable your app at any time by paying off any unpaid balance owed and reactivating your subscription.
Your BuddyBoss App subscription is billed once every month, every year or every 3 years from the date of your purchase date depending on which plan you purchased.
Your on-boarding & publishing package is a one time fee, which is paid upfront or split over 2 to 3 months depending on which plan you choose.
When you choose a yearly or multi-year subscription, your on-boarding & publishing package is included as part of your purchase.
Once your mobile is ready and passes through internal review, then it will normally take us up to 72 hours to get your app submitted for publishing.
The BuddyBoss App uses Google Firebase to send out push notifications. Your free Google Firebase account provides unlimited free push notifications.
Yes, your subscription can be cancelled at any time from your BuddyBoss account area. Your mobile app will continue to work for the remainder of the billing period that was last paid for, after which your mobile app will no longer function.
With your active license, you have access to responsive and helpful ticket based support. Our support team is available to you 24/7.
Yes. We will use your own Apple Developer account and Google Developer account to publish your mobile app.
The Apple Developer account costs $99/year. You can find more information here.
The Google Developer account costs a one time fee of $25. You can find more information here.
If you realize that you don’t like the product over the next 14 days following your purchase, we’ll be happy to give you a full refund. No questions asked!
Since the approval of your app is dependent on a third party company, we cannot guarantee an approval. If your mobile app violates the Apple App store guidelines or Google Play store guidelines, there’s a big chance your mobile app will be rejected.
Our team does a thorough manual review of your mobile app before submitting it to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Our team assists you with submitting your app into the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as well as responding to requests, questions or rejections from the App Stores.
If you are selling courses or a membership, you’ll want to pay particular attention to the Apple in-app purchases, as those would normally be required, and involve a commission to the app store.
We have a history of getting 100% of apps we submit for publishing approved, so unless your content or business model violate the app store guidelines, it’s unlikely that your app will not be approved into the app stores. However since we have no control over the third party company, app store or marketplace, we cannot provide you with a guarantee that your mobile app will be approved.
No, your mobile app connects directly to your WordPress database and uses its own native layout. The theme you use on your site has no impact on the look and feel of your mobile app. So feel free to keep your current theme or to change it up and it will not affect how your mobile app looks. However, you may want to optionally display web pages in your mobile app, and add them to the navigation. When you do, the web pages will show the responsive version of your website, which will be based on the theme you have installed. This only applies to the web pages you link to from the app. The BuddyBoss App native screens will not be impacted by the theme you are running.
The BuddyBoss App is built with performance and scalability in mind. Generally, if your BuddyBoss Platform powered site is running properly on your current hosting setup, then you should have no problem adding the BuddyBoss App to the setup.
You will definitely not want to run your website or app on shared hosting. So we recommend starting with cloud hosting such as Cloudways (Vultr High Frequency, or Digital Ocean) VPS. For more in-depth recommendations, please check out our article about hosting options for your BuddyBos App.
The Done For You process can be completed within 1 week if we have all the information we need. However generally projects can take 2-4 weeks, if we are receiving prompt feedback throughout the project.
No. Some of the features are disabled on the demo. For example, in-app purchases are not enabled in the demo. Documents and the Zoom integration are being actively developed and will soon be available in the demos. Tablet support is also being actively developed and will also soon be available in the demos. The app content can optionally be viewed by logged-out users, and this is not currently enabled in our demo.
You will also soon be able to access the WordPress dashboard of the demo apps, so you can play with the BuddyBoss App plugin and see how you can control the mobile app from the WordPress dashboard.
Yes, at any moment you can upgrade to a higher plan. You will pay a prorated amount for the current billing period and your payment amount will be adjusted for the next billing period. For the on-boarding and publishing package, you will simply pay the difference in price between the plan you are currently on and the plan you are upgrading to.
Yes. The BuddyBoss App comes with a plugin (The BuddyBoss App plugin) that you install on your WordPress site, as well as a native mobile app that is generated by our build servers and is uploaded to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. You will need a WordPress installation, so you can install the BuddyBoss App plugin, manage and synchronize data with your mobile app.
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We understand that the process of customizing an app, configuring it, branding it and preparing it for publishing into the app stores can be a bit of a learning curve for the non-techie.
This is why we created the Done For You service and built a team around it so we can go through the process of creating, customizing, configuring, branding and preparing your mobile app for publishing for you, so you can save time and focus on your business.
Following is what’s included in the Done For You App service:
We will install the BuddyBoss App on the WordPress site of your choice. We will create your mobile app and connect it to your WordPress site.
The purpose of the rebranding is to make the App’s styling match with your brand.
To do this, we gather information about your existing brand identity and use that to modify the styling of the App.
After we gather the info needed, our design team will use the BuddyBoss customizer to make your new mobile app to match with your brand. We use professional designers to do this so we can get the best result in terms of esthetics, as this will be the first impression you give to your users. An esthetically pleasing design is important to the end user.
Our design will also design your app icon, launch screen and login screen background.
The BuddyBoss App customizer allows for changes to:
The designer will work with the available options to create an esthetically pleasing rebranding for your mobile app. Any requests that fall outside of the options that the product provides will be considered out of scope. These can still be achieved through custom development, after the completion of your Done For You project.
Our team will configure your app for you. This includes setting up the push notifications service, configuring your iOS App and your Android App.
We’ll also enable and configure the features you need and disable the features you don’t need.
When preparing your app for publishing we will gather the information we need from you, create the screenshots and graphics needed and generate your mobile app build.
Our design team will take the screenshots and copy you provide us with and turn them into beautiful graphics so you can impress your app store visitors with a nicely presented and compelling product page on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Our team will also create other necessary graphics for publishing into the App stores.
Your app will then be ready for our publishing team to submit to the app stores.
The Done For You App service does not include customizations, custom development outside of what is described in the above scope of work.
