Native & Bespoke
Xenforo Mobile Apps

Grow your Xenforo-based community with native iOS and Android mobile apps built with beautiful and intuitive interfaces. These apps enhance the user experience, boosting interaction and engagement so you can grow your community.

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App Screenshots

A sample of our work, highlighting the Reef2Reef forum.

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Why Get An App?

A majority of your users are accessing your forum via a smartphone and it's essential to reach them where they are. While the progressive web app suffices, the benefits of a native mobile iOS & Android app (listed on the Apple App and Google Play stores) allow for increased user engagement across the board and in turn grows your community.

Push Notifications

With native push notifications (and no need to configure them), users get alerts for comments, reactions, new posts on threads they are viewing, etc. This brings them back into the forum quickly and easily.

Easy Posting

Significantly increase new posts and comments by taking advantage of native environments and putting new posts at the forefront.

Photos & Videos

Xenforo forums suffer from an easy way to post photos/videos directly from a user's phone. This added headache for users lowers the amount of content they are posting.

Scrollability

With a native feed and the ability to show the first post of each thread, the mobile UI makes it easy for users to scroll through more posts and find content they want to engage with.

Conversations as DMs

With a native mobile app design, XF conversations are treated as direct messages, providing a more intuitive interface for private interactions.

Bespoke Development

We can add specialized features to your forum that make more sense with a mobile app, encouraging users to return and share more content.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the process of working together look like?
Step 1: Jump on a discovery Zoom call to go over your forum, our app solutions and talk about goals (user engagement, bespoke development, etc.)

Step 2: We make and send design mockups to go over and make changes to based on your feedback.

Step 3: Once designs are agreed to, we get to work. Building you, your own iOS and Android apps. We mostly use the API released in XF 2 but also have a custom plugin that enhances the API with additional endpoints.

Step 4: App launch, community feedback, app updates.
How does the app get my forum data?
We access the data via the native API that XenForo released as well as through additional API endpoints that we have in our custom plugin. We never store or own your data, that continues to live on your servers. If at any time you wish to prevent the apps from accessing the data, it's as simple as revoking API keys in your admin dashboard.
How long will this take to set up?
It depends largely on how much custom development we need to do for your specific forum -- but we think we have a very modern and intuitive starting point. If you have very unique requests (i.e. non XenForo native features) we'll have to figure out a way to include those.
Who are you?
My name's Nathan. I've been a mobile developer since 2013.

Previously, I had a hardware and software startup with some friends that made sensors and internet of things software (where I got to know the owner of Reef2Reef and learned about XenForo). Matt Burns, a TechCrunch editor, had this to say about our previous app:

"It's the first app I open every morning. Before Reddit, before Gmail, before NYT. I roll over, grab my phone and check. I don’t know if there’s a higher honor I can bestow on an app."

I met the owner of Reef2Reef through my previous company and he asked me to build his community an app. In doing so I realized that there are quite a lot of shared aspects (especially tech wise) among every community running on XF and that a native mobile app could benefit many of these communities. For example, they all would have a direct messages section in the app and need to parse/format BBCode similarly.
Contact us below to learn more or at nathan@tryforumly.com

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