Native iOS and Android apps built from your own catalogue — designed by you in a drag-and-drop editor, published to both stores under your own developer accounts. Arabic and right-to-left work on day one, not on the $299 plan.
Bunyawi
$49
MageNative
$99
Plobal
$199
Apptile
$249
Shopney
$299
Tapcart
$500
Superfans
$1,000
List prices from each vendor's own Shopify App Store listing, checked 19 September 2026. Where a vendor puts bottom-tab navigation or multi-language behind a higher tier, that tier is the one shown — because a store that needs Arabic cannot buy the cheaper one. This category re-prices often; check before you quote us.
Why this exists
These are real one- and two-star reviews of the biggest app builders on the Shopify App Store. We built Bunyawi by reading all of them and writing down what not to do.
“Advertised at $100/month, jumps to $500 without clear disclosure — and the increase persists even after order volume falls back below the threshold.” Shopify App Store review, Egypt, February 2025
Flat monthly price, no revenue share, no order-volume band. The price you join at is the price you keep, in writing.
“They control the app design so you can't update it yourself.” Shopify App Store review, Australia, January 2026
You hold the editor. Change colours, home sections, tabs and copy whenever you like — no ticket, no release, no waiting for us.
“No language support; notification banners stuck in English.” Shopify App Store review, Mexico, January 2020 — still unsolved in later reviews
Arabic and full right-to-left ship on the cheapest plan. Every string in the app, and every push notification, is editable per language.
“Won't allow cancellation despite $1K/month fees. Five support reps in one year.” Shopify App Store review, United States, November 2025
Uninstall in the Shopify admin and billing stops that day. One named person handles your account, not a queue.
What you get
Everything visual comes from a configuration your dashboard writes — so a design change is live in the app in about a minute, with no store review and no new build.
Colours for every slot, radius, fonts, logo, splash and app icon — with a live phone preview beside the controls. Two Bunyawi apps never look alike, which is also what Apple requires of a template service.
Banner sliders, product carousels, collection grids, countdowns, video, text and image tiles. Reorder by dragging, toggle a section off for a week, point any tile at a collection, product, page or search.
Order-status pushes fire on their own. Campaigns get a title and body per language, an image, a deep link to any collection or product, a schedule and an audience — and a test send to your own phone first.
The whole app mirrors properly — navigation, carousels, cart, order tracking. Pull your Shopify translations in, then override any individual string. Customers pick their language, or get their device's.
The app hands off to your own Shopify checkout with the cart and the customer's details already filled in — so every payment method you have configured works, cash on delivery among them, along with your shipping rates, taxes, discounts and abandoned-checkout recovery. No second checkout to maintain, and nothing for Shopify to reject.
The same app, built twice, released together. No "the Android one is coming later" — the complaint that ends more of these reviews than any other feature gap.
Every change renders in a real phone frame as you make it. Share a preview link so a partner can look before you publish, and scan a QR code to open the real build on your own device.
You enrol as a developer and add us with the smallest permission that works — App Manager on Apple, a release-only role on Google. We build, sign and submit; rejections come to us and we fix and resubmit them. Google's rules forbid any tool uploading for you, so on Android the signed file goes to your Play Console, by our hand as an invited user or by yours.
How it works
Most of that fortnight is Apple and Google reviewing your listing. The part that is us is measured in hours.
One click in the Shopify App Store. Bunyawi reads your products, collections, languages and shipping rates straight away — nothing to import, nothing to re-key.
2 minutesPick colours, upload your logo, arrange the home page, choose your tabs, write your welcome push. The preview beside you is the real app, not a picture of one.
Half an hour, or an afternoon if you enjoy itAn Apple Developer Program membership and a Google Play developer account, both as an organization, in your business's name — so the app is yours, the listing is yours, and the reviews are yours. Both need a D-U-N-S number, which is free and shared between them. We send you the exact steps and check the application with you.
The one bit with a queue — D-U-N-S can take up to 30 days, so start it on day oneYou paste an App Store Connect API key with the App Manager role into the dashboard — never an Apple ID, never a password, and revocable in one click — and invite us to your Play Console with release-only permissions. Press Build; we sign, submit, answer the reviewers, and send you TestFlight and internal-test links to try first.
Build in ~20 minutes; store review 1–7 daysPricing
Billed through Shopify, in your Shopify invoice. Uninstall and it stops the same day — you never have to email anyone to cancel.
Starter
A real native app on both stores, under your own developer accounts.
$49/month
14 days free, then $49. Cancel any time.
Growth
For stores that run a campaign every week.
$99/month
14 days free, then $99. Cancel any time.
Pro
For big catalogues and teams who need someone on the phone.
$199/month
14 days free, then $199. Cancel any time.
Price lock The price on the day you subscribe is your price for as long as you stay subscribed. We will never raise it on an existing store, and there is no order-volume band that ratchets you into a higher tier and never comes back down.
No transaction fee, ever No revenue share, no percentage of sales, no per-order fee, no charge for extra installs or devices. Several vendors in this category take 1–3% of everything the app sells. The monthly price is the whole bill.
In every plan, including Starter Bottom tab bar. Unlimited languages with full RTL. Your own developer accounts. Shopify checkout with COD, cards and wallets. The two things this category holds hostage — the tab bar and multi-language — cost $299 a month elsewhere.
What you pay Apple and Google, not us Apple Developer Program, $99 a year. Google Play developer account, $25 once. Both in your business's name — an App Store rule, not our preference, and exactly why the app can never be taken away from you. See the full checklist.
Questions
No. Nothing about building, signing or submitting either app happens on your computer. You need a browser and, for testing, a phone.
Because Apple requires it. App Store Review Guideline 4.2.6 says apps built from a template service must be submitted by the provider of the app's content — that is you, not us. We are allowed to do the work; we are not allowed to be the publisher.
It is also better for you. The listing, the reviews, the ratings and the download history belong to your business. If you ever leave us, the app stays where it is and keeps working.
Design takes an afternoon. The build takes about twenty minutes. Apple's review is usually one to three days, Google's one to seven.
The real clock is your developer accounts. A business Apple or Google account needs a D-U-N-S number, which is free but can take up to two weeks to come back — and Google warns it can take up to thirty days. Start that on your first day; everything else runs in parallel with it.
They reject look-alike apps and thin web wrappers. Bunyawi apps are neither: the navigation, product pages, cart and account screens are native, and the design editor exists specifically so that two merchants' apps do not look the same. If a review question does come back, it comes to us and we answer it.
Yes. The app does not run a checkout of its own — it opens your Shopify checkout with the cart and the customer's details already in it. So COD works in the app for exactly the same reason it works on your website: it is one of the payment methods your store has configured.
That also means Shop Pay, cards and wallets, your shipping rates, your taxes, your discount codes and Shopify's abandoned-checkout emails all keep working, with nothing extra for you to set up. We prefill the phone, the country and the address so a COD order is still only a few taps.
The whole app mirrors: navigation slides the other way, carousels scroll the other way, prices and quantities sit where an Arabic reader expects them. Your Shopify translations come in automatically, and you can override any single string — including push notification copy — in the dashboard.
This is on the $49 plan, and on every plan. It is the main reason this product exists.
Yes, as often as you like, and without a new release. Colours, home sections, tabs, banners, strings and prices all come from a configuration the app fetches when it opens. A change is live in about a minute. Only the app icon, the name and the splash screen need a new build, because those are baked into the binary.
Uninstall Bunyawi in your Shopify admin. Billing stops that day — there is nothing to email us about, no notice period and no cancellation form.
Your published apps stay in the stores under your accounts. They will keep showing whatever the app last cached; to take them down, unpublish them in App Store Connect and the Play Console. We keep your data for thirty days in case you come back, then delete it.
No, and not by accident — by structure. The apps are published under your Apple and Google accounts, so there is no listing of ours for you to prise away. Leave us and the apps stay exactly where they are, with their reviews, ratings and install base, under your own name.
Compare that with a vendor who publishes under their own account: getting your app back needs their active cooperation on both stores, and on Google Play it needs the transaction ID from their original $25 receipt. If you are on one of those today, tell us — moving an app across accounts loses its push certificates unless someone re-provisions them, and we will do that with you as part of onboarding.
No. No revenue share, no per-order fee, no band that moves when you have a good month. Several vendors in this category do all three.
Yes. Install, design the whole app and watch it in the live preview on your own phone during the free trial. The developer accounts are only needed at the moment you want it in the stores.
Install from the Shopify App Store, design it this afternoon, and see it running on your own phone before you decide anything.