A mobile app your customers install without an app store
A progressive web app is a website your customers install on their phone. It opens full screen, keeps working without a signal, and updates the moment we push a change, with no store review standing in between. We build them in React and TypeScript, 5,500 € to 25,000 € excluding VAT in four to eight weeks, and if native is the better answer for what you are describing we will tell you on the first call.
Free quote · no commitment · you own the code and every account
The problem
Three codebases for one product
You ask for a mobile app and the quote comes back with an iOS build, an Android build, and the website that has to exist anyway. Three codebases. Every fix now gets written three times, and the two versions your customers hold in their hands sit behind a review queue nobody on your side controls. Some products earn that overhead honestly. Most of the ones we get asked about do not, and the buyer rarely hears that before signing.
What we commit to
Four things that hold after launch
A PWA shares one codebase with your web version. Everything below follows from that single decision.
Installed from your own site
One tap from a page the customer was already reading. No store search, no new account, no 80 MB download before they see anything useful.
A fix ships the hour you report it
Wrong price at nine, corrected before lunch. Nothing sits in a review queue, and nobody is stuck three versions behind because they never updated.
Still works with no signal
Screens and data already loaded stay usable in a basement, on a plane, in a warehouse with two bars. Anything your team enters offline syncs when the phone reconnects.
Yours from delivery
Repository, domain, hosting, analytics. AI drafts every file and a senior engineer reads it before it ships, so what you inherit is code somebody actually understood.
The comparison
PWA against native, line by line
Both are legitimate. These are the eight points where they genuinely differ, including the three where native is the stronger answer.
- Codebase: one, shared with your web version. Native means an iOS build and an Android build, each maintained separately.
- Getting it onto the phone: one tap from your site. Native means a store search, a store account, and a download.
- Releasing a change: live in minutes. Native waits on Apple and Google review, for every version, forever.
- Commission on sales: none, because there is no store in the middle. Native hands over 15 to 30 percent on what goes through it.
- Hardware access: native wins here, and it is not close. Deep sensor work, low-level Bluetooth and heavy video belong to it.
- Push notifications on iPhone: historically weaker on the web than on native, and dependent on the user having added the app to the home screen first.
- Store presence: a native app is in the App Store by definition. A PWA is not, unless you package it for Google Play as a separate step.
- Being found: a PWA is still a website, so Google and AI assistants can read its pages. A native app is a closed box to both.
How it runs
From scoping call to a phone in your pocket
Tested by installing it on real handsets, which is the only test that tells you anything.
Scoping call
Free, and the first job is checking that a PWA actually fits. If it does not, you hear that in the call rather than in week six.
Screens you approve
You sign off the install flow and exactly what the app does with no signal, before anyone writes a line of it.
Build in React
One codebase, TypeScript throughout, an offline layer, and a weekly demo you open on your own phone rather than watch someone else scroll.
Real devices, then handover
Install verified on an actual iPhone and an actual Android handset, not a simulator. Then accounts, documentation and thirty days of support.
Honestly
When a PWA is wrong for you and you should hire a native team
Some products belong on native and we would rather lose the work than pretend otherwise. That is not a hedge. Go native if the product lives on the hardware: continuous background location, low-level Bluetooth to a device you also manufacture, heavy video processing, a demanding 3D game. Go native if push notifications on iPhone are the product rather than a pleasant extra, because web push there has historically trailed native and that gap is not ours to close. Go native if your buyers really do open the App Store to find companies like yours, which is how a few categories still work. And go native if a procurement document already has the word written into it, because you will burn more energy arguing than building. SMARTCREA does not build React Native, Swift or Kotlin. There is no version of this where we win by talking you into a PWA that cannot do the job.
FAQ
What people ask before signing
Keep reading
- React developmentThe same team, the same stack, when the product is bigger than a phone screen.
- Website designA PWA is still a website. Some companies need only that half.
- AI automationThe repetitive work around the app, handled by software instead of people.
- PricingRanges for every kind of project, in one table.
Tell us what the app has to do with no signal
Describe the product in a minute. You get back a range, a timeline, and a straight answer on whether this is a PWA or a job for a native team.
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