Features

What you can do with NativTap

Design your iPhone app, publish it from your own Apple account and bring shoppers back.

Design

An app that looks like your brand

Start from a theme, bring in your logo, colors and font, and arrange each screen with blocks. You see every change in a phone frame next to the editor.

Home screen in the Classic theme
Classic
Home screen in the Bold theme
Bold
Home screen in the Soft theme
Soft

Brand from your store

NativTap reads the logo, colors and font of your online store theme. Compare them side by side, keep them or change them.

Design your app →

Three themes, light and dark

Classic, Bold and Soft each come with light and dark colors. The app follows the light or dark setting of every iPhone.

Themes →

Drag-and-drop editor

Build your home screen and up to three landing pages from 14 block types. Click a block in the preview to edit it.

The editor →

Tab bar and product page blocks

Choose three to five tabs with your own labels, and place a block under the price and another under the description of every product page.

Navigation →

Drafts, history and rollback

Save a draft, undo and redo, publish when you are ready, and go back to an earlier version from the history.

Publishing changes →

Name, icon and launch screen

Set the name under your app icon, the icon itself and the screen shoppers see while the app opens.

App identity →

Preview before you publish

Watch changes in the phone frame as you edit, or scan a QR code to open your draft in the NativTap Preview app on an iPhone.

Preview →

Changes without a new release

Design changes publish straight to the app. Shoppers see them the next time they open it, with no new App Store version.

Publish →

14 block types

Slideshow, collection list, product grid, product carousel, image banner, countdown banner, video, text, announcement bar, image grid, image with text, brand story, trust badges, spacer and divider.

Publish to the App Store

Your Apple account, guided step by step

NativTap builds and uploads your app from your own Apple Developer account and prepares the listing. You stay the one who presses Submit for review.

The Setup guide on NativTap Home in the Shopify admin: four steps to launch the app, with Design your app and Connect Apple account done
Setup guide on the NativTap Home page (sample store).

Apple account guide

Individual or Organization, the D-U-N-S number and enrollment: what to choose and what each step needs.

Apple Developer account →

Connect with an API key

An App Manager key from App Store Connect is all NativTap needs. No Apple ID password and no staff invites.

Connect Apple →

Builds and uploads

NativTap builds your app, uploads it to App Store Connect and adds it to TestFlight so you can try it first.

App Store →

Listing and screenshots

Description templates for your type of store, and App Store screenshots made from your own design.

Listing →

App Privacy answers

Answers to Apple's App Privacy questions, prepared from what the app really collects, for you to enter in App Store Connect.

App Privacy →

Checks and a release tracker

Submit for review unlocks when the basics are in place, and a tracker shows where your app is, from upload to live.

Release tracker →

Account health alerts

Warnings in the admin and by email when an Apple agreement needs signing, a key is revoked or a membership is about to expire.

Account health →
Shopping experience

Native screens for every step of shopping

The app is built with Swift and SwiftUI. Your catalog comes from Shopify and checkout stays Shopify's own.

Collection screen with sort and filter chips and a product gridProduct page with a photo, color swatches and an Add to bag buttonBag with two items, an app-only discount and a Checkout button

Your catalog, kept current

Active products join the app's sales channel on their own. Remove any product you like; new products follow unless you turn that off.

Publish your products →

Collections and search

Sort and filter, search the whole catalog, and hide sold-out products if you choose.

Product pages

Photos, variants and prices from Shopify, with the two blocks you placed under the price and the description.

Shopify checkout

Checkout opens Shopify's own checkout inside the app, with your store's payment and shipping settings.

Customer accounts

Shoppers sign in with Shopify customer accounts and find their orders and wishlist. They can delete their account in the app. Needs the new customer accounts.

Keeps selling if we have an outage

If NativTap's servers are unreachable, the app keeps its last design, and browsing and checkout still work through Shopify.

Grow

Bring shoppers back

Reach everyone who allowed notifications, remind shoppers about their cart, and give app users a reason to come back.

Abandoned cart reminders

Sample store and message.

Push notifications

Send now or schedule in 5-minute steps in your store's time zone, with an image and a link to a product, collection or screen.

Push notifications →

Abandoned cart reminders

One reminder per cart after 30 minutes, 1, 4 or 24 hours (1 hour by default), never during quiet hours on the shopper's phone.

Cart reminders →

Push results

Sent, opened and the revenue of orders placed within 24 hours of a tap.

Results →

App-only discounts

A percentage or an amount, a minimum order, dates and a usage limit, in one form. The app applies the code; your website does not accept it.

App-only discounts →

"Get the app" banner

Apple's Smart App Banner in Safari, a banner for other browsers and a QR code on desktop, hidden until your app is live.

Website banner →

Rating prompt

Ask shoppers for an App Store rating with Apple's own prompt, once, after their first order in the app.

Settings →
Insights

See what your app sells

Sales and app usage in one page, in your store's time zone, with a definition and a freshness label on every number.

Analytics page with sessions, orders, revenue and conversion rate, a revenue chart over time and a sales breakdown
Analytics in the NativTap admin (sample data).

Sales from the app

Orders, revenue and average order value of orders placed in your app.

Analytics →

App usage

Sessions, conversion rate and the devices that opened the app for the first time.

Definitions →

Push performance

Push opens and revenue from push, next to your sales.

Push numbers →

Any date range

Today, 7, 30 or 90 days or your own range, compared with the period before.

No personal data in app events

App events carry no names, emails, phone numbers or advertising IDs, and the app shows no tracking prompt.

Privacy policy →

Every feature, free during early access

Tell us about your store and we will get you started.