PAPER APP

Create a news app that’s actually better than your website.

And give your reader access to Breaking News
in their pocket, everywhere they go.

  • WordPress
  • Desktop

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People who install news apps are more likely to pay for access.

10x

More articles read.

20%

Pay for premium subscriptions.

30min

Time spent in app per day.

60%

More likely to pay for premium subscriptions.

80%

Open app daily.

Readers pay to read news, in apps.

The secret driver of growth and revenue of
major digital publishers is their app.

$10M+/year

Subscriptions activated In-App

7.9M

total subscribers

67%

Readers prefer the mobile App

5.3M

app users

$2.2B/year

Revenue (2023 estimate)

125M+

Monthly active users

15% of readers

Upgraded to News+

19M+

News+ subscribers
(2023 estimate)

3x

Year over year growth

45M

active users

67%

Readers prefer the mobile App

30M

app users

1.5M+

Total downloads

“On average, readers spend 15 minutes within our app, as opposed to 5 minutes on our mobile website.”

Name, Title of Company

1.5M+

Total downloads

1.5M+

Total downloads

“We found success with calls-to-actions that focus on installing the app instead of subscribing. ”

Name, Title of Company

“Retention rate for app subscribers is the highest of any of our subscription offerings”

Name, Title of Company

1.5M+

Total downloads

1.5M+

Total downloads

“App installs are the gateway to paid subscriptions.”

Name, Title of Company

1.5M+

Total downloads

BUDDYBOSS PLATFORM

Your content. Your audience.
One platform.

#1 Trusted WordPress cross-platform technology.

5000+ Apps

The BuddyBoss App powers over 5,000 native iOS and Android apps.

50,000+ Websites

Over 50,000 businesses trust BuddyBoss Themes and Plugins to power their websites.

12+ Years

Founded in 2010

150+ Staff

Spread around the world

Put your publication back in the
hands of your readers.

Create a great experience for your readers
no matter where they’re reading.

Magazines

Deliver your interactive, engaging and visual content directly from your WordPress CMS into your fully branded and white labeled app.

Newspapers

Grow your papers readership with a platform that expands your reach to Apple & Android users worldwide.

Newsmedia Networks

Distribute news, alerts and breaking stories to your readers, increase subscribers, and join the ranks of the world’s top media networks.

It’s supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Packed with features your readers will love

Search
Save
Share
Comment
Font Size
Offline Mode
Night Shift
Dark Mode

Go from clicks to tap, swipe, pinch.

Bring your news app to life with powerful mobile features.

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CONTROL CENTER

Customize and manage
every aspect of your app.

Complete freedom and flexibility over your app. Create a mobile experience that is visually similar to your brand’s publication. Enable or disable features and customize your menus, headers, footers, fonts, colors, icons and more.

APP BLOCKS

Create beautiful apps to match your brand style.

Create a beautiful UX/UI for your app with native App Blocks made for Gutenberg. Choose from a variety of layout options including list, grid, or carousel. Get full control over the layout, style, color, size and more.

Exclusive App Blocks for:

    • Pages
    • Posts
    • Videos
    • Photos
    • Sliders
    • Carousel
    • Podcasts
    • Social Content
    • Directories
    • Categories

APP THEMES

Intelligent mobile themes you can customize.

Get started with a selection of intelligent App Themes featuring popular layouts for newspapers, magazines and newsmedia networks. Each app App Theme is easily customizable to match your brand’s style and guidelines.

Newspapers

Games

Recipes

Retro

GROW

SMART APP BANNERS

Promote your app on your mobile website.

Make it easy for your readers to download or open your app from your website. Smart App Banners display your app in the app store and open articles in your app with a single tap.

DEEP LINKS

Send readers directly to your app instead of your mobile website

Create a seamless journey back to your app.
Set URLs to open your app automatically for readers who have your app installed on their device.

ADVERTISING

Earn more revenue selling mobile app ads.

Earn advertising revenue from your app using Google Admob, Facebook Audience Network or insert your own native ads. Paper App supports all ad types including text, image, HTML5, video and interactive ads.

PAYMENTS

Collect payments and sync members subscriptions in-app.

The Paper App gives you everything you need to sell subscriptions, membership levels, premium content, courses, merchandise, and more all in-app.

    • Paywalls

      Require readers to pay for access. Active subscriptions are synced between your website and app.

    • Special Offers

      Create bundles for multiple purchases or subscriptions, allow free tiers or trials, auto rebill and more.

    • In-App Purchases

      Take advantage of Apple Pay & Google Pay with seamless mobile payments or link to your own payment processor.

ENGAGE

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS

Schedule personalized notifications to your readers.

Keep your readers up to date about important and breaking news stories with relevant, timely, and engaging push notifications.

IN-APP NOTIFICATIONS

Setup customize in-app notifications.

Allow readers to choose which alerts and in-app notifications they want to receive.

COURSES Optional Add-on Service

Create a powerful learning experience for your readers.

Tap into the mobile learning market with premium courses, workshops or online seminars on important topics that matter to your audience.

+$99/month

COMMUNITY Optional Add-on Service

Create connections and bring readers closer together.

Unlock powerful social networking features like profiles, groups, activity feeds, and more more. Get complete control over your networks privacy, data and users.

+$99/month

The app you want
without the dev time.

Save time and money.

REACT NATIVE

Your app performs at lightning speeds.

React Native gives you performance and speed at your fingertips. It’s the world’s most popular mobile app development framework. The same technology is used by Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Discord, Skype, Shopify, Tesla and many more.

BuddyBoss developers used the React Native framework to build a platform that synchronizes with your WordPress website.

Native apps provide better user interfaces (UIs) and user experiences (UXs) and the performance and speed users have come to expect.

Native Apps

  • Mobile Payments
  • Push Notifications
  • Offline Support
  • Interaction with other Apps
  • Smart Features

Progressive Apps

  • No Mobile Payments
  • No Push Notifications
  • No Offline Support
  • No Interaction with other Apps
  • No Smart Features

FULLY SYNCHRONIZED

Your app syncs with your website instantly.

Simply publish, edit or update content from your WordPress CMS. All data and activity is synchronized in real-time between your website and app.

WHITE LABELED

Your app is fully branded to your business.

Completely customize your app with your own brand identity. There’s no BuddyBoss branding or links, anywhere.

Your app is published in your own Apple App Store and Google Play Store developer accounts.

APP UPDATES

Easily keep your app up to date.

Never worry about maintenance for your app. Our dedicated team keeps up with the latest updates and innovative technologies for iOS & Android. Get the tools, resources, and support to keep your app up to date.

Submit

We prepare your app and metadata for submission to the App Stores.

Manage

We handle
communication between
Apple and Google on
your behalf.

Update

We keep your app up to
date 24/7/365 with the
latest patches, security and
privacy guidelines.

Support

Have a question or
request? Get help with
guides, articles, or by
contacting us.

HOW IT WORKS

Turn your existing WordPress
website into an app.

As simple as do-re-mi.

STEP 1

Connect your website.

Getting started is easy. Simply connect the Paper App plugin to your WordPress website.

Works with 1000’s of Themes.

The Paper App works with any WordPress theme.
Simply install the Paper App plugin to manage your
apps content, features and design.

Works with 1000’s of Plugins.

Extend your apps functionality with over 55,000
WordPress plugins. Add an online store, rich media,
mailing lists, forums, analytics, and much more.

STEP 2

Select your app theme.

Designing your app is easy. Simply an app theme to start, then customize to match your brand’s style.

STEP 3

Publish your app.

Launching your app is easy. Simply get your app ready and our team gets your app published in your Apple App Store and Google Play Store accounts.

INTEGRATIONS

Endless possibilities

Connect to over 1000+ apps and softwares.

PREMIUM CUSTOMER SUPPORT Included

24/7 BuddyBoss Tech Support.

Need help? We got your back.

Our support experts help you, all day every day.

Your experience with BuddyBoss doesn’t stop at the checkout. We are committed to providing you with the support you need to take full advantage of our products.

Send us a message 24/7 and we’ll help you find the best solution to achieve your goals and bring your vision to life.

We’re committed to helping every customer experience the transformational power of BuddyBoss technology.

DEVELOPER SUPPORT Optional Add-on Service

BuddyBoss Developer Toolkit

Build custom features for your course or community in a snap.

Our developers work with your developers.

If you are a developer or work with a team of developers, you can modify and extend your app with custom features.

The BuddyBoss App is built in React Native, a cross-platform development framework for native mobile apps on both Android and iOS with just one codebase.

  • Use your own React Native developers to add custom features and functionality to your app.
  • Use your own Git repository to make changes to the appearance, features, and functions of your app. Your Git repository will be combined with your app’s core Git repository and automatically included in future builds of your app.

$299

One time setupand $79/month

Say hello 👋 to custom features.

Extremely powerful. Exceptionally personal.

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“I think BuddyBoss is weird. Why?
Because they provide you with a tool
where you can build a multimillion dollar
business with less than just a couple
thousand dollars a year!”

Ryan Lee, Founder & CEO

Get started for
as little as $179

OUR GUARANTEE

100% Risk-Free BuddyBoss
Promise

If you are unsatisfied for any reason for up to 21 days after accessing
the BuddyBoss App, contact us for a full refund. No questions asked.

Take advantage of our marketing
guidance, tools and support.

Easy app publishing experience, done with you.

Included

iOS and Android
Publishing Service

Our team manually reviews your mobile app to meet before Apple and Googles rigorous approval process.

When your app is ready, our team gets your app published through your Apple App Store and Google Play Store accounts.

We handle the entire publishing process for you including responding to requests, questions or rejections from the app stores.

Included

EasyApp™ Onboarding Coaching & Training

We provide you with everything you need to prepare your mobile app for publishing including EasyApp™ Training Series, Video Library, Checklists and live Q&A’s

Included

24/7 BuddyBoss Tech Support

Our knowledgeable support team has you covered 24/7 everyday.

We take support seriously, and employ a dedicated support team and ticketing system. You can easily create a new ticket from our Help Desk, read our guides, watch narrated videos and discover answers to common questions in our step by step

Documentation

Guides to get
Started

Guides available to help you get
started quickly with setting up your
online courses, community or
membership site.

Narrated Video
Tutorials

We have create dozens of short and
to the point video tutorials to guide
you through every steps. We’re
constantly Adding new videos to our
library

Step by Step
Documentation

You can follow step by step
documentation available both online
and in your WordPress dashboard.
And if you’re a developer, our
developer documentation will come
very handy!

Product at a glance

  • Features for online Courses and Communities are available on all plans.
  • Native Mobile App built for iOS and Android devices.
  • Published in your own Apple App Store and Google Play Store developer accounts.
  • WordPress Theme that enables an elegant design for your course or community website
  • Synchronize across mobile and web devices in real time.
  • Accept payments and manage orders in one place.
  • Customize with 1000’s of Integrations for complete freedom and flexibility over your platform.

TESTIMONIALS

Why customers love BuddyBoss.

Cat Topham

Co-founder,  Tech Manager

Jack Tisdall

Founder & CEO

Anna Sharp

Founder & CEO

Trusted by over 50,000 customers worldwide.

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