Shopify is the source of truth
Catalog, customers, orders, inventory, and discounts live in Shopify. Appolar reads from Shopify — we never mirror your store into a parallel database that drifts.
Native apps for Shopify, built like the rest of your store.
Appolar is a Shopify-first platform that turns your store into a real native iOS and Android app — configured inside the Shopify admin, shipped under your own developer accounts, and run on the same catalog, customers, and checkout you already use.
Shopify deserved a mobile channel that didn't feel bolted on.
Every other “Shopify app maker” ships the same compromise: a glossy builder on top, a webview disguised as an app, a checkout that opens a browser, and a price tag that scales with installs instead of value.
We built Appolar the other way around. The builder lives inside the Shopify admin, the app is a real compiled native binary, the checkout hands off cleanly to Shopify Pay, and the app you ship is published under your own Apple and Google developer accounts — not ours.
When you uninstall Appolar, you keep the developer accounts, you keep the listings, you keep the install graph. The platform is the engine. The store is yours.
The principles the platform is built on
These are the trade-offs we make when one decision conflicts with another. They drive every release, every contract, and every feature we say no to.
Native, not a webview
Your app is a real compiled binary submitted to the App Store and Play Store. Apple Pay, Google Pay, push notifications, deep links — all native, all behaving like the rest of the OS.
You own the developer accounts
Your app is published under your Apple Developer and Google Play Console accounts, never ours. Uninstall Appolar and the listings, reviews, and ratings stay with you.
Builder lives where you already work
The Appolar builder is a Shopify admin app. Theme tokens, screen layouts, push campaigns — all edited next to your products. No second dashboard to context-switch into.
Flat pricing, no install tax
A one-time build fee and a monthly platform charge per store. No per-install fees, no revenue share, no surprise tier jumps when you have a good month.
Real humans answer your support
There is no offshore tier-1 queue at Appolar. You email us, you get the founder or someone who ships the platform — usually the same day.
What you can count on from Appolar
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Named, ready-made layouts across 5 screens, plus the Atlas stock theme and 6 theme presets. Start from one and adjust, not from a blank canvas.
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Every Appolar app hands off to your real Shopify Checkout. Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Shop Pay, no webview wrappers.
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Flat platform pricing. You scale to 100k installs without the bill changing under you.
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Appolar is built and run by one developer. Support email goes straight to the person who wrote the platform.
“I'm the engineer behind every line of Appolar.”
I'm Moe Talaat. I've been shipping iOS and Android apps for a decade, mostly for other people's startups, and the same complaint kept coming up from Shopify brands: the existing “mobile app builders” were either glorified webviews or so abstracted that fixing a single bug took a vendor support ticket and three weeks.
Appolar is the version of that product I would have wanted as an in-house engineer. The builder lives in the Shopify admin where merchandising already happens. The app is a real compiled native binary, not a browser wrapper. The checkout is the same Shopify Checkout your customers already trust. There is no “Appolar marketplace” layered on top — your app is yours, the listing is yours, the install graph is yours.
I run Appolar as a solo indie shop on purpose. If a feature is broken, you don't get a sales-engineering call to discuss next quarter's roadmap — you get the person who wrote the code, on the same day, fixing it. That's the trade I want to keep making for as long as I can.
Moe Talaat
Founder, Appolar
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