What with Google giving preferential treatment to websites that display well on smartphones, likely because at least half of all website visitors are not using PC's, I assume you have gone to the trouble to upgrade or update your business website to be what's called "responsive". That simply means that your site is designed to resize and reflow items so that they view equally well on desktops, tablets, and phones. You have been able to view websites on phones for years, but until recently doing so involved a lot of panning left and right and zooming in and out to get things practically readable, particularly those of us with older eyes. Most modern affordable website hosts providing attractive, easy-to-use drag-and-drop website editors like those at weebly.com and wix.com create responsive sites automatically from your desktop site.
If your website already looks good on a phone, why bother with an app? if your site is such that you get a fair amount of visitors or frequent users, you can create an additional income stream from either charging for your app or by displaying hopefully unobtrusive ads.
Unfortunately, I mostly found the dedicated "app builder" services to be more expensive than even the better website builders that provided much more functionality to their customers, particularly since most of the work was already done by the website builders in creating a responsive site. I did find one easy-to-use free site at appsgeyser.com and converted my website as a test case in less than ten minutes. You can find the links to download my Android app on my homepage or by scanning the QR code or by clicking here. Unfortunately, I've read that the Apple Store will not accept just a simple clone of your website.
If your website already looks good on a phone, why bother with an app? if your site is such that you get a fair amount of visitors or frequent users, you can create an additional income stream from either charging for your app or by displaying hopefully unobtrusive ads.
Unfortunately, I mostly found the dedicated "app builder" services to be more expensive than even the better website builders that provided much more functionality to their customers, particularly since most of the work was already done by the website builders in creating a responsive site. I did find one easy-to-use free site at appsgeyser.com and converted my website as a test case in less than ten minutes. You can find the links to download my Android app on my homepage or by scanning the QR code or by clicking here. Unfortunately, I've read that the Apple Store will not accept just a simple clone of your website.
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