Community apps

Your business’s own app, without building one

A community app is your business’s own app inside one of our shared apps, such as Our Pub, Our Hotel or Taste. It has your look and the features you choose, and it costs a fraction of building an app of your own.

Each shared app is made for one kind of business, and is in the App Store and Google Play.

A business’s app inside the Our App shared app: its photo, things to do nearby, call, directions and share

Which app is for my business?

Pick the shared app made for what you do. If none fits, Our App suits almost anyone.

How does a community app work?

One shared app in the app stores, with a separate app inside it for each business.

Our Pub, in the App Store and Google Play

One shared app, with its name and icon

Inside it

  • Your pub’s app
  • Another pub’s app
  • A bar’s app
  • + every pub that joins
Your customers download Our Pub from your link, and it opens on your pub: your look, your menu, your bookings.

Getting started takes four steps

  1. We set up your app

    Your business gets its own app inside one of our shared apps, in your look and with the features you choose. You can change it yourself whenever you like.

  2. You share your link

    You get your own link and QR code to put on your website, your menus, your receipts and your social media.

  3. Customers download it

    The link takes them to the App Store or Google Play, whichever their phone uses. When they open the app, it opens on your business.

  4. They keep coming back

    If a customer follows links from more than one business, the app keeps each of them behind the heart on its home screen, so they can flip between them.

The one compromise: the icon on your customers’ phones is the shared app’s icon, not your own. If you want your own name and icon in the app stores, a corporate app gives you that. See corporate apps.

See how a community app works

Real examples. Tap one to see the apps inside it.

Community app for hotelsOur HotelShowHide
  • London Bridge Hotel
  • Capilon Hotels
  • Boka Hotel
  • Taunton House Hotel

Is this the same as a town app?

A business’s app is the same either way. In a community app, it sits in a shared app for its kind of business, such as Our Pub. In a town app, it sits in its town’s own app, alongside the rest of the high street, run by the town’s Business Improvement District or council. A business can be in both.

Want an app for your business?

Tell us about your business and we will help you choose the right app and set it up with you.