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A news app. Done.
Newspapers, Press Agencies or local news media with your news app, you reach your readers in real-time where they spend the most time: their phone.
They trust GoodBarber
Make money from your content
Two ways to monetize, perfectly adapted to news apps
Memberships
The easiest way to monetize your app: offer certain parts of your content for free while giving your readers an opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription for full access. Thanks to memberships, users can subscribe in 1 click (really in 1 click!). Use push notifications to target your audience based on their membership status.
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Display ads on your app
You can either display ads from 4 major ad networks (Admob, Ad Manager, Google AdSense, and Facebook ads) or create your own ads, giving you the opportunity to sell ads placement in your app.
More about adsGet discovered. Become unforgettable
Rank on search engine and benefit from App Stores notoriety
Web App and AMP technology
The Progressive Web App (PWA) is the web version of your native app and its perfect complement. Designed to work optimally on any device (mobile, tablet and desktop), it doesn’t require any download. It’s a great tool to reach a different audience that may not be keen yet in downloading your app.
Essential for your SEO, PWAs are not only indexed by the search engines, helping you gain visibility and rank higher on SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) but your articles, videos and podcast pages also benefit from the AMP technology. Created by Google, the Accelerated Mobile Pages technology is aimed at making it easier and faster to load web pages on mobile phones. Google highlights AMP by displaying them in the AMP carousel at the top of the first results pages, or in the traditional result pages with the AMP label. Once your readers become more interested, then the smart app banner is the perfect way to direct them to the App Store and Google Play to download your app.
iOS and Android native apps
Once published in the App Store and Google Play, your native iOS and Android apps have many advantages: not only visibility via ASO (App Store Optimization) and notoriety thanks to user comments and ratings but also increased users’ retention as it provides the best experience on mobile . In 2020, News apps managed to retain double-digit retention rates, with 13.33% still using the app after 30 days of installation.(*SEMRush)
Speed, intuitive navigation, access to the native features of the devices they’re installed on, push notifications, native apps are the ultimate user experience for your readers.
The modern newsroom. Your way
Advanced settings to manage your team and plan your editorial
Manage your team
You don’t have to do it alone. With Goodbarber back office, you can create and manage your team of journalists. As the owner of your app, you have an Administrator status. This status allows you to grant access to the back office to your team of collaborators and set the level of access rights (Administrator or the more limited User status) of each of them. You can also define exactly where they’ll contribute: access to the CMS, or push notifications, who can help you update or publish the app and many more options.
Plan and Manage your editorial
The GoodBarber back office lets you easily create, format, update and publish your content on your app. You'll find many useful features to help you plan and manage your content.
Content status management: you can choose the status of your content (Published, Scheduled, or Draft) to easily manage your publications.
The scheduling tool is ideal for choosing the day and time of publication of your articles in advance. You can also create ephemeral publications by setting in advance the date on which your content will be unpublished.
Push notifications : Breaking news. On your app. First.
Keep your readers in the loop and spark their interest with a notification that can nudge them into returning to your app
Breaking news #1 feature: Instant notification
Thanks to instant push notifications, be the first one to share breaking news to your readers. Simply write and send breaking news in one click from your GoodBarber back office.
Increase engagement with scheduled notifications
Push notifications are a great marketing tool and a proven strategy to increase engagement. A study shows that push notifications increase app engagement by 88%. (*Business of Apps). Create the right communication strategy tailored to your readers’ needs with our scheduled push notification. Plan ahead, select your target and schedule accordingly.
Personalized push notifications
Your readers can select the type of push notifications they want to receive. They will only be alerted to stories relevant to their interest. Once they decide to opt in to your notifications, their engagement is almost a guarantee.
All your content within one interface
A CMS to write the news and connectors to synchronize them
Create all types of content with our CMS
GoodBarber CMS allows you to easily create and publish content in different formats: Articles, podcast, live video streaming, images, map or events. Choose from a wide range of features and add-ons to provide the news your readers expect.
More than 30 connectors
Thanks to our connectors (Wordpress, Youtube, RSS, Podcast Feed, Vimeo, Twitter), content from your external source is synchronized and formatted to match the display standards and design of your news app. You’ll never have to worry about double publishing anymore. The work is done for you.
And so much more
Comments
Enable comments on your articles and give your readers a space to let their voice be heard and belong to a community sharing their interests.
Favorites
Your users can save their favorite articles or podcast episodes and come back to it later. The best user experience for your most avid readers.
UGC
Sometimes the news comes from the public directly.Get your users side of the story or even the latest breaking news with User Generated Content. They can send their content 3 different ways: Text, photos or videos.
Categories
Organize your content in categories for easier navigation and searchability.
Customizable templates
add your logo, branding and showcase your content with beautifully designed pages.
Mobile friendly backoffice
Breaking news to write on the go? Add and publish content to your app directly from our mobile friendly back office. You’ll ever miss an opportunity to share the news first.
Domain name
add your own domain name to your PWA to reinforce your brand and make it easier for users to find it and remember it.
Social sharing
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and many more. Share the news directly on your social media. Native sharing allows to forward any link or images to another app or platform without ever leaving your app
Automations
Connect thousands of online services to your GoodBarber news app and don’t waste time on repetitive tasks. With Zapier and Make, sharing the latest news has never been so easy.
Why your newspaper needs an app
Your readers love news apps
According to Statista, 41% of mobile users’ digital time is dedicated to news apps. A mobile app is easy to browse, fast and offers the best user experience. Moreover, with your news app, you can offer content in different formats, allowing you to reach a wider audience.
Your news app is easy to monetize
Like the renowned news outlets, you can generate revenue from your app by offering memberships and displaying ads. Memberships remain the most popular monetization strategy for news apps and in general. According to App Annie, 97% of consumer spend in the top 250 non-gaming apps in the Apple App Store was driven by subscriptions. In the Google Play Store, subscription-based revenue came in at 91%.
News app nurture engagement
News apps offer plenty of opportunities to nurture engagement by enabling and encouraging users to access exclusive content, be the first ones notified of breaking news, save their favorites and submit their own content. With tools like push notifications, you benefit from a direct communication channel with your readers to bring them back to your app in one click.
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GoodBarber is a powerful app builder.
Melissa Okta
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder. If you want to build your app using a pre-built template, GoodBarber is ideal for you. At Global Academy, we almost completed the 5th year using their easy-to-use pre-built platforms to build premium Apps for our customers. Also, Goodbarber's customer support is excellent. Highly recommended.
Great support and always very helpful answers.
Great support and always very helpful answers. Nothing is too trivial for the team to answer.
Responsive support and usually quick.
Responsive support and usually quick. Software is by far the best in the market, with tremendous capabilities for configurations.
I really like the system.
Gene Hieber
I have been a resller member for a month now. I've built several demo apps. I really like the system. Easy to navigate and I have sold a couple progressive web apps and am working on native apps as well. I highly recommend Good Barber.
The team at GoodBarber has been incredibly informative and helpful
W. Monahan
The team at GoodBarber has been incredibly informative and helpful during both the creation and maintenance of my app. I am not super tech savvy, and they always provide me with solid guidance on how to fix my issue or improve my app. I shopped around for different options when looking to build my app, and I am happy that I chose this company.
They helped me to create a beautiful, successful app
Mary Davis
I have been with GoodBarber since 2014 and I can not say enough good things about them and my experience within with them. They helped me to create a beautiful, successful app; they have been there for me every step of the way to solve customer issues and help with updates; and they have an easy to use, infinitely customizable dashboard to create the app of your dreams - which is what I did. Thank you GoodBarber. You are the best
Great tool, it has all features you need to build your own app or website.
Manuel Ventura
Great tool, it has all features you need to build your own app or website.
GoodBarber is a wonderful platform.
Mini Maestro
GoodBarber is a wonderful platform. Their support staff are helpful and the interface is easy to navigate! Thank you for enabling us to give extra support to our customers with our customer app.
The Best App Builder on the Market
Draculapp
The Best App Builder on the Market, PWA at ease, and Native iOS assistance for the publishing issues. Very good support and constant updates. Many features and beautiful design layouts and a high level of customization. Recommended for individual Businesses or Agencies with a very good solution for the reseller program. And last but not least, friendly staff! It worth a try...
One of the best providers in the space.
K. Linton
One of the best providers in the space. Easy to use, well documented and excellent customer service. If you’re looking to create a mobile app solution for your company or clients GoodBarber is definitely the way to go.
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Pricing
Standard 36€/month 30€/monthbilled yearlySave 72€ yearly | Premium 70€/month 55€/monthbilled yearlySave 180€ yearly | Pro 135€/month 105€/monthbilled yearlySave 360€ yearly | Agency 280€/month 215€/monthbilled yearlySave 780€ yearly | Pro 4,600€One-off paymentSave 11,600€ in one go | Agency 12,000€One-off paymentSave 21,600€ in one go | |
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Technology | ||||||
PWA technology |  | | | | | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) | |
Available in Google Play Store | | | | | | |
Available on the App Store | | | | | | |
Capacities | ||||||
Storage  2€ for 10 GB | 2 GB | 10 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB | 50 GB | 100 GB |
Push notifications (per month)0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 10K | 30K | 250K | 500K | 250K | 500K |
Staff accounts | 1 | 3 | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
Number of projects | 1 | 1 | 1 | unlimited | 1 | unlimited |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | |
Account manager | | | | | ||
Extensions storeLarge library 160+ extensions. New extensions every month Extend the features of your app with extensions : Automations (Zapier, Make), Analytics, Monetization, Sales optimization, Integration (Wordpress, Squarespace, RSS). | ||||||
Free extensions | Up to 5 | Up to 20 | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
Authentication | 12€/month (billed 120€/year. You save 2 months) | | | | | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | 20€/month (billed 200€/year. You save 2 months) | | | | | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | 49€/month (billed 490€/year. You save 2 months). NO additional fee based on your revenue. | | | | | |
Core features | ||||||
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | | | | | | |
Fully customizable design | | | | | | |
Content Management System (article, video, podcast, event, map, photo, live) | | | | | | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | | | | | | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | | | | | | |
Yearly plan subscription pricing | Standard360€/year | Premium660€/year | Pro1,260€/year | Agency2,580€/year | /year | /year |
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 2 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 10K |
Staff accounts | 1 |
Number of projects | 1 |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | Up to 5 |
Authentication | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 10 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 30K |
Staff accounts | 3 |
Number of projects | 1 |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | Up to 20 |
Authentication | 12€/month (billed 120€/year. You save 2 months) |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | 20€/month (billed 200€/year. You save 2 months) |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | 49€/month (billed 490€/year. You save 2 months). NO additional fee based on your revenue. |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 50 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 250K |
Staff accounts | unlimited |
Number of projects | 1 |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | unlimited |
Authentication | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 100 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 500K |
Staff accounts | unlimited |
Number of projects | unlimited |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | unlimited |
Authentication | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
in one go
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 50 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 250K |
Staff accounts | unlimited |
Number of projects | 1 |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | unlimited |
Authentication | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
in one go
Technology | |
PWA technology | |
Native technology | Android + iOS (iPhone & iPad) |
Available in Google Play Store | |
Available on the App Store | |
Capacities | |
Storage 2€ for 10 GB | 100 GB |
Push notifications 0.10€ for 1000 extra push notifications | 500K |
Staff accounts | unlimited |
Number of projects | unlimited |
Page views (bandwidth & traffic) | unlimited |
App downloads | unlimited |
Account manager | |
Extensions store | |
Free extensions | unlimited |
Authentication | |
Chat The Chat extension requires the Authentification extension to be installed | |
Memberships Offer paid subscriptions to your users to access your content. Purchases are easily made from their Apple / Google account | |
Core features | |
NO CODE drag&drop app builder | |
Fully customizable design | |
Content Management System | |
SEO friendly, AMP, ASO friendly | |
Support (Real human support, by the GoodBarber team itself) | |
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Start for freeFrequently asked questions
What is a News app and who is it intended for ?
A News App is a content mobile application to broadcast your news in real-time. A news app allows you to provide the best possible user experience for your readers. You can use it not only to showcase your content but also to interact with your readers by enabling notifications for the hottest topics and offering newsletters that will keep readers coming back for more.
You can also use the data collected through your app to better understand your audience and use this information to inform your content strategy.
Among many ways of segmentations, you would target the following audiences based on their interests and news consumption habits:
- "Traditional readers”, who were or still are used to consuming print media
- “Millennials”, used to social media news feeds
- “Expert readers”, already experts and professionals in their field
How to create a News app and how much does it costs ?
- Choose a Theme for your News app
- Build your News app Home Screen
- Build your Navigation Menu of your app
- Add your Content to your news app
- Design your Launch Screen and App Icon
- Test and publish your News app
You can start running your NEWS app for free with our 30 day free trial.
Then it is up to you to subscribe to the plan that best fits your needs: the basic plan to make your News App start at 30€/Month.
Note that additional costs apply to publish iOS apps on the App Store.
How to monetize my News app?
There are many strategies out there to make money with a News App:
- Premium content: sell your Content articles, podcast and videos within subscription plans, using the Memberships feature.
- Monetize your News app with third party advertising services: activate Third Party ADs Networks (Facebook, Google Admob, Ads Manager, Google AdSense) to display ADs and get paid
- Activate GoodBarber Internal AD Server: The internal ad server is the simplest wayto promote your own News Application and display tailored, customized splash screens and ad banners. You also will be able to select one or more platforms for distributing your campaigns: iOS and/or Android.
- Sell your News app on the Stores for a fee.
Do I need technical skills to build a News app ?
How can I customize my News app design ?
With over 200 layout options, an impressive theme collection and modular design, you can create a unique app reflecting your NEWS App branding
There are many options and levels of customization. You can choose different “Global Styles” to customize the app all in all or may just customize a given section.
Our News app builder offers 9 templates for listing pages and 4 templates for article pages.
You will be able to customize headers, fonts, background colors and navigation menus.
Can I create a News app with Premium Content behind a Paywall ?
Yes, you can build a News app with Premium content only available for paying subscribers.
With our Membership extension, your readers will be able to subscribe a Monthly/Yearly plans and get access to all your Premium content
Will my NEWS app be available in all countries?
Do you provide any Support and After-Sales Assistance for News app?
- Free support
- Unlimited Number of support tickets
- App Lifetime support
- Support in 5 languages
- 4 offices in 3 countries
- 3 time zones support
Who is the Developer of my News app ?
You are required to purchase your own Developer account from Apple and Google.
Therefore, you are the developer of your app. GoodBarber is simply the tool to create it.
Can I sell my News app?
Yes, you can sell your News app. To do this, you need to transfer the ownership of your app to the new owner, on each app store.
In addition, you must transfer the ownership of the GoodBarber back-office to the new owner. To do this, you will need to contact the Goodbarber support team
Starting as low as 30€/month
Free 30-day trial. No credit card required