A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a web application that offers features like offline functionality, fast loading times, and push notifications, providing a more app-like experience within a web browser.
PWAs work offline, load faster, and can send push notifications, making them feel more like native apps. Regular web apps are accessed only through web browsers.
You can choose a PWA over a native application if you need maximum audience reach with minimal development cost, faster deployment, and app-store independent accessibility. Moreover, PWAs are also ideal for SEO-driven, E-commerce and content-heavy platforms that require quick updates, robust performance, and cross-platform compatibility.
Yes, PWAs are highly suitable for businesses as they facilitate cost-effectiveness, cross-platform presence, and high-performance. The best part is, PWAs combine native-app-like features such as offline capability and push notification with the reach of a website, making them ideal for startups aiming at high user engagement and conversion rate.
The industries that benefit the most from PWAs are:
- E-commerce
- Travel and Tourism
- Banking and Finance
- Logistics and Transportation
- Gaming and Streaming Platforms
- Media and News
Here are some examples of popular Progressive Web Apps: Twitter Lite, Starbucks, BMW, Flipboard, Pinterest, Spotify, AliExpress, and Uber.
Yes, PWAs can be installed on mobile devices just like native apps, which will appear on the device home screens. Users don’t have to download PWAs from app stores, and can still launch them without the browser bar.
Yes, PWAs are SEO-friendly because they facilitate faster loading, a mobile-first approach, enhanced UX, and responsive design. Your PWA can scale higher in the search engine rankings, ensuring better online visibility.
Yes, we can help convert your existing website or web app into a Progressive Web App by integrating a service worker for facilitating offline capabilities, a manifest file for instructing the browser on app behavior upon being installed, and a responsive design that can work seamlessly across all platforms.
Depending on the complexity of your PWA development project, it might take 3 weeks to 6 months to build it.
PWA development cost might range between $10,000 and over $100,000, depending on the level of customization, design preferences, maintenance needs, experience of the development team, and other such factors.