Borel gives a small business its own native iPhone app without hiring a developer. Describe the menu, booking requests or loyalty card your customers would use, try it on a live iPhone in your browser, and Borel publishes it to the App Store under your own name.
Cafés, salons, shops, studios and trades who want their own app in the App Store.
Owners who want a tool for the team: stock counts, shift notes or a daily checklist.
Anyone who priced an agency app and wants to see their idea working first.
App ideas
Apps to make, with a prompt for each
Paste a prompt into Borel as it is, or change it to fit. Borel builds it while you watch.
A menu and order-ahead list
Your menu with photos and prices, and a list customers send before they arrive.
Prompt
Make an app for my café. It shows our menu in sections with a photo, a short description and a price for each item. Customers sign in, pick items into a list with a pickup time and send it, and I see incoming lists on a staff screen. Use warm browns and cream.
Customers pick a service and a time; you confirm from your phone.
Prompt
Make a booking app for my hair salon. Customers sign in, pick a service with its length and price, and request a time. I see requests on a staff screen and confirm or suggest another time. Each customer sees their upcoming and past visits.
A stamp card that lives on the customer's phone instead of on paper.
Prompt
Make a loyalty card app for my shop. Customers sign in and see a card with ten stamps. On a staff screen I find a customer by name and add a stamp. The tenth stamp unlocks a free item, shown as a reward they can show at the till.
Opening and closing routines, ticked off by whoever is on shift.
Prompt
Make a checklist app for my team. Each staff member signs in. There is an opening list and a closing list for each day, anyone on shift ticks items off, and I can see who ticked what and when. Add a notes field for anything that went wrong.
Every app is native Swift, written and built for you. These parts come with it, with nothing to set up.
Accounts
Sign-in with email and password for customers and staff, with a staff screen only your team sees.
A database
A cloud database Borel runs for menus, bookings and stamps, and file storage for your photos.
AI
Borel AI with no API key: product descriptions, answers to common questions, a reply drafted for a review.
A live iPhone preview
A live iPhone in your browser, free on every plan, to walk through it as a customer would.
Install on your iPhone
Borel Companion puts the app on your own iPhone to use behind the counter, with Pro.
Publish to the App Store
Borel builds, signs and uploads the app to the App Store under your own account, with Pro.
Borel makes iPhone and iPad apps, not Android apps or websites. Publishing needs Apple's Developer Program ($99 a year, paid to Apple), and Apple reviews every app before it goes live.
Frequently asked questions
Selling digital things inside the app, like a membership or a subscription, is fully supported through Apple's In-App Purchase, and Borel sets it up with the app.
Yes. It is published under your own App Store Connect account, and Borel builds, signs and uploads it on its own Mac, so you do not need a Mac.
Yes. Tell Borel what to change, see it on the live iPhone, and publish the new version when you are happy with it.
You can start on the free plan with 5 credits a day. Publishing to the App Store comes with Pro, plus Apple's own $99 a year for its Developer Program.
Describe your app
Start from one of the prompts above, or say it in your own words. Trying it on the live iPhone is free.