Updated on 20. December 2023 by Jan Bunk
Our goal is to turn your website into an app in a way that requires no website changes from you. Unfortunately there are some app issues that we can't resolve at the moment. Mostly these are features that most web browsers support, but our apps don't. That means, if your website relies on such features, they won't work in your app.
These are issues that we can't improve further at the moment, but we have an available workaround that works for most use cases.
Our apps can't display PDF files inside the app. We can't resolve this ourselves, we have to wait on Google for a fix.
In the meantime, we have created two workarounds:
For both workarounds you have the option of listing the URLs explicitly or providing a regular expression that matches the URLs. If you need help with that, just let us know a few URLs and we can configure the regular expression for you.
You can configure these in the navigation settings of your dashboard.Currently, our apps can't download files automatically. We're waiting on a change by Google that for this.
In the meantime, you can configure all the URLs that download files and then the app can handle the downloads.
You have the option of listing the URLs explicitly or providing a regular expression that matches the URLs. If you need help with that, just let us know a few URLs and we can configure the regular expression for you.
You can configure these in the navigation settings of your dashboard.There's two problems with so-called social login features (login with Google, Facebook, etc.).
The easiest solution for both of these issues is removing/hiding the third party login options from your app. We can do that for you without you having to remove them from your website.
Alternatively, if these login options are important to you, you can integrate Login with Apple and use our custom tab workaround to get third party logins to work.
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Hi, I'm Jan! I created webtoapp.design in 2019 while studying computer science in university. A lot has changed since then - not only have I graduated, but it's also no longer just me running webtoapp.design. We've grown to a global, fully remote team and have gathered lots of experience around app development and app publishing. We've created and published hundreds of apps in the app stores, where they've been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.