The Kitty Speaks

Enjoy exclusive news after they've been released to and gnawed on by our Lounge Members. In case you just stumbled upon this blog on Tumblr here's a little bit about ourselves: App.Cat for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS is an instant app factory. It's software that makes fantastic looking apps for iPhone, and Android. No experience necessary. Hang with us at the new App.Cat Lounge Get App.Cat Email News

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Make your app like James Bond

Meet InstantApp™, the world's coolest app editing gizmo.

Made and sold an app, now feel lazy? Your customers can now live-edit their app from any browser. Let them send push messages, check their download stats, add new pix themselves while paying you for the privilege! 

Pitching app making services? The editor's pioneering simplicity will close every sale! Includes YOUR OWN sales site and marketing tools to use, dub, and edit our videos for your own website, commercials, and video channels. Click to find out more...

Don't have an app yet? Scared of the App.Cat Software or anything "computery"? No problem. Get InstantApp™ without the software part here...

Sources: App.cat InstantApp

freeappcat.com live. Move your apps there to continue free hosting past November 1st.

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Celebrity Ads - Full Screen Glory For Your App

Making a first impression just got more spectacular! Instead of your start screen or loading flash you'll now dazzle your app visitor with a magnificent message that's unique to his device. What does it do? Show full screen ads and glory posters when your App.Cat app starts. Before anything else. Present different ads depending on iOS device to optimize revenue. Target specific demographics As you can see in my above illustration, our imaginary hair salon offers specific discounts depending on which device her clients use...

This is what happens

Clients tap your app's button on their device

Instantly the Celebrity Ad zooms into view

Then the Background becomes visible

Now the animated object tumbles onto the screen

Lastly the company name and logo slide in

Very impressive! Highly visual!

What can you use this for?

Sell sponsorship to an app for a week, a year, or forever

Sell ads to labels for only iPad or iPhone 5 visitors

Greet app visitors with "welcome to my iPad app" only if they're on iPad

Target specific clients by providing ads depending on device

Sell more apps because your clients can now finance it with ads

Heavily brand your app even for multiple locations and staff members

Display specials or coupons without messing up the photo gallery

Instantly show a QR code when the app opens for super-quick scan-sharing

Show your best smile to make your app really personal

Classy-up your background image by toning it down, making your app more legible

Proudly show your best selling product to make a bold statement

Impress with the brand you're distributing because "Goodyear" looks trustworthier than "Joe's Tires"

Why is this so brilliant? Aside from the fact that you'll make more money it also makes your app look intensely fast. No waiting. The celebrity ad jumps at you BEFORE anything else happens. It allows you to co-brand with internationally trusted labels, lending your business instant credibility. A first impression this magnificent is priceless! How do I put it in my app? Visit the App.Cat Community Market from within our app making software. Celebrity Ad is at the bottom under "Premium Plugins". Switch it ON.

Visit your App.Cat Software to find out more.

Heads-up: As announced previously we're introducing premium hosting on November 1st when our whitelabel domain beta ends. It'll be super cheap but there will always be a free option on freeappcat.com. Adjust your strategies accordingly. We're also working on an exciting new feature that allows your app-clients to edit their app without bothering you. Stay tuned!

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iOS 7 too girly? Man-up your icons with leather and felt...

Just one more reason to create your own app: Take control over iPhone icons with App.Cat.

We're proud to announce that all instant apps made with App.Cat look and work brilliantly on the squeaky, squishy iOS 7.

It won't hit consumer phones until fall but we've tested it for you, are half-blind now, yet are in love with it. We DO miss the leathery manliness only a Scott Forstall could orchestrate...

Now it's YOUR turn to Forstallify icons!

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Easier visual app editing

We've prettified our "visual speed editor". It's now even quicker to edit your apps. And easier on the eye.

You see your app right in front of you. Click any yellow hotspot to instantly edit that part of your app. 

No more guessing. Just poke the part of your app you want to change. Our photorealistic app-preview takes care of the rest.

Trigger this beauty by clicking the "shortcut" button on top left in our app making software.

Works great when making apps on iPad. Designers, educators, kids, and dyslexics like me love it.

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Oklahoma Tornado drenches App.Cat

We are currently experiencing partial network failure due to the Oklahoma Tornado.

Some of our cloud servers were affected by this catastrophe and as a result some App.Cat customers are unable to log in or make apps.

We are doing everything we can to help the datacenter engineers fix those problems and I hope that I can count on your patience and understanding.

I'd like to apologize for the inconvenience this causes you.

We will add more redundancy servers and cloud hosts to the existing 70 data centers we already use to minimize the chances of this happening again.

And next year we'll buy the weather!

Claudia and the App Kittens

UPDATE & GIFT CARD: Back to normal! We sent a $20 Gift Card to every App.Cat user as a token of appreciation for your patience. Just open your "Piggy Bank" to see it. On the upside, this server-move helped us prepare for the introduction of premium hosting scheduled for November 1, 2013.

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Coupons and ads that call you...

Your instant apps are becoming niftier by the day...

Create a promotional message, ad, or coupon that appears when the iPhone is turned sideways. It's clickable and goes wherever you want it to go. It can even call a phone number! Brilliant.

You also get an extra promo-button for people who don't know about tilting the phone. This guarantees that people will find and trigger your ad. By default it says "Special Offer" but you can change those words to anything you want.

It's easy to activate and manage. You'll find it inside "Pimp my app" in your App.Cat Studio for Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Read more...

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New free app marketing tools: Instant App Photos, Flyers, Posters, embeddable SMS sharing box...

Suck at taking pictures of your app on many smartphones? We now generate photo montages of your app. Instantly. Free.

Hate Photoshop but love dead trees? We now generate posters, flyers, table-tents for you. Free.

The cool share by SMS and email box on your download site? You can now put it on any website you want. We keep paying for the SMS.

You find all this inside your App.Cat Studio on PC, Mac, iPad by going to Promote, Viral. As always: This huge software feature update is FREE.

For details and documentation click here... Join us on the Lounge and discuss these new features

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App.Cat for iPad released - Make apps on the couch!

It's gorgeous and intuitive.  It's the entire App.Cat app making suite but fully mobile. An absolute stunner on iPad Mini, too. Even on most Android tablets... Take your app making business on the road or to the couch. FREE for all App.Cat Studio customers. Go to www.app.cat/iPad and be amazed!

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Introducing Instant Button Maker

In a hurry? Detest Photoshop? Don't have a real logo or icon for your app? No problem! Use your new Instant Button Maker.

Pick one of the 100 fun and professional objects

Select a background color

DONE

Your new app button instantly beams itself to every iPhone that has your app.

If later you decide to add your own art or photo you just click "add my own photo" and it'll become everyone's button. Now THAT'S quick!

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Upgrading Servers to handle Holiday App Making Frenzy

Holy Kitten, we're swamped! Everyone seems to make a gift-app. So we're adding a few more international servers to speed things up for our app-making kittens and app-downloading clients. Log back in in a few hours to see some great changes and fantastic enhancements. Hosting is still free during our whitelabel domain beta and there will always be a free domain on which to park your apps! Today's stress-test helps us solidify this.

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Gift them an app - It's free, quick, and painless

As an App.Cat Kitten you can make as many apps as you want.  Make your own app or start an entire app business.  So if you're out of ideas or cash: Make them an app!

And if you missed our $20 Gift Card because you didn't yet own App.Cat you're in for a treat! Get App.Cat NOW and we'll send you the Gift Card via email manually until Dec. 25! Yay! 

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Your Gift Card is in the mail

Santa's early this year: $20 Gift Card adorns your email inbox.  Look for our newsletter today. Thanks for being our customer!

PS: If you don't see our email just click here to get the Gift Card. PPS: If you don't yet own App.Cat for Windows and Mac you can get it here and we'll manually send you a Gift Card after your purchase until Dec. 25, 2012

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Bouncy Turkey - New animated app template

As always: Templates are free and appear automatically inside your app making software. More than 100 templates are yours to noodle with! Mix and match objects and backgrounds. Yes: Bouncy Turkey is yours to animate over any background. Even your own picture. At last: Your family understands that "app-thing" you've been talking about. "He puts Turkeys on pictures. And they bounce. He'll go on to win Nobel Prizes!"

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Freestyle-juggle your Navigation Buttons

Slide your nav buttons to wherever you want.  Nothing to read, think, or fill out: Drag stuff to where you want it. Done!

54 seconds worth watching:

It took us months to get this one right. Sure, we could have sleazed it like everyone else by making you fill out boxes, select from drop-downs, numbering your buttons, or delete and remake a new menu. Blech!

But you know us by now: We wanted it to be super easy and intuitive. So it's with much pride that today we're launching this nifty button slidy gem.

As always: This new functionality automatically appears inside your App.Cat app making software for Windows and Mac when you open it next. Nothing to download. It just works!

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Make apps faster than ever!

Introducing App.Cat's Visual Speed Editor. Easy on the eye. Mellow on the brain!

Why navigate through endless lists of features and menus just to make an app? Read words? Blech! Lynch that Gutenberg dude. He's so 1400. 

It's your right to just poke at stuff. You're entitled to omit synapse. Language is for wimps with bow ties. Long live the power of Hieroglyphs!

Just click the Swiss Suitcase on top right and prod at things you want to change. Boom. Done! It's visual, efficient, sexy, and intuitive. Primal apping at its prime!

Give it a poke. You'll love it.

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Happy Spooky!

While you are out munching brains or treating tricks our code kittens slaved over style liver. But first this: Halloween App made in 3 minutes. Zombie Nurse Cleavage included...

The real news? You can now share styles with other App.Cat app makers. Or apply the exact same color/font scheme across multiple apps. Whenever you're happy with your styling our software spits out a unique Style-ID. Share it. Win design awards. Nobel Prizes. Or a friend...

Soooooo: If you want to knock out a quick Halloween app just like the saucy one above  use the style we slaved over and put it in that fancy little box:

Style ID: a7459529d3f8968cbbadbd3b67bf94e2

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Woooosh! In slides a radical new navigation menu - Shine with truly unique apps

Introducing Side-Slider, the navigation menu best known from Facebook for iPhone and Android. You begged, we coded. It's yours. Put it in your instant app now.

You only have one chance at making a first impression. That's why App.Cat gives you animated splash screens and animated menus. Now with one more flavor: Side-Slider. Like our "Flying Blobs" it's unique and exclusive to App.Cat to guarantee to have an edge over your competition.

You've got icons. 200 of them. For your menus. It's for folks who feel that an app is only an app if it has little pictograms on the navigation bar.

If you've been using our old corporate menu style it's time to click the "update to cloud"-button. A set of gorgeous standard icons appear on every iPhone and Android that has your app. Free, of course. As a thank you for sticking around.

And if you don't like the standard icons and words you can change them inside your custom menu settings. And match your brand's colors. Now your app stands out in a crowded market. It's truly unique, fully animated, and represents you to the finest detail. On iPhone and Android. More...