# App Studio > Launch your own branded ordering app without an agency. Push notifications, home-screen loyalty, and the same menu as every other Storekit channel. Canonical: https://storekit.com/products/app-studio **Your app, on their home screen** Your own native app in the App Store and Google Play. No agency, no dev team. Your regulars, one push notification away. - **An app, not a webview badge** - Your icon on the App Store and Google Play, your brand end to end - built from the storefront you already designed, so there is nothing to maintain twice. - **Push beats paid** - A push notification to your own guests costs nothing and lands on a lock screen. It is the cheapest demand lever a restaurant owns - if it owns the app. - **Loyalty where it lives** - Points, rewards, and reorder-in-two-taps sit on the home screen instead of in a stamp card at the bottom of a bag. - **Same menu, same dashboard** - The app is a channel, not a second system. One menu edit updates web, kiosk, QR, and app together. - **61%** Of app orders are from returning guests ## How it works 1. **Design it** - Your brand, your menu, in App Studio. No agency, no dev team. 2. **We ship it** - We handle App Store and Play Store submission and review. 3. **It's on their home screen** - Push notifications, loyalty and reorder, one tap away. ## What it does ### An app, not a webview badge Plenty of platforms will sell you an 'app' that is your website in a frame with a home-screen icon. Guests can tell within a second, and it converts like a website because it is one. App Studio ships a genuine native app to the App Store and Google Play under your brand - the speed, the gestures and the notifications a guest expects, without an agency quote with a comma in it. ### Push beats paid Every other channel charges you to reach the guests you already have: paid social to your own followers, email fighting a promotions tab, a marketplace selling you back your own regulars. A push notification lands on the home screen of someone who chose to install your app - the cheapest and most direct marketing a restaurant can own, and the one thing that reliably fills a quiet weeknight. ### Loyalty where it lives A loyalty scheme that lives on a card in a drawer, or in an app the guest has to be reminded exists, is a scheme that does not run. In App Studio, the balance is on the screen they open to order, and the reorder button is next to it - the guest sees what they have earned at exactly the moment they are deciding where to eat. ### Same menu, same dashboard The reason branded apps get abandoned is maintenance: a separate menu, separate prices, separate stock, and a change that has to be made in three places on a Friday. App Studio is another surface on the same Storekit account - one menu, one dashboard, one payout, one place to 86 an item. ### Live without a dev team A custom ordering app has historically meant an agency, a discovery phase and a number most independents cannot justify - then a maintenance retainer to keep it working when the OS updates. App Studio takes the design and the shipping, including store submission and review, so the cost of having an app stops being the reason not to have one. ### Your guests, your data An app is the deepest relationship a restaurant can have with a guest short of the room itself: they chose to give you space on their home screen. Every order builds the same guest record as every other channel, flowing into your CRM, and nobody is renting you access to people who already installed your app. ## A home-screen icon is a standing invitation. Everything else in a guest's life competes for attention: an inbox, a feed, an ad auction. An app they chose to install sits on the home screen and costs nothing to reach. For brands with real regulars, that turns your most valuable guests into a channel you own - not one you rent back every month. ## Questions ### Is this a real app or a wrapped website? A genuine native app, submitted to the App Store and Google Play under your brand - not a webview with an icon. ### Do you handle store submission? Yes. Design it in App Studio and we handle submission and review for both stores. ### Do I need a developer? No. No agency, no dev team, no maintenance retainer. ### Is it a separate menu to run? No - the app is another surface on the same Storekit account, menu and dashboard. ### Can I send push notifications? Yes, to the guests who installed your app. It's the cheapest direct marketing a restaurant can own. ## Related - [Store designer](https://storekit.com/features/store-designer) - [Automatic upsells](https://storekit.com/features/automatic-upsells) - [Smart reviews](https://storekit.com/features/smart-reviews) - [Order tracking](https://storekit.com/features/order-tracking) - [Delivery zones](https://storekit.com/features/delivery-zones) - [Capacity control](https://storekit.com/features/capacity-control) - [Tipping & service charge](https://storekit.com/features/tipping-and-service-charge) - [Item videos & photos](https://storekit.com/features/item-videos-and-photos) - [Kitchen display system](https://storekit.com/features/kitchen-display-system) - [Payment links](https://storekit.com/features/payment-links) - [Takeaway & delivery](https://storekit.com/products/takeaway-system-for-restaurants) - [Catering](https://storekit.com/products/catering-pickup-delivery-for-office-orders) - [Kiosks](https://storekit.com/products/kiosks) - [Pricing](https://storekit.com/pricing)