App Builder

Platfio apps are designed to meet the needs of real businesses out of the box. Whether your client runs a clinic, a retail store, a gym, or a professional services firm, the App Builder gives you a complete set of production-ready modules — users, e-commerce, bookings, subscriptions, chat, forms, marketing, and more — that cover the day-to-day operations businesses actually need. There’s no blank canvas to figure out; every module works immediately and is infinitely expandable as the business grows.

The App Builder is the tool that lets your agency assemble all of this into a fully branded web and native mobile app for each client — without writing code from scratch. Pick the modules, configure them, preview the result, and ship.

The Emulator

The workspace for the App Builder is called the Emulator. It’s where you configure, customise, and preview your client’s app in real time. The Emulator shows a live preview of the app on the right-hand side, exactly as end users will see it — and you can switch between iOS and Android to see how the app looks on each platform.

The Manager

On the left-hand side of the Emulator, the Manager tab is where your client’s staff manage the day-to-day operations of their business. This is the control centre — users, tasks, chats, orders, bookings, subscriptions, submissions, entities, marketing, POS, and reports are all accessible from here. Everything staff need to run the business lives in the Manager.

The Editor

Switch to the Editor tab and you’re in full configuration mode. This is where you shape what the app does and how it looks. Manage segments, products, bookables, subscribables, forms, and pages. Set up tools, automations, and integrations. Control the navigation, theme, and settings. The Editor is where you turn a standard set of modules into a fully customised app for your client.

Modules

Built for agencies. Built for business.

This is one of the key differences of the Platfio platform. It’s designed with agencies in mind — and agencies need to make an immediate impact in a business. Most businesses need the same core capabilities: managing users, selling products, taking bookings, processing payments, running marketing, and communicating with customers. Platfio ships all of these as production-ready modules so your team delivers value from day one — not after months of custom development.

• Users — Manage user accounts, roles, and permissions within client applications.
• Point of Sale — In-store and in-app point of sale system for processing transactions and managing inventory.
• Customer Relationship Management — The Users manager doubles as a full CRM — track everything about each user, add tasks, files, notes, segment into lists, and move them through pipelines.
• Chat — In-app support chat system for real-time customer communication and team collaboration.
• E-Commerce — Online store functionality with product catalogues, shopping carts, and checkout flows.
• Bookings — Appointment and reservation management for service-based businesses.
• Subscriptions — Recurring payment subscriptions for memberships, plans, and ongoing services.
• Forms — A form builder that lets clients create custom forms to collect data from their app users.
• Entities — Custom databases inside the app to manage any type of structured data.
• Notebooks — Quick collections of notes, lists, and ideas in a personal notebook for app users.
• Counters — Accumulate points, credits, or tallies that track progress over time.
• Interactors — Real-time chat, feeds, and social interaction between users inside the app.
• Sequences — Timed experiences that play out over time — workout timers, guided sessions, and step-by-step programmes.
• Theme — Customise the app’s colours, fonts, and visual style to match the client’s brand.
• Navigation — Configure the app’s home page, header, tab bar, and side menus to structure the user experience.
• Pages — Build custom pages with drag-and-drop no-code elements or write code directly for full control.
• Stores — Support multiple store locations within a single client application.
• SMS Marketing — Send targeted SMS campaigns to customers directly from the client application.
• Email Marketing — Send email campaigns and automated sequences to customers.
• Push Marketing — Send push notifications to engage users on mobile and web with timely, targeted messages.
• Automations — Build automated workflows that trigger on events, process data, and connect features — extensible with custom Node.js code.
• Integrations — Connect client apps to third-party services like Stripe, SendGrid, Twilio, OpenAI, and Google Tag Manager.

Deeply customisable — all the way down to code.

Businesses don’t just need standard features — they demand the ability to customise and configure every detail to suit their customers and their brand. Every module above provides extensive configuration options out of the box, and when you need to go further, you can write custom code to deeply configure every aspect of the user experience. There’s no ceiling.

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More Examples

Here are some more apps built with the App Builder, each configured with different modules and branding to suit the client’s business.

Platfio works across virtually any industry.

As you can see, Platfio has been used to build apps for businesses across health, fitness, legal, agriculture, property, wellness, and more. Fundamentally, businesses need the same things — and the module system can be deeply optimised with code to fit any niche. It’s extremely likely that Platfio can power your next project if you’re looking for a more efficient way to deliver.

A note on fit.

There are some types of projects we recommend you don’t take on with Platfio — for example, crypto and blockchain solutions, two-sided marketplaces, and technology startups (unless in very specific circumstances).

As a general rule of thumb: Platfio is designed for building apps for businesses, not apps that are businesses.

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Agentic Mode (Beta)

Combine the robust, out-of-the-box features that a Platfio app offers with the modern ease of a chat interface. Agentic Mode lets you describe changes in plain language and have an AI agent implement them directly into your client’s app — adding screens, tweaking layouts, configuring modules, and more, all from a conversation.

• Chat-driven development — Describe what you want and the agent builds it into the app
• Live preview — See changes reflected in the app emulator as the agent works
• Built on Platfio modules — The agent works with the same module system, so changes are production-ready
• Beta — Agentic Mode is currently in beta as we refine the experience