Reasons Why you should opt for Mobile Apps over Websites

Reasons Why you should opt for Mobile Apps over Websites


The mobile age has arrived—today, the smartphone population outnumbers PC users!

As a result, businesses have recognized the importance of attracting customers through mobile platforms. Yet that is insufficient. To make the most of this channel, they must also optimize their mobile applications and websites to enhance customer satisfaction and outperform their conversion rates.

While some organizations use both mobile websites and applications, others may use only one of the two. The cost, usability, desired functionality, and the audience served all influence the decision between mobile applications and websites.

At Blitz Mobile Apps, every business we are working on, for now, demands mobile app development services.

Having said that, surveys suggest that people prefer mobile apps to mobile websites. This provides a compelling justification for developing mobile apps to connect with prospective (and current) consumers.

Reasons

Improve personalization

Personalization seeks to provide consumers with personalized messages depending on their preferences, location, usage behavior, and other factors.

It is simple to provide consumers with a tailored experience when using mobile apps. You may also test out alternative experiences for your clients using a mobile app A/B testing tool.

Mobile apps can allow consumers to decide on their choices at the outset, allowing them to be delivered with personalized content. Apps may also measure client involvement and use it to provide personalized suggestions and updates to users. Additionally, they may detect the users' position in real-time and give geo-specific information.

 Personalization, however, does not simply help to improve user experience. It can also assist increase app conversion rates.

When consumers are pampered with personalized material, they are more likely to convert since it provides a gentle connection as opposed to general information that appears robotic or automated.

Easy notification sending

The email has been the most extensively utilized corporate communication medium for the previous two decades. Companies have utilized email extensively (and in some cases, misused it) to communicate with their customers. As a result, email has lost its efficacy; open and click rates have consistently decreased.

There's no need to be concerned.  Now consider mobile app alerts. There are two kinds of notifications: push and in-app. Those are intriguing options for connecting with app users in a significantly less obtrusive way.

The ability to offer consumers quick, non-intrusive alerts is so appealing that it is one of the primary reasons why many organizations desire a mobile app in the first instance.

There have been cases where push alerts have resulted in 40% click-through rates.

 Using the capabilities of a mobile device

Mobile applications have the blessing of leveraging mobile device operations such as a camera, contact details, GPS, texts and calls, accelerometer, compass, and so on.

When such gadget functions are leveraged within an app, they may make the user experience more dynamic and enjoyable.

Furthermore, these functionalities can lessen the work consumers would otherwise have to undertake. For example, consumers submitting a form on a banking app may be required to provide images to finish the procedure. The software allows users to shoot and upload images using their smartphone camera.

The interconnected features greatly reduce the time required to complete a certain job in an app and increase conversions.

Working offline capability

That is most probably the noteworthy difference between a mobile website and an app.

Apps, like websites, may require internet access to conduct most operations; however, an app can still provide basic features and content to users when offline.

Design independence

Despite technical breakthroughs in web design, mobile websites must still rely on browsers to accomplish even the most basic activities. Mobile webpages rely on browser capabilities such as the 'back button, "refresh button,' and 'address bar' to function.

Smartphone applications, on the other hand, are not subject to any of these constraints.

A mobile app is developed with a variety of complicated capabilities based on advanced gestures such as 'tap, "swipe,' 'drag,' 'pinch,' 'hold,' and others.

Applications may employ these gestures to provide unique functionality that helps users execute a task more effectively. An app, for example, can allow users to navigate to the next or previous phase by utilizing the swipe motion.

New branding encounter

Because a mobile app is unique from a company's website, it has the freedom to provide customers with a new brand experience. That implies that the organization can explore novel branding designs for the app that is distinct from the company's website's usual brand style.

Taking a step further, businesses may create mobile applications particularly to help them move into a new brand style.

 The design of a mobile app may also be customized by users to their desire. This can increase the app's personalization even further.

 Applications are gaining popularity among users.

Smartphone consumers spend 88% of their time on applications and only 12% on mobile websites.

 A new influx of conversions

If you want to improve conversions, mobile applications might be a simple method to move visitors through the conversion funnel.

 Top-of-the-funnel and bottom-of-the-funnel consumers can be acquired via mobile apps.

 Utility apps, for example, can attract ToFu users who can then be fostered into BoFu leads.

 Brand visibility

People spend a great deal of time on smartphones. It's reasonable to say that many users interact with the applications they've installed on their smartphones daily. This frequent contact serves as a marketing opportunity for the applications.

Even when customers are not regularly using a mobile app, the brand linked with the app is reminded of them. The app's symbol functions as a mini-advertisement for the company.

The availability of an app on any platform influences the user's subconscious view of that brand.

This user behavior is inspired by the Signal Detection Theory, which proposes that people analyze even previously disregarded adverts at some level in their thoughts.

 Apps can perform work more efficiently than websites.

A well-designed mobile app designed by Blitz Mobile Apps may finish tasks considerably quicker than a mobile website.

Applications often save their information directly on mobile devices, as opposed to webpages, which typically require web servers. As a result, data retrieval in mobile apps is quick.

Applications may save users even more time by remembering their preferences and taking sensible precautions on their behalf.