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Although there are many smartphone, laptop and desktop users now-a-days, still there seems to be a great degree of confusion among Users when it comes to differences between native apps, web apps, mobile websites, hybrid apps etc. The choice should be made as per the business requirements and your business’ end goals.
Let us go one-by-one about the options available and look into requirements that is fulfilled by each of the option.
Desktop website
Desktop Site describes websites that have a wide format and is commonly viewed with larger displays like laptops and desktop computers.
Benefits:
- Having a professional website will help gaining credibility for your business because today more and more consumers use internet to search for availability of products and services.
- It is a cost-effective way to reach to the potential market and promote your business.
- It provides a great place to showcase your work and it helps in improving customer service by adding information that would be valuable for customers.
Responsive website:
A responsive website adapts to whatever device it is being viewed on. The same website will display the same content using a visual design that is most suited the device being used to navigate that website. Users visits any site to find out information rather than completing any tasks. A responsive website ensures that users can find the same information whatever may the device being used.
Benefits:
- Responsive websites are excellent at User experience. While the content on the website is the king, it is the user experience that ensures that the visitors should be able to consume content of the website using device of their choice.
- Having separate desktop sites and mobile sites needs separate SEO campaigns. Managing one site is easier than managing two sites and two SEO campaigns.
Native mobile apps:
A native mobile app is an application users download from an app store. Developers code it to work specifically on a particular smart device’s operating system like iPhone/iPad, Windows, Android, Blackberry, and Kindle. Any native app has better security features and has more access to a mobile device and tend to be more reliable and faster than web apps.
Benefits:
- Native mobile apps are fastest, most reliable and gives most responsive experience to users.
- The popularity of native apps has been immense and is continuing to rise.
- It is one of the key method to keep the consumers engaged by using push notifications and keep the consumers informed about the new piece of content published.
Web Applications:
A web application shares characteristics of native app as well as responsive website. In active voice: “The main difference is that a responsive website focuses on content, while a web app focuses on tasks, similar to a native app.”
Benefits:
- Because of tightly controlled requirements and licensing fees, mobile apps face difficulties in getting into a marketplace. Web apps have same content and capabilities and can replace mobile app to an adequate extent.
- Almost every mobile app depends heavily on the internet. A web app relies on the browser and its capabilities to render the application. Marketplaces for web apps do exist, but no need to visit the one to download it. Web Apps live in the browser so the user can navigate to URL to use the web App.
We are not yet at the point, where the web can fully replace all native applications, but we can focus on building high-performing responsive web applications. Developers can focus on making the web a better place to visit over native applications.
Mobile websites:
A mobile website resembles a desktop website but developers specifically design it to function on a mobile device or its browser. If there is m. in front of any domain, for e.g. m.superpages.com, it indicates that the domain owner has set up a separate mobile domain for visitors using mobile device. If a mobile site lacks “m.” in the domain name, it most likely has either adaptive design or responsive design. Rather than splitting the sites across two or more domains, it’s all located in one place.
Benefits:
- A mobile website is easier to find and share.
- It is compatible to all types of mobile devices (Android, iOS, etc.) and is more flexible in terms of content update.
- It is more cost effective and time effective.
Hybrid Applications:
To develop Hybrid applications, developer augments web code with native SDK. Usually, deploying these apps across multiple platforms is the cheaper and faster solution, and one can easily do it.
Benefits:
- Hybrid apps are faster and easier to develop.
- It is also easier to maintain and one can change the platforms.
- One very big advantage of hybrid apps over native apps is that they leverage one single core, allowing you to add functionality and enabling multiple versions of the app to benefit from it. Whereas with native apps, introducing every new functionality requires replicating the feature on each platform.
What should be your choice?
Businesses choose a suitable IT solution based on their requirements and end goals, whether they need it for marketing-oriented web presence or interactive consumer engagement.
The native mobile app will provide a mobile centric experience for your existing and loyal customers, whereas responsive website can help in providing optimized user experience to both old and new visitors.
If you need app, you have to look for your target audience. It is important to identify app customers. To become successful, the app must identify and target the correct customer base.
If the company can wait for six months or more before launching the app, then a native app approach becomes more sensible. If the desired time to market is less than six months, then a hybrid app could be a better alternative as it allows building with a single source code and releasing across different platforms.
Krify’s development team has acquired expertise in building various websites, web apps, and mobile apps across different software platforms. We understand business needs and offer tailored IT solutions. Contact us today to explore your digital options.
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