Cicero+ app: subscription content for iOS and Android
AI-generated, human-reviewed
Starting point
A digital magazine subscription is rarely read at a desk. People who pay for it want the content where reading actually happens — on the train, on the sofa, offline. For the editorial team that means an app carrying the same articles as the website, without maintaining content twice. For the publisher it means two app stores, but not two development budgets.
Solution
An app built on Ionic and Angular — one codebase from which the iOS and Android editions are produced. Subscribers sign in and get every article their subscription covers, ad-free, on every device they are signed in on.
Choosing a hybrid framework was not a cost-cutting move here but the fitting one: the core of this app is text, images and a subscription status — none of which warrants two separately maintained native applications and the doubled upkeep that follows over the years.
Outcome
The subscription is where the reading happens — in both stores, maintained from one source.
In the Apple and Google app stores.