Bolt
Highly customisable mobile apps on our award-winning platform. Combine live content, digital editions, podcasts, audio, puzzles, video and loads more. On iOS, Android and web.
Pugpig is the mobile app platform that powers the world’s leading media brands
Launch deeply engaging mobile apps, digital replicas, and beautifully curated archives on our mobile publishing platform
Drive engagement and subscriber value
Mobile apps are the key to engaging your most valuable audience, building habit and significantly driving up reader revenue and retention. Cultivate direct, lasting relationships with your readers and retain them for as long as possible.
Customise with precision, launch at speed
Get up and running in no time, with zero fuss. Our award-winning platform comes complete with highly customisable templates, tools and plugins that integrate seamlessly with your tech stack. Maximum impact, minimum effort.
Reduce technology spend and risk
We take care of the tech so you can focus on your core business. Choosing the Pugpig mobile app platform means less effort, lower costs, and faster and better results – without the hassle of building and maintaining your own tech. We’re secure, stable, and always on hand.
Our products
One digital publishing platform, two world class products.
Archive
Beautifully curated, fully searchable digital archives rendered in HTML and original PDF formats.
“Pugpig is a valuable, strategic partner for our team at Boston Globe Media”
Pugpig is a valuable, strategic partner for our team at Boston Globe Media. They helped to rebuild and reinvent our Globe.com mobile app, and we continue to work together to iterate and improve upon it. I’ve worked with many software companies over 30 years, and Pugpig’s commitment to ongoing transformation is truly impressive. Their team is incredibly responsive, knowledgeable, and a pleasure to work with.
Kathy Colafemina
Senior Director, Product Development, Boston Globe Media
Pugpig are an excellent partner – they are a true extension to our team.
Katie Vanneck-Smith
CEO, Hearst UK
We turned to Pugpig to rebuild our apps on a tight deadline, and boy did they deliver! Engagement is through the roof – we couldn’t be happier with our decision to go with Pugpig.
Aron Pilhofer
Chief Product Officer, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Pugpig has been an exceptionally supportive partner that worked tirelessly to meet our unique business goals and product customization. They felt more like colleagues than vendors, who shared our mission to provide subscribers with an app that delivers the same high-quality, premium experience we offer on other platforms. Consider us a satisfied client.
Amanda Roth
Director of Product & Growth, The Logic
We’ve worked with Pugpig as a core app development partner since going digital-only in 2016. Their multi-platform, SaaS approach has helped us to efficiently achieve our commercial goals to deliver Independent journalism globally, and drive subscriptions in user friendly, reliable mobile products.
Zach Leonard
President, North America, Independent Digital News & Media Ltd
Pugpig was easy to work with, got us the quick turnaround we needed, and they went above and beyond on problem solving some of the challenges we ran into. They’ve been fantastic partners.
Cassie Wimberly
Director of Design, The Baltimore Banner
We pick our partners very carefully and it’s been terrific to work with Pugpig and Human Made, two top-tier technology companies, to bring this product to market.
Hector Arthur
Chief Strategy Officer, Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI)
Josh Roten
As with any transition, we faced quite a challenge managing the rebuild of 40 Local Market Apps. The Pugpig team and their leadership worked with us each week to accomplish our goals and achieve launch KPIs. I’m excited to say we did just that. We met all goals and have outlined a roadmap for the next few months to take our apps to even greater heights
Senior Director, Commerce & On-Site Marketing, American City Business Journals (ACBJ)
Mark Cotton,
This is a big step forward for BCA – both in terms of the app experience/features and also having a partner who can support us and help us evolve over time. We really appreciate the way Team Pugpig has been willing to work with us on finding solutions.
Head of Product (Investment Research Division), BCA Research, Euromoney
Launch mobile apps, digital editions and replicas with Pugpig Bolt
Build beautiful mobile apps that engage your most valuable audience, build habit, and drive reader retention and revenue.
Publish as live content, digital editions or both
Feed straight from your own editorial systems – all content works beautifully across all devices. With Bolt’s digital publishing software, you can choose responsive, interactive HTML or native PDF pages (or a hybrid of the two) for your digital editions and replicas.
Surface stories, audio, video, podcasts, events and more
Bolt’s customisable set of curated cards also support everything from puzzles and promotions to products, advertising and sponsorship.
Packed with features and highly customisable
Including sharing, dynamic timelines, offline mode and loads more. Plus, Bolt is super flexible – we’ll work with you to create bespoke features to your heart’s content.
Build lightning fast websites with Pugpig Site
Launch beautiful content-led websites, hosted by AWS, monitored by Rackspace and managed by the Pugpig team in our WordPress-powered back end.
Manage subscriptions and memberships
Pugpig Site comes integrated with Piano so you can include subscription and memberships services right off the shelf.
Seamless content and integrations
Every page you publish works beautifully across all devices. Plus, Site is packed with a growing list of integrations from SEO optimisation and consent management to email marketing and sharing.
End to end support
From design through to launch and migration from your old platform, we look after all the tech headaches so you can concentrate on your core business.
Boost long term subscriber value with Pugpig Archive
Create beautiful, fully searchable digital archives and offer readers a truly unique way to browse through highly curated collections of your content.
Engage readers with archive content
Leverage a wealth of untapped historical content and imagery at your disposal. Perfect for professionals, researchers, students, journalists, historians and lovers of some of the world’s favourite magazine brands.
Grow subscriber revenue
By broadening your content offering, you’re tapping into a brand new audience and strengthening subscription revenue.
The Art of the Nudge: Perfecting Push in 2025
Our latest Pugpig report explores the power of push notifications in driving app engagement, retention, and user activity. It’s packed with data-driven insights, compelling publisher case studies (learn how The Boston Globe increased open rates by up to 3x) and strategies specifically for publishers, outlining best practices for creating high impact, personalised app messaging.
We’re the world’s favourite digital publishing platform
With over 170 publishers and 360 of the world’s top media brands, Pugpig’s publishing platform is the best on the market.
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Newsletter
A new breed of apps ties unique content and features to revenue strategies
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Pugpig apps shortlisted for ‘Best New Digital Product’ at INMA Global Media Awards 2025
Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Minnesota Star Tribune apps, powered by Pugpig, have been shortlisted for Best New Digital Product at the 2025 INMA Global Media Awards.
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