Engage your most loyal audience with Pugpig Bolt – the mobile app platform that beautifully blends live content, digital editions, podcasts, video and more across iOS, Android and web.
From live news apps to crisp digital editions, Bolt is packed with deeply engaging, publisher-focused features that boost engagement and grow reader revenue.
Build a beautifully branded mobile app with flexibility and extensibility baked into its core. Surface stories, audio, video, events and more through customisable curated cards.
Blend live news content and digital editions with ease. Your digital editions can be responsive HTML or PDF pages (or a hybrid of the two) that feel like your magazine and translate seamlessly to mobile.
Choose from leading tech integrations to create a deeply engaging mobile app. From push notifications to events, Bolt’s supported integrations and tools are ready to use.
Get the most out of your mobile app right off the shelf. Bolt is packed with top class features and supports bespoke customisation.
Surface breaking news and the latest stories as soon as they happen. Bolt’s live content feeds are dynamic, intuitive and super engaging.
Because news is far more than just the written word. Make audio and podcasts a standout feature of your digital strategy with Bolt’s flexible audio functionality.
Get your audience hooked with video content. Add swipeable, Reels-style vertical video to your app with Clips, helping boost engagement, grow subscriptions and increase time spent in-app.
Build beautifully responsive digital editions with ease. Your content is expertly tailored for digital while retaining the core elements of your brand’s reading experience.
Your digital editions, replicas, and e-editions are easy to navigate with true PDF rendering. Replicate your print publications beautifully with crisp pages and smooth pan and zoom.
Puzzles and games are proven drivers of engagement and time spent in-app. Bolt makes it easy to give your readers a reason to keep coming back beyond the news.
Your content is always easy to find thanks to Bolt’s intuitive search function. Powered by AWS Cloudsearch, it’s fully managed, reliable and supports loads of features and customisations.
Bolt’s personalisation tool, Follow, let your readers personalise their app experience by following the topics and writers they care about most.
Bolt apps follow the design languages of iOS and Android, with a polished, intuitive interface that keeps your brand identity consistent across platforms.
Bolt’s set of curated cards support everything from video, podcasts and puzzles to events, advertising and sponsorship. Customise to your heart’s content.
Bolt gives publishers flexible, targetable advertising across display, in-content, full-screen and video, alongside sponsored content, with privacy controls built in.
Grow subscriber revenue with seamless subscription integrations. Convert more readers with A/B testing, dynamic paywalls and support for external purchasing flows.
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
We’ve worked with Pugpig since going digital-only in 2016. Their SaaS approach helped us efficiently reach our goals to deliver Independent journalism globally and drive subscriptions in reliable mobile products.
Zach Leonard
Chief Executive, Independent Digital News & Media
News media
Team Pugpig worked extensively with this iconic news journal to beautifully replicate the look and feel of its premium magazine into their app. As well as digital editions, the app showcases podcasts and editorially-curated content in true The Spectator style.
Lowered their tech spend
4.8/5 rating on App Store
In the top 25 apps in ‘Magazines’ in App Store
News media
The Baltimore Banner app truly captures the essence of a premium local news app. It uses our domain linking feature so links from newsletters, social or inline open seamlessly in-app.
8 week project turnaround
Screen views increasing month on month since launch4.8/5 App Store rating
Consumer media
The biggest name in consumer magazines moved every title across the UK, USA, Spain, France, Germany and Taiwan to Pugpig and significantly improved their digital edition portfolio.
Migration of all titles in just a few monthsGQ, Vogue, Architectural Digest and Glamour amongst Pugpig Bolt apps
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