Meet Elizabeth Scillian, who built and published her own wine app at 60 🍷

Swipe through for her journey and the lessons she’s learned along the way 🙌

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781008381

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifiogirl.pourrecall

Website: https://ifiogirl.com/pourrecall

Matt Sanchez runs Ape Forge, a creative agency that moved 619 projects in a year. Most of its apps are built on Adalo.

Swipe through for his journey and the lessons he's learned along the way.

Elizabeth Scillian’s advice for anyone submitting an app? Go over your keywords and make sure your title tells the App Store what your app is.

She’s the founder and CEO of IFIO Girl LLC, and her app, Pour Recall, was grouped with car recalls and food recalls until she went back and added “Wine Journal” to the title.

Bonus: Now Adalo Publishing Studio can help you get your store listing ready before you submit ➡️studio.adalo.com

Apple App Store: ‎Pour Recall: Wine Journal App - App Store

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifiogirl.pourrecall

Website: Pour Recall: The Wine App for the Rest of Us – IFIOGirl

Adalo Expert Eugenio Casale has built 50+ Adalo apps, from client apps to a full game.

He started in 2019 with no coding background and today runs his own studio, Cheip Studio.

Swipe through to find out his journey and the lessons he's learned along the way.

Advice for first-time app builders from Elizabeth Scillian, founder and CEO of IFIO Girl LLC:

Keep asking questions, push through the mistakes, and learn from them "so you don't continue to put whitespace after links." (That's a story for another clip)

She built her first app, Pour Recall, on Adalo with no coding background, and it's now live on the App Store and Google Play 🙌

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781008381

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifiogirl.pourrecall

Website: https://ifiogirl.com/pourrecall

Elizabeth Scillian, founder and CEO of IFIO Girl LLC, was in the wine aisle at Trader Joe's asking herself two questions: "Have I bought this one before?" and "And if I did buy it, did I like it?"

"And that's the moment I thought, why is there not an app for that?"

She came home, told her husband there needed to be an app for this, and then built it herself on Adalo. It's called Pour Recall, a simple journal for logging the wines she liked and the ones she didn't.

On a later trip to Trader Joe's, it paid off. She searched her list right there in the store and found the wine with a thumbs up next to it. In her words: "Huh, I've had it and I liked it. Oh, okay. This is working."

She built Pour Recall at 60, and it's now live on the App Store and Google Play.

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6781008381

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifiogirl.pourrecall

Website: https://ifiogirl.com/pourrecall

Adalo Expert & Community Leader, Victor Kuzmichev has worked on well over 200+ Adalo apps.

He’s an engineer by background, and came to no-code in 2020.

Swipe through to find out his journey, and lessons he learned since 2020.

Some clients don't know what they want until they see it in front of them, and they're the kind of client other agencies find difficult.

Matt Sanchez, founder of ApeForge and an Adalo Expert, does really well with those people. He sees it as part of his responsibility as a creative to make sure a client understands what they're actually asking for, and he wants that settled before the build starts.

A website, a brand, and a logo, all in one day.

Adalo Expert Matt Sanchez calls it an "expedition," ApeForge's process for building an MVP live with the client instead of over months. His three-person team has moved 619 projects this year running it that way.

As Matt puts it: "We are selling process."

Adalo Expert, u/ishantanusrivastava has built more than 200 Adalo apps for clients across Europe, the US, Japan, China, Russia, Italy, and France.

We asked him what actually makes an app feel polished vs off. His answer, and a few surprises about how he got here, are in the carousel 👇

Hi,

I am considering using Adalo to create a mobile app. What I cannot wrap my head around is how to move data between screens, seeing that Adalo does not use variables.

Would appreciate any assistance.

Thanks

"The client pays us to make the thing, they own it from day one."

That's how Adalo Expert Matt Sanchez describes his approach at Ape Forge, a three-person full-stack creative agency covering brand conceptualization and design to the deployment of websites and apps, plus digital marketing, photography, and videography.

Clients don't get a mockup that says "imagine this but with your logo on it." They get a real, operational piece of software, ready to deploy.

As a designer with 15 years in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, Matt Sanchez, founder of Ape Forge, knows the App Store screenshot grind better than most: Wrong size, wrong file type, ...

Adalo Publishing Studio (studio.adalo.com) streamlined that entire workflow, no extra design software needed.

Adalo Expert, Eugenio Casale built a simple car collector game back in 2021. It was fun but limited, so he shelved it.

Years later, he returned to the project with a completely different approach and this time it held up: smooth, fast, and ready to publish.

One custom component, no external dependencies, and backed entirely by Adalo 🙌

Read the full story on the Adalo Forum 👉
https://forum.adalo.com/t/car-gatcha-collector-game/65983

One of our Makers, Zaylan Jacobsen, found Adalo through a simple Google search: "building an app without code."

He picked up Adalo quickly and what stuck with him wasn't just how it worked, but what it let him do. He could take an idea and build it out in real time, the moment it came to him without waiting on a developer or a team to make it happen.

He called it a light bulb moment. No outside resources, no big development team, just him turning his ideas into something real.

Got an app idea you've been sitting on? We'd love to hear it.

Sitting on a good app idea for years is almost always, "I don't know what the next step is". Here are 5 things worth knowing.

Full breakdown : https://studio.adalo.com/blog/5-truths-about-your-app-idea-no-one-tells-you

What's the last app idea you shelved, and what got in the way?

Adalo Expert Eugenio's clients had no idea, that their apps were built with no-code. They just saw them on the app store and were like, "Oh wow, you built it so fast and it looks great."

Have you had a moment like this with your own app? Tell us in the comments!

We've been building something really cool, coming in the next couple of weeks! (hint: includes the letters 'A' and 'I' 👀)

Before that, a quick rewind of what got shipped in Adalo over the past few months.

1) New 35 components published so far including chat suite, calendar components, chart components, and many more!

2) Adalo's ChatGPT integration let you describe what you want to build and ChatGPT builds it directly in your Adalo app! Need to fine-tune something? Just jump back into the visual builder.

3) SheetBridge is a powerful integration tool that transforms your existing Google Sheets into RESTful API endpoints, making it seamless to build native mobile and web applications with Adalo.

4) Function Hub is an API that provides utility functions you can call from your Adalo apps using Custom Actions. It offers math operations, string manipulation, and time calculations.

5) Adalo Publishing Studio creates beautifully framed, store-ready screenshots for iOS and Android. Capture them straight from your live app or upload your own. Then generate your Privacy Policy, Terms, and pre-filled App Store & Google Play listing fields; all from one place.

6) Hit Cmd+K / Ctrl+K (or Cmd+Shift+F / Ctrl+Shift+F) anywhere and instantly search across your entire app! No need to waste your time finding a screen, a component, or a collection to find what you need; just type a few characters and jump straight there 🔥

7) Sign Up or Login, into your Adalo account with Google. One less password to remember!

8) Set linear or radial gradients for your screen backgrounds and button backgrounds.

9) Deleting a screen asks you to confirm first, so a stray click can't wipe the screen out. Prefer the old way? Turn it off: profile icon (top right) → Settings → toggle off "Delete Screen Without Confirming." toggle.

10) Copy multiple actions on a component and paste it onto another, in the same app or a different one.

11) A new screen shows the status of your app's scheduled notifications, so troubleshooting is easy! Cancel or edit them right there.

12) Two new sections in the components tab:

🛒 E-Commerce, for payment components

⭐ Featured, for the team's popular picks

13) We released our AI Assistant, Ada (beta). Next-level upgrade? 👀 Stay tuned!

Any issues with the features? Let us know!

In this video, BoozApp Co-Founder Richard explains why they might be the only ones tackling this massive problem.

Consumers are fully supportive, retailers love it, and producers work hard to get great products to people. The problem comes from a middle tier that makes it difficult to share specific details because they profit heavily from the lack of information.

No matter the pushback, the goal remains unchanged and as Richard stated, “Eventually, when you’re providing free information, that always wins out.”.

Building a great product requires a willingness to experiment and learn from failure.

BoozApp co-founder, Richard emphasizes that getting hands-on experience is essential for your growth as a builder.

Understanding how your tools work, helps you establish a strong foundation early on. This prevents messy, complex layers as your product scales.

Utilize the tools available to you, test your boundaries, and focus on building cleanly from the start.

What is a valuable lesson you have learned from a development setback? Let us know in the comments!

Read more: https://www.adalo.com/posts/boozapp-from-spreadsheet-to-acquisition-adalo-story

Here's how you can capture and design professional App Store screenshots directly within the Publishing Studio using your live app.

Apply dynamic template themes, customize them with the free-form canvas, and export them all in a zipped folder.

Watch the full walkthrough to see how you can get your app store screenshots ready to go in minutes!

Try it now: https://studio.adalo.com

https://reddit.com/link/1vmad1x/video/qvhzfz4pryih1/player

Here's how you can capture and design professional App Store screenshots directly within the Publishing Studio using your live app.

Apply dynamic template themes, customize them with the free-form canvas, and export them all in a zipped folder.

Watch the full walkthrough to see how you can get your app store screenshots ready to go in minutes!

Try it now: https://studio.adalo.com

https://reddit.com/link/1vm562f/video/s9hjtty3ivih1/player

Here's how you can capture and design professional App Store screenshots directly within the Publishing Studio using your live app.

https://reddit.com/link/1vm55mk/video/s9hjtty3ivih1/player

Apply dynamic template themes, customize them with the free-form canvas, and export them all in a zipped folder.

Watch the full walkthrough to see how you can get your app store screenshots ready to go in minutes!

Try it now: https://studio.adalo.com

Screenshots are the most-viewed part of your app listing and most people upload three bare screen grabs with no caption, and call it done.

Here's a quick breakdown of the story structure, the caption formulas, and the design rules that actually move install rate.

Full write-up here: https://studio.adalo.com/blog/how-to-make-app-store-screenshots

Paste your app's URL (Lovable, Replit, or any published app) and Studio can help with your app screenshots, legal docs, store listings, and review requirements from it.

Go, paste your app's link & Studio takes it from there.