Mobile app studio · Built for local business

Apps your customers actually open, built for the block you're on.

BlackBox Digital designs and ships custom mobile apps and AI automation for restaurants, salons, gyms, clinics and trades. Your brand, your workflow, your customers' pockets.

  • iOS & Android apps
  • Personalised customer apps
  • Booking & ordering
  • Loyalty & retention
  • AI automation
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0 apps shipped/0 week average build/0% built in-house

Some of what we've
put in people's hands

Every build below is a real product pattern we ship — and every one of them is playable further down this page.

Reform

Pilates schedule

Fetch

Next appointment

Sip

Loyalty & rewards

Yours
next.

Tell us the business, we'll build the screen your customers would actually use — free.

Your app

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Live demos · No download, no signup

Three screens. Tap them.
They actually work.

Tap inside the phone — it's a real prototype.

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Reform

Pilates studio · class schedule

The screen members open five times a week. Live spots left, instructor per class, credits counted off the membership automatically — and the waitlist fills itself the second someone cancels.

  • Real-time capacity, no double bookings
  • Credits & memberships tracked in-app
  • Late-cancel rules enforced for you

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Fetch

Pet grooming · next appointment

One screen that answers every call you'd otherwise take: when is it, who's grooming, what's it costing. Add-ons get picked before drop-off, and live status means nobody rings to ask if the dog is ready.

  • Next visit, groomer and price in one card
  • Add-ons chosen and paid up front
  • Live status from tub to pickup

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Sip

Boba tea · loyalty & rewards

A stamp card nobody loses in a wallet. Every drink counts itself, rewards unlock on their own, and the code at the counter is one tap — so the ninth boba is the reason they walk past the shop next door.

  • Digital stamps & tiers
  • Rewards that unlock automatically
  • Member code scanned at the counter

WE BUILD THE THING, THEN WE KEEP IT ALIVE.

Three ways we
show up for you

Small team, senior hands. You talk to the people writing the code — from the first sketch to the App Store listing and everything after it.

Native-feeling iOS and Android apps from one codebase. Ordering, booking, memberships, loyalty, delivery tracking — built around how your business already runs, not around a template's opinion.

  • Customer app — the thing your regulars keep on their home screen
  • Staff app — rota, orders, jobs, tickets, in one place
  • Store launch — we handle App Store & Play submission end to end

Off-the-shelf software makes you work its way. We build the tool that matches the way you already work — and connect it to what you already pay for.

  • Internal tools — replace the spreadsheet, the clipboard, the group chat
  • Integrations — POS, calendar, payments, CRM, accounting, talking to each other
  • Dashboards — the four numbers you actually check, on one screen

Not AI for the sake of it. We find the repetitive, multi-step work in your week and hand it to something that never forgets to follow up.

  • AI front desk — calls, texts and DMs answered and booked, 24/7
  • Review & retention engine — the ask goes out at the right moment, automatically
  • Back-office agents — invoices, rotas, reorders, reporting, handled quietly

From call to
App Store in six weeks

One fixed price, one timeline, no surprise invoices.

  1. 01

    Free demo call

    30 minutes. We map your bookings, orders and busywork, then show you a working prototype of your app — with your name on it.

    Week 0
  2. 02

    Design & scope

    Every screen drawn and approved before a line of code. Fixed scope, fixed price, dates you can plan a launch around.

    Week 1
  3. 03

    Build & connect

    We build in weekly slices you can hold on your own phone, wired into your POS, calendar and payments as we go.

    Week 2–5
  4. 04

    Launch & look after

    Store submission, staff training, launch push. Then monthly care: updates, OS releases, and new features when you need them.

    Week 6 →

Personal demo · Free, no obligation

Tell us what you need. We'll build the demo for your business.

Fill this in and within two working days you'll get a private link to a working demo app — your name, your menu or services, your booking flow. Yours to keep whether or not we work together.

Timeline

We reply within 2 working days. No spam, no sales sequence — one human, one email.

Straight answers

Most local-business apps land between a focused single-purpose build and a full customer platform. You get one fixed price after the scope call — plus a monthly care plan that covers hosting, updates and OS releases. No hourly billing, no scope-creep invoices.

Yes. Code, design files, store listings and customer data are yours, published under your own developer account. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.

That's the normal case, not the exception. We integrate with the common POS, booking, payment and accounting tools, and where there's no clean API we build the bridge. We confirm exactly what's possible on the demo call, before you commit to anything.

Really free, and really yours. We build a working prototype with your branding and your flow so you can hold it before you spend anything. Roughly half the people who see one don't hire us — that's fine, it's still the fastest way for you to find out whether an app is worth it.