The math
Why Shippie.
Not an argument. Just three numbers, plainly true, and rarely stated together.
$3,000
out of every $10k
Apple keeps 30% of what your app earns on the App Store. Shippie takes 0%. If your app makes $10k/yr, you keep $10k/yr.
14 days
vs 60 seconds
Median App Store review. Shippie median time-to-live: under a minute. That’s not a small difference — it’s a different job.
0 rejections
by design
There’s no review queue on Shippie. Your app ships when you ship it. If it violates policy you get taken down — but nothing sits for a week waiting for permission.
Side by side
What each platform actually does.
No tool is strictly best. Pick the one whose constraints fit what you’re building.
| Shippie | App Store | Vercel | Glide | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to live | 60 seconds | 14 days | 60 seconds | minutes |
| Revenue share | 0% | 30% | 0% | plan-tiered |
| Review queue | none | yes | none | none |
| Installable on phones | yes (PWA) | yes (native) | DIY | partial |
| Your data stays yours | yes | no | yes | no |
| Open source | yes (AGPL) | no | no | no |
| Deploy from Claude Code | native (MCP) | no | CLI only | no |
| Self-hostable | yes | no | no | no |
Honest on purpose. Each of these tools does something Shippie doesn't — we're not a native SDK, not a full-stack host, not a no-code builder. We ship your web app to phones. That's it.
And why it’s open source
A platform you can leave.
Platforms that host your audience have leverage over your work. We built Shippie so that leverage is always returnable.
The platform is AGPL-3.0. Self-host it. Fork it. Run your own instance on any box. Your apps are yours; your users install from a URL you own.
If Shippie ever does something you disagree with, the door out is short: change your DNS and keep shipping.
Ship the first one.
Drop a zip. Get a URL. Install it on your phone. See the math for yourself.