What We Do

iPhone, iPad, and Android App Specialists

PointAbout specializes in creating custom iPhone, iPad and Android applications for some of the largest brands in the world. We have refined a app building process that avoids costly development mistakes with a fanatic focus on quality. Whether you’re just considering mobile, or ready to get started, PointAbout is here to be your development partner.

You can also learn about our low cost, self-service app creation service, AppMakr.

Ready To Get Started?

Ready To Get Started?

We can mobilize your brand more quickly than you thought possible.  Whereas before, extending your brand to mobile devices required a large development effort, with PointAbout you’re free to experiment by producing large numbers of mobile applications quickly and easily.  We can even submit your first mobile application to the iTunes App Store within 24 hours of you getting started.  To learn more, click here.

Developer Central

Develop to PointAbout

PointAbout can handle the entire mobile strategy and application creation & submission process.  However, if you want to do some of the work yourself, we’re happy to help.  If you have content that’s published to the web like RSS, Flickr, YouTube or podcasts, then you can create dowloadable native applications using AppMakr.

Some of the Brands We've Mobilized

Our Blog

Cars.com app, built by PointAbout, currently #1 in iTunes Lifestyle

. PointAbout built the official iPhone app for the hugely popular Cars.com company out of Chicago, and we were just notified by this post by Jim Hopkinson, the official marketing guru for WIRED... [more]


PointAbout’s AppMakr Featured in Fed Tech Bisnow

. PointAbout’s AppMakr service was featured today by Fed Tech Bisnow in a post titled “Innovation Hotspot.” [more]


Cars.com, Created by PointAbout, Launches with Super Bowl Ad

PointAbout created the Cars.com app, which was launched on Sunday by Cars.com with a Super Bowl ad.  MobileMarketer reports that the ad generated 6,500 downloads immediately after the ad aired. MobileMarketer... [more]


PointAbout Founders Interviewed by George Washington University

Michelle, Dan and Chito, MBA Students from George Washington University, came over to PointAbout’s offices to interview the four co-founders.  The resulting 54 minute interview is below. [more]


Development Blog

3.0 OS and Location

There is a new spec (http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html ) to be aware of and incorporate into your code if you are going to use the GPS on the new iPhone 3.0 OS.  Here... [more]


Developer Tip: Yahoo Pipes Make You Expert-in-a-Minute

So the developers here at PointAbout found an awesome new tool this week that has some really useful applications. It’s called Yahoo Pipes, and there’s a demo video... [more]


Turn any API into an RSS feed using XSLT and Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes gives users the ability to turn an API call or regular XML into an RSS feed, which can then be embedded into our multi-feed RSS reader template.  This allows any... [more]


An intro to RSS and how you can use it to do awesome things with mobile

We often get clients who want to create mobile applications such as walking tours, location-sensitive audio tours, or the like. We’re going to, in this post, show you how... [more]