A Nimbus store is a web page that can be installed to a phone's home screen, with its own icon, from the browser. There is no app to download — for you or for your buyers. That was a decision, and it has a cost worth explaining.
The buyer's side is not a close call
Someone taps a link in a bio because they are curious. Every step you add between that tap and the file loses people, and “install an app first” is the largest step there is. A store that sells to strangers has to work in the browser they already have open.
The creator's side is where it gets interesting
For running a store on the move — checking sales, answering a buyer — an app on the home screen is genuinely nice. The question is how you get the icon there.
- Through an app store: a native app, a review process for every update, a share of in-app purchases in some cases, and a separate build per platform.
- Through the browser: the page declares itself installable, and the phone offers to add it to the home screen. One build, works on iPhone and Android, updates the moment we publish.
We took the second route because it reaches both phones with one thing to maintain, which for a studio this small is the difference between shipping and not shipping. Stan's own help center says their creator app is currently available only on iPhone and iPad; our installable store runs on both iPhone and Android. That is the concrete difference the choice makes.
The honest cost
Installing from a browser is less discoverable than a store listing: on iPhone it lives behind the share menu, and on Android behind the browser menu. A native app can also do things a web page cannot, though the gap is closing: since September 27, 2026, the studio itself installs and sends notifications of sales and bookings, but on iPhone only from iOS 16.4 and only once it is on the home screen.