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Publisher app
The publisher app platform: live in 8 to 12 weeks
A news app used to mean a year of custom development. tchop™ is the publisher app platform that gets branded news apps live in 8 to 12 weeks, with AI agents supporting curation, repurposing, and engagement. Your newsroom stays in control of every story.
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Challenges
Why most publisher apps never get built
Custom development costs a seven-figure budget and a year of roadmap. Wrappers ship the ePaper and stop. Most publishers stay stuck between the two.
Challenges
Why most publisher apps never get built
Custom development costs a seven-figure budget and a year of roadmap. Wrappers ship the ePaper and stop. Most publishers stay stuck between the two.
Challenges
Why most publisher apps never get built
Custom development costs a seven-figure budget and a year of roadmap. Wrappers ship the ePaper and stop. Most publishers stay stuck between the two.
Custom-dev economics
Agencies quote months and six to seven figures for an app your team still cannot change alone.
Edition-only wrappers
An ePaper replica gives readers no reason to open the app between editions.
No engagement loop
Without feeds, push, and community, a news app becomes shelf-ware on the home screen.
tchop™ for Publishers
tchop™ for Publishers
One hub for news, audio, and community
One hub for news, audio, and community
Your publisher app bundles articles, podcasts, newsletters, and reader spaces behind one login, listed in the App Store and Play Store under your name from day one.
Your publisher app bundles articles, podcasts, newsletters, and reader spaces behind one login, listed in the App Store and Play Store under your name from day one.
Agentic communication workflows
Agentic communication workflows
Smart content management and curation tools
Smart content management and curation tools
AI-powered engagement drivers
AI-powered engagement drivers
Certified, secure and compliant technology
Certified, secure and compliant technology
Web and mobile apps
Reach your teams anytime, anywhere with a premium branded experience across web, mobile app and email.
Web and mobile apps
Reach your teams anytime, anywhere with a premium branded experience across web, mobile app and email.
Web and mobile apps
Reach your teams anytime, anywhere with a premium branded experience across web, mobile app and email.
Seamless integration
Integrate existing tools and platforms to centralize all internal communications into a single front door platform.
Seamless integration
Integrate existing tools and platforms to centralize all internal communications into a single front door platform.
Seamless integration
Integrate existing tools and platforms to centralize all internal communications into a single front door platform.
Engagement drivers
Comments, surveys, user-generated content and more to boost reader engagement and participation.
Engagement drivers
Comments, surveys, user-generated content and more to boost reader engagement and participation.
Publisher app features
What a publisher app platform does
Branded news apps with feeds, push, audio, and community, configured instead of coded.
Publisher app features
What a publisher app platform does
Branded news apps with feeds, push, audio, and community, configured instead of coded.
Publisher app features
What a publisher app platform does
Branded news apps with feeds, push, audio, and community, configured instead of coded.
Push beyond the edition
Push beyond the edition
Push beyond the edition
Alert readers when news breaks, not only when the edition drops, the habit gap most ePaper apps never close.
Alert readers when news breaks, not only when the edition drops, the habit gap most ePaper apps never close.
Alert readers when news breaks, not only when the edition drops, the habit gap most ePaper apps never close.
In-app reader community
In-app reader community
Discussion spaces inside the app give readers a reason to open it even on days they skip the news.
Discussion spaces inside the app give readers a reason to open it even on days they skip the news.
Feeds instead of editions
Feeds instead of editions
Feeds instead of editions
The app fills itself from your CMS, newsletter, and podcast sources, so there is fresh content between editions without extra production.
The app fills itself from your CMS, newsletter, and podcast sources, so there is fresh content between editions without extra production.
The app fills itself from your CMS, newsletter, and podcast sources, so there is fresh content between editions without extra production.
App feedback polls
App feedback polls
App feedback polls
Poll readers inside the app on features and coverage, and take the guesswork out of your app roadmap.
Poll readers inside the app on features and coverage, and take the guesswork out of your app roadmap.
Poll readers inside the app on features and coverage, and take the guesswork out of your app roadmap.
Paywall & subscription hooks
Paywall & subscription hooks
Paywall & subscription hooks
The app honours your existing paywall and subscription entitlements, so print and digital subscribers just log in and read.
The app honours your existing paywall and subscription entitlements, so print and digital subscribers just log in and read.
The app honours your existing paywall and subscription entitlements, so print and digital subscribers just log in and read.
Install-to-habit analytics
Install-to-habit analytics
Install-to-habit analytics
Track installs into habits: session length, day-7 retention, and which push notifications actually open the app.
Track installs into habits: session length, day-7 retention, and which push notifications actually open the app.
Track installs into habits: session length, day-7 retention, and which push notifications actually open the app.
Engagement drivers
Engagement drivers
The mechanics that keep an app installed
The mechanics that keep an app installed
tchop™ builds the publisher app around feeds, follows, and push, the same loops that keep social apps on the home screen, so yours survives the next phone clean-up.
tchop™ builds the publisher app around feeds, follows, and push, the same loops that keep social apps on the home screen, so yours survives the next phone clean-up.
Perfect for small teams with limited resources
Perfect for small teams with limited resources
User retention patterns powered by AI
User retention patterns powered by AI
Empower users to contribute content easily
Empower users to contribute content easily
Foster likes, comments and discussions in chats
Foster likes, comments and discussions in chats
Personalised messaging
Personalise reader notifications based on behaviour, with AI-powered features to re-engage inactive readers.
Personalised messaging
Personalise reader notifications based on behaviour, with AI-powered features to re-engage inactive readers.
Threads, comments, likes and replies
Facilitate threads, comments, likes, and replies around any content, fostering connections and giving readers a voice.
Threads, comments, likes and replies
Facilitate threads, comments, likes, and replies around any content, fostering connections and giving readers a voice.
User generated content
Allow readers to contribute and post content through the app from wherever they are, similar to popular social apps.
User generated content
Allow readers to contribute and post content through the app from wherever they are, similar to popular social apps.
Push notifications
Reach out to all users or certain groups with push notifications that can link to any content or conversation
Push notifications
Reach out to all users or certain groups with push notifications that can link to any content or conversation
Dynamic chat groups
Create public or private chat groups for real-time discussions or use read-only groups as highly diversified news feeds.
Dynamic chat groups
Create public or private chat groups for real-time discussions or use read-only groups as highly diversified news feeds.
Smart user retention
Leverage AI to re-engage readers when they become inactive, improving retention.
Smart user retention
Leverage AI to re-engage readers when they become inactive, improving retention.
Integrate social media
Automatically bring in your social media content, boosting internal influencers and ambassadors.
Integrate social media
Automatically bring in your social media content, boosting internal influencers and ambassadors.
Enterprise SSO
Connect any enterprise SSO via OpenID or SAML easily to control access, rights and permissions within your app.
Enterprise SSO
Connect any enterprise SSO via OpenID or SAML easily to control access, rights and permissions within your app.
Live video
Use audio and video formats, including live video, to deliver modern, engaging content, with easy podcast integration.
Live video
Use audio and video formats, including live video, to deliver modern, engaging content, with easy podcast integration.
Reach
Reach your readers wherever they are
Your journalism reaches readers on the phones they already carry, through push notifications and personalised feeds. No dependence on social algorithms or search traffic.
Reach
Reach your readers wherever they are
Your journalism reaches readers on the phones they already carry, through push notifications and personalised feeds. No dependence on social algorithms or search traffic.
Reach
Reach your readers wherever they are
Your journalism reaches readers on the phones they already carry, through push notifications and personalised feeds. No dependence on social algorithms or search traffic.
More than a reader
News, audio, video, and community in one app beats a shelf of single-purpose reader apps.
A personal edition
AI agents compose each reader’s in-app edition from your published stories, no extra editorial shift required.
Push by subscriber tier
Premium subscribers get the early-access alert; free readers get the teaser, both set up from one console.
The whole catalogue in-app
Back issues, archives, and podcast seasons stay reachable inside the app instead of buried on the website.
Fully on brand
Fully on brand
A premium experience in your own look&feel
Customise the app in every detail: colours, fonts, icons, but also navigation, structure or onboarding. It fully fits your brand and your requirements.
Your logo, colours and typography
Your logo, colours and typography
Your brand on user's home & lock screen
Your brand on user's home & lock screen
Your icon on your readers' home screen
Your icon on your readers' home screen
Web app in the same look and feel
Web app in the same look and feel
White-label, so the app carries your brand
Your icon, your name, your listing in both stores. Readers install your publication, and the store shows your name as the publisher, not a vendor’s.
Launch in 8 to 12 weeks, not a multi-year project
Configuration instead of custom development. Publisher apps go live in the App Store and Play Store in 8 to 12 weeks, including switchers from edition-based tools.
How tchop compares
Custom development takes a year and a seven-figure budget, and app wrappers stop at the ePaper edition. Here is where a publisher app platform is different.
| Capability | tchop | Custom app development | App wrappers (Pugpig, Twipe) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeds, community and audio beyond the edition | Yes | If you build it | Edition only |
| Community and discussion built in | Yes | Custom build | No |
| Push notifications that build daily habit | Yes | Custom build | Edition alerts |
| AI agents for curation and repurposing | Yes | No | No |
| Aggregates CMS, newsletter, podcast, social | Yes | Custom build | Edition only |
| Cost to launch and run | SaaS licence | 6-7 figures | Licence + setup |
| GDPR + EU-sovereign hosting option | Yes | You build it | Varies |
| Time to launch | 8-12 weeks | 12-18 months | Weeks to months |
Case studies
See the publisher app in use
Leading enterprises and publishers use tchop™ to engage thousands of users daily
Case studies
See the publisher app in use
Leading enterprises and publishers use tchop™ to engage thousands of users daily
Case studies
See the publisher app in use
Leading enterprises and publishers use tchop™ to engage thousands of users daily
Testimonials
Loved by enterprises and publishers
Learn what our clients have to say about our platform.
David Musiol
Managing Director, FRASER
"With many years of experience in the space, I can confidently say that tchop is the best community solution we’ve used."
Linda Mavius
Internal Communications, AOK Plus
"More than 95% of our employees use our apps everyday with many posting, commenting and actively engaging on the platform."
Pascal Weiss
Head of RUHR24.de
"Finding an app framework that is optimized for user retention was challenging, but tchop delivered beyond our expectations."
Robin Halm
Chief Editor, KomPart
"With tchop we have found the perfect partner to roll out a new generation of internal communication within the AOK."
Ralf Walter
Head of Online, DOMRADIO
"Thanks to tchop, we have created a great place where our audience finds all our news and shows in one exciting feed."
Frank Ohlsen
Managing Director, CodeRed
"The user-friendly interface and powerful engagement features of tchop save us hours of work each week."
Testimonials
Loved by enterprises and publishers
Learn what our clients have to say about our platform.
David Musiol
Managing Director, FRASER
"With many years of experience in the space, I can confidently say that tchop is the best community solution we’ve used."
Linda Mavius
Internal Communications, AOK Plus
"More than 95% of our employees use our apps everyday with many posting, commenting and actively engaging on the platform."
Pascal Weiss
Head of RUHR24.de
"Finding an app framework that is optimized for user retention was challenging, but tchop delivered beyond our expectations."
Robin Halm
Chief Editor, KomPart
"With tchop we have found the perfect partner to roll out a new generation of internal communication within the AOK."
Ralf Walter
Head of Online, DOMRADIO
"Thanks to tchop, we have created a great place where our audience finds all our news and shows in one exciting feed."
Frank Ohlsen
Managing Director, CodeRed
"The user-friendly interface and powerful engagement features of tchop save us hours of work each week."
Testimonials
Loved by enterprises and publishers
Learn what our clients have to say about our platform.
David Musiol
Managing Director, FRASER
"With many years of experience in the space, I can confidently say that tchop is the best community solution we’ve used."
Linda Mavius
Internal Communications, AOK Plus
"More than 95% of our employees use our apps everyday with many posting, commenting and actively engaging on the platform."
Pascal Weiss
Head of RUHR24.de
"Finding an app framework that is optimized for user retention was challenging, but tchop delivered beyond our expectations."
Robin Halm
Chief Editor, KomPart
"With tchop we have found the perfect partner to roll out a new generation of internal communication within the AOK."
Ralf Walter
Head of Online, DOMRADIO
"Thanks to tchop, we have created a great place where our audience finds all our news and shows in one exciting feed."
Frank Ohlsen
Managing Director, CodeRed
"The user-friendly interface and powerful engagement features of tchop save us hours of work each week."
Want to test your app for free?
Experience the power of tchop™ with a free, fully-branded app for iOS, Android and the web. Let's turn your audience into a community.
Request your free branded app
Want to test your app for free?
Experience the power of tchop™ with a free, fully-branded app for iOS, Android and the web. Let's turn your audience into a community.
Request your free branded app
Want to test your app for free?
Experience the power of tchop™ with a free, fully-branded app for iOS, Android and the web. Let's turn your audience into a community.
Request your free branded app
Publisher App FAQ's
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a publisher app?
A publisher app is a branded native app that gives a publisher its own distribution channel: news feeds, push notifications, audio, and community under the publisher's brand in the App Store and Play Store. It turns readers into a direct, owned audience.
How do publishers build an app without an engineering team?
With a publisher app platform like tchop, which works as a news app builder without custom development: configuration replaces coding. Your team sets up content, feeds, and channels, and tchop delivers the native apps, about 10x faster and cheaper than custom app development.
How is tchop different from Pugpig or Twipe?
Edition-based wrappers replicate the print product on a phone. tchop is built around feeds, push, audio, and community that create daily habit beyond the edition, with AI agents supporting a lean newsroom.
Can the app pull from our CMS and newsletter?
Yes. tchop aggregates your CMS, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels into curated feeds automatically, and connects to your paywall and subscription systems.
How long does it take to launch a news app?
tchop publisher apps go live in 8 to 12 weeks. Publishers like Funke Digital and Ruhr24 run their reader products on tchop.
Is tchop GDPR-compliant?
Yes. tchop is GDPR-compliant, with the option for EU-sovereign hosting.
Publisher App FAQ's
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a publisher app?
A publisher app is a branded native app that gives a publisher its own distribution channel: news feeds, push notifications, audio, and community under the publisher's brand in the App Store and Play Store. It turns readers into a direct, owned audience.
How do publishers build an app without an engineering team?
With a publisher app platform like tchop, which works as a news app builder without custom development: configuration replaces coding. Your team sets up content, feeds, and channels, and tchop delivers the native apps, about 10x faster and cheaper than custom app development.
How is tchop different from Pugpig or Twipe?
Edition-based wrappers replicate the print product on a phone. tchop is built around feeds, push, audio, and community that create daily habit beyond the edition, with AI agents supporting a lean newsroom.
Can the app pull from our CMS and newsletter?
Yes. tchop aggregates your CMS, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels into curated feeds automatically, and connects to your paywall and subscription systems.
How long does it take to launch a news app?
tchop publisher apps go live in 8 to 12 weeks. Publishers like Funke Digital and Ruhr24 run their reader products on tchop.
Is tchop GDPR-compliant?
Yes. tchop is GDPR-compliant, with the option for EU-sovereign hosting.
Publisher App FAQ's
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a publisher app?
A publisher app is a branded native app that gives a publisher its own distribution channel: news feeds, push notifications, audio, and community under the publisher's brand in the App Store and Play Store. It turns readers into a direct, owned audience.
How do publishers build an app without an engineering team?
With a publisher app platform like tchop, which works as a news app builder without custom development: configuration replaces coding. Your team sets up content, feeds, and channels, and tchop delivers the native apps, about 10x faster and cheaper than custom app development.
How is tchop different from Pugpig or Twipe?
Edition-based wrappers replicate the print product on a phone. tchop is built around feeds, push, audio, and community that create daily habit beyond the edition, with AI agents supporting a lean newsroom.
Can the app pull from our CMS and newsletter?
Yes. tchop aggregates your CMS, newsletters, podcasts, and social channels into curated feeds automatically, and connects to your paywall and subscription systems.
How long does it take to launch a news app?
tchop publisher apps go live in 8 to 12 weeks. Publishers like Funke Digital and Ruhr24 run their reader products on tchop.
Is tchop GDPR-compliant?
Yes. tchop is GDPR-compliant, with the option for EU-sovereign hosting.
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