AppFurnace allows designers and front-end developers to make beautiful custom mobile apps for clients, providing everything that you need to make your own apps. And now, AppFurnace supports both iPhone and Android, with iPad coming soon.

It's likely that you are already being asked by your clients to create mobile apps. And if not, you probably have a few great app ideas to pitch to them. But developing mobile apps can be a real challenge for smaller agencies without the technical skills currently needed for iPhone and Android development, especially if your outsourcing costs exceed the client fee. AppFurnace changes everything by making it easy and quick for designers and web developers to make beautiful custom apps using their existing skills.

AppFurnace has intuitive, drag-and-drop screen design tools giving users precise control over the layout and look of a mobile app down to the last pixel, without restrictive templates or complicated code. You can easily include text, images, video and audio tracks in your app, and add customisable widgets, like a twitter feed, that make it even easier to integrate online campaigns and social media. Anchored and scalable interface elements automatically handle different screen sizes and resolutions, and the preview capability lets you check that your designs look great on a range of devices. 

Media-rich, screen based apps are just the start with AppFurnace. Its built-in JavaScript editor and extensive library of copy-and-paste examples let you customize your app's behaviour with familiar web technology. Use GPS and QR codes to enrich your app's interaction with the real world, and post updates to Facebook and Twitter directly from the app. 

When you are ready, you can download your app for submission to the iPhone App Store and Android Market, or we can submit it for you and handle the relationships with the stores. What's more, you don't need to pay us anything until you get to that stage. It's free to get going with AppFurnace and we hold regular training events to help you gain familiarity.

The team are always ready to help you further with contract development at a competitive day rate.

AppFurnace has already been used to create apps for prestigious clients such as The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Tower Of London and Bristol Media! If you were at the Vision conference last November, you may have used the conference app - made with AppFurnace. 

The Bristol, UK based company behind AppFurnace, Calvium, is based at the Pervasive Media Studio, a hot house of digital media innovation and media start up companies. AppFurnace was designed and created by ex HP Labs engineers with a passion for making technology accessible to the creative industries.

We'd love you to sign up at appfurnace.com and try it out. Remember you can get started straight away for free - no installation or credit card required - and you pay only when you're ready to publish.

For further details of the next workshops contact: Jo Reid, jo@calvium.com, 0117 3708875