A satellite view of PWAs and why you should build them instead of an app

A progressive web app — Cheap to develop, tiny file size, no app stores

The problems of Native apps

App stores

They take a percentage cut (15% typically), can have questionable ranking and reviews, and can require users to jump through multiple hoops to download the app.

PWAs are websites that work on mobile and can be downloaded from that website on the users browser — in one click on Android.

File size

Users will review and uninstall the largest apps on their phone. Native apps are always large as they have to have someway of executing code. PWAs instead just use the users browser instead.

Development costs — THE REAL ONE

Typically if you are building an app you need 3 teams — web, android and iOS. Hence a large cost.

They typically are using different languages and hence you don’t have flexibility in your teams to react to workloads.