Why Pick App Press?

When the iPad launched in 2010, Grant Glas knew something big was happening. He was working as an art director, and he wanted to make an iPad app. There were just two problems. First, Grant didn't know how to program. And second, he didn't have an idea for an app.

Grant met Kevin Smith, an expert developer who had already created several iPhone apps. Kevin agreed to help, but Grant was still struggling with an idea for his app. That's when Grant's wife Gina came home with a plan: turning her grandmother's handwritten book of Italian recipes into an app. Gina started typing up the recipes, and Grant began taking photos to create the app's artwork in Photoshop. As Grant sent the material to Kevin, the two began to run into problems. Grant wanted to make constant updates to the recipes, photos, and artwork, and the deadline was pushed back. Tiny changes were lost in email exchanges between Grant and Kevin.

Then Kevin got the idea to build a tool that would allow Grant to develop and update the app himself, without learning how to program. The instrument was called App Press, and Grant finished the Italian Cookbook app in just six days using the first version of App Press.

When the app launched, it was featured next to Betty Crocker’s Cookbook in the home page of the App Store. In the first week, The Italian Cookbook app was downloaded more than 25,000 times. Shortly afterward, he and Kevin decided to found App Press. We’ve been helping people build apps and create thriving, fulfilling businesses ever since.

Why? We believe a simple idea can change everything. Let's build something together.