Who runs this
Website to App is built and operated by Faisal Nadeem, based in Sialkot, Pakistan. It grew out of an Android app for building other Android apps, and became this web builder, the tools and the guides.
He has built 30+ Android and iOS applications on freelancer.com since 2019, with expertise in Laravel, React, Flutter and native Android and iOS development.
The idea
Most apps that businesses want are their website with a home-screen icon, a splash screen, tabs and notifications. Building that natively — twice, for two platforms — costs five figures and months, to arrive at a screen-by-screen copy of something that already works in a browser. Wrapping the site in a WebView gets the same result in minutes, and on Android the result is a real app: signed, installable, publishable.
The hard parts are not the WebView. They are the icon in five sizes, the package name you can never change, the version code that must always increase, the key you must never lose, the App Bundle Play insists on, the permissions the manifest has to declare, the policy that rejects a bare wrapper. This site automates the ones that can be automated and writes down the rest.
What we make
- The builder. Paste a URL — or upload an HTML file or a ZIP — set a name, an icon and a colour, and get back a signed Android app. It runs the same Gradle build you would run locally, on our machines.
- The Android app. The same builder on a phone, where the Pro subscription is sold through Google Play.
- Nine free tools. Built around the decisions — is the site ready, what should it be called, what will the status bar look like, which permissions does it need, what happens offline, will Play accept the listing — rather than only the files.
- Eleven guides. What we know about turning websites into apps, each answering its question in the first paragraph.
Three things we will not compromise
The tools upload nothing
Every tool runs in your browser. Icons are drawn on a canvas, previews are rendered locally, checks run on the text you type. Open the network tab and watch: no request carries your data. That is why they work offline once loaded.
Free is a product, not a funnel
A free build is a signed, installable APK with no watermark and no expiry. Pro exists for things that are genuinely different — Google Play's format, your own key, native chrome, push — not to make free worse.
The limits are written down
A WebView app cannot run in the background, use Bluetooth or draw a widget. Google Play rejects a wrapper that adds nothing. Apple's review is stricter still and we do not build for iOS. All of that is in the guides, because finding it out after shipping is worse than reading it first.
Who it is for
Shops, restaurants, clinics and publications whose site already works. Agencies and freelancers shipping a client app on top of a site they built. SaaS teams that want the dashboard in the app drawer. Developers who need an APK today. Anyone with a website and no wish to learn Gradle.
It is not for everyone. If the app needs a native-feeling feed, heavy animation or hardware beyond camera and location, you want a native build, and the comparison says so.
Get in touch
Questions, bugs and feature requests go to the contact page. Bug reports that name the device and Android version get fixed faster.