Bolt
Highly customisable mobile apps combining live content, digital editions, podcasts, video and loads more. On iOS, Android and web.
Pugpig is the mobile app platform that powers the world’s leading media brands
Launch deeply engaging mobile apps, digital replicas, and beautifully curated archives on our mobile publishing platform
A highly customisable platform
Build a beautiful mobile app on Pugpig Bolt and engage your most loyal readers. Choose from a range of totally customisable curated cards and bespoke features that’ll make your content fly.
Launch in no time, with zero fuss
Get up and running in days. With out-of-the-box frameworks that plug straight into your existing systems, you get maximum impact with minimum effort. Publish your content far and wide fuss-free.
We do the tech so you don’t have to
Giving you more time to focus on your core business. Our mobile publishing platform is constantly evolving – choosing Pugpig means a significantly lower total cost of ownership compared to doing it yourself.
Our products
One digital publishing platform, three deeply engaging products.
Site
Lightning fast, WordPress powered, SEO optimised websites with publisher-focused features and third party plugins.
Archive
Beautifully curated, fully searchable digital archives rendered in HTML and original PDF formats.
“We couldn’t be happier with our decision to go with Pugpig”
Pugpig are an excellent partner – they are a true extension to our team.
Katie Vanneck-Smith
CEO, Hearst UK
We turned to Pugpig to rebuild our apps on a tight deadline, and boy did they deliver! Engagement is through the roof – we couldn’t be happier with our decision to go with Pugpig.
Aron Pilhofer
Chief Product Officer, The Minnesota Star Tribune
Pugpig has been an exceptionally supportive partner that worked tirelessly to meet our unique business goals and product customization. They felt more like colleagues than vendors, who shared our mission to provide subscribers with an app that delivers the same high-quality, premium experience we offer on other platforms. Consider us a satisfied client.
Amanda Roth
Director of Product & Growth at The Logic
We’ve worked with Pugpig as a core app development partner since going digital-only in 2016. Their multi-platform, SaaS approach has helped us to efficiently achieve our commercial goals to deliver Independent journalism globally, and drive subscriptions in user friendly, reliable mobile products.
Zach Leonard
President, North America, Independent Digital News & Media Ltd
Launch mobile apps, digital editions and replicas with Pugpig Bolt
Build beautifully simple branded mobile apps that boost engagement and will have your audience hooked.
Publish as live content, digital editions or both
Feed straight from your own editorial systems – all content works beautifully across all devices. With Bolt’s digital publishing software, you can choose responsive, interactive HTML or native PDF pages (or a hybrid of the two) for your digital editions and replicas.
Surface stories, audio, video, podcasts, events and more
Bolt’s customisable set of curated cards also support everything from puzzles and promotions to products, advertising and sponsorship.
Packed with features and highly customisable
Including sharing, dynamic timelines, offline mode and loads more. Plus, Bolt is super flexible – we’ll work with you to create bespoke features to your heart’s content.
Build lightning fast websites with Pugpig Site
Launch beautiful content-led websites, hosted by AWS, monitored by Rackspace and managed by the Pugpig team in our WordPress-powered back end.
Manage subscriptions and memberships
Pugpig Site comes integrated with Piano so you can include subscription and memberships services right off the shelf.
Seamless content and integrations
Every page you publish works beautifully across all devices. Plus, Site is packed with a growing list of integrations from SEO optimisation and consent management to email marketing and sharing.
End to end support
From design through to launch and migration from your old platform, we look after all the tech headaches so you can concentrate on your core business.
Boost long term subscriber value with Pugpig Archive
Create beautiful, fully searchable digital archives and offer readers a truly unique way to browse through highly curated collections of your content.
Engage readers with archive content
Leverage a wealth of untapped historical content and imagery at your disposal. Perfect for professionals, researchers, students, journalists, historians and lovers of some of the world’s favourite magazine brands.
Grow subscriber revenue
By broadening your content offering, you’re tapping into a brand new audience and strengthening subscription revenue.
The Art of the Nudge: Perfecting Push in 2025
Our latest Pugpig report explores the power of push notifications in driving app engagement, retention, and user activity. It’s packed with data-driven insights, compelling publisher case studies (learn how The Boston Globe increased open rates by up to 3x) and strategies specifically for publishers, outlining best practices for creating high impact, personalised app messaging.
We’re the world’s favourite digital publishing platform
With over 170 publishers and 360 of the world’s top media brands, Pugpig’s publishing platform is the best on the market.
The latest news from Pugpig
News
Webinar: The Boston Globe’s Formula for 3x Higher Push Engagement & Winning Personalisation Strategies
Join us on Thursday 3rd April to learn how The Boston Globe tripled engagement with push notifications and winning personalisation strategies from Airship.
News
Pugpig apps shortlisted for ‘Best New Digital Product’ at INMA Global Media Awards 2025
Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Minnesota Star Tribune apps, powered by Pugpig, have been shortlisted for Best New Digital Product at the 2025 INMA Global Media Awards.
Launches
Advance Local launches 23 titles on Pugpig Bolt, bringing The Oregonian’s digital front page to life with twice-daily editions
Read how one of the largest media groups in the US seamlessly launched 23 mobile apps across 3 major markets on Pugpig Bolt.
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