Mobile apps for publishers

VerbaVista

Native iOS and Android apps for newspapers, broadcasters and news agencies, built on our own CMS, with AI tools for transcription, translation and subtitles included.

The Insajder app, built on VerbaVista, showing its home feed of latest stories

Publishers running on the platform

One platform, not three tools

VerbaVista is three things delivered together by one vendor. You are not integrating an app builder with a CMS with a chatbot, then maintaining the joins.

mPanel CMS

Our own headless CMS runs the app, so web and mobile are managed from one place instead of two.

About mPanel CMS

Your mobile app

Native iOS and Android, your branding, published under your name in the stores.

Fronisa

An AI chatbot built into the app, answering reader questions from your own published archive and always linking back to the article it came from.

What the app does

Content

Centralise your content

Automate imports from your existing sources so the app fills itself instead of needing separate editorial work.

  • Automated imports

    Website, social media, YouTube and e-paper feeds

  • Article collections

    Thematic newsletters, AI-generated or editor-chosen

  • Text-to-speech playlists

    Morning briefs and weekly summaries as a new listening format

The DAN app home screen, with the lead story and section tabs
The KRIK app showing its investigations section
Personalisation

Content that adapts to each reader

Readers build a profile and the app adjusts around what they actually read.

  • User profiles

    Readers personalise their own experience

  • AI personalisation

    Content surfaced by behaviour, not just category

  • Personalised notifications

    Matched to stated preferences

Notifications

Push that people don't mute

The most direct channel you have to a reader, provided you don't waste it.

  • Personalised notifications

    Sent automatically from the CMS based on reader preferences

  • Live notifications

    Real-time updates for ongoing events, consolidated so one story isn't five buzzes

  • Geo-targeted

    By city, venue or event

An article open in the Boom 93 app, with type size, bookmark and share controls
A reader-submitted post in the SAT Hub app community feed
Community

Readers as contributors

Local journalism works better when the locals can file.

  • Instagram and TikTok-style uploads

    Photos and video, in an interface people already understand

  • Full editorial control

    Everything moderated through mPanel before it publishes

  • Discord-style chat forum

    Topics and groups, with premium tiers, Q&A sessions and optional AI moderation

Revenue

Monetisation that fits how you publish

  • Paywalls and subscriptions

    Soft or hard, weekly, monthly, yearly or content-specific

  • E-paper and digital editions

    E-kiosk reader, multimedia-linked editions, obituaries module, full invoicing

  • Advertising and sponsors

    Built-in ad system or connect GAM and Taboola; exclusive app sponsorships; coupons tied to points

The Vecer app e-paper kiosk, listing the latest print editions
A three-question quiz running in the SAT Hub app
Engagement

Reasons to come back

  • Quizzes, polls and predictors

    AI-generated or drawn from your own question database

  • Points and rewards

    User actions earn points, points unlock discounts and premium access

  • Coupons and discounts

    From your commercial partners, redeemable in-app

More capabilities

E-paper and e-kiosk

Digital editions with a reader, multimedia links and invoicing.

Subtitles and translation

Handled by Litteraworks inside the editorial workflow.

Text-to-speech

Listenable articles and playlist-style briefings.

Location targeting

Content and notifications by city, venue or event.

Coupons

Partner offers redeemable in-app and tied to points.

User management

Accounts, roles and an insights module in mPanel.

Moderation

Editorial approval for reader uploads, with optional AI assistance.

Ad integrations

Built-in ad system, or connect GAM and Taboola.

iOS, Android and Huawei

All three builds, published under your name.

How our partners work

KRIK

KRIK breaks investigative stories that other outlets republish within minutes, taking the traffic with them. Their app puts each story on readers’ phones the moment it publishes, so the audience arrives at KRIK first rather than at whoever copied it fastest. Direct push replaced a dependency on platforms and aggregators.

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DAN

DAN was one of Montenegro’s strongest newspapers in print, with an audience that had moved to phones. Digital editions, subscriptions and a mobile app carried the transition without giving up the editorial identity that made the paper matter in the first place. Print heritage turned into a digital position rather than a liability.

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SAT Media

SAT built a following of car and motoring enthusiasts who wanted more than articles to read. The app turns reading into participation: points for engagement, rewards for loyalty, and content shaped around what each follower actually cares about. It gives a committed niche audience a reason to keep coming back rather than passing through.

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Boom 93

Boom 93 is an institution in Požarevac, and its audience is local by definition. The app opens with content from the reader’s own city, and quizzes built around rock music let a legendary radio station play to the identity it already has. Local relevance became a feature rather than a constraint.

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Hanza Media

Hanza Media publishes a portfolio of newspapers and magazines, each with its own subscriber base. The e-kiosk brings all of it into one place: digital subscriptions, an e-paper reader, and an app where a subscriber finds every title they pay for. One system instead of one per publication.

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Politika

Politika is the oldest daily newspaper in Serbia, and both its daily edition and its subscription business needed to work on a phone. The webshop and e-kiosk handle subscriptions and delivery, and the app puts every issue in a reader’s pocket. A title with more than a century of history, distributed the way people read now.

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Večer

Večer wanted an app built for readers who pay, not for casual traffic. Premium content, the daily e-paper and a web kiosk sit behind a single subscription, so the app serves subscribers instead of chasing clicks. A publisher that decided depth was worth more than reach.

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Questions we get asked

It varies with how much we are collaborating on, but typically 45 to 60 days.

Yes. It is published under your name in all app stores.

We hand over a signing key so you can keep publishing the app under the same name, keeping all your users. It appears as an update on their devices, not a new app.

It depends on complexity, typically 15 to 40 hours at €35 per hour. You get a detailed estimate before any work starts.

We do. We plan and structure the app with you, provide a design mockup, test throughout development, and send you demos to review until you are satisfied.

Every upgrade we build for the platform is included in the monthly fee, so you get new capability without commissioning a new project.

Ready to put your newsroom in your readers' pockets?

Tell us what you publish and who reads it, and we will show you the parts of the platform that apply.

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