The BBE
Rio Companion.
An installable, offline-ready mobile app that puts a whole Rio trip in your pocket: the itinerary, your crew, the city guide, and a concierge that answers. Five tabs, no app store, built in a day.
A trip you can hold.
One home for the whole trip
Travelers had a confirmation email, a PDF guide, and a group chat scattered across three apps. The brief: pull it all into one place that opens on the home screen and feels like a real app, not a web page.
It has to work with no signal
People land in a new country with a dead SIM and no Wi-Fi. The itinerary, the guide, and the crew details had to be on the phone already, ready the second they touch down at Galeão.
Prove we build apps
This is The Pagecrafter's flagship app: the same care as the website, on a phone. Installable, fast, accessible, and owned outright, with no monthly platform tax behind it.
Brief to installable in a day.
A five-tab app, installable and working offline, built and shipped inside a single day. The hour by hour:
Shape the five tabs
Decide what earns a spot in the tab bar: Today, Trip, Build, Guide, Concierge. Five jobs, one each, nothing extra. Lock the data model the whole app reads from.
The app shell and motion
The phone-native frame: the app bar, the tab bar, the splash, and view transitions that feel like taps, not page loads. Build it once so every tab snaps in.
Today and the itinerary
The countdown and the day-of plan on Today, and the day-by-day timeline on Trip: pickups, sunsets, dinners, each with the who, where, and when.
The trip builder, ported to a phone
The live estimate from the website, rebuilt for thumbs: pick the crew, drag the days, set the energy, and watch the per-person range move in real time.
The guide and the concierge bot
The Por Dentro city guide goes in, and the FAQ concierge becomes a real chat: a client-side bot, no API and no monthly cost, answering from the BBE playbook.
Make it installable and offline
The service worker caches the whole shell, the manifest and icons make it add to the home screen, and the install prompt appears. Turn off the Wi-Fi: it still works.
Accessibility, polish, ship Live
A WCAG AA pass, reduced-motion fallbacks, real focus states, and the safe-area trims for notches and home bars. Then live, installable, and working offline.
What shipped
- A five-tab app: Today, Trip, Build, Guide, and Concierge, each doing one job well.
- An installable PWA, added to the home screen with no app store and no download.
- Full offline support: a service worker caches the trip, so it loads with no signal.
- A client-side concierge bot that answers from the BBE playbook, with no API cost.
- The live trip builder, rebuilt for a phone: a per-person estimate that moves as you tap.
- WCAG AA: heading order, focus states, alt text, reduced motion, and safe-area insets.
An app, without the app store.
The BBE Rio Companion installs straight from a link, runs with no signal, and answers questions on its own. No native build, no two app stores, no review queue, and no monthly platform fee. The same standard as the website, on a phone, and owned outright.
$30,000–$60,000
That's the typical agency price for a native iOS-and-Android app, plus the ongoing store fees and maintenance. The Pagecrafter builds an installable app for a fraction of that, one codebase, owned outright, with nothing to renew.
It's built for a phone screen. Open it on mobile and tap Add to Home Screen to install it like a real app, then turn off your Wi-Fi and watch it keep working.