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Custom cinema apps for iOS and Android
Engage moviegoers, grow your brand and drive ticket sales with a custom movie app built for your cinema — natively, on both platforms, fully branded to you.
Everything movie lovers want, under your brand
One codebase per platform, natively built — not a wrapped website. Your cinema, your design language, your ticketing stack.
Custom-built iOS and Android
Genuinely native apps on the current SDKs, submitted under your own developer accounts, with your icon on the home screen.
Showtimes and programme
Current schedules, filtering by genre, day or time slot, search, high-quality trailers, upcoming films and watchlists.
One-tap checkout
Saved cards, a mobile wallet holding gift cards and loyalty points, and a personalised checkout that removes every unnecessary step.
Social by default
Likes, friend connections, authentic reviews and ratings, group planning and in-app ticket sharing.
Any ticketing integration
Full ticketing, payment, loyalty and even parking integrations with whatever is already in your stack.
Shared content model
The app and the website read the same content. Publish once in the CMS, appear everywhere.
Sell tickets as early and as often as possible
The job of a cinema app is to move a moviegoer from “I might go” to “I have a seat” with nothing in the way. Filmgrail apps are built around that single path.
Predictive technology surfaces the right screening first, saved payment details remove the form, and the seat map behaves the way people expect on a phone — pinch, pan, tap.
Nine out of ten of our app and web users create a profile, which means you get the full picture of the moviegoer journey rather than an anonymous transaction.
Give concession sales a boost
Tickets are only part of the basket. Filmgrail apps sell gift cards, value cards, loyalty top-ups and concession items in the same flow, so spend per visit rises without extra queueing.
Ticket types, pricing rules and theatre-specific pricing are all configurable — no release needed to change a price.
of app and website end users create a unique profile, giving you a full view of the moviegoer journey.
more moviegoer engagement than industry benchmarks for standard ticketing apps and sites.
average yearly increase in digital ticket sales for cinemas on the platform.
Frequently asked questions
Can I get a custom movie app for my own cinema brand?
Yes. Every Filmgrail app is custom-branded: your colours, typography, iconography and app store listing. The apps ship under your own Apple and Google developer accounts, so the app belongs to your cinema, not to us.
Are these native apps or a wrapped website?
Native. Filmgrail builds separate iOS and Android applications on the current platform SDKs. That is what makes the seat map, offline tickets, push notifications and wallet integration behave properly.
Will the app work with my existing ticketing system?
Yes. The apps are built to integrate with third-party ticketing, payment and loyalty platforms. We map your existing ticketing API rather than asking you to replace it.
How long does it take to launch a cinema app?
A typical launch runs from branding and content setup through ticketing integration to app store submission. Timelines depend mainly on how quickly your ticketing provider can expose the APIs we need — book a demo and we will scope it against your stack.
Does the app support multiple languages?
Yes. Content and interface strings are translatable in the CMS, so a cinema can run the same app in several languages without a separate build.
You do not have to replace your box office
Filmgrail reads your programme, seat maps, ticket types and pricing from the system you already run, and writes the completed sale back so your reporting stays whole.
Vista
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