Our Innovative Approach to Building Apps

3rdWhale Mobile is the premier provider of mobile solutions exclusively dedicated to working with the sustainability/LOHAS sector.

If you are a social enterprise, triple bottom line business or a values-aligned NGO, 3rdWhale is the perfect partner to assist you in understanding and activating the powerful new tools that emerging mobile technologies offer. Because we share your values we are not simply a development shop—our approach is consultative in nature and designed to foster a partnership relationship.

We have an exceptional team with a combined 60 years of experience in the sustainability and independent media sectors. We have a growing development team currently building across all major mobile platforms including iPhone, Blackberry and Android.

We know your customers or members and can create applications that will effectively extend your brand, expand the reach of your mission and generate new revenue streams. We view ourselves as playing a unique role in strengthening the movement for a more healthy, just and sustainable world.

We realize that while moving onto the mobile platform is an increasingly important goal for many organizations, few have the time, staff or budget to move forward. In fact, after running the numbers, many who do have the resources to build internal development capacity choose to work with an external partner whose core strength is only mobile.

Two Easy Paths to Mobile

After having the opportunity to learn more about your organization and determining what aspects of your work may best lend themselves to a mobile platform, we will offer one of two possible approaches for you to consider:

Content Integration

* Our Find Green app, (formerly 3rdWhale Mobile) is consistently rated among the highest green applications. In many cases we are open to integrating selected content from your organization into one of several areas of the app such as “Buy Green,” Live Green” or “Green Video.”

This enables you to go mobile quickly and at little cost. 3rdWhale can access analytical reports of the reaction of our users to your content. This is used as feedback for considering more content and features in future iterations of our and other’s apps.

Native Applications

* After discussions with key managers and coming to a clear understanding of your strategic goals and priorities, we may recommend that the best mobile solution for your organization is to build a stand alone native app for iPhone, Blackberry, Android or other operating system.

Because each application differs in features and complexity, development costs of native apps may vary greatly. In many cases revenue generation strategies can be adopted that can serve to significantly offset initial expenses.

In a few situations, we may negotiate a reduced development fee for this work in exchange for some sort of revenue share agreement and various other promotional and marketing benefits.

We are confident that 3rdWhale can help you find the right mobile solution. Contact us today.