BoB Tools — Apps for Business
Get an app your team installs. Works offline. From $1 a seat. No developer.
Describe your checklist, order form or report in plain words. BoB Tools builds a mobile app your crew installs from a QR code. It works offline, and every record lands in a live table in the office. Forms in the field. Answers in the office.
How it works
Three steps from the way you explain the job to a phone in your crew's pocket.
01 · Describe
Write it like you would explain it to a new hire: Daily site check: site, foreman, a photo of each floor, safety issues, the client's signature.
Tell the AI assistant in BoB Tools, or ask Claude.
02 · Get the app
You get an app with its own name, icon and colours: buttons that open forms, lists of jobs, a board by status, record cards and counters. Change a screen by asking again.
03 · Install
The crew scans a QR code and adds the app to the home screen. It works with no signal. The office watches records land in a live table and dashboard.
Claude vs. Claude + BoB
Claude is great at writing. Running an app for a crew takes hosting, a database, sign-in and offline sync. The BoB Tools connector gives Claude all of that.
Claude alone
Claude + BoB Tools connector
bob_app toolConnect once from the Claude directory, or add https://api.bob.tools/mcp to ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor. How the connector works →
What you get
Pick the look from ready-made styles. No custom code to maintain.
Your name, icon and colours. Six palettes, five fonts, light or dark, rounded or sharp.
Jobs as plain rows, big cards with a status badge, a chat-like feed, or an “Up next” card on top.
A board with a column per status. Drag a card to the next column and the status changes.
Each record shows where it is: New → In progress → Done, with a count like “2 of 5”.
See who is waiting, approved or blocked. Invite people by email and cap the number of members.
How often the app is opened and how many records come in, day by day.
Pricing
$1/ seat / month
The first seat is free. A crew of 10 costs $9 a month in seats. You pay day by day from your balance and can stop any time.
AI has a free daily allowance. Paid AI stays off until you turn it on and pick a daily amount. Work out your own number in the price calculator.
FAQ
Not under your own name. Your app installs from a link or a QR code as a web app (PWA), with its own name and icon on the home screen of an Android phone, an iPhone or a computer. If BoB Tools is installed on the phone, the app can open there instead. Nobody has to search a store or wait for a review.
Yes. Records and photos are saved on the phone and sync to the live table when the connection is back. Screens you have opened before still open offline and show when their data was last updated.
You choose the access mode: anyone with the link, a PIN, sign-in, approved members only, or a list of emails. With approval on, you accept or block each person on the Members page.
Anyone who opens a shared app can copy it into their own account with one button. Screens, buttons, forms and views are copied; the records stay with the owner. It is the quickest way to start from someone else's app as a template.
Yes. Add the BoB Tools connector to Claude from claude.ai/directory/bob-tools, or add https://api.bob.tools/mcp to ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor. Its bob_app tool creates the screens, theme, access mode and install link, so the agent hands you a working app instead of code. The AI assistant inside BoB Tools can build one from a description too.
There is no subscription. The free grant covers one team seat, 25 forms, 500 records and 100 MB. Past it you pay from your balance: $1 a month per extra seat, per extra form or per extra 1,000 records, and $0.60 per GB of storage. A crew of 10 costs $9 a month in seats.
Offline mobile forms, live tables, dashboards, share links. Start free and pay as you go.