TBC Community App vs. LazyCoders’ Fluent Community Mobile: your own app, or a row in a shared one

Their app · one app, many communities

One shared app, joined with a QR code.

Fluent Community Mobile is a single free app that LazyCoders publishes on the App Store and Google Play from its own developer accounts (the App Store lists the seller as Noor Khan, the copyright as LazyCoders LLC). A site installs their plugin, and members download the app and add the community by QR code or web address. The developers described it this way on the WPManageNinja community:

“this is a common shared app across all communities who choose to use it… download + install the app and scan the QR from the site(s) to connect with multiple communities through just one app.”

Both listings were updated in early October 2026, so the shared app is still current. That is a quick way to get a community onto phones, and for some groups it is enough. What it means in practice: members look for an app called Fluent Community Mobile, not for your community. The icon on their phone is LazyCoders’. A member who belongs to several communities picks yours from a list.

Our app · one app per community

Your name in the store, your icon on the phone.

TBC Community App is published in the App Store and Google Play under your own Apple and Google developer accounts, with your name, icon, colours and sign-in screen. Members search for your community and install your app.

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• The store listing, the reviews and the installs belong to your account.
• The link to your listing can go on your website, your emails and your printed cards.
• The app talks straight to your own WordPress site. No server of ours sits in between.
• If you stop paying us, the app stays in the stores and keeps working. You only stop getting updates.

Inside · the everyday screens

Both ride on Fluent Community. The difference is whose app it is.

Both apps read the same Fluent Community site, so the basics overlap: the feed, spaces, chat, courses and profiles. So we won’t argue over a feature checklist. These are things ours does that matter to an owner.

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• You arrange the home screen, menus, tabs and colours from WordPress, and choose who sees each item. Members get the change the next time they open the app, with no new build.
• Push notifications come from your own app, through Apple and Google, and open the post or message they are about.
• Memberships can be sold in the app through Apple and Google.
• The app speaks English, Spanish, Greek and Dutch, and adapts to phones, tablets and foldables.
• Any other page on your site opens inside the app, already signed in.

Side by side · the short version

Shared app or your own.

Cost · two ways to own it

What ours costs.

• Managed is $33 a month with no setup fee. We build the app, submit it to both stores and ship every update. You shape it from WordPress.
• The Dev Bundle is the full React Native source for $399 per site, with a dashboard that builds and submits the app from your browser. Core updates are $50 a year if you want them.
• Apple charges $99 a year for a developer account and Google charges $25 once.

LazyCoders’ site also lists a paid “Premium iOS and Android App” from $149 a year. The page doesn’t say whose store accounts those apps are published under, so ask them before you compare it with ours.

If what you need this week is your feed on a phone for free, and you don’t mind the app carrying someone else’s name, the shared app does that. If you want an app that is yours in the stores and stays yours, that is what we build.

Sources: the Fluent Community Mobile listings on the App Store and Google Play, LazyCoders’ product pages at lazycoders.co (read October 2026), and the LazyCoders developers’ answers on the WPManageNinja community forum. First published May 2026; prices and features updated October 2026.