Surf Mobile App

Your newspaper.
Your app.
Your brand.

Give your readers a branded iPhone and Android app connected directly to Surf CMS—with local news, breaking-news alerts, your e-edition and community calendar in one mobile experience.

From $129/month
Special pricing for Surf CMS customers
THE LOCAL NEWS
Council approves downtown project
Friday night sports roundup Sports · 12 minutes ago
Festival returns this weekend Community · 1 hour ago
What to know about road work Local · 2 hours ago
THE LOCAL NEWS
🔔 Breaking News: Updates from your community

A comfortable reading experience for local news

Your journalism, presented with your newspaper's identity at the center.

More than another place to read stories.

Surf Mobile App brings the most important parts of your newspaper into a dedicated mobile experience readers can return to every day.

Local News

Stories published through Surf CMS flow into a clean, mobile-friendly news experience.

Breaking-News Alerts

Send push notifications that bring readers back when important news happens in their community.

Premier E-Edition

Give readers direct access to your digital edition without requiring them to leave your branded app.

Community Calendar

Keep local events close at hand and give readers another reason to open your app throughout the week.

News Sections

Help readers quickly move through local news, sports, business, opinion and other publication sections.

iPhone + Android

Reach readers across both major mobile platforms with a branded app built around your publication.

It should feel like your newspaper—not somebody else's platform.

Your publication's masthead, colors and visual identity shape the experience from the moment readers open the app.

Your masthead
Your colors
Your community
Your journalism

Your app doesn't create a second newsroom workflow.

Publish the story once in Surf CMS. Your app becomes another connected destination for the journalism your newsroom is already producing.

Surf Newsroom
Newspaper Website
Mobile App
Newsletters & More

Give readers more reasons to stay connected.

A branded mobile app gives your newspaper a permanent presence on your readers' phones while helping bring them back when there is something important to read.

01

Own the reader relationship

Keep your publication's identity—not a social network or aggregator—at the center of the experience.

02

Bring readers back

Breaking-news push notifications give your newsroom a direct way to reconnect with readers.

03

Keep publishing simple

Your newsroom continues publishing in Surf CMS rather than maintaining a separate mobile publishing system.

04

Put more of your newspaper in one place

News, e-editions, community events and alerts can live together inside your publication's mobile experience.

A branded newspaper app without a custom-app price tag.

Surf Mobile App is built on the shared Surf platform, giving community publishers a professional iPhone and Android presence without funding an app from scratch.

The Surf Mobile App is also available separately.

Standalone app service is available for $149 per month with a $1,495 one-time setup fee.

Surf CMS customers receive lower monthly pricing and save $500 on initial app setup.

Explore Surf CMS

Apple and Google developer-account or app-store fees, when required, are the responsibility of the publication. Publication-specific custom development or integrations may be quoted separately.

Make sure your newspaper is there, too.

Bring your publication to iPhone and Android with a branded app connected to the Surf publishing platform.