The optician app for your shop — the glasses are ready, and the customer knows it.
Six days until the progressives are finished — and then they sit in a drawer for three more, because nobody knows. Your own app sends the ready alert with one tap, takes contact lens reorders and hands out the eye exam times.
30-second check · free, no strings attached · answer usually the same day
Tap around — this is roughly how your future app will feel.
What should your optical shop app do?
5 questions · 30 seconds · then a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
What the app for your optical shop can do.
Tap through the building blocks — on the right you see how it looks in your app. You pick what really takes work off your shop.
Three pairs are finished. Only nobody knows it.
Tap “Mark ready” on each order — on the right you see what happens in the shop. Then we flip the sides: you're the customer.
Back from the lab
Second move · same app, other side
That evening Joan reorders her lenses.
She doesn't have to search or type anything: what she wears has been in the app since the fitting.
Tap 0 of 2 · this is how 78 contact lens subscriptions run, four times a year
customers know
Three finished pairs are lying in the drawer. As long as nobody knows, they stay there about three days — and each of the three calls once in that time.
The app doesn't measure vision and doesn't diagnose. It runs the order, the appointment and the reminder — measuring, fitting and advising happen with you.
Same bench, same team — only the drawer is empty in the morning.
The glasses have been finished since Tuesday. Whoever doesn't know that picks them up on Friday.
Six days to finish are six good days. What gets lost are the three after — until someone calls, gets through and comes by. That's exactly what the app is for.
What an app really changes at an optical shop.
At an optical shop a lot is decided in the days when nothing seems to happen. Six days from the measurement to the finished glasses are six good days — no app changes that. The expensive part is the three days after: the glasses lie in the drawer, the customer doesn't know, and sooner or later one of the two sides reaches for the phone. Your own app starts exactly there — and at the second place where revenue quietly walks out: contact lenses.
The three days after the glasses are finished
After six days the glasses come back from the lab. From that point another three days pass on average before they're picked up — not because anyone is short on time, but because nobody knows. In the meantime the customer calls and catches you in the middle of a fitting, or you call and land in voicemail. With a ready alert from the app those three days usually turn into one: the message goes out just after four, and by the next morning the drawer is empty.
The second effect is quieter and, over time, the bigger one: the bench becomes plannable. When every order sits in one place with its date, its values and its status, the team sees without shouting which lenses arrive tomorrow and which pair still gets edged today. With twelve eye exams a day that isn't a luxury — it's the difference between a calm morning and three interruptions per customer.
A pair of glasses isn't finished until it's sitting on a nose.
What contact lenses have to do with it
The second spot doesn't hurt as long as nobody looks at it: contact lens reorders. Whoever has been fitted once needs new boxes every three months — and orders them wherever it takes the least effort. At 78 lens subscriptions, about $74 a delivery and four deliveries a year, that's roughly $23,100 a year that either crosses your counter or goes to an online retailer that never fitted a single lens.
Said honestly: that isn't extra revenue. Your customers buy these lenses anyway. The app only makes reordering as convenient as the internet — two taps out of their own history, at ten at night, with no cart to hunt through. The fitting, the recheck and the responsibility for them stay with you. That is exactly your advantage over mail order, and exactly what you give away as long as reordering means a phone call during your business hours.
Where the app stops — and has to stop
One boundary belongs said out loud in this trade: the app doesn't measure vision. There is no phone eye test, no diagnosis and no recommendation about which lenses somebody needs. The values in the digital prescription record come from the exam in your shop and sit there so your customer has them on hand — not so she can take care of herself. Only what you have fitted gets reordered, and the record doesn't replace a medical eye exam. You say that in the shop anyway; the app says it with you.
Two weeks pass until the first version is in the stores — from $4,000 that isn't a trial version but a full app under your own name. After that it stays quiet at first: a few regulars install it, look at their order status and try a reorder. Movement comes from the ready alert, because it reaches several people every week, and from the recheck reminder after twelve months. The 340 warranty records that sit in your drawer as cardboard today move along on the side — each one onto the phone it belongs to.
How many finished pairs are sitting in your drawer right now — and how many lens wearers already order somewhere else? Tell us, and we'll run the numbers with yours.
What do 78 lens subscriptions add up to?
≈ $23,100 in lens revenue a year runs through two taps in the app — instead of through a phone call during your business hours.
Said honestly: this isn't extra revenue. Your customers buy these lenses anyway — the only question is whether they buy them from you or from an online shop that never fitted a single lens.
Half a minute · you end up with a proposal and a fixed price
One project. Every device.
This is how the listing for your app will look once we submit it. Type in your name, pick a color — the preview on the right picks up both straight away.
Linden 04 framematte black acetate$189
Daily lenses −0.75, right90-pack$37Daily lenses −1.00, left90-pack−1+Your glasses are ready
Ready for pickup from 9 AM tomorrow — 412 Market Street.
Lens delivery on the way
Your boxes are set aside with your name from Saturday.
See where your glasses stand at any time — and get a message the moment they're ready for pickup. Reorder contact lenses in two taps from your own history, and book an eye exam or a fitting yourself. Your prescription record and warranty live on your phone instead of in the case; measuring, fitting and advice happen at Northlight Optical, same as always. more
The message came just after four and I was there at nine the next day. I used to call twice and drive over once for nothing.
My values are in there, I tap reorder and confirm. On Saturday the boxes are waiting with my name on them. I was fitted in the shop, and that's exactly how I want it.
Version 1.2
Ready alerts with a pickup time: you hear the same afternoon that your glasses are finished and pick your window right away.
Just a preview — your name, your logo, your colors. Screenshots come from the app on this page; figures and reviews are placeholders.
Built once, available everywhere: your customers download the app from the store, you run everything from a browser.
What we build is out in the app stores.
Six apps of our own, used by real people every day. What you see here are the untouched store screenshots and preview videos — exactly what anyone downloading them gets. Click through the shelf.
Scan a barcode and see at a glance what is actually inside: nutrition, additives, a clear verdict — and AI that recognizes whole meals from a photo.
Real listings — the buttons open the actual store pages.
„Amazing how it turns my phone into a fully working security camera“
Cam&Cam · plumblv · App Store„No frills, intuitive - does exactly what it should“
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Your app goes out the very same way: under your name, with your logo.
Who actually builds your app?
No off-the-shelf builder, no chain of anonymous contractors: an owner-run development studio that designs, codes and looks after apps for optical shops itself.
Have a nice day — an owner-run development studio: the person you deal with is the developer himself.
Ready alerts, lens reorders or the booking calendar first?
Tell us in 30 seconds what holds your shop up the most — you get a concrete proposal with a fixed price.
Free, no strings attached · usually an answer the same day
From the idea to your app in the stores.
Tell us about your shop
A short conversation: what you carry, how the lab runs, how many orders and lens wearers you handle. That's all we need from you.
You get a proposal and a fixed price
Concrete and readable: what the app does, how it looks, what it costs — in writing.
We build, you watch
You see a preview on your own phone early and tell us what should work differently in an optical shop's day.
Your app goes into the stores
We handle publishing to the App Store and Google Play — under your name.
We stay on it
Updates, new building blocks, help in daily use — you're not left alone with the technology.
What does it all cost?
There is no hourly billing and nothing added on afterwards: you choose a package, you get a fixed price for it, and you know in advance what is included. Even Start is a complete app — the larger packages add features and deeper technology, not better quality.
Included everywhere: App Store, Google Play and the browser — along with hosting, updates and support. The only difference is the feature set.
Start
A complete app, not a stripped-down version
from $4,000
ready to submit in 2 weeks
- In the App Store, on Google Play and in the browser
- Published under your own name
- Every core feature of your trade, fully built
- Push messages to your customers
- Hosting, updates and support included
Business
More features, more automation
from $10,000
usually 3–4 weeks
- Everything in Start
- Extra modules, cut to fit how you work
- Admin area: edit content and offers yourself
- Reminders and routines that run on their own
Complete
Woven tightly into your systems
from $20,000
from 4 weeks, depending on scope
- Everything in Business
- Connections to your point of sale, calendar, inventory system and more
- AI features, custom interfaces, an area for your staff
- Continuous further development
Rather not pay a large sum up front? Then subscribe.
from $199 / month
- We build it, run it and maintain it; you pay monthly
- Updates, new features and support are part of it
- The source code stays with us at first and becomes yours once it is paid off in full
Depending on the feature set, projects land between $4,000 and roughly $30,000 — how far your app goes is your call. We name the fixed price after a short conversation, free and without obligation.
The three packages are typical sizes; anything in between is possible too. The math: base package $4,000, each additional module about +$900, each connection to an existing system about +$2,500. The shows what every single feature costs.
Where do the speed and the price come from? We work with current tooling, AI included — the time we save goes back into the price, the care stays handmade.
Common questions about an optical shop app
The answer that matters most: your fixed price.
Five questions, half a minute — free and without obligation.
Tomorrow at nine the drawer is already empty.
A free first conversation — no sales pressure, an honest proposal with a fixed price for your optical shop.
We usually reply the same day · your fixed price comes in writing — then take your time to decide.
Your optical shop app
Free, no strings attached