Westender is Glasgow’s West End guide. Restaurants, shops, offers on right now. We built it for Westender Magazine over a decade ago and have kept it running on both stores ever since.
Apps age quickly, because Apple and Google keep raising the bar on location, notifications and design, and the store rules change every year. We stay in step so the magazine’s team doesn’t have to think about it.
Each app is built for its own phone, so it feels at home on iPhone and on Android. The maps avoid a monthly mapping bill, a Westender-green pin shows “you are here”, and alerts arrive like any other app’s, with the same content and the same look on both.
Alongside the app we added a monthly check that spots venues that have quietly closed or changed their name, and lists them for the magazine’s team. One click removes a closed venue, or turns a new one into a ready-made draft. It saves the magazine an afternoon a month of chasing what is still open.
Updates go out to both app stores in a single step, so fixes and new features reach readers quickly without taking up the magazine’s time.
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