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DISCOVERCreate a woodworking app
Woodworking app: your video lessons and dimensioned plans, for subscribers only
Every piece of furniture has its plan, every joint its video; your students subscribe in the app and find everything in the shop, phone resting on the workbench.
The woodworker who teaches on video, or the woodworking school that extends its workshops online, publishes an iOS and Android app without code: PDF plans in locked articles, lessons filmed by technique, a project of the month announced by push.
Free 30-day trial - No credit card required
Dimensioned plans people print for the shop
The PDF plan, the cut list and the steps, behind the subscription
One piece of furniture, one article: the photo of the finished piece, the recommended woods and the skill level stay visible to all. Then come, for subscribers, the cut list, the detailed steps and the dimensioned plan as an attached PDF, which non-subscribers do not see. You decide the paragraph where the preview ends.
Every joint filmed up close to the wood
Mortise and tenon, dovetails, sharpening: one lesson per gesture
Sort your lessons by technique and by tool, hand or machine, and link each plan to the joints it calls for. A student stuck on a dovetail finds the right video, pauses it while marking out and replays it as often as needed. Videos play online: you do not pay for bandwidth, only for the space the library takes up, depending on the plan.
From workbench to App Store: three steps
What to prepare before opening subscriptions.
Film
One lesson per technique, in sections by tool; the first ones act as a free showcase.Put the plans online
One article per piece with its PDF plan; you need at least ten locked.Open subscriptions
Monthly or yearly, a price set in each store, a trial period if you want; plans open to subscribers once Apple and Google approve the app.
The project of the month, a date for your students
Announced ahead by push, so everyone can get their lumber ready
Schedule the notification that announces the next piece a few days before release, time enough to buy the boards; a second one goes out by itself when the plan is published. Through a form, students send you a photo of what they built, which you show in the following month's article.
Three uses of AI in the shop
What each one brings, and its price.
To cut
A cut list calculator
Describe the tool: the furniture dimensions go in, the parts to cut and the volume of wood come out. The AI Extension Builder creates the tool in your app; you check the math before publishing it.
Free
To advise
Questions on wood species and finishes
“Which oil for an oak tabletop?” The Chatbot relies on what you have published to answer; without a subscription, a student only gets answers from your open content.
$35/month
To publish
The plan of the month, posted from your AI assistant
With the MCP server, your AI assistant, Claude or ChatGPT, takes the controls of the app: it prepares the plan's article and schedules the announcement, you confirm, it carries it out.
Included
Around the plans and lessons
Wood species sheets
Oak, ash, walnut: hardness, uses and planing pitfalls.
Machine safety
Lessons open to all on the table saw and the jointer.
Levels
First stool, furniture with drawers, cabinetmaking: separate sections.
Tool reviews
Free articles that bring in new readers.
Search
Find a plan by piece, by wood or by joint.
At the bench
The plan open on the phone or in the computer's browser.
The woodworker on video
Short tutorials stay public; full plans and long lessons are for subscribers.
The woodworking school
Workshops are paid at sign-up, outside the app; attendees subscribe to rewatch the techniques at home.
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The app's toolkit: Memberships (to add to Premium, already in Pro), videos, articles and PDF plans, push notifications, Form, AI Extension Builder, Chatbot and MCP server.
They built their app with GoodBarber
Reviews from GoodBarber customers, across every trade.
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder.
GoodBarber is a powerful app builder. If you want to build your app using a pre-built template, GoodBarber is ideal for you. At Global Academy, we almost completed the 5th year using their easy-to-use pre-built platforms to build premium Apps for our customers. Also, Goodbarber's customer support is excellent. Highly recommended.
Great support and always very helpful answers.
Great support and always very helpful answers. Nothing is too trivial for the team to answer.
Responsive support and usually quick.
Responsive support and usually quick. Software is by far the best in the market, with tremendous capabilities for configurations.
The price of a woodworking subscription app
Subscriptions are sold in the native apps: the workshop starts on Premium with the subscription option, or on Pro, which already carries it. The calculator built with the AI Extension Builder, push notifications and the MCP server add nothing; only the Chatbot is paid on top.
| Premium · native apps and web app | $55 /month, billed yearly |
| Memberships option | $49 /month |
| Pro · Memberships on board | $105 /month, billed yearly |
Also plan for the Apple and Google developer accounts, billed by them.
Woodworking app: frequently asked questions
Can one furniture plan be sold on its own?
No: the subscription opens all your locked plans and lessons, with a single access level. If you want to sell a plan on its own, an online shop is the right tool.
Can my in-shop workshops be paid for in the app?
No. The subscription sold in the app only gives access to content; your workshops are paid at sign-up, on your website or at the shop.
Can a visitor see my plans without subscribing?
They see the introduction to the piece up to the paragraph you set; the attached PDF, the cut list and the steps stay hidden.
My lessons run an hour: is that a problem?
No. Bandwidth is not billed; what matters for a large video library is storage space, larger on Pro than on Premium.
What share do Apple and Google take?
Their usual commission on subscriptions: 15% as a rule, and 30% at Apple for each subscriber's first year, unless you have joined its program for small businesses. GoodBarber gets nothing.
Can I sell tools or lumber in the app?
Not in this content app. Selling products goes through another GoodBarber app, the eCommerce app.
Pioneers of no-code
15 years of experience building native apps for businesses and content publishers. And the numbers to prove it.
25 000+
Daily downloads for apps built with GoodBarber*
30 000+
Clients have brought their app projects to life with GoodBarber
2011
The year GoodBarber was born: no-code, before anyone else
* Source: internal download tracking, App Store and Google Play, April 2026.