Buddy - Developers

Your complete backend as a service

Build the best application you can.
Leave the cloud to us.

Developing a killer mobile or device application is challenging enough as it is, without having to also build cloud infrastructure to support features like online user accounts, global "high scores" tables, geo-location and points of interest, shared meta-data, etc... Alternatively, managing multiple services to provide these features becomes expensive and time consuming.

Instead, spend your time building the very best client app you can - on any or every device you like. Build apps using Buddy's APIs for your cloud scenarios, and spend your time making better apps, not reinventing the wheel writing web services.

Join our customers who are already building apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Facebook, HTML5, web, SmartTV, Windows 8 and more!

Try For Free

Get developing in 90 seconds

It's free to sign up and you can cancel anytime

1 Sign Up

We just need your email and a password, and your account is live.

2 Developer key

Create a developer key for your first application.

3 Instant Cloud

You rockstar! You didn't spend a cent and got the world's most awesome cloud backend!

FULLY CROSS-PLATFORM

SOAP and HTTP native end points + SDKs.

Buddy publishes all of our APIs with both SOAP and HTTP native endpoints, making the Platform the singular cloud solution you'll need, regardless of device type or operating sytem you're building for.

Use Buddy as the backend for your mobile app, and then build an admin website to manage your users. Perhaps build a Facebook application and have a native mobile app - or build a SmartTV app and engage your users on all three screens. Only Buddy makes this possible.

Jump to Buddy's API overview documentation »

WHITE-LABEL SERVICE

Own your brand, own your customers.

Buddy is a fully server-side solution, and we have no requirements on developers to brand their apps in any particular fashion, nor do we require any attribution.

Don't sacrifice brand equity by sticking someone else's logo on your app - own your brand, own your customers & users.

Jump to Buddy's API overview documentation »

USER ACCOUNTS

User account management, sans the headache.

Take advantage of Buddy's user account API set to create, manage and share (if desired) user accounts across your app titles, built for multiple device types and operating sytems.

Use other authentication systems like Facebook Connect, Twitter, etc... as a primary login mechanism, but track usage data via Buddy user accounts across al your apps.

Jump to Buddy's User Account API documentation »

GEO-LOCATION & POINTS OF INTEREST

40 million+ points of interest, in 10 countries.

Lots of services offer geo-location APIs, but how many maintain and grow a points of interest database against which developers can save user or app-specific meta-data? Apart from Buddy that is...

We currently maintain a database of over forty milion native language locations in ten countries (US, UK, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, India, Taiwan and Spain), and we'll continue to grow.

Jump to Buddy's Geo-Location API documentation »

PHOTO ALBUMS & IMAGE FILTERS

Instagram-style image filters, no PhD needed.

They say Instagram was built in eight weeks - with Buddy's killer image filtering APIs, build your own photo filter app in eight hours. It'll take you longer to cash the billion dollar check!

Buddy's photo album APIs allow developers to build, maintain and manage photo albums, and supports awesome functions like auto-thumbnailing, captioning, location awareness, search, and virtual albums.

Jump to Buddy's Imaging & Albums API documentation »

MESSAGING

Psst... whisper or shout with Buddy Messaging.

What app doesn't need some kind of communication component? If your users demand live real-time chat or group messaging - Buddy has you covered.

Use our messaging APIs to deliver a highly scalable, stable and managed individual or group chat experience.

Jump to Buddy's Messaging API documentation »

FRIENDS & GROUP LISTS

Groups and friend lists - no drama needed.

Support groups of users and lists of friends in seconds using Buddy's Friends API. Pre-built support for bundling users into groups, and enabling or disabling functionality in your app based on users' membership in groups or friend lists.

Jump to Buddy's Friends API documentation »

PUSH NOTIFICATIONS

Cross platform from the same API. Wait, what?

With Buddy's push notifications system, you can easily start pushing notifications to your iOS, Android, Windows Phone or Windows 8 applications. All of this is wrapped into a single portal and API schema making it really simple to get started.

Jump to Buddy's Push Notifications API documentation »

META-DATA STORAGE

User and application level metadata

Welcome to near-infinite expandability and flexibility, brought to you by Buddy. Save user-level or app-wide metadata and tag locations, photos, messages, user accounts - in fact any object type in the Buddy Platform.

Even better, perform searches on any object in the Buddy Platform, filtered by application or user metadata. For example, find all the Starbucks' restaurants checked into by your users, where a mocha was listed as their favorite drink. Now THAT is location search.

Jump to Buddy's User Meta-Data API documentation »

Jump to Buddy's Application Meta-Data API documentation »

ANALYTICS

Sort app usage by college campus. And more.

When an application is built upon the Buddy Platform, all users are (behind the scenes) interacting with the Platform in real time. That means we can provide amazing analytics, since for each interaction with the Platform, we know demographics info about the user, we know location (not just lat/long, but whether they're in Best Buy or a McDonald's), and we know intent (they're uploading a photo, chatting with a person in Australia, etc..).

For more details on Buddy Analytics, visit our Publisher section.

Jump to Buddy's Analytics API documentation »

Jump to Buddy's Publisher page »

Buddy for Developers