The App Forge

South African business software

The App Forge

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The catalogue

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27 live apps. Collections Forge, Signing Forge and Practice Console are live. Each app shows its own plans in rand, or says it has none. Open a product, or enquire by email and we switch you on.

Live No published plans

Strongman Comps

Live leaderboards, athlete stories and commentator tools.

Strongman Comps has no packages on sale. Organisers are invited and set up by hand, so ask us.

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Live from R199/mo

Verbatim

AI voice recorder and transcription: record, diarize, summarise, search and share.

Free Free
  • 3 recording hours a month, every month
  • Transcripts, summaries and search
Pro R199/mo
  • 20 recording hours a month
  • R12 for each hour after that
  • Up to 40 hours a month
Team R599/mo
  • 80 recording hours a month
  • R9 for each hour after that
  • Up to 200 hours a month
Business R1 799/mo
  • 300 recording hours a month
  • R7 for each hour after that
  • Up to 1 000 hours a month

Verbatim has a free plan every month. Paid plans bill monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and are priced by recording hours, never per user.

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Live from R499/mo

Audit Bridge

Neutral platform for audit firms and finance teams.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 2 active engagements
  • Trial balance snapshots, mapping and statements
Solo R499/mo
  • 10 active engagements included
  • R49 a month for each engagement after that
  • Up to 25 engagements
Practice R1 499/mo
  • 40 active engagements included
  • R39 a month for each engagement after that
  • Up to 100 engagements
Firm R3 999/mo
  • 150 active engagements included
  • R29 a month for each engagement after that
  • Up to 400 engagements

Audit Bridge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per active audit engagement, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live from R699/mo

Vetting Desk

Applicant vetting, built for POPIA.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • 10 applicants vetted
  • Affordability checks and the POPIA record for each person
Branch R699/mo
  • 100 applicants vetted a month
  • R8 for each applicant after that
  • Up to 250 applicants a month
Group R1 999/mo
  • 400 applicants vetted a month
  • R6 for each applicant after that
  • Up to 1 000 applicants a month
Enterprise R4 999/mo
  • 1 500 applicants vetted a month
  • R4 for each applicant after that
  • Up to 5 000 applicants a month

Vetting Desk bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices by applicants vetted each month, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in R499/mo

Chat Forge

WhatsApp Cloud API inbox and agent workspace.

Workspace R499/mo
  • One workspace fee
  • Each payment covers one month

Chat Forge charges one workspace fee, R499, paid by card through PayFast on its Billing screen by an owner or admin. Each payment covers one month. There are no tiers and no usage charges; Meta bills WhatsApp message fees to your own WhatsApp Business account.

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Live · sign in R499 once

Talk Forge

Voice and call-centre on LiveKit.

Organisation charge R499 once
  • One card charge per organisation

Talk Forge takes one R499 card charge per organisation through PayFast, started by an owner or admin on its Billing screen. There is no monthly plan, and Talk Forge does not bill call minutes.

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Live · sign in R499 once

Comms Forge

Email, SMS and WhatsApp in one comms layer.

Card payment R499 once
  • One R499 card payment

Comms Forge takes a R499 card payment through PayFast, started by an owner or admin in its Settings. There is no monthly plan, and Comms Forge does not bill per email or SMS.

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Live · sign in from R299/mo

Flow Forge

Workflow engine — a Make replacement.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • 5 000 workflow steps
  • Webhooks, schedules, replay and the full run log
Starter R299/mo
  • 25 000 workflow steps a month
  • R49 for each extra 10 000 steps
  • Up to 100 000 steps a month
Pro R899/mo
  • 150 000 workflow steps a month
  • R39 for each extra 10 000 steps
  • Up to 500 000 steps a month
Scale R2 499/mo
  • 1 000 000 workflow steps a month
  • R29 for each extra 10 000 steps
  • No hard stop

Flow Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices by workflow steps run each month, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in from R399/mo

Ledger Forge

Books and double-entry general ledger — a Xero parallel.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • One company
  • The full ledger: journals, periods, documents and reports
Solo R399/mo
  • 3 companies included
  • R99 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 5 companies
Practice R1 299/mo
  • 15 companies included
  • R69 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 40 companies
Firm R3 499/mo
  • 60 companies included
  • R49 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 200 companies

Ledger Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per company ledger, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in from R499/mo

Pay Forge

Simple South African payroll — PAYE, UIF and SDL from the SARS tables, payslips emailed, EMP201 figures ready.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 5 active employees
  • The whole payroll: pay runs, payslips, EMP201, IRP5 and EMP501
Solo R499/mo
  • 10 active employees included
  • R39 a month for each active employee after that
  • Up to 25 active employees
  • PAYE, UIF, SDL and ETI worked out from the SARS tables
Practice R1 499/mo
  • 40 active employees included
  • R29 a month for each active employee after that
  • Up to 120 active employees
  • Several employers (companies) in one business
Firm R3 999/mo
  • 150 active employees included
  • R19 a month for each active employee after that
  • Up to 1,000 active employees
  • Priority support and estate-wide reporting

Pay Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per active employee, with unlimited staff logins. A new business gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live from R400/mo

Search Forge

Search across the suite.

Brand R400/mo
  • Every Search Forge feature
  • Billed monthly until cancelled
Agency R650/mo
  • Every Search Forge feature
  • Billed monthly until cancelled

Search Forge sells two monthly PayFast subscriptions from its Billing screen, Brand and Agency. Each runs until it is cancelled.

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Live · sign in No published plans

Portal Forge

Customer portal.

Portal Forge has no plans and does not charge the business. Your customers sign in to see their contracts and balances, and can pay what is due on them by card.

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Live · sign in from R599/mo

Desk Forge

Operations desk.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 3 agents
  • 10 residence checks
Desk R599/mo
  • 5 agents included, R99 a month for each agent after that
  • Up to 10 agents
  • 50 residence checks a month, then R15 a check
Team R1 799/mo
  • 20 agents included, R79 a month for each agent after that
  • Up to 40 agents
  • 200 residence checks a month, then R12 a check
Centre R4 499/mo
  • 60 agents included, R59 a month for each agent after that
  • Up to 150 agents
  • 750 residence checks a month, then R10 a check

Desk Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per support agent, with residence checks included each month. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in No published plans

Connect Forge

Shared spine: organisations, PayFast billing and MCP. Sign in to operate it.

Opens the /login spine. Public /docs is not published.

Connect Forge has no plans and no price of its own. It is the sign-in, organisation and billing spine the other apps use.

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Live · sign in R499/mo

Ads Forge

Marketing studio: reads your ad results, writes ad copy with AI and queues campaigns on Meta.

Sign-in and each business's own workspace are live. Campaigns are always created paused, so nothing spends until you switch it on in the ad platform. Until Meta's App Review passes, Facebook can be connected only by people added to the Ads Forge app in Meta. Google Ads campaigns are built, but creating one in a live Google Ads account waits on Google approving Ads Forge's Basic API access.

Free Free
  • 3 drafts a month
  • 5 creatives a month
  • 1 ad account
  • No publishing or scheduling
Starter R499/mo
  • 50 drafts a month
  • 20 publishes a month
  • 100 creatives a month
  • 3 ad accounts

The Free plan costs nothing. Starter is R499 paid by card through PayFast on the Billing screen, and each payment covers one month of Starter.

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Live from R499/mo

Pipe Forge

CRM and deals.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 3 sales seats
  • Leads, the deal board and revenue reports
Team R499/mo
  • 5 sales seats included
  • R89 a month for each seat after that
  • Up to 10 seats
Growth R1 499/mo
  • 20 sales seats included
  • R69 a month for each seat after that
  • Up to 40 seats
Business R3 999/mo
  • 75 sales seats included
  • R49 a month for each seat after that
  • Up to 200 seats

Pipe Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per sales seat. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in from R499/mo

Compliance Forge

Company compliance obligations and tracking for SA private companies.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 5 companies
  • Deadlines, payments and the due-diligence vault
Solo R499/mo
  • 10 companies included
  • R39 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 25 companies
  • Statutory deadline calendar for every company
Practice R1 499/mo
  • 40 companies included
  • R29 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 120 companies
  • Due-diligence packs and register export for every company
Firm R3 999/mo
  • 150 companies included
  • R19 a month for each company after that
  • Up to 1,000 companies
  • Estate reads through Connect Forge

Compliance Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per company, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live · sign in from R1 499/mo

Collections Forge

Debt and collections — accounts, reminders and recovery ops.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • 3 seats and 250 open accounts
  • The whole product: queue, promises, s129 notices, hand-overs, commission
Desk R1 499/mo
  • 2 500 open accounts included
  • Unlimited collectors
  • Stops at 2 500 open accounts and offers Floor
Floor R4 999/mo
  • 25 000 open accounts included
  • Unlimited collectors
  • Stops at 25 000 open accounts and offers Book
  • Campaign engine, bot API and estate reads
Book R12 999/mo
  • 100 000 open accounts included
  • R999 a month for each additional 10 000 open accounts
  • Unlimited collectors, no ceiling on the book
  • Priority support and estate-wide reporting

Collections Forge bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Paid plans have unlimited collectors: it never charges per user.

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Live · sign in from R499/mo

Signing Forge

E-sign and contracts — send, track and store signed documents.

Trial Free
  • 10 completed signings a month, free
  • Everything works, nothing is watermarked
Branch R499/mo
  • 100 completed signings a month
  • One branch
Group R1 499/mo
  • 400 completed signings a month
  • Several branches under one account
Enterprise R3 999/mo
  • Unlimited completed signings
  • White-labelled to your own brand

Signing Forge counts completed signing sessions per calendar month; a session that is started and abandoned costs nothing. The Trial plan is free every month. Paid plans renew monthly through PayFast. The app has no plan screen yet, so ask us to move you to a paid plan.

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Live · sign in from R499/mo

Practice Console

One login for an accounting or auditing practice's whole client book: statutory deadlines, jobs, time and WIP.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 5 active clients
  • The client book, deadline board and job pipeline
Solo R499/mo
  • 10 active clients included
  • R39 a month for each active client after that
  • Up to 25 active clients
  • Statutory calendar generation
Practice R1 499/mo
  • 40 active clients included
  • R29 a month for each active client after that
  • Up to 120 active clients
  • Estate reads through Connect Forge
Firm R3 999/mo
  • 150 active clients included
  • R19 a month for each active client after that
  • Up to 1 000 active clients
  • Priority support and estate-wide reporting

Practice Console bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Paid plans have unlimited staff logins: it never charges per user.

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Live from R799/mo

Caller Insights

Call QA and insights — human and AI.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • 100 calls analysed
  • Call scoring, costs and AI insights
Team R799/mo
  • 1 000 calls analysed a month
  • R0.90 for each call after that
  • Up to 2 500 calls a month
Floor R2 499/mo
  • 5 000 calls analysed a month
  • R0.60 for each call after that
  • Up to 15 000 calls a month
Centre R6 999/mo
  • 20 000 calls analysed a month
  • R0.45 for each call after that
  • Up to 60 000 calls a month

Caller Insights bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices by calls analysed each month, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live from R299/mo

Pulse

Marketing performance dashboard.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 2 connected ad accounts
  • The whole dashboard: spend, leads and cost per lead
Starter R299/mo
  • 3 connected ad accounts included
  • R79 a month for each ad account after that
  • Up to 6 connected ad accounts
Growth R899/mo
  • 12 connected ad accounts included
  • R59 a month for each ad account after that
  • Up to 25 connected ad accounts
Agency R2 499/mo
  • 50 connected ad accounts included
  • R39 a month for each ad account after that
  • Up to 120 connected ad accounts

Pulse bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per connected ad account, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live from R399/mo

Recon Desk

Reconciliation and exception desk.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • One active client book
  • 250 bank lines a month
  • The whole engine: ingest, classification, review, posting
Solo R399/mo
  • Up to 3 active client books, all included
  • 2 000 bank lines a month across the account
  • Stops at 2 000 lines and offers Practice
  • Shadow mode and the full audit log
Practice R999/mo
  • Up to 15 active client books, all included
  • 10 000 bank lines a month across the account
  • Stops at 10 000 lines and offers Bureau
  • Ledger posting and the Forge spine
Bureau R2 499/mo
  • Up to 60 active client books, all included
  • 40 000 bank lines a month across the account
  • R199 for each additional 10 000 lines, no hard stop
  • Priority support

Recon Desk bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen, with a 14-day free trial for a new subscriber. Plans are priced per account, never per user.

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Live from R399/mo

Asset Insights

Vehicle and asset insights.

Trial Free
  • Free for 14 days
  • Up to 25 assets
  • The register, depreciation and month-end close
Fleet R399/mo
  • 100 assets included
  • R3 a month for each asset after that
  • Up to 250 assets
Business R1 199/mo
  • 500 assets included
  • R2 a month for each asset after that
  • Up to 1 500 assets
Enterprise R2 999/mo
  • 2 500 assets included
  • R1 a month for each asset after that
  • Up to 10 000 assets

Asset Insights bills monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen and prices per asset on the register, never per user. A new workspace gets a 14-day free trial.

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Live from R49/mo

Pantry

Household meal planner with inventory.

Free Free
  • 2 household members
  • 10 photo scans a month
  • Pantry stock, recipes, meal plan and shopping list
Plus R49/mo
  • 4 household members
  • 60 photo scans a month
Family R89/mo
  • 8 household members
  • 200 photo scans a month

Pantry has a free plan every month. Plus and Family bill monthly through PayFast from its own Billing screen.

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Live No published plans

Xero Connect

Live Xero API broker used by Ledger Forge and customer workspaces. Read-only; write is disabled.

Opens a product page on this site — not the raw JSON API root.

Xero Connect has no plans and takes no payment. It is the read-only Xero broker behind Ledger Forge and the other Forge apps.

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Live No published plans

Clip Engine

Live video pipeline behind Strongman Comps and Forge Publisher.

Production infrastructure. Not a login app.

Clip Engine is not sold on its own and takes no payment. It renders the clips inside Strongman Comps.

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Also built

We can productise this

Not on the main catalogue yet. Live production work we can pack for other industries.

Live proof · Skin Crowd

Clinic / Practice Forge

Live on theskincrowd.co.za — Clear Skin Collective / The Skin Crowd clinic ops in production. The same booking, leads and ops base can be packaged as Clinic / Practice Forge for other clinics, practices and therapists.

Also built · Strength Forge

Forge Publisher

The Strength Forge social and content publisher. Not a catalogue SKU — proof we can ship a content desk.

In-house · login-gated

In-house Insights

Private, login-gated reporting for our own operators. Not a public product and not a client showcase.

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