Mobile App Development

A mobile app is worth building when it needs something the browser cannot give you: offline use, push notifications, the camera, location in the background, or a place on the home screen. If none of those apply, we will tell you a responsive web app is cheaper and faster to ship.

What you get

• Native iOS and Android builds, or one cross-platform codebase — chosen for your case, not our convenience
• Interface work that follows each platform’s conventions rather than fighting them
• Offline handling and sync, where the app needs to work without a connection
• Push notifications, wired to events that matter rather than noise
• API and backend built alongside the app, not bolted on afterwards
• App Store and Google Play submission, including the listing and review process
• Crash reporting and analytics configured before release

Native or cross-platform?

Cross-platform with React Native or Flutter means one codebase, roughly one budget, and both platforms moving together — the right call for most business apps. Native with Swift or Kotlin is worth the extra cost when you are pushing hard on performance, platform-specific hardware, or complex device integrations. We make this call with you during discovery, in the open, with the trade-offs written down.

How we work

1. Discovery & strategy. What the app must do that a website cannot, who uses it, and how success is measured.
2. Design & prototype. Interactive prototypes you can hold on a real device before we build.
3. Build & test. Agile sprints, automated testing, and builds distributed to your team throughout.
4. Launch & scale. Store submission, monitoring and iteration on the versions that follow.

Technology

React Native and Flutter for cross-platform. Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android where native is the right answer. Backends in Node.js, Python or Go, on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

Investment and timeline

Mobile applications typically range from $25,000 to $80,000 and take 3 to 6 months, in line with our other application work. Two platforms natively costs meaningfully more than one cross-platform build. You get a detailed estimate after a free 30-minute discovery call.

Frequently asked questions