Question 1

How much does it cost to build a mobile app?

Accepted Answer

More than a website, and the honest range is wide: an app with a login and a list is a different order of magnitude from one with payments, maps and offline sync. We give you a number after a free call and a prototype, so it rests on code we have already written rather than on a guess. Anyone quoting an app without asking you a single question is quoting a template.

Question 2

Native or cross-platform — which should I choose?

Accepted Answer

By default one codebase for iOS and Android (React Native with Expo), because for most products the user cannot tell the difference while the timeline and the invoice are roughly halved. We go native where it genuinely changes the product: heavy graphics, real-time camera work, deep operating-system integration. Which group your idea falls into is something we tell you on the first call.

Question 3

Who submits the app to the App Store and Google Play?

Accepted Answer

We do. Developer accounts, signing, consents, privacy forms, listings, screenshots and answering an Apple reviewer's rejection are part of the project rather than a problem handed to the client at the end. The accounts are opened in your company's name, so the app is yours from day one, not ours.

Question 4

How long does a mobile app take to build?

Accepted Answer

A clickable prototype takes a week. A full first version is usually two to four months, and three things decide it: how many integrations run through systems we don't control, whether the app has to work without a signal, and how many product decisions are still open when we start. Each of those moves the date more than the number of screens does.

Question 5

What happens to the app after launch?

Accepted Answer

We stay on upkeep, because the first version never is the last. Apple and Google force updates for new OS releases every year — an unmaintained app simply falls out of the stores after a couple of them. Scope is agreed monthly and you can stop at any point: the code is yours and you leave with it.

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