Mobile App Development — Native & Cross-Platform That Ship
Most mobile apps die between TestFlight and the App Store. We ship apps that survive store review, real networks, and the long tail of devices your users actually own.
| Dimension | Native (iOS + Android) Swift / Kotlin | Cross-platform React Native or Flutter |
|---|---|---|
| Time to first ship | Slower (two codebases) | Faster |
| Long-run cost | Higher | 30–50% lower |
| Platform-specific APIs | Day-one access | Most via bridges |
| Frame-rate critical UI | Best | Excellent with care |
| Team you need to maintain it | iOS + Android specialists | One team |
| Right call for | Hardware-heavy, AR, games | Most product apps |
What you get
When it fits
- Mobile is the primary surface, not an afterthought tacked onto a web product
- You need real device capabilities (camera pipelines, BLE, AR, background tasks)
- You can name three things the app must do better than the web app to deserve install
- You have or will fund a continuous release cadence — apps decay if they sit
When it doesn't
- The 'app' is really a wrapped website — a PWA usually wins for cost and reach
- Nobody owns the product post-launch — apps without owners rot inside a quarter
- You expect a one-shot build with no ongoing iOS/Android version upkeep
Process
Two weeks of discovery: device matrix, store-review risk audit, and a shipped Hello-World on TestFlight and internal track. Then 8–14 weeks to MVP. We instrument crash-free sessions, frame rate, and time-to-interactive from sprint one — a 'fast app' is a metric, not a vibe.
Full delivery processPricing
Fixed-price by milestone for well-scoped builds (typically $80–250k for MVP). Dedicated team for longer roadmaps. Maintenance retainers cover OS version upgrades, store policy changes, and continuous releases.
See engagement modelsCase studies
Residential Access Control System
A beautifully simple portal to interconnected secure environments, delivering ease of use and peace of mind for residential communities.
FinTech Mobile Banking Platform
Secure, AI-powered mobile banking serving 500K+ users with instant transfers and biometric authentication.
FAQ
- Native or React Native — how do we choose?
- Start with the workload, not the framework. Hardware-heavy apps (AR, BLE pipelines, video processing) usually justify native. Most product apps — banking, marketplaces, productivity — ship faster and cheaper on React Native or Flutter without users noticing. We'll show you the trade-offs against your specific feature list in discovery.
- Can you handle App Store and Play Store review?
- Yes — we run a store-review risk audit during discovery and design around the categories that actually get rejected (in-app purchase routing, private API use, permissions, kids' content). For most apps we land first review approval; for risky categories we plan for one rejection and a fast turnaround.
- How long until something is in TestFlight?
- Week 2. A working Hello-World build on TestFlight and the Play internal track is the first sprint deliverable. The point is to flush out signing, provisioning, and CI before any product work — those are the things that delay teams who leave them to the end.
- Do you support post-launch and OS version upgrades?
- Yes, on a monthly retainer. Mobile apps need ~4 hours per platform per OS major release at minimum just to stay on store shelves; without that they degrade. We bundle this into a maintenance shape so the cost is predictable.