Build Mobile Apps That Users Love & Businesses Trust

It depends on three things: your budget and timeline, your UI complexity requirements, and your team's existing skills. Native development (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android) delivers the absolute best performance and platform integration — ideal for apps that push hardware limits, demand complex animations, or require deep OS-level access (like camera, Bluetooth, or health data). Cross-platform (Flutter or React Native) is ideal when you need to ship to both platforms simultaneously, want to reduce ongoing maintenance costs, and don't need deep platform-specific capabilities. The good news is that modern Flutter and React Native apps are genuinely difficult to distinguish from native — we'll give you an honest recommendation after understanding your specific requirements.

A well-scoped MVP typically takes 12–16 weeks from kickoff to App Store submission. This includes 2 weeks for product discovery and UX design, 8–10 weeks of development sprints, 2 weeks for QA and device testing, and 1–2 weeks for App Store review. More complex apps with advanced features like real-time video, machine learning, or complex backend integrations typically run 20–28 weeks. We always provide a detailed project plan with milestones at the proposal stage so you know exactly when to expect each deliverable.

Flutter uses Dart and its own rendering engine (Skia/Impeller) to draw every UI element directly — giving pixel-perfect, consistent UI across all platforms and outstanding animation performance, but meaning UIs don't use native OS components directly. React Native uses JavaScript/TypeScript and React, and renders actual native UI components on each platform — giving a more platform-native feel but historically with some performance overhead (reduced significantly by the New Architecture). Flutter is typically our first recommendation for visually rich, animation-heavy apps and apps targeting web and desktop in addition to mobile. React Native is ideal when your team has React web experience or you're sharing significant logic with a React web application.

Yes — we manage the complete submission process for both App Store Connect and Google Play Console. This includes preparing all required metadata, screenshots, and preview videos; completing privacy declarations and data safety forms; ensuring compliance with the latest App Store Review Guidelines and Google Play policies; and managing the submission, review, and any back-and-forth with Apple or Google reviewers. Our first-time approval rate across both stores stands above 95%. We also manage TestFlight and Google Play internal/closed testing tracks for beta distribution during development.

Absolutely — we work with existing backends in the vast majority of our engagements. Whether your backend is built on Node.js, Python/Django, Java Spring, .NET, Ruby on Rails, or a headless CMS, our mobile team will integrate with your REST or GraphQL APIs, handle authentication (JWT, OAuth, SAML), manage real-time features via WebSockets or server-sent events, and implement offline sync where needed. We'll review your API documentation during scoping and flag any gaps or improvements that would benefit the mobile experience before development begins.

Our post-launch support packages cover crash monitoring and resolution (Crashlytics/Sentry), performance monitoring and optimisation, iOS and Android OS major version compatibility testing and updates, App Store and Play Store policy compliance updates, security patch releases, and feature development sprints driven by user analytics and feedback. We offer flexible retainer models — from essential maintenance-only plans to full managed services with a dedicated mobile engineer, monthly analytics reviews, and a defined feature roadmap. Most clients choose a monthly retainer covering both maintenance and iterative improvement.