Custom apps for iPhone and Android, built to ship

Often a fast website (from £600) or a web app is the smarter, cheaper choice — and we'll tell you straight if it is. An app earns its keep when you genuinely need to be on the home screen, send push notifications, work offline, or lean heavily on the camera and GPS. If that's not you, we won't talk you into a build you don't need.

Both. As well as iPhone and Android apps, we build business applications, internal tools, customer dashboards, and custom software on the same AWS foundations. It's the same skill set — if you're weighing a mobile app vs a web app vs custom software, we'll help you pick the one your budget and goals actually call for.

The build is a one-off fee (from £2,500). Everything ongoing is a separate, clearly-labelled line: managed AWS hosting (from £20/mo if you own the cloud account, or from £30/mo plus AWS at cost if we host it for you) and App Care (from £15/mo), plus the platforms' own fees at cost (Apple £79/year, Google Play £20 one-off). You always pay the AWS cost either way — we never bundle it into a single number or mark it up.

If you own the cloud account, app hosting starts at £20/mo — the same as a website — because that's just our management fee, and you pay AWS directly. If we host it for you, it's a slightly higher management fee plus the AWS cost billed through at cost on top. Either way, an app needs an always-on backend — a server and database running 24/7 — that costs real money even with no users, which a brochure website simply doesn't have.

Apple and Google change their rules roughly every year (minimum SDK and target-API requirements), and those changes can block or break an app even if you've changed nothing. App Care keeps your app published and working through that — yearly OS keep-up, store-policy compliance, security patching, and monitoring. It's real, demonstrable work, not a paywall on something you already paid for.

Your choice. If you want full ownership, the code and AWS account are yours and the app is published under your own Apple and Google developer accounts — no lock-in, take it elsewhere whenever you like. Prefer not to deal with any of that? We'll host the app and publish it under our managed accounts and just look after it for you — and still transfer it to you whenever you ask.

That's the most common situation, and it's completely fine — you don't need anything set up beforehand. If you'd like your own accounts, we'll help you create them and publish there so it's fully yours. If you'd rather not touch developer consoles or cloud billing at all, we'll host the app and publish it under our managed accounts and look after the lot — and you can take full ownership and move it to your own accounts whenever you want. Either way you end up with a working app on the App Store and Google Play.

App Launchpad is typically 2-3 weeks, a Standard app 4-8 weeks, and an Advanced app 6-10+ weeks scoped per project. AI-assisted development on proven foundations is what keeps these timelines weeks rather than the months an agency would quote.

Yes — via Stripe checkout, where the money flows straight to you and card details never touch the app. Full marketplaces that hold or split other people's money (escrow, payouts to third parties) are quote-only, and anything FCA-regulated (banking, lending, crypto) we'll point you elsewhere for.