Service · Mobile apps

Mobile App Design and Development

iOS and Android apps that feel native, and ship on schedule.

Mobile is where your users meet your brand most often. We build iOS and Android apps that are fast on weak networks, accessible on every screen, and quietly delightful in the details.

Engagement
Project · Retainer · Embedded
Cadence
Two-week shipping rhythm
Team
Senior engineers & designers
Source code
Yours from commit one
A deeper look

Everything to know about mobile apps.

A long-form view of what this service line actually means in practice, written for the people who buy it and the people who will live inside the product after launch.

01

Native-feeling mobile app design and development on iOS and Android

Mobile app design and development is the surface where most of your users actually meet your brand, every day. We build iOS and Android apps that feel native on the platform they land on. Smooth gestures, predictable navigation, accessibility wired in, and animations that respect the operating system rather than fighting it. Whether the right answer is Flutter, React Native, or fully native Swift and Kotlin depends on your team, your roadmap, and the hardware your app has to talk to. We start every engagement by helping you make that call honestly, then we ship a single coherent codebase, not three half-finished ones.

02

Engineered for weak networks and real devices

A polished demo on a flagship phone proves very little. Real users open your mobile app on three-year-old devices over patchy mobile networks, on the bus, in lifts, at conferences. We engineer for that reality from day one. Offline-first behaviour where it matters, smart caching, graceful failure when an API call times out, and crash reporting that tells you what broke and where. Performance budgets live in CI, not in someone's head. Battery use, install size, and cold-start time get the same review treatment as features. The app that ships is the one your users will actually keep on the second screen of their home page.

03

App store launch, telemetry, and post-launch care

Half of a mobile app development engagement is what happens after the binary is signed. We handle App Store and Play Store submission, including the listing copy and assets, and we respond to reviewer feedback inside the same business day. Crash reporting, analytics, and basic A/B infrastructure are wired in before the first release. After launch you get a release pipeline that lets your team ship updates in hours instead of weeks, a monthly health report with the metrics that matter, and a backlog ranked by impact. Mobile is a long game, and the way we set it up is meant to be lived in for years.

Built for

Teams who recognise themselves here.

If one of these sounds like your situation, the rest of this page is calibrated for you. If none does, send a note anyway: we will tell you whether we are the right partner.

  • Audience

    Consumer brands whose customers live in their phones

  • Audience

    B2B teams equipping field workers and operations crews with a real tool

  • Audience

    Marketplaces and platforms that need an offline-friendly app

What you get

Outcomes, not deliverables.

We measure success in shipped value, not Jira tickets closed. Every engagement is anchored to a small number of outcomes both sides can defend.

  1. 01

    Native-feeling apps on iOS and Android from a single, maintained codebase

  2. 02

    Offline-first behaviour, smart caching, and graceful failure on weak networks

  3. 03

    Push notifications, deep links, and analytics wired in from the first release

  4. 04

    App Store and Play Store submission handled, including ASO copy and assets

  5. 05

    A release pipeline that lets you ship updates in hours, not weeks

What we deliver

Concrete artifacts, not slide decks.

These are the tangible things that land in your accounts at the end of an engagement. Everything lives in your repositories, your cloud, and your control from day one.

Ownership
  • Repositories, cloud, and domain stay yours
  • No proprietary tooling locks you in
  • Walk-away contract clause on every engagement
  1. Artifact

    Native iOS and Android binaries in your App Store Connect and Play Console

  2. Artifact

    Reusable design system with platform-aware components

  3. Artifact

    Backend APIs, authentication, and offline sync where it matters

  4. Artifact

    Crash reporting, analytics, and a release pipeline you control

  5. Artifact

    Store submission, listing assets, and reviewer-feedback handling

How we engage

Three shapes, one quality bar.

Match the engagement model to where your problem is today. The team, the cadence, and the standards do not change between shapes.

01 · Engagement

Project

Fixed scope · fixed price

Discover, design, build, launch, and hand over. One number, one date, one team accountable from kick-off to keys.

Best for: Clear brief, real deadline.

02 · Engagement

Retainer

Monthly · rolling backlog

A fixed senior allocation each month against a re-ranked backlog. Ship what matters every two weeks and review the plan together.

Best for: Priorities shift faster than annual plans.

03 · Engagement

Embedded

Per-engineer · monthly

We embed in your Slack, your repos, and your sprint board, on-camera daily, treated as your team for the duration.

Best for: In-house engineers who need senior horsepower.

Our process

Discover → Design → Build → Launch → Support.

The same playbook on every project. Boring, on purpose. Predictable, by design. The bead below traces the path we walk together, every time.

  1. 01Discover
  2. 02Design
  3. 03Build
  4. 04Launch
  5. 05Support
  1. 1

    Discover

    We map the jobs-to-be-done, the device matrix, and the regulatory edges before kicking off design.

    Phase 01 / 05
  2. 2

    Design

    We prototype core flows in Figma, validate with real users, and lock interaction details before build.

    Phase 02 / 05
  3. 3

    Build

    We ship signed builds to TestFlight and internal testing every sprint, with crash reporting on day one.

    Phase 03 / 05
  4. 4

    Launch

    We submit, respond to review feedback, and stage rollouts to catch issues before they reach everyone.

    Phase 04 / 05
  5. 5

    Support

    We track crash-free sessions, A/B test what matters, and ship a steady stream of small improvements.

    Phase 05 / 05
Our toolkit

Pragmatic tools. Senior judgement.

The 10 tools below are the everyday kit our team reaches for on this service line. None of them are sacred; every choice is justified against the problem in front of us.

Quality bar
  • Type-safe end-to-end, lint and format on CI
  • Automated tests, monitoring, and runbooks
  • Infrastructure-as-code, reproducible builds
  • 01Figma
  • 02FigJam
  • 03Android Studio
  • 04Xcode
  • 05VS Code
  • 06TestFlight
  • 07Firebase Console
  • 08Sentry
  • 09Lottie
  • 10ClickUp
Common questions

Things teams ask before signing.

Have a different one? Send a single email; we usually answer within a business day.

Flutter, React Native, or native?

We start from what your team can maintain. Flutter for design-rich apps and shared logic; React Native if you have React engineers; native when the app leans heavily on platform-specific hardware or performance.

Can you take an existing app and rebuild it?

Yes. We start with an audit of the codebase, store metrics, and crash trends. Then we propose a path (refactor, rewrite, or hybrid) with honest trade-offs.

How do you handle App Store reviews and rejections?

We pre-validate the build against Apple's and Google's most common rejection reasons, write the submission notes carefully, and respond to reviewer feedback within the same business day.

Do you cover backend and APIs too?

We do. Most apps need an API, auth, and storage. We design the contract first so the app and the server team move in lockstep.

What happens after launch?

We monitor crashes, ratings, and analytics, and ship measured updates. You get a monthly health report and a backlog ranked by impact.

Ready for mobile apps?

Send the brief. We will take it from there.

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