Guides to what an app costs
What each platform costs to build for, and one buyer question answered per guide. Every figure comes from the estimator.
What each kind of build costs
Mobile app cost
The general picture: what drives cost, the real bands, and what a first version usually skips.
iOS app cost
App Store review, Apple’s annual cadence, a narrower device matrix, and when iOS-only makes sense.
Android app cost
Fragmentation as a real QA cost, Kotlin and Compose, rugged field hardware, and staged rollouts.
React Native cost
Which line items a shared codebase shrinks, which it doesn’t, and where native code is unavoidable.
Web app cost
Browser applications versus native mobile: release, testing, trade-offs, and when you need neither.
How much does an app cost?
The plain-English answer with real numbers and the reasoning behind them.
One question each
Field service app cost
What a tech app and the office portal behind it cost, which half is the expensive one, and when buying beats building.
Adding offline mode
What holding work on the phone costs, what getting it back costs, and why the second one is bigger.
Replacing a spreadsheet
How to tell whether you’ve really outgrown it, what replacing it costs, and whether the arithmetic works.
Nonprofit app cost
Figures for a proposal, how to lay them out as budget lines, and the year-two cost most budgets miss.
Adding AI
What the build costs, what it costs monthly, and why your data, not the model, decides the number.
Build vs buy
What a build costs, the seat count where five years of subscription catches it, and the four cases where building wins anyway.
MVP cost
What a real first version costs, why it saves less than you were told, and how to tell whether yours is one.
Cost to add payments
What the build costs, what the stores take, what the processor takes, and why the card form is the cheap half.
What $50,000 buys
One build that lands on the number, the four things that push it over, and why the budget should be scoped lower than you think.
How to write an app brief
The eight things a brief has to say, what each one is worth, and what the same app costs when you leave half of them out.
App maintenance cost
The two budgets after launch, why the cheapest change is never small, and what the same feature costs a year later.
App hosting cost
The itemized monthly bill, what the stores charge, and why the number people worry about is a different cost entirely.
What $10,000 buys
Why there is a floor under custom software, where it sits, and the three things $10,000 genuinely buys.
What $25,000 buys
One app, one audience, and the second kind of user that quietly doubles it.
What a studio needs to quote
Six answers, what each is worth, and why the same paragraph prices twice as high depending on who reads it.