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Mobile app development, React Native and native
We design and build apps for iOS and Android: React Native from a single codebase when the budget and the roadmap favour it, fully native when the product calls for it. UX, interface, backend and store launch, from one team.
Most of our mobile work is a first version that has to earn the next round, or a companion app for a business that already runs on the web. Our apps have gone through App Store and Google Play review and into the hands of real users for clients across Europe and the US.
An app is the most demanding thing a brand can ship. It lives on a device the user holds all day, next to products built by thousand person teams, and it gets judged in the first thirty seconds. That is why we treat mobile as a product discipline, not a smaller website: the research, the interface, the backend and the store listing are designed together, by the same people, as one thing. The first decision is the platform, and we make it with you rather than for you. React Native covers iOS and Android from one codebase, keeps the budget focused on the product rather than on doing everything twice, and feels native enough that users never notice. It is the right route for most MVPs and most business apps. Fully native Swift and Kotlin earn their cost when the product leans on hardware, heavy graphics, background processing or platform features that cross platform tools do not reach cleanly. The proposal says which one we recommend and what each would cost. The second decision is what happens behind the screen. Every real app needs accounts, data, payments, push notifications and an admin your team can use, so we build the backend with the app on NestJS or Laravel, or connect to one you already run. One plan, one team, no handoff between a design agency and a dev shop that have never met. The third is launch. Store listings, screenshots, privacy declarations and the back and forth with Apple and Google reviewers are part of the job, done on your developer accounts so you own everything published. After launch an app keeps asking for work: new OS versions, policy changes, fixes, features. We stay on for that, on a retainer or as needed, and we hand over clean enough that another team could take it on if you ever want them to.
What we build
- MVPs for funded startups: the first version real users can try, on a codebase the next hire can inherit.
- Consumer apps with accounts, subscriptions, payments and notifications.
- B2B and field apps for sales teams, drivers and warehouse staff, with offline handling where the work happens without signal.
- Companion apps for products that already run on the web, sharing one backend.
- Ordering and loyalty apps for hospitality and retail brands.
- App redesigns and rebuilds of products that have outgrown their first version.
Native modules, wearables and hardware integrations are scoped case by case.
Stack and facts
- Cross platform
- React Native with TypeScript
- Native
- Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android
- Backend
- NestJS or Laravel, PostgreSQL
- Design
- Figma, prototyped on real device sizes
- Testing
- TestFlight and internal builds every sprint
- Ownership
- Code, repository and store accounts are yours
How a mobile project runs
An app is agreed in builds, not slides. Each stage ends with something you can install on your own phone, so by launch day there is nothing in the product you have not already used.
Scoping and platform
Users, the jobs the app has to do, the platforms, the integrations. Out of that comes a feature list, a technical plan and a fixed price.
UX and interface
Flows and wireframes first, then the interface on real device sizes, assembled into a clickable prototype you tap through before anything is built.
Build and test flights
Front end, backend and integrations in sprints, with a TestFlight or internal build every cycle, tested on real devices across OS versions.
Launch and growth
Store listings, review submissions, analytics and crash reporting. Then the first fixes fast, and the next features planned with you.
Products we have built
Apps rarely photograph well on a portfolio page. These are the projects where the product is the work, from a logistics app on a turf farm to a crypto platform live in 190 countries.
Designatives came up with a great new logo and did an excellent job redesigning our website and our whole branding material. We extended our collaboration to software development, and our clients especially love the B2B online ordering system.
Questions we get asked
Tell us about your app
A short note is enough: what the app needs to do, which platforms, and when you need it in users' hands. We reply within one working day with next steps, or you can book a discovery call straight away.