Mobile App Development Services Users Actually Keep

Mobile app development cost depends on platforms, features, backend complexity, design fidelity, and integrations. As illustrative context, a focused MVP often lands in the low five figures, while feature-rich products with custom backends cost more. Fivet Solutions provides a fixed quote with milestones after a free scoping consultation, so the price reflects your actual product rather than a generic guess.

A focused MVP typically takes around 12 to 16 weeks from kickoff to store launch, covering discovery, design, development sprints, QA, and store review. Larger apps with custom backends and many integrations take longer. We define the timeline with milestones during discovery, and you receive installable builds every two weeks so progress is visible on your own phone.

Cross-platform frameworks such as React Native and Flutter are the right choice for most business apps: one codebase ships native-quality experiences to both iOS and Android at roughly half the cost of two native builds. Fully native Swift or Kotlin development makes sense for games, heavy real-time graphics, or products built around one platform's deepest hardware features. We recommend based on your product, not our preference.

Yes. We build for the Apple App Store and Google Play, usually from a single cross-platform codebase so both launch together. When a client's audience is heavily concentrated on one platform, we can launch there first and follow on the second platform once the product is validated, which stretches an early budget further.

You do. On final payment you receive full ownership of the source code, the App Store and Google Play accounts, the backend, and all project assets, along with documentation a future team could pick up. We believe an agency should be retained because it keeps delivering, never because it holds your product hostage.

Yes. We manage the complete submission for both stores: listings, screenshots, preview media, keyword metadata, privacy and data-safety declarations, and the review process itself. Store review regularly rejects first-time submitters over privacy declarations, payment rules, or metadata issues, so we treat launch as a managed deliverable rather than an afterthought.

App Store Optimization (ASO) is the practice of improving an app's visibility and conversion inside the Apple App Store and Google Play through its name, keywords, screenshots, description, ratings, and update cadence. If nobody finds the app, its quality never gets a chance to matter, so yes: we build ASO fundamentals into every launch and iterate on them afterward.

After launch we monitor crashes and performance, ship compatibility updates as iOS and Android release new versions, patch security dependencies, and build new features on a roadmap informed by real usage analytics. Both stores enforce minimum SDK and API requirements over time, so an unmaintained app eventually breaks or falls out of compliance. Maintenance plans are quoted alongside the build.

Yes. We build secure, scalable backends with authentication, databases, and APIs, and we integrate with the systems your business already runs: payment providers such as Stripe, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, CRMs, booking systems, and internal tools. Every integration is tested end to end on real devices before launch.

A website is usually the right first investment: it is discoverable in search and reaches everyone. An app earns its place when users return frequently, need push notifications, work offline, or use device features such as the camera and location. Many of our Austin clients run both, and we build them as one connected ecosystem rather than two disconnected projects.

Often, yes. We start with a code and infrastructure audit to assess what exists, what is salvageable, and what it would cost to stabilize versus rebuild. Sometimes the honest answer is that a rebuild on a maintainable stack is cheaper than resuscitating the old codebase, and we will tell you which case yours is before you spend anything on either.

An MVP, or minimum viable product, is the smallest version of your app that delivers its core value to real users. Starting with an MVP gets the product into the market months sooner and lets actual usage data, rather than assumptions, decide what gets built next. The most expensive app is the fully featured one nobody validated.

Yes. Fivet Solutions is based in Austin, TX, and serves clients across the United States and internationally. Discovery workshops, sprint reviews, and launch coordination run smoothly over video, and every client receives the same installable sprint builds regardless of location.