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Custom Mobile Apps

Apps built around how your business actually works

We build mobile apps for businesses that need more than an off-the-shelf product — ordering and delivery, clock-in and scheduling, stock and warehouse, bookings, payments and customer portals.

Native or hybrid, iOS or Android, with the admin portal and integrations behind it. From first concept to store submission and ongoing support, one team handles the lot.

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What You Get

Quality apps, delivered on time

AI-assisted build, lower price

AI takes the repetitive end of an app build — boilerplate screens, API wiring, test coverage, store listings and copy. Apps ship in weeks rather than months and the quote comes down with them, while the design and the final review stay with our team.

UI & UX design

Interfaces your customers and staff can use without training, designed before a line of code is written.

Native device features

Camera and barcode scanning, GPS and background location, Bluetooth and NFC, the photo library, contacts and the file system. Native plugins talk to the hardware directly rather than through a browser, so they are faster and the permissions are the ones the operating system enforces.

Biometric sign-in

Face ID, Touch ID and Android biometrics, backed by the device keychain and secure enclave. Your app never sees or stores a password, and staff get into it in under a second instead of retyping something they wrote on a note.

Push notifications

Order updates, job assignments, reminders and offers, sent to one person, one team or everyone, and scheduled or triggered by something happening in your system.

Works offline

Data is stored on the device, so the app keeps working in a basement, a warehouse or a van with no signal, and syncs the moment it has one. Conflicts are resolved on the server rather than losing somebody's work.

Payments & ecommerce

Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with order management built in and in-app purchases where the stores require them.

Integrations

Connect to the accounting, payroll, CRM or warehouse systems you already run, through their APIs.

Store compliant, and submitted

We build to the App Store Review Guidelines and Google Play policies, and we handle the submission: developer accounts, signing certificates, privacy manifests, the data safety form, age ratings, screenshots and the listing. If a review is rejected, fixing it is our job, not yours.

Secure hosting

Encrypted Microsoft Azure services, with monitoring and backups managed by us.

Analytics & crash reporting

See which screens get used and which get abandoned, and get told about a crash by the reporting tool rather than by a customer on the phone.

Support after launch

Apps are not finished at launch. iOS and Android ship breaking changes every year, and we keep yours building, passing review and working on the phones your people actually carry.

Platforms

iOS, Android and progressive web apps

iOS app developers

Built for iPhone and iPad, tested on real devices and submitted to the App Store on your behalf.

Android app developers

Phones, tablets and rugged handhelds, published to Google Play and managed through release.

Progressive web apps

One build that installs on any device with no app store approval — often the fastest route to launch.

App Benefits

Always connected. Built to do more.

A website waits for people to find it. An app lives on their phone — ready in a tap, able to send notifications, use the camera, location and biometrics, and keep working even when the signal drops.

Faster access, better engagement and more ways to make your customers’ lives easier.

  • AI powered throughout

    AI is in the build and in the product. It writes the boilerplate, the tests and the store listing so the app ships in weeks rather than months, and inside the app it handles the work that used to need a person: reading receipts and documents, sorting and tagging records, drafting replies, and spotting the job that is about to run late.

  • An AI assistant for your admins

    Your office staff ask the system questions in plain English instead of building a report. “Which jobs are unassigned this week?” or “Show me every invoice over 30 days.” It answers from your own live data, and it can draft the follow-up email or raise the record for a person to approve.

  • Biometric logins, faster and safer

    Face ID, Touch ID and Android biometrics get staff in under a second, with no password to type on a phone screen or write on a note by the till. The credential lives in the device secure enclave, so your app never sees it, never stores it, and has nothing to leak.

  • Native plugins, not a browser

    Camera and barcode scanning, GPS and background location, Bluetooth, NFC, the file system and local storage, reached directly rather than through whatever a browser is willing to expose. That is what makes scanning instant, tracking work with the app in your pocket, and the whole thing keep running with no signal.

  • Optimised for speed

    Screens, icons and logic are installed on the device, so there is no page to download before anything appears and no round trip for every tap. Data is cached locally and only the changes travel, which keeps it quick on a weak connection and cheap on a data allowance.

  • Harder to attack than a website

    An app is not a public URL anyone can probe. It ships signed and reviewed by Apple and Google, talks to your server over pinned encrypted connections, keeps its data in the operating system’s encrypted store, and can be wiped remotely if a phone goes missing. A browser gives you none of that.

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App Types We Build

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Industries We Design For

Every trade is different. Its app should be too.

What the app needs to do changes completely with the sector. These are the industries we build for most often.

Accountancy & professional services

Client portals, document capture and approvals, so a signature does not wait on the post.

Trades & construction

Site photos, timesheets and job sheets captured on the phone, working with no signal and syncing later.

Hospitality & food

Ordering, table booking and loyalty, with push notifications that fill a quiet Tuesday.

Health, beauty & wellbeing

Appointments, reminders that cut no-shows, and client records held under biometric sign-in.

Events & entertainment

Tickets and passes in the phone wallet, scanned on the door, with live updates to everyone attending.

Retail & ecommerce

Stock, barcode scanning and in-app payment, with the store and the back office seeing the same numbers.

Clubs, charities & community

Membership, subscriptions and fixtures in one place, so volunteers are not running it from a spreadsheet.

Manufacturing & B2B

Warehouse picking, deliveries and plant checks on rugged handsets, wired into the systems you already run.

App Development FAQs

Questions we are asked before every build

Do you use AI to build the apps?

Yes, for the repetitive rather than the creative parts — boilerplate screens, API wiring, test coverage, store listings and first drafts of copy. It takes weeks off a build and we price accordingly, which is why an app costs less with us now than it would have two years ago. It does not make the product decisions and nothing ships unreviewed: the architecture, the interface and the final check are all done by our team.

How much does it cost to build a mobile app?

It depends entirely on scope, so we quote rather than publish a price list. A focused app with a single job costs far less than a platform with an admin portal and integrations. We give you a written quote after a free consultation, and we will tell you if a simpler build would do the job.

How long does app development take?

Most projects reach a working version you can use within a few weeks, then continue through testing and store submission. We show you working software early rather than disappearing for months.

Do I need a native app or a progressive web app?

A progressive web app is usually faster and cheaper to launch and needs no store approval. Choose native when you need deep device features, offline reliability on rugged hardware, or a presence in the App Store and Google Play. We will recommend one over the other based on what your app has to do.

Who owns the app and the code?

You do. The app, the source code and the data belong to your business, and the store listings are published under your own developer accounts.

Can you integrate with the systems we already use?

Yes. We regularly integrate with accounting, payroll, CRM, ecommerce and warehouse systems through their APIs, so the app fits into how you already work instead of duplicating it.

What happens after the app launches?

We host, monitor and support it. Operating systems change every year, so apps need maintenance — we handle updates, fixes and new features on an ongoing basis.

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