Who we are
A small studio that treats your app like our own
We started Apps Mobile Development to do focused, high-craft mobile work the way we always wished agencies would: honest scope, senior people, and no bloat between you and the build.
Our story
Why we built this studio
We're a team of senior mobile engineers and designers who spent years inside larger agencies and product teams. We kept seeing the same thing: talented people doing good work, buried under account layers, change requests, and timelines nobody believed.
So we started something smaller on purpose. A studio where the people who scope your project are the people who build it, where the scope and price are honest from the first conversation, and where you own everything we make.
We're deliberately early and deliberately small — and we lean into that. It means a low project load, fast and real responses, and the kind of attention to detail that's hard to fake when you're stretched across a dozen accounts.
The team
The people you'll work with
A small, senior team — the people who scope your project are the people who build it.
Alex Rivera
Founder & Lead iOS Engineer
Alex has spent eight years building native iOS apps in Swift, from solo App Store releases to features inside large consumer apps. Previous roles span senior iOS engineering and tech-lead positions on product teams. Founded Apps Mobile Development to do focused, fixed-scope mobile work without agency bloat.
Priya Shah
Product Designer
Priya is a product designer with seven years across mobile UX, design systems, and usability research. She has worked as a senior product designer on B2C apps and as a freelance design partner for early-stage founders. She turns fuzzy ideas into testable flows and high-fidelity, accessible interfaces.
Marcus Lee
Android & Cross-Platform Engineer
Marcus builds Android apps in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose and ships cross-platform with React Native when a single codebase is the right call. His background includes senior mobile engineering and platform work on offline-first, sync-heavy apps. He cares about clean architecture and apps that stay maintainable past v1.
Dana Okafor
Delivery & QA Lead
Dana keeps projects on scope and on schedule and owns release quality end to end. Prior roles include delivery management and QA engineering on regulated mobile products where store rejections and downtime weren't options. She runs the discovery-to-launch process clients actually see week to week.
What we value
How we work
These aren't poster slogans — they're the operating rules you'll actually feel working with us.
Honest scope, fixed price
We'd rather talk you out of features you don't need than pad an estimate. You approve a fixed price and a locked scope before each phase — no open-ended hourly surprises.
You own everything
Code, design files, and accounts are yours on delivery — 100%. There's no lock-in, and nothing is held hostage to keep you on a retainer.
Weekly, in the open
You get a runnable build and a written update every week. No black box, no status theatre — just a clear view of what shipped and what's next.
Craft over corner-cutting
We sweat the details users feel: smooth interactions, real accessibility, and code that's still maintainable past v1. Quality is the cheapest thing to get right early.
Senior people, small load
The people who scope your project are the people who build it. We keep our project count deliberately low so you always reach someone who knows your app.
Pragmatic, not dogmatic
Native or cross-platform, build or buy — we choose what fits your goals and budget, not whatever's trendy or whatever we happen to prefer.
Our expertise
The platforms and tools we know deeply
We go deep on a focused stack rather than dabbling in everything — so the technology choices on your project are made by people who've shipped with them before.
- iOS
- SwiftSwiftUI
- Android
- KotlinJetpack Compose
- Cross-platform
- React NativeExpoFlutter
- Design
- Figma
- Backend
- Firebase
- Distribution
- App StorePlay Store
Credentials
Verifiable, store-ready credentials
We're a young studio, so we lead with what's checkable: the program memberships and commitments that let us ship to the stores and protect your idea.
Apple Developer Program
Enrolled members of the Apple Developer Program — set up to build, sign, and ship apps to the App Store and TestFlight.
Google Play Console
Registered Google Play developers — equipped to publish, manage releases, and run staged rollouts on the Play Store.
Confidential by default
We'll sign a mutual NDA before discussing specifics and treat every project as confidential, whether or not paperwork is in place.
Let's build something worth shipping.
Tell us about your idea. We'll give you an honest, no-pressure read on what it takes to make it real.