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Mobile App Development

Mobile app development, New Zealand

Built once. In both app stores. Design-led from day one. We build iOS and Android apps with React Native — one set of code that runs on both iPhone and Android — designed, engineered and shipped by the same small Wellington team.

Mobile app development that shares one codebase across platforms costs less to build and far less to maintain — and ours is built to the same standard as the platforms we keep running every day.

Sound familiar?

The problems we're asked to solve

Nobody wants “an app”. They want one of these solved.

“We have the idea. We don't have the app.”

Design-to-store delivery: product design, build, app-store submission, and the backend behind it.

“The quotes we've had are eye-watering.”

React Native means one codebase for iOS and Android — roughly half as much to build and half as much to maintain. Fixed price, quoted first.

“Our web platform needs to be an app.”

We build the app and the platform — one engine behind both, one look across both, one team accountable for the lot.

“Our existing app is ageing and the developer's gone.”

Take-over audits: we map what's there, stabilise it, and give you an honest modernise-or-rebuild call.

“We want AI features in the app.”

We're an AI studio first — assistants, personalisation and automation built into the app, working from your data, not making things up.

“We've been burned by offshore development.”

Wellington-based, your timezone, senior people on your work — no handoff chain.

What we build

The whole app, not just the screens

/01React Native / Expo — iOS + Android from one codebase
/02Product & UX design — design-led, not bolted on
/03Everything behind the app: logins, data, admin tools & the connections between them
/04E-commerce & payments in-app
/05AI features — assistants, personalisation, automation
/06App-store shipping, updates & long-term support
Proof

Production engineering first

Apps are platforms with a smaller screen. The engineering behind our apps is the same discipline that keeps Flicks — a production platform serving New Zealand moviegoers for over a decade — running every day. Design-led, production-grade, accountable after launch.

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Questions

Mobile app development, answered

The basics, answered

It depends on scope — what's fixed is that we quote a fixed price before work starts, and React Native keeps the number down: one codebase for both app stores. A free 30-minute discovery call gets you a real figure.

It depends on scope — what's fixed is that we quote a fixed price before work starts, and React Native keeps the number down: one codebase for both app stores. A free 30-minute discovery call gets you a real figure.

For most products, one — built with React Native: a single set of code with native look and performance, and half the maintenance of two separate apps. If your app genuinely needs to be built separately for each platform — heavy graphics, deep hardware access — we'll tell you straight.

For most products, one — built with React Native: a single set of code with native look and performance, and half the maintenance of two separate apps. If your app genuinely needs to be built separately for each platform — heavy graphics, deep hardware access — we'll tell you straight.

Yes — we're design-led. Product design and engineering are the same team, so what gets designed is what gets built.

Yes — we're design-led. Product design and engineering are the same team, so what gets designed is what gets built.

Yes. A take-over audit first — we map what's there and how it's holding up — then an honest recommendation: stabilise, modernise, or rebuild.

Yes. A take-over audit first — we map what's there and how it's holding up — then an honest recommendation: stabilise, modernise, or rebuild.

We handle both app stores end to end — submission, review wrangling, releases and updates for the App Store and Google Play.

We handle both app stores end to end — submission, review wrangling, releases and updates for the App Store and Google Play.

Apps aren't fire-and-forget: OS updates, store policy changes, and the software underneath your app quietly moving on — it all keeps coming. We offer ongoing support arrangements sized to the app.

Apps aren't fire-and-forget: OS updates, store policy changes, and the software underneath your app quietly moving on — it all keeps coming. We offer ongoing support arrangements sized to the app.

Yes — the sign-in, the data, the admin tools, and the connections that feed the app are part of most builds we do. One team accountable for the whole system, not just the screens.

Yes — the sign-in, the data, the admin tools, and the connections that feed the app are part of most builds we do. One team accountable for the whole system, not just the screens.

Wellington, New Zealand — timezone-aligned for NZ and Australian teams, no offshore handoff.

Wellington, New Zealand — timezone-aligned for NZ and Australian teams, no offshore handoff.

Start with a conversation

Free 30-minute discovery call

Got an app in mind? Book a free 30-minute discovery call. Describe what it needs to do and we’ll come back with how we’d build it, a realistic timeline, and a fixed price.

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