The cost to build an app depends on what it must achieve

Functional scope, the number of platforms, design, backend services, integrations with other systems, user roles, security and publishing or operational requirements. Changing any of these midway through the project usually moves the initial estimate by a noticeable amount.

Not always. Sharing code across platforms can reduce development effort, but the right choice depends on the performance you need, the device capabilities you plan to use, the experience you want and the long-term maintenance you expect.

Yes, as long as the MVP tests a specific hypothesis rather than being an incomplete version of the final product. Reducing scope should not mean removing essential quality, security or an architecture that fits the next phase of the project.

We break these out separately so you know exactly what belongs to the initial build and what belongs to publishing in the relevant stores. We also separate infrastructure and ongoing evolution, which only start once the app is already in production.

Yes. We start from the idea and a set of guided questions about users, features and systems involved to build an initial range, explaining which assumptions could move it most once the details are defined more precisely.

Because each one assumes a different scope, even when they describe the app with the same words. Login, an admin panel or payments can mean very different amounts of work depending on the use cases, so it pays to compare the detail before the final figure.

It depends on the agreed scope and the number of integrations, not only on the budget. We prefer to fix a usable first release and build the timeline around that specific scope, rather than promise a date before defining what will actually be built.