Estimate your application development costs

The software development market is highly competitive, and finding the right app development company is challenging. To choose the one that best suits your needs, you should not only look for their price but also research their background, check their case studies, ask how they evaluate their quality, and gather insights about their methodology, values, and team structure.

A price calculator can’t tell you all these details. While it gives you a rough estimate, this only covers the price perspective. By asking for an exact quote, you can learn about the company and its way of working, and you will also receive a personalized offer based on your specific custom features.

• You can evaluate how much it will cost to build your app idea.

• You will find out more details about the company’s rates.

• It can push you to define the needs of your application in terms of features.

• You can have a more precise estimate of the time needed to launch your application.

• You might not find all the features that you need in the tool. Of course, you will find the most common ones, but if you want to build something highly complex, you would need to ask for a personalized offer.

• The cost breakdown (even though it gives you an image of the final price) is a rough estimate. To get a more accurate estimation, you would need to discuss it with the sales team so they can assess your needs and the features of your application in detail.

Depending on the app you want to build, you can have it be a:

• web application that is accessible from the browser. Although these apps are responsive and you can access them from mobile devices, users usually access them using desktops.

• mobile application that fits into one of these categories: iOS mobile application, Android mobile application, and Hybrid application (the cost to develop them is less high than iOS apps and Android apps combined).

The platform on which you want to develop your app can significantly impact the total cost of your project. On top of this, the costs can increase if you need to have your app both available as a native mobile app and a web app.

If you need one or the other (just a web or just a mobile application), there is a difference between the mobile and web app development costs of at least 15%.

Once you get an understanding of the functionality you need and the funds to build it, there are a few steps required to make your app a reality:

#1 The product strategy workshop is critical when you want to build an app. It helps you clarify your app idea, choose the right features for each version (MVP, Scale version), and gives the app development company a better understanding of your project’s scope. This translates into more accurate cost estimates and a clearer image of the final result.

#2 The product development phase consists of the actual implementation of your app features and usually takes four to eight weeks. Usually, companies use the Scrum methodology, so after each sprint, you can see a different increment from the basic features to more complex ones.

#3 The dedicated development teams phase comes after you validate your app idea and want to work with a dedicated team to scale your product. The team usually consists of a project manager, a scrum master, developers, quality assurance specialists, and UI/UX designers.

We hope that this cost breakdown was helpful for you. We understand that estimating the cost of an application is not easy, and we hope that this app cost estimator will help you consider all the factors needed for a rough estimate.