You know what needs building
The outcome is describable in a sentence and it does not change week to week.
Build a mobile app with a senior engineer, not a queue.
One defined mobile product, designed and built by the founder who writes the code. Mobile app projects start at $35,000. Every proposal names the scope, the platforms, the launch window, and what you own at the end.
A project has a fixed scope, a fixed price and a committed launch window. It is not a retainer, not a staffing arrangement, and not an open-ended hourly engagement.
Starting investment
Mobile app projects start at $35,000.
This is the starting point for one defined mobile outcome: scope, the app and the backend it depends on, store submission, and handover. The proposal may be higher when platform count, integrations, compliance requirements, or launch depth require more capacity.
It is a fixed price against a fixed scope. If the scope changes, the price is requoted before any work starts, never after.
When a $35,000 project is the right fit
Revenue alone does not determine fit. Three things do.
Someone owns the decisions
A person inside your organization can approve scope and answer questions without a committee.
The app has a job
It serves customers, drivers, staff or members, and you can name what it should earn or save.
When it isn't the right fit
- You need someone to own the product and the decisions around it, not deliver a defined scope. That is an embedded leadership engagement: initial engagements usually span 90 days and generally begin at $60,000.
- The requirements are still being discovered. Start with a scoping conversation instead: a fixed price against an unknown scope helps nobody.
- You only need a standalone website with no app behind it. We build the web and backend work an app depends on, not websites on their own.
- You want a staff engineer embedded in your team for months. That is a contract arrangement, not a project.
- You are looking for the cheapest option. That is not CAM Software, on purpose: cheap work tends to come back later as the thing that needs fixing.
What you get
What $35,000 includes
- One senior engineer, hands on the code, from first call to store release
- One React Native app for iPhone and Android, built to work properly on iPad
- About 8 to 10 screens around one core user journey
- Sign-in, plus one subscription or in-app purchase product
- The backend, database and APIs the app needs, connected to yours or built simple and new
- App Store and Play Store submission, including responses to review rejections
- Source code and store listing ownership transferred to you by written assignment
- Documentation, so whoever works on it next starts ahead of where we did
- A working build in your hands throughout, not a reveal at the end
Priced on top
What costs more
- An admin dashboard, or a web app kept in parity with the mobile app
- Maps and location, music, health, or other platform integrations
- AI features
- Offline sync, chat, or more than one core user journey
- A tablet layout designed for the larger screen, or tablet-only features
- Apple Watch or Wear OS apps
- Regulated data, such as health or financial records
- Fixes or changes to an existing server, database or web app
- Every addition is quoted as a fixed price in your proposal, before any work starts
Why apps fall behind
Everything around your app keeps moving. An app nobody updates falls behind on its own.
Apple and Google raise their requirements every year. Google requires apps to target a recent version of Android and moves that line forward annually, and apps that fall too far behind stop showing up for people on newer phones. Apple raises the minimum it accepts for new uploads on a similar yearly rhythm.
The packages inside the app move even faster. A React Native app depends on hundreds of open-source packages, and many of them ship updates every few weeks: security fixes, new platform support, breaking changes. Every build ships on current versions, and the handover says what comes due next.
Right now: apps that target an older version of Android are already hidden from new users on newer phones, and Google's extension window for this year's requirement closes on 1 November 2026.
Common questions
What is the starting investment?
Mobile app projects start at $35,000. The exact proposal reflects the agreed scope, the number of platforms, integrations, compliance requirements, and launch depth.
How is this different from the $60,000 engagement?
A project delivers a defined scope against a fixed price and a committed launch window. An embedded leadership engagement takes ownership of a product and the decisions around it, usually for 90 days. If you are unsure which you need, the conversation sorts it in about twenty minutes.
Do you work on apps that already exist?
Yes. That work starts with a paid audit, from $5,000, which comes off the fix if work starts within 60 days.
Who owns the code?
You do. Ownership transfers on final payment by written assignment, along with the store listings and the repository.
What happens after launch?
Most apps move onto monthly maintenance: OS updates, store requirement changes, security and dependency updates, and monitoring. It starts at $2,000 a month, month to month. New features and major upgrades are quoted separately.
Tell me what you need built.
Twenty minutes is usually enough to tell whether this is a project, an engagement, or neither.
One less thing to worry about.