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India's AI & Software Partner

Mobile App Development for Indian businesses

From Bengaluru and Mumbai startups to Delhi NCR enterprises, we deliver mobile applications, AI features and enterprise software on IST, with DPDP compliance and fixed-price INR contracts.

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4.9 / 5 client rating
DPDP Act ready
IST working hours
Fixed-price INR contracts
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Our Clients

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Why Appther

Why Indian businesses choose Appther

We build from an office in Noida, not a time zone. Engineers on IST, familiar with the payment rails, the KYC rules and the devices your customers actually carry, so your business can grow with confidence.

01

IST working hours

Stand-ups, sprint reviews and escalations on IST, with held overlap windows for teams in the Gulf, the UK and North America when your investors or customers sit there.

02

DPDP Act compliant

Apps and data pipelines built to the DPDP Act, RBI data localisation and CERT-In reporting from day one.

03

Senior engineers, without the retainer

The people who scoped your product write the code. No bench, no account manager relaying questions to a team you never meet.

04

Deep Indian market experience

Fintech, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and retail. We know what the RBI expects of a payments flow, what ABDM asks of a health record, and what a launch looks like when half your users are on a 2GB-a-day plan.

05

7-day project kickoff

A scope call, a fixed rupee proposal inside 48 hours, and the team on your sprint board within the week. No three-month onboarding.

06

End-to-end partnership

Strategy, design, engineering, launch and support from one team on IST, so whoever scoped the product is still the one maintaining it two years later.

50+
Indian clients
200+
Projects delivered
10+
Industries served in India
IST
On IST since 2018

Platforms built on what already holds up at Indian scale

We pair delivery experience with technology proven at Indian scale, so what you ship stays up through a festival peak, integrates with what you already run, and survives a regulator asking how it works.

Artificial Intelligence

AI scoped to a business case first: demand forecasting, document triage, service automation, with the governance record the DPDP Act now expects you to be able to produce.

Generative AI

Assistants in Hindi, English and regional languages, grounded in your own content, with retrieval you can audit and a clear disclosure that the customer is talking to a machine.

Machine Learning

Prediction and optimisation models trained on Indian demand patterns, festival peaks and monsoon seasonality included, monitored for drift and documented for your risk committee.

Computer Vision

Document extraction for insurance and lending, inspection and safety monitoring on the plant floor, built to cope with harsh sunlight, poor scans and forms filled in two scripts.

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Mumbai, Azure Central India and Google Cloud with CI/CD, infrastructure as code and round-the-clock monitoring, tuned for residency and the uptime you have promised in writing.

Data Science & Analytics

Warehouses and dashboards in an Indian region, so finance, operations and the promoters are finally reading the same number, with lineage an auditor can follow.

Cybersecurity

Threat modelling, a secure SDLC and penetration-tested releases modelled on ISO 27001 controls and the CERT-In guidelines, so security holds up at audit rather than only on launch day.

IoT & Edge Computing

Fleet, plant and field telemetry that keeps reporting through patchy rural coverage and long power cuts, with processing at the edge where the network is not.

Intelligent Automation

Agents that take intake, reconciliation and reporting off the back office, with a person approving every irreversible step and an audit trail your compliance team can read.

Full-stack digital product engineering for India

Indian organisations modernise under live workloads, regulatory scrutiny and a real budget. Twelve service lines, one accountable team, each scoped for Indian languages, the DPDP Act and in-country hosting from the first sprint.

How we build

Our mobile app development process

Every app we ship here runs the same way: discovery, interface design, native or cross-platform build, testing on real handsets, then launch and iteration. It is what keeps an app stable when users, data and compliance obligations all grow at once, which in India they tend to do in the same quarter.

01

Discovery and product strategy

We map the user journeys, which cities you launch in first, which languages you need on day one, and the UPI, CRM and ERP integrations, so the scope and a rupee price are fixed before anyone writes code.

02

UI/UX and user interface design

Wireframes and a clickable prototype, designed multilingual from day one and checked against WCAG 2.1 AA, tested with Indian users on their own phones rather than signed off from a deck.

03

Native and cross-platform builds

Swift and Kotlin where native performance matters, Flutter or React Native where one codebase should serve both stores, with language support and accessibility built in rather than retrofitted, and bundle size kept down because most of your users are counting data.

04

Backend, APIs and integrations

Secure APIs hosted in an Indian region, connected to UPI, Razorpay or PayU and the ERP and CRM you already run, so the app is part of your stack rather than one more island of data.

05

QA on real mobile devices

Every build is regression tested on real iOS and Android handsets, including the mid-range Android your customers actually carry, with accessibility, load and security testing on throttled networks before release.

06

Launch, monitoring and iteration

App Store and Play Store submission for the Indian storefronts handled end to end, monitoring from day one, and a roadmap driven by what real Indian users actually do in the app.

Enterprise-ready expertise across India's regulated industries

Delivering here means the regulation and the operating reality decide the architecture. Eight sectors where a central or state rule decides what has to be right before anything else.

01 / 08
01

Healthcare & Diagnostics

ABDM aligned

WHAT WE BUILD
Telehealth & patient-portal apps
Hospital rostering & compliance reporting
Clinical data pipelines with consent controls
02

Fintech & BFSI

RBI & PCI-DSS ready

WHAT WE BUILD
Digital banking & payment platforms
UPI, NACH & account aggregator integrations
Real-time fraud & transaction monitoring
03

Manufacturing & Industrial

Plant-floor proven

WHAT WE BUILD
Real-time asset monitoring & IoT networks
Predictive maintenance for plant equipment
Safety, incident & compliance systems
04

Government & Public Sector

GIGW & CERT-In aligned

WHAT WE BUILD
Secure citizen portals (WCAG 2.1 AA)
Case-management & workflow digitisation
Data platforms built for audit
05

Retail & eCommerce

GST & ONDC ready

WHAT WE BUILD
Headless commerce & POS integration
Personalisation & recommendation engines
GST-ready order & inventory management
06

Property & Real Estate

Builder & broker platforms

WHAT WE BUILD
Listing marketplaces & buyer portals
AI property valuation models
Tenant & property-management apps
07

Logistics & Transport

Fleet and first-mile systems

WHAT WE BUILD
Live fleet tracking & telematics
Route optimisation & dispatch
Warehouse & inventory systems
08

Education & Training

WCAG 2.1 AA

WHAT WE BUILD
Learning management systems
Student analytics & progress dashboards
Accessible training portals

Governance

Built to Indian regulatory and security standards

Indian enterprises answer to a specific set of regulators. We align the engineering with those obligations at the architecture stage, so the system scales, clears an audit and keeps running when something goes wrong.

[1]Privacy, data protection & information governance
The DPDP Act 2023
CERT-In Directions (incident reporting)
TRAI commercial communication & DND rules
Indian data residency & encryption by design
[2]Security, risk & government frameworks
RBI IT & cyber security guidelines
ISO/IEC 27001 aligned controls
PMLA & FIU-IND reporting
SOC 2 style audit trails & access controls
[3]Digital health & sector-specific compliance
ABDM & the Health Data Management Policy
HL7 FHIR health-data interoperability
WCAG 2.1 AA & GIGW accessibility
PCI-DSS-aware payment architecture
[4]AI, ethics & responsible technology
MeitY advisories on AI systems
Disclosure on automated decisions
Model monitoring, evaluation & audit trails
Indian data boundaries for AI workloads

Technologies that power every build

The stack behind our Indian builds, chosen for in-country hosting, mid-range Android and the integrations businesses here actually run on.

PythonPython
JavaJava
Node.jsNode.js
ReactReact
JavaScriptJavaScript
GoGo
AndroidAndroid
SwiftSwift (iOS)
KotlinKotlin
FlutterFlutter
PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
MongoDBMongoDB
Python
Java
Node.js
React
JavaScript
Go
Android
Swift (iOS)
Kotlin
Flutter
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
TensorFlowTensorFlow
PyTorchPyTorch
AnthropicAnthropic
Hugging FaceHugging Face
Google CloudGoogle Cloud
SnowflakeSnowflake
DatabricksDatabricks
OdooOdoo
HubSpotHubSpot
StripeStripe
DockerDocker
KubernetesKubernetes
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Anthropic
Hugging Face
Google Cloud
Snowflake
Databricks
Odoo
HubSpot
Stripe
Docker
Kubernetes

From Call to Kickoff

Your project starts in a week, not a quarter

No procurement maze and no surprise invoices. Here is what the first week actually looks like.

D1

Free discovery call

Thirty minutes on IST. We map what you are building, what you already run, and which rules apply to it.

D2

Fixed-price proposal

Scope, milestones and a fixed rupee price in your inbox inside 48 hours.

D4

Team assembled

Your engineers, a QA lead and a project manager are assigned, all on IST, matched to the sector you operate in.

D7

Sprint one begins

A kickoff workshop on IST, access to the project portal, and sprint one planned around your working week and the festival calendar.

FOR INDIAN BUSINESSES

Ready to build something for the Indian market?

Book a free 30-minute call on IST. We will go through your requirements, set out the right technical approach, and send a fixed rupee proposal inside 48 hours.

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Coverage

Serving every corner of India

One account team, one time zone, every major city. Wherever you operate from, we are already inside your working day.

12
Cities served
8
Languages supported
100%
Of India, remote-first
KAIST
Bengaluru
Startup and enterprise capital · fintech and SaaS
MHIST
Mumbai
Finance, media and the BFSI head offices
TSIST
Hyderabad
AI research, pharma and global capability centres
DLIST
Delhi NCR
Manufacturing, logistics and the government buyer
ALSO SERVING
Pune MH Chennai TN Ahmedabad GJ Kolkata WB Jaipur RJ Coimbatore TN
Your city? Get in touch

What Our Clients Say

Clients on what it was like to build with a team that works their hours.

"Building a mental health app means every detail, tone, flow, and privacy, has to be handled with care, and Appther got that from day one. They translated a sensitive subject into a product that feels warm, simple, and genuinely helpful."

Bob Singhal
Bob Singhal Professor of Joy, Joyscore Inc

"Appther built our student competition app and portal exactly the way we envisioned it: easy registration, smooth judging workflows, and real-time results that keep participants engaged. Our coordinators no longer chase spreadsheets."

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions from Indian clients

Do you work with Indian businesses remotely?+

Yes, and most do. Engagements run over Zoom, Slack and our project portal with a named account team and sprint reviews inside IST working hours. Clients in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Delhi NCR tell us it works out closer than a local agency, because the team is in the same time zone and actually answers.

Are your developers available during Indian business hours?+

Yes. The team sits in Noida and works IST, so a question at 10am gets an answer at 10am rather than the next morning. A named project manager is assigned to every engagement, and we hold overlap windows for teams whose investors or customers sit in the Gulf, the UK or North America.

Do you understand Indian privacy and compliance requirements?+

Yes. Builds are scoped against the DPDP Act, the CERT-In Directions on incident reporting, and ABDM and the Health Data Management Policy where health data is involved, alongside PCI-DSS for payments and RBI localisation where money moves. Compliance is decided at the architecture stage, not bolted on before launch.

What industries in India do you specialise in?+

Fintech and banking, healthcare and diagnostics, retail and eCommerce, property, manufacturing, logistics, government and professional services. Every engagement opens with a discovery phase for that sector, mapping the rules that apply, the systems you already run and where you are trying to get to.

Do you provide Indian tax invoices (GST)?+

Yes. Appther issues GST invoices against our Indian entity and works on rupee contracts with fixed-price milestones, which makes the budget conversation with your finance team a short one.

How quickly can a project kick off for an Indian client?+

Most start within five to seven working days of signing. After a free 30-minute call we scope the work, send a fixed rupee proposal inside 48 hours, and put the team on your sprint board as soon as it is approved. No multi-week procurement, no surprise invoices.

How long does mobile app development take for an Indian business?+

Most production-ready apps take twelve to twenty weeks, and a focused MVP ships in eight to ten. Language support, accessibility testing and UPI or Razorpay onboarding all add time, so they are planned in from the start rather than discovered in week fourteen. You get a fixed rupee price and a date after discovery.

Do you build for both iOS and Android in India?+

Yes. Native Swift and Kotlin where performance matters, Flutter or React Native where one codebase should serve both. Because most of your users are on mid-range Android, every release is regression tested on real handsets and throttled networks, and against WCAG 2.1 AA, before it reaches anyone.

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