Mobile App Development Company in Austin

A focused MVP is in both stores 8 to 14 weeks after kickoff. A mid-scale product with a custom backend and third-party integrations takes 3 to 6 months. Hardware-connected and enterprise builds with device certification, security reviews and multiple roles usually pass 6 months, and we sequence them against your production schedule. Either way, a new build lands on your phone every two weeks.

No. Appther is remote-first, with its US entity registered in California and the US-facing team working Central Time hours for Texas clients, so stand-ups, demos and escalations fall inside your working day. A named senior engineer is your single point of contact from kickoff to launch, and for hardware projects we work with shipped units in hand rather than emulators.

Yes, and it is one of the things we do most. We build companion apps for BLE, Wi-Fi, NFC and USB devices, handle provisioning and OTA firmware updates, and integrate with the cloud pipeline behind the device. We work from your firmware team's interface spec, test on production hardware across real environments, and design the pairing and reconnection flows so a customer never has to call support to get a device online.

Yes. Consumer apps, marketplaces and internal tools usually start on Flutter or React Native so one codebase covers both stores. Products that lean on hardware, sensors, heavy graphics or platform-specific features go native in Swift or Kotlin, which in Austin's hardware and semiconductor scene is more often than elsewhere. The decision is made in discovery and written into the scope.

We work through the regulatory surface with your counsel during discovery and design the app to it. For TDPSA that means consumer-rights flows, opt-outs and consent before sensitive data is processed. For CUBI it means informed consent before any face, fingerprint or voice capture, no sale of biometric data and a destruction schedule. For the SCOPE Act it means age verification and parental-consent flows where minors are known users, and for the AI governance act it means disclosure and prohibited-use checks on any model in the product. Each control is documented as it is built so an auditor can follow it.

You do, in every sense: repositories under your organization, store accounts in your company's name, infrastructure in your own cloud tenancy. We sign an NDA before discovery, intellectual property transfers as each invoice is paid, and if you ever bring the work in-house the handover is a matter of revoking our access.

After launch we run a hypercare period, watching crash rates, latency, device-pairing success and store reviews daily and fixing what surfaces. Then you choose a support tier with a written SLA, OS-update coverage, security patching and a monthly report on retention and performance, with a scaling review before SXSW or any launch you expect to spike.