App design
Every screen designed around your customer: how they get in, what they look for and how many taps it takes to order, book or pay. With your brand, not a template.
Mobile app development
We build your business's app and publish it in the stores.
We design and build the app your customers install on their phones to order, book or earn points, and we take it all the way to the App Store and Google Play. You decide which account it's published under.
- Design and development
- App store publishing
- Notifications
01 What's included
From the first screen to the published app.
We don't hand you a design and leave you to find someone to code it: we design, build, publish and keep updating the app.
Development
We build the app and connect it to what you already use: payments, inventory, your website or your customer database. We choose the technology during the assessment, based on what the app needs to do.
Admin dashboard
If the app needs one, a dashboard where your team can change products and prices, see orders and reply without touching code.
Notifications
Alerts on your customer's phone: an order that's ready, tomorrow's appointment, a promotion. They're set up with rules so nobody gets worn out.
App store publishing
We prepare the App Store and Google Play listing (name, copy, screenshots and privacy policy) and guide the review until the app goes live.
Updates
When the stores change their requirements or you want an improvement, we prepare the new version and publish it. The scope is written into the proposal.
How it's priced
Development is quoted based on the screens and features your app needs. The app's annual plan is separate: it depends on the infrastructure (server, database, notifications), and we spell it out in the quote, along with what it includes.
The proposal comes in writing, valid for 15 days, and development uses 50/50 payment: 50% to start, 50% on delivery. The conditions for each option are in the terms and conditions.
Mobile app
Design, development and publishing of your business's app.
Development
Quoted in writing
+ annual app plan, based on the infrastructure
Get a quote for my app
02 Where it's published
Your app can live in our account or in yours.
To be on the App Store and Google Play, an app is published from a developer account in each store. There are three ways to do it; choose based on how much you want to handle yourself.
- Blinq Blinq handles it
- You you handle it
Option 1
In Blinq's account
We publish the app from our developer account and manage it ourselves. The account fee is included in the annual plan.
- Store account
- Blinq
- Account fees
- In your plan
- Publishing and updates
- Blinq
Best if you want your app in the stores without dealing with Apple or Google paperwork.
If you want to leave We transfer the app to your account using each store's process, once your account is settled.
Option 2
In your account, managed by Blinq
You open the developer account and pay its fees directly to Apple or Google. You give us access and we run it.
- Store account
- You
- Account fees
- You, directly
- Publishing and updates
- Blinq
Best if you want the app under your name from day one and want us to handle the rest.
If you want to leave You remove our access: the app is already in your account.
Option 3
In your account, managed by you
Full handover: we publish in your account and give you the code, the accounts and the access so your team can run the app.
- Store account
- You
- Account fees
- You, directly
- Publishing and updates
- Your team
Best if you have a technical team that will maintain and update the app.
If you want to leave There's nothing to move: everything is already in your hands.
Developer account fees are set by Apple and Google, and they can change. If your app lives in Blinq's account, that cost is already part of the annual plan and you don't pay any store anything extra. See the conditions in the terms
03 App or website
Not every business needs an app.
An app is worth it when your customers come back often. If what you need is for people to find you the first time, start with a website. In the assessment we tell you which one fits, even if the answer is "not yet".
An app makes sense if…
- Your customers come back. They order every week, book appointments or earn points.
- You need to reach their phones. Order ready, appointment reminder, deal of the day.
- It uses phone features. Camera, location or a code scanner.
- You want to be on their home screen. One tap on an icon, no searching for you.
A website makes sense if…
- People need to find you on Google. Nobody installs an app from a business they don't know yet.
- Customers buy from you once in a while. A service people hire once or twice a year.
- You want to start with a smaller investment. No store review, and changes go live instantly.
- Your team works from a computer. An internal system can be a web app.
Before the app stores, we had already built web apps like SayCash, an AI personal finance app, and Paperclip, a work system for teams. Often the best answer is to have both: the website so people find you, and the app so they come back.
04 How we work
From idea to app in the stores, step by step.
You test the app on your own phone before your customers see it. Final approval is up to Apple and Google: we guide you through the review, but we don't control their timelines or their decisions.
- 01
Free assessment
We review what the app needs to do, who will use it and whether you need an app, a website or both. That's where we choose the technology.
- 02
Written proposal
Screens, scope, timeline and price, valid for 15 days. Development uses 50/50 payment: 50% to start, 50% on delivery.
- 03
Design and development
We design the screens and build them. You install test versions on your phone and tell us what to adjust.
- 04
App store review
We prepare the listing and submit the app for review. If Apple or Google ask for changes, we make them and resubmit.
- 05
Launch and plan
The app goes live and its annual plan begins, with the infrastructure agreed in the quote.
- Free assessment
- Written proposal
- 50/50 payment
- Test versions before publishing
05 Questions
Questions about building an app for your business.
Have an idea and not sure it works as an app? Tell us about it and we'll reply the same business day.
Ask on WhatsAppHow much does it cost to build a mobile app?
It depends on the screens and features. Development is quoted per project, and the app's annual plan is added on top: it depends on the infrastructure the app needs (server, database, notifications), and we spell it out in the quote. After the free assessment we send you the proposal in writing, valid for 15 days, and development uses 50/50 payment: 50% to start, 50% on delivery.
Whose name is the app under?
It depends on where we publish it. If it goes in your own developer account, the app is under your name from day one. If it goes in Blinq's account, we publish and manage it; if you later want to leave, we transfer it to your account using each store's process, once your account is settled. The conditions are in our terms and conditions.
What happens if Apple or Google reject the app?
Approval is up to Apple and Google, and we don't control their timelines or their decisions. What we do is prepare the app and its listing following each store's rules, review the reason if it's rejected, make the changes they ask for and resubmit it. That's why we don't promise an exact publishing date.
Do I also need a website?
Not always, but it usually helps. The app keeps your customers coming back; the website helps people find you on Google the first time and links to the download. The stores also require a link to your privacy policy. If you already have a website, we connect it; if not, we look at whether it's worth building one during the assessment.
What technology do you build the app with?
We choose it during the assessment, based on what the app has to do, which phones it will run on and how it will be maintained. We explain the choice in the proposal, before we start.
How long does it take to get the app into the stores?
It depends on the number of screens and features; the development timeline is in the written proposal. On top of that comes each store's review, which is up to Apple and Google.
Does your business need an app, or is a website enough?
We review it with you at no cost. If an app makes sense, we send you the proposal in writing, with screens, timeline and price.
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