Mobile app development · Udupi & Mangaluru

Apps your staff and customers actually open every day

We build Android and iPhone apps for businesses on the coast — billing, stock, orders, field teams, bookings — and we stay on after launch. A team in Udupi you can meet, not a video-call link.

Demo screens with made-up data — the kind of app we build.
Android & iPhone
one app, both platforms
6–10 weeks
for most first versions
Play Store & App Store
published under your own account
You own it
the code, the data and the store listing

Start here

Do you need a store app at all?

Before we build anything, we ask whether you need a store app at all. There are three ways to put your business on a phone, and the simplest one is often the right one.

A fast mobile website

Best for: Being found on Google and contacted

  • People reach it from search or a link
  • Updates are live the moment we publish
  • No install, no store

An installable web app

Best for: Staff tools and repeat customers

  • Installs from the browser in one tap
  • Keeps working in poor signal and syncs later
  • Camera, Bluetooth printing and notifications

A Play Store / App Store app

Best for: Customers who open it every week

  • Found and downloaded from the stores
  • Full access to the phone’s features
  • Updates go out after store review

An installable web app can be packaged for the Play Store later without rewriting it — so starting there never wastes the work.

Our work

An app we run in production

Nityanand Agro
Agriculture & retail · Karnataka

Read the full case study →

Receipts print on a Bluetooth thermal printer, straight from the phone.

Nityanand Agro sells grow bags, pots, seeds, manures and coco products across Karnataka, from a warehouse and on the road. Their counter staff, sales team and managers needed one system for billing, stock, purchase orders and line sales — on their phones, often in places with one bar of signal.

We built it as an installable web app. Staff added it to their home screens straight from the browser, with no Play Store step, so every fix and new feature reaches every phone the moment we release it.

  • Point-of-sale billing, GST and non-GST, with receipts printed on a Bluetooth thermal printer straight from the phone
  • Stock kept in step across every sale, return, transfer and write-off — checked database-wide after every change
  • Purchase orders, goods receipts and purchase bills that share one number, so a PO and its bill are easy to match
  • Now being packaged for the Play Store as well — the same app, a second way to install it, no rewrite

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What you get

Five pieces, all of them written down

Many app offers leave pieces out and surprise you later. We list all five in writing before we start, so you know exactly what you are getting.

  1. The screensWhat your customers or staff tap on their phone — designed for the everyday Android phones most of your users carry, not only the latest iPhone.
  2. The serverWhere the data lives and the real work happens: orders, stock, bookings, payments, GST.
  3. An admin panelA computer screen where you and your team manage everything, see reports and fix mistakes.
  4. PublishingStore listing, screenshots, privacy forms and review — on the Play Store and App Store accounts registered in your name.
  5. Support after launchFixes, Android and iOS updates, and small changes, with a named person to call.

How it runs

From first call to launch

You see and use the app from the second step onwards — never a big reveal at the end.

  1. A call, then a written scope

    We learn how your business actually runs, then write down every screen, role and connection the app needs. No surprises later.

  2. A prototype you tap through

    Before we build, you get clickable screens on your own phone. Your staff try them and tell us what is wrong — the easiest moment to change anything.

  3. Builds on your phone every week

    You install each week’s version and use it. Problems surface in week three, not at launch.

  4. Launch under your account

    We publish to the stores registered in your name and move your real data in. You own the code and the listing.

  5. We stay on

    Support is part of the plan, not an afterthought. Same team, same phone number.

Not a fit

When we will tell you not to build an app

  • You mainly want to be found on Google — a fast website and a Google Business Profile will do more.
  • Customers would open the app once and forget it — build a mobile website instead.
  • You need a finished app in two weeks — a good app for a real business takes longer, and anyone promising otherwise is cutting something.

5.0 on Google — read our reviews

Questions

What people ask us

How long does it take to build an app?

Most first versions take six to ten weeks. An app connected to billing, stock or payments usually takes three to five months, depending on how quickly decisions and feedback come back.

Do I need a Play Store app or is a web app enough?

For staff tools and repeat customers, an installable web app is often enough — it installs from the browser, works in poor signal and updates instantly. It can be packaged for the Play Store later without a rewrite.

Whose name will the Play Store account be in?

Yours. You register the Google Play and Apple developer accounts in your business’s name and add us as developers. The code and the store listing belong to you.

Can the app work in Kannada?

Yes. Screens can be in Kannada, English or both, and we test on the phones and networks your users actually have.

Can it print receipts or scan barcodes?

Yes. We have built billing apps that print to Bluetooth thermal printers directly from the phone; barcode scanning uses the phone camera or a paired scanner.

Can the app connect to our existing software?

Usually, yes. We build the connection so the app, your website and your back-office system share the same live data — stock, orders and customers stay in step everywhere.

Worth reading first

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Engineering you can build on.

Clean, documented, tested code on a modern, proven stack — the foundation that keeps your mobile app development fast and dependable for years.

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Ready when you are

Let's build something that lasts.

You will get an honest answer on whether you need an app, which kind, and a clear written plan before any work starts.

50+
projects shipped for local & global clients_
100%
of the code is yours to keep_
9
real, live projects on our work page — from our Udupi studio_
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