Native-feel apps on both platforms from a single React Native codebase. We ship customer apps, field-team apps and internal apps that respect platform conventions, handle SA data realities, and pass App Store + Play Store review the first time.
Mobile apps fail more often than web apps, and they're more expensive to fail at. Here's what we see go wrong — and what we make sure doesn't.
Two separate codebases, two teams, two languages, two timelines, two QA cycles. Every feature gets implemented twice and inevitably ends up subtly different on each platform. The CFO eventually asks why the app costs as much as the rest of the product.
Built and tested on the developer's flagship device. Ships to customers running mid-range Androids with 3GB RAM, fragmented Android versions back to 11, screen sizes nobody designed for. App-Store reviews start at 2 stars and slide.
App Store review is a real gate — and the rules change. Subscriptions outside IAP, missing privacy declarations, third-party login without sign-in-with-Apple, vague metadata. Each rejection burns a week. By the third one, the launch date is fiction.
Apps need ongoing maintenance — SDK upgrades, deprecations, new device sizes, OS feature opt-ins. Most agency-built apps go 18 months before they're effectively abandoned, then it costs more to revive them than it would have to keep them up.
React Native isn't the right answer for every app — but for ~85% of the apps SA businesses need, it's the right call. Here's why.
Ship to App Store and Play Store from a single TypeScript codebase. Features land on both platforms simultaneously. Bug fixes deploy to both at once.
React Native renders to actual native UI components — not webviews. Animations, navigation, scrolling all feel native. The new architecture (Fabric + TurboModules) closed the perf gap further.
Any React-comfortable web developer can be productive on React Native within 2 weeks. The biggest mobile teams in the world (Meta, Shopify, Microsoft) ship on React Native — the ecosystem is deep and active.
Mature, well-supported, mainstream choices. The kind your engineers can search Stack Overflow for at 11pm on Friday.
Each of these is something we've delivered multiple times — for customer apps, field-team apps, and internal apps. No "we'll figure it out in phase 2" gaps.
Email, OTP, social, sign-in with Apple, plus Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint unlock. Secure token storage in Keychain / Keystore.
Topic + targeted push, deep-linked into the right screen, action buttons, silent push for background sync, badge counts, opt-in flows.
Read + write while offline, optimistic UI, conflict resolution on reconnect. Critical for SA mobile networks. SQLite-backed via WatermelonDB.
Apple IAP + Google Play Billing for subscriptions, plus Stripe / Yoco SDKs for external payments where the rules allow. Receipt validation.
Apple Maps, Google Maps, or Mapbox. Geofencing, background location for field teams, route optimisation, address autocomplete.
QR codes, barcodes, document capture, OCR, image upload with on-device compression. ID verification flows for KYC.
In-app chat, threaded conversations, attachments, read receipts, typing indicators, support agent escalation. WhatsApp-style polish.
Event tracking, funnels, attribution, session replay, crash reporting with breadcrumbs. Sentry + Firebase + Posthog or Mixpanel.
Patch live apps within hours — not 2-week store-review cycles — for non-native changes. Bug fixes ship the day they're written.
React Native is the default. But ~15% of the time the right answer is a native module bridge — for performance-critical paths, deep OS integrations, or platform features RN doesn't yet expose cleanly. We write native code without flinching.
Heavy image processing, video transforms, large-list rendering — native modules in Swift / Kotlin.
POS hardware, payment terminals, smart locks, vehicle integration. Native APIs, RN-exposed.
iOS Home-screen widgets, lock-screen, Apple Watch companion apps, Android widgets — all in their native frameworks.
Share extensions, document providers, Siri shortcuts, Android intents, file-provider integrations.
Code, store accounts, design system, runbooks, training. You own everything from day one — no hostage situations.
Production builds shipped to both stores under your accounts. MIT-licensed TypeScript source code in your GitHub.
Figma component library + RN component library — colours, typography, spacing, buttons, inputs. Your designer + dev share one source of truth.
EAS Build + Submit pipelines for both stores, OTA channel set up, env-specific configs (dev/staging/prod), one-button releases.
Sentry, Crashlytics, Firebase Analytics (or Posthog/Mixpanel) configured with funnels, retention cohorts, crash-free-session SLOs.
App Store + Play Store screenshots, icon variants, marketing copy, privacy policy templates, App Store Connect / Play Console set up.
90 days of bug-fix warranty, plus Loom tutorials for your team on releases, OTA updates, store submissions, on-call response.
Most apps run 3–5 months end-to-end. You see weekly progress in TestFlight + internal Android testing — never wait a month between updates.
User flows, feature matrix, platform decisions, store strategy.
Weeks 1–2Figma flows, design system, key screens validated with users.
Weeks 2–4Scaffold, auth, navigation, design system in code, CI/CD.
Weeks 4–62-week sprints. Each ends with a TestFlight build for stakeholders.
Weeks 6–14TestFlight + Play internal-test beta with real users. Polish.
Weeks 14–18Store submissions, review, launch + 90-day warranty.
Weeks 18–20Indicative metrics from recent SA mobile-app builds, measured 6 months post-launch. The biggest gain is the one you don't see — the second team you didn't have to hire.
Every app is scoped per build — these are the bands we usually land in. 25% on signature, 25% on phase-3 demo, 25% on TestFlight beta, 25% on store launch.
Honest answers about React Native vs Flutter vs native, store fees, the App-Store review process, and what we won't ship.
Share what you're building, who's it for, and which platforms matter. We'll come back with a 45-min product call, a recommended tier, and an indicative budget.