App development that turns your idea into a real app

Mobile and web software designed, built, published and supported by us. We build and maintain our own apps on the same platform, so we work with the technology every day.

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Everything your app needs

Every one of these is in our own apps. None of them is an optional extra we hold back to pad a quote.

A real app on both platforms

One codebase, and a genuine app on iOS and Android ready to publish, with push notifications, offline handling and platform conventions respected on both.

A secure backend

Your app's data is securely stored, encrypted where required and protected with appropriate access controls.

Roles and permissions

Members, editors and administrators with genuinely different access, plus multi-factor authentication where it matters.

Notifications that land

Push, in-app and email, targeted at the right group rather than broadcast at everybody.

Payments, if you need them

Subscriptions, one-off payments and invoicing, through an established provider rather than anything we invented.

Updates as a matter of course

Both stores change their rules every year. Staying live is ongoing work and it is included rather than billed as a surprise.

Apps we built and still run

Both are maintained by us, on the same platform we would build yours on.

Orbit

The white-label member app. One app for a whole organisation: news, events, documents, payments and notifications, from modules you choose, under your own branding.

  • Your brand and your listing
  • 22 modules to choose from
  • Tenant isolated by design

Fitara

A coaching app for personal trainers and their clients, with plans, nutrition, progress and check-ins on one side and a complete trainer desk on the other.

  • Client app and trainer app in one
  • Multi-factor authentication for trainers
  • iOS and Android

Built properly from the start

We build software to be reliable, secure and easy to maintain. Security is considered throughout the design and development process, backed by our experience in cyber security.

iOSAndroidSecure cloudEncryptedPush notificationsWhite-labelAudit logged

Four stages, and you see every one

You see and test the app as it develops. That means changes can be made early, while they are still simple, rather than at the end of the project.

1

Discover

We work out what the app actually needs to do, who it is for, and what the first version can leave out. Scope control is where app budgets are won or lost.

2

Design

Screens and flows shaped around your brand and your users, agreed before a line of code is written, because moving a button in a design costs nothing.

3

Build

Developed in short cycles with a build you can install and use as we go, so what you get is what you meant rather than what the spec happened to say.

4

Launch

We handle the store submissions, the listings, the privacy and data deletion pages the stores require, and the support afterwards.

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Two ways in, and the same engine underneath

Not every app needs to begin at nothing. Starting from a platform that already exists is usually the difference between a project a small organisation can afford and one it cannot.

Route one

Bespoke

When the thing you need does not exist yet.

  • Built around your processes, not the other way round
  • Right when what exists is close but wrong where it matters
  • Costs more, and fits exactly
Route two

Built on our platform

When most of what you need already exists.

  • Accounts, news, events, documents and payments already built
  • Launches in weeks rather than months
  • Bespoke features still bolt on top

Either way it is the same engine underneath, so the platform route does not mean accepting somebody else’s compromises. Orbit is that platform running as a product.

Interactive

Sketch your app in a minute

Not sure how to describe what you need? Tick what it has to do and this builds the outline for you, ready to send straight to us.

1

Choose where it runs

iPhone, Android, both, or in a browser.

2

Tick what it does

The outline on the right fills in as you go.

3

Send it to us

It arrives with your message, already written up.

1Where does it run?

2What does it need to do?

3Your outline

  • Nothing ticked yet. Choose a few on the left.
Send this outline to us

This is not a quote and it costs nothing. It gives us a head start, so the first call is about your business rather than twenty questions about features. We confirm the right approach and a fixed price with you after that.

What it costs

Every app is different, so we will not advertise a figure that has little to do with what you actually need. What we will commit to is the shape.

A free scoping conversationWe work out what is actually required before anybody talks about money.
A fixed price, in writingAgreed before work starts, not estimated and revised later.
Broken down by partYou can see where the money goes rather than reading one total.
No VAT on topWe are not VAT registered, so nothing is added to the quoted price.
Scope changes priced firstIf something changes we tell you the effect on the price before doing the work.
No charge for the thinkingThe conversation that gets us to a number costs you nothing.
We will also tell you when an app is the wrong answer. Sometimes a website, an automation between two systems you already pay for, or a change to a process solves it better. Selling an app to somebody who needed a workflow is how a supplier gets one project and no second one.

Got an idea worth building?

Tell us what it needs to do. The scoping conversation is free and you will get an honest answer about whether an app is even the right answer.

Book a free consultation 01227 931679