Mobile app development company in India
Boffin Coders is a mobile app development company in India that builds iOS and Android apps in Flutter, or in React Native when your own team writes React. We scope each app once, publish the price, and ship it from your App Store and Google Play accounts. The proof is on the stores: ten apps of our own on Google Play under our own name, seven of them on the App Store too. Install one before you book a call.
- Code in your name
- Strict NDA
- Shipped through both store reviews, 7 times
Running a clinic, a trade or a shop and need a website that brings enquiries? That is our local business line.
The app is yours before it ships
Store listings, code, backend and test builds sit in your accounts from the first day. The one thing you do yourself is open the two developer accounts.
Whose name it is in
Yours, from the first day
- App Store and Google Play listingsYour developer accounts
- Source codeYour repository, from the first commit
- Backend and databaseYour cloud or Firebase project
- Test buildsOn your phone as each part lands
If we part ways, nothing has to be transferred, because nothing was ever in our name.
Our own apps, on both stores
Most portfolios show you screenshots of client apps you cannot open. Ours are on the stores under our own name, so you can install one tonight and see how it behaves on your own phone. We never publish install counts or ratings for them. What they prove is that we finish, we get through review, and we keep shipping updates.
10
Apps on Google Play
Published under our own name
7
Also on the App Store
Through both store reviews
On-device
PDF Toolkit OCR
Documents never leave the phone
4.9
Across 20 reviews
Clutch 15, GoodFirms 5
Counted from our Google Play and App Store developer pages.
The seven on both stores, all built in Flutter
PDF Toolkit
Scan, merge, compress, convert and protect PDFs on the phone.
What it shows: Text recognition that runs on the device, so a scanned document is never uploaded anywhere.
Video Splitter and PinShot GPS Camera
Video Splitter: Split a long video into timed clips, or trim one part out. PinShot GPS Camera: Photos and videos stamped with the location, address, date and time.
What it shows: Video processed on the phone itself, with no upload and no server bill per clip. Camera, location and a video overlay applied while the file is processed.
SharedCart
Shopping lists shared with family, flatmates or a team.
What it shows: Lists that sync live between several people and phones as items change.
I Save Life
Blood requests matched with compatible donors nearby.
What it shows: Accounts, location and alerts sent to the right donors, not to everyone.
Gurbani Sagar
Daily prayers to read in several languages and scripts.
What it shows: Long texts in more than one script, typeset to be comfortable on a small screen.
BrightNest
Letters, numbers, drawing, puzzles and games for young children.
What it shows: An interface a young child can use without reading instructions.
What app clients say
Two reviews that are about app work, both posted on Upwork: one for a Flutter codebase we joined and worked on, one for the product design of a spelling app. Our Clutch and GoodFirms reviews, 4.9 across 20, are mostly for websites and search, and they are linked below rather than passed off as app reviews.
“Boffin Team has been a great value to our project, and we are extremely satisfied with this professionalism. Working with Boffin Coders was a pleasure, and I would recommend Boffin Coders for Flutter projects.”
Upwork client
Flutter developer to work on existing code
“[The] team at Boffin Coders delivered a great product design for my app. They adhered to timelines. Returned quickly on issues & feedback. Great experience overall.”
Upwork client
Spelling Practice App
What a mobile app development company should get right
Screens are the easy part. Choosing the framework your team can live with, working without a signal, getting through store review and keeping the app current after launch are what you pay a company for. Where a choice costs you something, the card says so.
Flutter app development
Our default for a new app. One Dart codebase gives you the iOS and the Android app, and what a Flutter app development company should be able to show you is its own apps: all ten of ours on Google Play are built this way. What you give up: a Flutter app is a little larger to download, and a brand-new platform feature can take a few weeks to reach a Flutter plugin.
- One codebase, two stores
- Dart and Firebase
- Platform code where needed
- Our own apps as the proof
React Native app development
React Native app development is the better choice when your web team already writes React and will maintain the app after us, because they can read every line. We build it on request with our React Native developers. Store submission, the backend and the updates after launch are handled the same way as on our Flutter apps.
- TypeScript and React
- Shared logic with your web app
- Your team can maintain it
- Chosen for your team, not ours
Offline and on-device work
Apps that keep working on a train, in a basement or on a farm. Data is kept on the phone and synced when a signal comes back. Heavy work such as text recognition or cutting a video can run on the phone itself, as it does in PDF Toolkit and Video Splitter.
- Local storage first
- Sync when back online
- On-device processing
- No server bill per use
Store submission and review
We have taken seven apps through both store reviews, which means privacy labels, data-safety forms, screenshots, review notes and the rejections nobody warns you about. We prepare all of it from your own developer accounts, so the listing never has to move.
- Your App Store account
- Your Google Play account
- Privacy and data-safety forms
- Review notes and replies
Permissions you can account for
Every permission your app asks for has to be explained to the stores and to your users. We read the manifest that actually ships, not only the one we wrote, and remove what a library added without asking. Tokens go in the phone’s secure storage, never in plain files.
- Merged manifest checked
- Secure storage for tokens
- Only the permissions used
- Data-safety answers that match
Keeping it running after launch
Apple and Google change their rules every year, and an app nobody updates is eventually pulled. Our own apps have had releases since launch for exactly this reason. After launch, small fixes are billed by the hour, and an app that keeps changing moves to a software development retainer.
- Yearly OS and SDK updates
- Store policy changes
- Crash reports read and fixed
- By the hour or by the month
AI on the phone, where the document stays
Some AI features do not need a server at all. When the model runs on the phone, there is no bill per use, it works without a signal, and there is nothing to explain about where your users’ files went.
PDF Toolkit, one of our own apps, scans a page with the camera and reads the text on it with recognition that runs on the phone. The document never leaves the device. Nobody uploads a passport, a payslip or a medical letter to a server they have never heard of, and we pay nothing each time someone scans.
The same approach suits any app that handles things people would rather keep to themselves: receipts, ID documents, photos of a site or a patient form. The trade-off is honest and worth knowing before you ask for it. Models small enough for a phone are good at narrow jobs, such as reading printed text or sorting photos, and weaker at open-ended ones. They add to the download size, and they run slower on an older phone.
When a job needs a bigger model, it runs on a server you control instead of a vendor’s. That is how we handle speech to text that keeps the recording on the client’s own machine.
Scanning a page in PDF Toolkit
- 1. The camera captures the pageOn the phone
- 2. Text recognition reads itOn the phone, no network needed
- 3. The document and its text are keptIn the phone’s own storage
Where we are with AI in apps
- In use: Text recognition on the device, in PDF Toolkit, on both stores.
- On a server instead: Speech to text for a client, run on a server we control because the model is too big for a phone.
- How we approach a custom model: A model trained for your own task starts with a baseline measured on your data, then runs on the phone or on your server, whichever keeps the data closer to you. Much of this work is under NDA, so we walk you through it on a call.
Your Android app asks for internet permission. You never wrote it.
The manifest you write is not the one that ships. How to read the merged manifest, see which library added a permission, and refuse it, from an app that had told people it needed no internet.
Read the write-upCheck it yourself
bundletool dump manifest --bundle=app-release.aabApps by sector, and what backs each one
Four sectors where we have something you can open. Each card says what we have built and how we approach the harder version of your own app, so you know exactly what the first call will cover before you book it.
Education and learning
BrightNest, our learning app for young children, is on both stores. For a client we built IELTS Builder, a mock-exam platform with speech to text running on a server we control. It is a web platform, not an app, but the grading and speech work carries straight across to a phone. The education software page has the rest.
- Built
- A children’s learning app, and a live exam platform for a client
- How we approach it
- LTI or SCORM links to your learning platform, scoped against its own documentation first
Video and streaming apps
Video Splitter cuts and trims video on the phone. That is the part of a streaming app we have shipped: video handled on the device. For DRM playback, TV apps and live events we build on a managed video provider, and our page on streaming apps sets out that architecture.
- Built
- On-device video processing in an app on both stores
- How we approach it
- DRM playback, TV apps and live streams, built on a managed video provider
Health and clinics
I Save Life, our blood donation app, matches requests with compatible donors nearby. For clinics the work is mostly booking, reminders and a patient’s own records, built so your compliance officer can check the controls. Every control is documented for that check, and our healthcare software page sets out what we build for clinics and health teams.
- Built
- A donor-matching app with alerts and location
- How we approach it
- Record system or device connections, scoped against the vendor’s published interface first
Shopping and ordering
SharedCart keeps shopping lists in sync between several people in real time. For shops, most owners need the website and the store working first, and an app only once repeat customers ask for one. Our e-commerce builds start there, and we will tell you if an app is premature.
- Built
- A real-time shared shopping list app on both stores
- How we approach it
- In-app payments through the store platform or the payment provider’s own checkout
How we build mobile apps
Four stages, each ending in something you can hold: a written scope, a prototype on your phone, test builds as the app grows, and a listing in your own store accounts.
Scope and framework
We agree what the first version does and what it does not, pick Flutter or React Native for reasons you can repeat to someone else, and list the backend, integrations and store work as separate lines.
You get
- A written scope
- Framework choice, with the reason
- The price, line by line
- Your repository set up
Screens you can tap
Designs for the main journeys, then a clickable prototype on your own phone. Changing a screen here costs an afternoon. Changing it after it is built costs a week.
You get
- Main screens designed
- Clickable prototype
- Journeys agreed in writing
- Accessibility checked
Build in short cycles
Test builds reach your phone through TestFlight and Google Play testing as each part is finished, so you judge a working app, not a status report. The code sits in your repository from the first commit.
You get
- Regular test builds
- Code in your repository
- Tests for the logic that matters
- A named engineer to talk to
Launch and after
We submit from your store accounts, answer the reviewers, and stay on for the first round of real users. Then either you take it from there or we keep maintaining it by the hour or by the month.
You get
- Both store submissions
- Crash reporting switched on
- Handover notes
- Maintenance if you want it
The stack we build mobile apps on
Flutter and Dart for most apps, React Native and TypeScript when your team writes React, Kotlin or Swift for the parts a plugin does not cover, and a backend you already own or one we build alongside it.
- Flutter
- Dart
- Firebase
- React Native
- TypeScript
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Node.js
- SQLite
- TestFlight
- App Store Connect
- Google Play Console
Published, not quoted on the call
In USD. Hourly and monthly rates move with the stack and the seniority, from a junior on routine work to a senior on complex builds. Nothing is quoted outside them, and if the number does not work for you, you have saved yourself a meeting.
- A mobile app starts at
- $4,000
- Scoped once, with the lines shown.
- Short pieces of work
- $20-38 an hour
- By seniority and the work.
- A developer by the month
- From $3,500 a month
- Month to month, a month’s notice either way.
- Agency sprint
- $2,000 per two-week sprint
- Under your brand, fixed before we start.
Before you hire a mobile app development company in India
The questions that come up on the first call, answered here so the call can be about your app. Each answer says what the choice costs, not only what it gets you.
The rate, and the receipts. A developer by the month starts at $3,500 a month here, which is a fraction of what a local agency charges for the same Flutter or React Native work. The trade-off is distance: you are working with a team several hours away, so we keep a daily overlap and a named engineer you talk to directly. What you can check before a call is on the stores: eleven apps we publish under our own name, ten on Google Play and eight on the App Store. Install one and judge it.
Not answered here?
Work we’ve delivered, and what we’ve written
Have an app in mind? Bring the idea, not a spec.
Twenty minutes with the engineer who would own it. You leave knowing whether it should be Flutter or React Native, what the first version costs from the published rates, and that it ships from your store accounts, not ours.