How Much Does It Cost To Develop a Feature-Rich Mobile Application?
Mobile apps have become an integral part of human life and is found to regulate their daily routine activities. Smart phones and tablet devices are fully loaded with apps from various business categories which includes gaming apps, health apps, utility apps etc. The urge for mobile app development is continuously soaring as businesses have recognised the monetary benefits of owning a mobile app.
The success of any mobile app is totally dependent on the number of core features incorporated into it. These features are aimed to increase the user engagement by providing something superficial than the one delivered by the competitors in the market. In actual terms, this isn’t simple as it seems.
Development of a mobile application is a lengthy and cumbersome process which demands rich technical and programming knowledge. Some people have put themselves in a false notion that apps are fast and easy to develop, as they are available for free of cost to download from Google Play Store and Apple’s App store. This mentality is absolutely false and the real fact is you get what you pay for. Apps are being built by development firms since a decade, but the only thing that has remained unaltered is its development cost which is rising up day-by-day.
Here is the answer to the primary question — What does the actual app development cost ?
The most popular methodology to determine the actual cost of any mobile application is to review some of the best apps being widely used across the globe. In real sense, there is never an exact figure but only an estimation — that too is based on the type of app and the features included into it. A simple and straightforward approach to calculate the cost of an app is to multiply the total number of features with the number of hourly rate required to develop it.
Here we elaborate the development rate to clone some of the popular app in the market
Auxano Global Services reasonable development cost to build clone apps for both Android and iPhone platforms
Popular Apps Clone Apps Average Development Cost of Clone Apps WhatsApp WhatsApp clone
$3,00,000
Facebook Facebook clone $3,12,000 Messenger Messenger clone $3,25,000 Instagram Instagram clone $1,00,000 Youtube Youtube clone $2,50,000 UBER UBER clone $1,50,000 Snapchat Snapchat clone $75000
Facebook is one of the most popular online social networking company with around 2 billion daily active users.
Some of the crucial features of Facebook :
- Quick registration and login process
- Real-time contact synchronization
- Messaging services
- Newsfeed
With all these exquisite features in Facebook, it’s hard to estimate the actual development cost. However, it’s still possible to gauge the cost to certain extent.
Around 2600 hours are required to develop Facebook like app, which when multiplied by $120 per hour would cost approx $3,12,000.
WhatsApp is the most popular real-time messaging application consisting of comprehensive user-friendly features.
Features of WhatsApp
- Video calling
- Document sharing capability
- Voice calling
- End-to-end encryption technique
To develop a clone of WhatsApp around 2100 hours of hardcore programming is required which when multiplied by $120 hourly rate, goes to $2,50,000 to $3,00,000.
Instagram the most popular photo-based mobile application allows users to share photo and videos with a privacy of making the content either public or private. Around 20 million daily users are found to be using Instagram on daily basis.
Features of Instagram
- Easy photo customization
- Geo-location capability
- Easy messaging option
- Advance search option
- Simple login registration process
Compared to other mobile apps, photo sharing application demands extreme programming in order to seamlessly upload/download high-quality pictures. On an average, around 6 months of time period is required to develop a photo sharing clone application, like Instagram. $1,00,000 to $1,50,000 is the price slot to develop a photo app like Instagram.
UBER
UBER is a convenient taxi transportation service provider across the globe. This organization has occupied a significant market share by making its presence felt in around 560 cities across the globe. This application requires design and development of two kind of interface ie one on the driver side and other on the passenger side. Such application demands integration of payment gateway, which involves lot of technical complexities. Development of uber like application costs around $1,50,000.
Important aspects to be kept in mind while pricing app development
Cost is the fundamental criteria to be thoroughly considered before initiating the app development process. There is an always a considerable gap between hiring a freelance mobile app developer, offshore app development company or an app development agency.
Hardware and Operating system
Developing an app for a particular range of devices is less expensive compared to the one based on BYOD (Bring-your-own-device) environment. In BYOD, the app is aimed to function of devices of varied hardware configuration and software platform. In such environment, development of cross-platform mobile apps becomes mandatory.
Incorporating authorization/authentication process
An authentication process is extremely important for apps that are meant to function of a large enterprise involving dynamic workforce. By incorporating authentication feature in the overall development cost of the app is drastically increased. Apps with few security parameters are less-expensive to build compared to the one which involves a significant amount of verification process.
Distribution channel
There are tons of distribution channel in the market to successfully deploy your developed mobile application. Each distribution channel has its own set of challenges and largely varies from each other in terms of cost. Google Playstore and Apples iTunes cost around $100 license fee for a developer account.
Maintenance
The cost of app building is not only confined to its development process and deployment. Periodic maintenance of the app is extremely important for long endurance of the app.
Why to choose Auxano Global Services for your app development service?
- Auxano Global Services is a leading offshore web and mobile application development company with its tentacles spanned across the globe.
- Android and iPhone mobile developers at Auxano Global Services are highly experienced and most of them hold a doctorate degree in their respective educational field.
- Delivering quality app solution within stipulated time period is what distinguishes Auxano Global Services from its competitors in the market.
- Developers of Auxano Global Services are readily available to hire for the accomplishment of complicated business requirements of the clients and that too at a cost-effective rate.
If you have already made up your mind to start the development of your business app, our professionals are waiting to have a quick chat with you. Our business strategist is always keen to discuss the unique business requirement of your project. Just fill the contact form and one of our senior executives would get in touch with you in no time period.
