Mobile-first website
A normal website, but engineered to fly on phones. Loads in under two seconds, installable to the home screen, push notifications optional. Right answer for 70% of small businesses.
From £299. Live in days.
See website buildMobile · From £499
On phones, properly. Without spending forty grand.
Most Kent businesses do not need a custom native app on day one. They need a fast mobile-first website that feels like an app. When they do need a real app, AI tooling makes it ten times cheaper than it used to be.
Android app, in the Play Store
Real .apk in the Google Play Store, in your developer account. Branded, push-enabled, fast. Cheaper to ship than iOS and reaches the bigger UK audience.
From £499 for a single-purpose app.
Get a quoteiOS app, in the App Store
Listed in your Apple developer account. Required if your customers are iPhone-heavy or you want Apple Pay tap-to-pay. We can ship Android first and add iOS later.
From £899 alongside Android.
Get a quoteHow I decide which one you need.
Most clients walk in convinced they need a native app. Most leave with a beautiful mobile site for a fifth of the price, and a clear plan for adding a real app once it earns its place. The questions that decide it:
- Will your customer use this once a week, or once a year? (Apps win on frequency)
- Do you need anything that browsers cannot do? Bluetooth printer, deep camera, offline maps
- Is store credibility part of the sale? (Marketplaces, fitness, kids' content)
- Does push messaging materially change your bookings? (Hairdresser yes, accountant no)
If the answer is no across the board, a fast mobile site is the right call. If two or more are yes, a real app starts paying for itself.
What you get either way.
- Listed in your developer accounts, your name on the store page
- Source files and build pipelines you can hand to anyone else
- Crash reporting, analytics, and update path set up
- App icon, splash screen and store screenshots done properly
A native app is a commitment. Plan-A is almost always a fast mobile site, then graduate to a real app once you can point at the use case that needs it.
— Richard
Not sure which? Send me a sentence.
One WhatsApp describing what your app would do, and I will tell you whether a mobile site or a real app is the right starting point.