Ever wonder how much it will cost to create a mobile app? By the end of this guide, you'll have a better understanding of the decisions that will determine the cost of your app.
How Much Does It Cost To Make an App?
We provide innovative, reliable, and scalable enterprise-grade solutions. Contact us today to discuss your project and take a look at some of the award-winning mobile applications we’ve developed.
Custom App Development
Top Custom Software Developers
We are a custom mobile and web app development company that offers our clients extensive technical capabilities, producing high-performance custom software. Clients choose Zco over other app design agencies because of our wealth of experience and versatility. Over the past 30-years, we have become a market leader that continually innovates and challenges the boundary of what is possible through custom software development.
- We are constantly learning the newest technologies in order to deliver the most advanced product. As technology grows, Zco does as well.
- We have over 300 project managers, designers, and programmers from around the globe working for our mobile app agency.
- No project is too big or too small for us. We have the bandwidth to tackle multiple complex projects simultaneously.
Our Partners
Featured App
Golflogix: The Most Downloaded App in Golf
- Highly Accurate GPS Distances
- Over 35,000 Courses Mapped
- Putt Lines and 3D Approaches
As the pioneers of Golf GPS, for the past 20 years, over 5 million golfers all around the world continually trust GolfLogix for exact GPS distances, full-color 3D course maps, 4-player scoring, pro-level stats, handicap tracking and discounted tee times.
Featured App
mindLAMP: A Neuropsychiatric Research App
- Monitor mental health with real time surveys & brain games
- Collects Apple HealthKit data like step count and heart rate
- Security meets or exceeds HIPAA requirements
The concept for LAMP was developed by researchers that wanted to better record the symptoms of patients participating in mental health clinical trials. The app’s creators wanted to take advantage of the fact that most people own their own smart devices capable of recording and uploading data about their symptoms.
Featured App
mindLAMP: A Neuropsychiatric Research App
- Monitor mental health with real time surveys & brain games
- Collects Apple HealthKit data like step count and heart rate
- Security meets or exceeds HIPAA requirements
The concept for LAMP was developed by researchers that wanted to better record the symptoms of patients participating in mental health clinical trials. The app’s creators wanted to take advantage of the fact that most people own their own smart devices capable of recording and uploading data about their symptoms.
What Our Clients Are Saying
Aliya Leekong
Creator of Issa’s Edible Adventures
Zco’s creative team helped me bring to life this child and her fantastical and educational adventures. Their technical team made sure the game played well and had a smooth launch.
Rajia Abdelaziz
CEO of invisawear
Zco helped us create an app that integrates directly with our proprietary hardware. Through every phase of the project, their team worked with us to create a product that will help protect people.
Kendrick Delaney
Senior Business Development Manager at Aliv
One thing that Zco did very well was management. They had a meeting at the beginning of the week to review functional requirements with the client. They made sure that we all agreed upon what they would be working on. Then, later that week, they had another meeting to articulate what they’d built, and they walked us through that bit-by-bit.
Charlie Hoertz
Global Project Manager at ASK Chemicals L.P.
We’ve worked with multiple software engineering firms on many internal enterprise applications throughout the years. There is a major difference with Zco Corporation, though. Their production quality is first rate, and their pricing is transparent. With other companies we’ve experienced poorly estimated work that ultimately results in additional costs. Zco, on-the-other-hand, gives thorough estimates that reflect true final costs.
Rick and Maria
Creators of Zentangle
Zco provided what we asked them for, and that grew out of lengthy meetings with them. Our team would go up oftentimes, four or five of us, and we’d sit in the conference room for hours, or they would come down and see us. Many whiteboards and many user interface documents later, we hit upon the basic format. The user interface was over 100 pages. It’s a fairly sophisticated app right out of the gate.
Areej El-Jawahri
Areej El-Jawahri, Associate Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Outcomes Research and Education Program (CORE)
Our research team has successfully worked with Zco Corporation over the past several years to develop cutting-edge supportive care interventions mobile application to address the needs of patients with Cancer. We are grateful for our collaboration with Zco and are looking forward to continue to work with them to improve the lives of our patients and their families.
Our Awards
Clutch.co
Top Mobile App Developer 2020
Goodfirms.co
Top App Development Company in Boston
Topdevelopers.co
Top App Developers 2019
Softwareworld.co
#1 US Based App Development Company
Our Development Process
Our account executives and project managers work closely with you to identify your desired functionality based on your specifications and requirements. From our discussions and interactions, we can craft and prepare a detailed estimate outlining the timeline and costs associated with your project. We use an agile and streamlined production cycle to produce high quality software exactly tailored to your specifications, we are here to help bring your project to market:
- As a first step a NDA is signed, guaranteeing that you and you alone own the project’s intellectual property.
- Through building our relationship we provide you our perspective on the user experience, design, what functionalities can be moved to a phase two or even how you can transition your product into a more business-oriented structure.
- We take your comments into consideration throughout the development process to ensure we are working towards your desired result. At the projects conclusion, all assets including the source code are signed over to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to some of the most commonly asked questions below!
Where is Zco Located?
Zco is headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire. We have offices in New York, NY and Boston, Massachusetts as well.
Will you develop my app for profit share?
Zco works strictly as a developer for hire. We do not participate in any revenue splits or percentage agreements. That means while you shoulder development costs, you own your app free and clear, including source code and intellectual property.
How is my mobile app idea protected?
One of the very first steps in the app development timeline is the signing of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by both Zco and you, the prospective client. This protects both parties, since we’ll be working very closely together. Once it’s finished, the app and all its source code and intellectual property belong to you.
How much does it cost to develop an app?
Zco’s app development hourly rate is less than $60 per hour. An average app project might cost about $30,000, with features and complexity raising or lowering the price accordingly.
How long has Zco been in business?
Zco Corporation was founded by John Olapurath in 1989. We are a company of over 300 talented programmers, artists and project managers.
How are apps distributed?
Consumers will be able to download apps right on their devices. We’re experts in the submission process, having submitted hundreds of apps for hundreds of clients to the various consumer download services. These include the Apple iTunes App Store, Google Play for Android and private distribution for enterprise applications.
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