HIGHLY EFFECTIVE
MOBILE APP
DEVELOPMENT

We are a team of experienced mobile app developers based in central Auckland NZ. Our passion is creating easy to use Android and iOS mobile apps that transform business processes and customer experience.

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MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT FOR BUSINESS / ANDROID AND IOS SPECIALISTS

We are experienced in creating cross-platform mobile applications (built in a single code base for deployment to both major platforms) as well as specialised native app development for iOS and Android platforms where required.

GREAT UX

A great user experience (UX) equals great results.

At Applicable we apply modern UX best practice to create apps that feel elegantly simple and intuitive to use, even for people who aren’t big on tech.

FOCUS ON BUSINESS RESULTS

Our apps are not just about cool ideas; we dig deep to understand your objectives and to ensure that we’re building products that will achieve them.

Common results include creating a market advantage, reducing admin costs, increasing staff engagement or improving visibility for management.

ANDROID AND IOS SPECIALISTS

We are experienced in creating cross-platform apps (built in a single code base for deployment to both major platforms) as well as specialised native apps for both iOS and Android platforms where required.

Example Projects

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FIRESTOP Passive Fire app
FIRESTOP Passive Fire app

Taking an elegantly simple yet highly effective approach to logging firestop work on construction sites, we were commissioned to build this custom mobile app along with its cloud application back-end for setup and reporting. We believe this app will prove especially well suited to plumbers and firestop contractors needing a quick way to log their firestop work and generate reports for their clients.

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CARBON NATURAL (APP)
CARBON NATURAL (APP)

The Carbon Natural tree replacement calculator is the first app to be released by the environmental planning start-up, Urban Forest Solutions. It’s been a real pleasure partnering with them in their vision to use science and technology to enable carbon neutral development of urban spaces. You can read more about the project in the case study here.

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XPO (APP)
XPO (APP)

Xpo, who are the largest private provider of trade shows in Australasia, contracted us to build an app to be used by the sales people on trade stands to quickly capture visitors details (by scanning the QR code on people’s lanyards). It also enables the stand holder to set up custom questions for sales people to ask, enables those sales people to note visitor response and provides on-the-spot eCommerce. This app has now been in commercial use for a number of years and has proven to be a game changer.

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HPMV WEIGHTS CALCULATOR
HPMV WEIGHTS CALCULATOR

One of our early workflow apps, the HPMV calculator, has proven invaluable for ensuring compliance (eliminating overweight fines) and maintaining a clear and automated flow of data for reporting back to NZTA.

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PASIFIKA TV (WEBSITE & APP)
PASIFIKA TV (WEBSITE & APP)

PasifikaTV is an MFAT (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade) funded initiative aimed at maintaining strong relationships in the Pacific region through various support of their media sector, including satellite content feeds. The app part of this project provides viewers with a quick and convenient access to the content schedule and is designed to be tolerant of poor and intermittent internet connectivity.

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PASSIVE FIRE APP
PASSIVE FIRE APP

This highly sophisticated app has been developed through a few generations of user feedback to provide the best workflow available for passive fire documentation, both for new-build and survey / remedial work. It uses gestures to pan and zoom around plans, a smart assisted entry process, photo captures and printing of labels straight to a portable printer to deliver a fully integrated process.

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Testimonials

John and his team have been ahead of timeline, under budget and transparent for the duration of our projects. They have also worked with us as partners, to bring our software vision to life and added value to the project – instead of arguing scope creep. If you need custom software, this is your team.

Logan Wedgwood
Advisory.Works
CEO

John and the team did a great job with whole range of my projects. They were both very creative and highly responsive.

Iain McCormick PhD
Executive Coaching Centre Ltd

I’ve gotta say; working thru v2.3 on Truck 47’s tablet I’m impressed. Looks good, flows smoothly and issues from v1 addressed. Thank you, your team has done a great job; I can’t say how much I appreciate your approach to software development.

Paul Holdom
Gleeson & Cox

The new app looks amazing, I’ve got it going on my Pixel 4 XL and it works terrific, even in portrait mode, well done.

Rob Wilks
The University of Otago

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How much will an app cost?

This is extremely variable depending on your requirements; typically the lowest cost apps are around $10,000 and they go upwards from there. Big factors include the amount of functionality in the app, what integrations to other systems it does or doesn’t need and whether or not we need to build a custom ‘back end’ data service for it.

Can an app integrate with our existing software?

The answer is almost always yes, it’s just a case of how easy or hard the integration is.

Does an app have hosting costs?

Because apps are downloaded from the app stores there is no direct hosting cost for the apps themselves. However, for apps requiring a custom back-end data service that data service does need to be hosted somewhere in the cloud and, if you don’t have an existing service that’s suitable, you may need to subscribe to a service specifically for it.

Will apps work on all devices?

Typically these days people only build apps for the iOS and Android platforms as other platforms have pretty much died out. So, where this is the case, your apps will only work on devices running those platforms. Some apps are also only designed to be released on tablet or smartphone specifically, however they are the same technically (apart from screen size), so even where this is the case it’s usually easy to adapt for release for both tablets and smartphones.

OUR PROCESS

Our app design and build processes aim to deliver the best mix of industry approaches that, in our experience, enable high quality apps to be produced efficiently, and with lots of client feedback at each stage. To read more see our Software Development Agency process page.