Mobile apps, and the honest question first.
React Web Development Services builds iOS and Android apps from ₱750,000 over 12–18 weeks — React Native or Flutter, one codebase, both stores, CI through to release. Before that, we will ask whether you need an app at all: a progressive web app is ₱135,000 over 3–4 weeks, installs to the home screen, works offline and sends push, without the app-store tax. A SaaS MVP with auth, billing and multi-tenancy is ₱850,000 (12–20 weeks) and a custom web application ₱650,000 (10–16 weeks). Care retainers from ₱9,500/mo cover the OS updates that break a shipped app twice a year. Based in Porac, Pampanga.
Most briefs asking for an app do not need one.
A native app earns its cost when it needs the camera, GPS in the background, offline storage, biometrics or push that genuinely must arrive. If what you actually want is “customers can book and see their history on their phone”, that is a progressive web app at ₱135,000 and three to four weeks.
The difference is not only the build. An app carries two store review processes, Apple’s US$99 a year and Google’s one-off US$25, a release cycle measured in days rather than minutes, and an install step that a large share of users will not complete. A PWA is a URL.
And it keeps being a cost. iOS and Android each ship a major version a year, and an app left alone for eighteen months is usually a rebuild rather than an update. That is what the care retainer is for, and why we would rather you spent ₱135,000 than ₱750,000 on the wrong one.
It is screens and data
Booking, accounts, dashboards, catalogues, loyalty. Installs to the home screen, works offline, sends push. ₱135,000.
It needs the device
Background GPS, camera processing, biometrics, Bluetooth, offline-first field work, or payments through the stores. ₱750,000.
You own it
Repository, store listings and signing keys in your name, transferred on final payment.
What the options actually cost.
Published figures, not estimates. Store fees are paid by you, directly to Apple and Google, and are never marked up.
| What you need | From | Timeline | When it is right |
|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive web app conversion | ₱135,000 | 3–4 weeks | Screens and data, no device hardware needed |
| WhatsApp / Messenger commerce | ₱95,000 | 2–4 weeks | Customers already prefer to talk in the inbox |
| Client portal / internal dashboard | ₱480,000 | 8–12 weeks | Staff and clients need an interface, not an app |
| Custom web application | ₱650,000 | 10–16 weeks | A process nothing off-the-shelf fits |
| Mobile app (iOS + Android) | ₱750,000 | 12–18 weeks | The device itself is part of the product |
| SaaS MVP | ₱850,000 | 12–20 weeks | A product to sell, not a tool to use |
One codebase, both stores.
React Native or Flutter
Chosen per project, not per fashion. React Native where the team and the web app already share a React codebase; Flutter where the interface is heavily custom and needs to render identically on both platforms.
CI to release
Builds, signing and store submission automated from the first week, not bolted on at the end. The first submission is where unprepared projects lose a fortnight to review rejections.
Tested on real phones
Mid-range Android on mobile data, which is what most of this market carries — not a flagship on office wifi. It is the same standard we hold web builds to.
The ones we actually get asked.
How much does it cost to build a mobile app in the Philippines?
From React Web Development Services an iOS and Android app starts at ₱750,000 over 12–18 weeks, built from one codebase in React Native or Flutter and shipped to both stores through automated builds. A progressive web app, which covers a large share of briefs that arrive asking for an app, is ₱135,000 over 3–4 weeks. Ongoing care starts at ₱9,500 a month.
Do we need a native app or will a web app do?
Native earns its cost when the product needs the device: background GPS, camera processing, biometrics, Bluetooth, offline-first field work, or in-app purchases through the stores. If the requirement is screens and data — booking, accounts, dashboards, catalogues, loyalty — a progressive web app installs to the home screen, works offline and sends push for ₱135,000, with no store review and no install step to lose users at.
What do the app stores themselves cost?
Apple charges US$99 a year for a developer account and Google a one-off US$25. Both are paid by you, directly, and the accounts stay in your name — we never resell or mark them up. Apps that sell digital goods also pay the stores a commission on each transaction, which is worth modelling before you choose native over web.
What happens after launch?
iOS and Android each ship a major version every year, and an app left untouched for eighteen months is usually a rebuild rather than an update. Care retainers from ₱9,500 a month cover OS compatibility, store policy changes, dependency updates and crash monitoring. An app is not a project that finishes; that is the part most quotes leave out.
Who owns the code and the store listings?
You do. Repository, store listings, signing keys and certificates are in your name and transfer on final payment with a recorded walkthrough. Signing keys matter more than people expect: without them, nobody else can ever ship an update to your app.
Not sure whether you need an app or a web app?
That is the question worth answering before anyone writes code. The Advisor takes about ninety seconds and will point you at the ₱135,000 option where that is the right call.