Top mobile app development companies from all over the world

Jaydip Dobariya
13 min readAug 24, 2018

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Top mobile app development companies

This is the list of best mobile app development companies across USA, Canada, UK, European countries and other parts of the world. From 6,500 software agencies making apps we’ve selected 20 from various regions, based on reviews and client ratings. In addition, we also name several honorable mentions with developer rates lower than typical at the end of article. Competition is fierce in the app development area, so proven expertise, diverse portfolio of iOS apps and Android apps, tech stack were key to our analysis.

Top mobile app development companies

1. Droids on Roids

Socially-active, award-winning and ambitious mobile app development company from Poland. They seem to be believing in quality over quantity, having developed about 60 apps since 2011, and it shows. End-products are innovative and highly-engaging, for example Loop — the app connecting a smartphone to wi-fi displays to view/share media files. Droids, as they call themselves, provide custom agile-driven apps and digital products, recognized by Forbes, Time, Facebook.

Droids on Roids

Top apps: Loop, Electric Objects, Skybud, Giphy Cam, Hematoonkologia, FanGram, Wisher, Simpplr.
Specialties: app development, web development and web design, open source libraries, IoT, BLE apps (bluetooth low energy).
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Wroclaw, Poland / Employees: 55 / Contact: +48535637643.
Website: https://www.thedroidsonroids.com

2. Peerbits

Peerbits is a global mobile app development company with its presence in fourcountries; India, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Colombia. We, at Peerbits offer a spectrum of custom mobile app development ranging from enterprise mobility solutions to startup apps, on- demand mobile apps, and healthcare mobility solutions. Our expertise lies in tailoring the mobile applications that fit our client’s requirement with a promise to deliver more than what
they expect from us.

Peerbits

Specialties: Mobile app development, Web development, Blockchain development, UX/UI design, IoT, Android, iOS, iPad, Apple Watch, Android watches, Java, PHP, Objective C, Swift,Python, JavaScript, AngularJS.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Ahmedabad, India / Employees: 105 / Contact: +1 877 707 0459, info@peerbits.com.
Website :https://www.peerbits.com

3. UPTech

UPTech is a Ukrainian Mobile and Web development company. During the 2 years on the market, this proactive team created more than 40 apps and worked with big companies like Dollar Shave Club and Aspiration. UPTech is featured as a top B2B provider by Clutch.co and Topagency.co. See what clients say about UPTech.

UPTech

Top apps: Dollar Shave Club (Unilever), Aspiration, Sprent, ArtKive, DroneBase, Ripkord.tv
Specialties: iOS, Android and web app development, UI/UX design, Business Analysis
Hourly Rate: $35 — $45 / Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine / Employees: 45
Contact: hello@uptech.team
Website: https://uptech.team

4. Netcore agency

Netcore agency is a professional development company with a very thorough and personal approach to each project they take on. They specialize specifically in cross-platform/hybrid app development which is a cost-effective and relatively faster technological solution. They provide services for such industries as: hospitality, travel, logistics and supply, educational systems, taxi services, car rentals and listings as well as a wide range of management platforms and systems.

Netcore agency

Specialties: mobile apps, web development, UX/UI design, web design, e-commerce development, SEO, hybrid/cross-platform apps, smart home apps, CRM and sales

Hourly rate: $45- $70 / Location: Riga, LV/ Employees: 21 / Contact: +37127444771.
Website: https://netcore.agency

5. Magora

A B2B and B2C company from Great Britain with hundreds of skilled employees delivering mobile and web apps. They specialize in enterprise utilities/apps, consumer services, MVP for startups, UX/UI, product strategy. Development services for industries like logistics, transportation, healthcare, real estate, banking. Magora offers competitive hourly rates and a median project cost starts at $10,000. So basically any startup or entrepreneur can afford their services and start building an app. To prove this, their portfolio is full of diverse apps of various scope, in productivity, wellness, finance, education, etc.

Magora

Top apps: Danone, Innovo Care, ShowApp, Jurni, Hunger, Tebengan, ProjectVUE.
Specialties: mobiles apps, custom software development, IoT, Android, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android watches, Java, PHP, Objective C, Python, JavaScript, Ruby.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: London, UK / Employees: 508 / Contact: +442071835820.
Website: https://magora-systems.com

6. Apadmi

One more mobile app development agency from UK we can’t leave out is Apadmi. And it is not only building mobile apps, but all kinds of products within the mobile landscape. Those include app, server systems, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT (check out previous post with top IoT companies), big data, VR and AR. They delve into multiple partnerships with SMEs, investors and news organizations, constantly identifying new tech opportunities. With teams of app developers, project managers, technical leads and test engineers, Apadmi develops end-to-end mobile apps. They also offer services for enterprise-level solutions and marketing.

Apadmi

Top apps: Range Rover Evoque app, Argos, The Guardian, BBC Music, DonorPath, Lexus IS Series.
Specialties: mobile application development, IoT, big data consulting, design, testing, Ajax, ASP.Net, Apex, servers and infrastructure.
Hourly rate: $100–150 / Location: Manchester, UK / Employees: 60 / Contact: +441618501300.
Website: https://www.apadmi.com

7. Rootstrap

Rootstrap is a distributed team of agile ninjas that are business strategists before designers, developers, and growth hackers. They believe in having a global outlook that’s not only fresh but unexpected. That’s why Rootstrap keep offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Montevideo — because if the smartest person in the room is the room itself, it better be filled with the best minds from around the world. They partner with brands. Together they have done great things.

Rootstrap

Top apps: StyleMD, Living Healthy, SalesForce, Cash Money, Heroku, Arbor, NOWL, and WeAreTV.
Specialties: Roadmapping, Web Development, Mobile Development, Growth User Acquisition, Emerging Technology, and Staff Augmentation.
Hourly rate: $150–200 / Location: West Hollywood, California / Employees: 50–100/ Contact: hello@rootstrap.com.
Website: https://www.rootstrap.com

8. 180 Creative

Founded in 2012 and based in Katowice, Poland. 180 Creative is a software house which transforms business ideas into great web and mobile solutions As a one of the leading software development companies, 180 Creative provides reliable web and mobile solutions spanning across Native Mobile App development, Cross-Platform Mobile App Development and Custom Web Development. The company offers tailored businesses and trendy solutions on the budget. Having an agile approach and a strong team of software developers, 180 Creative provides large business and startups with end-to-end solutions. The team has an in-depth experience in app development platforms 180 Creative’s client are getting advantage of accessing a highly qualified team Form Follows functions, Marcin Olejnik — CEO.

Specialties: Webdevelopment, Mobile Apps, iOS, Android, Symfony, React Native, Angular, Ionic
Hourly Rate: $49, Location: Katowice, Poland, Employees: 10–49 Contact: sales@180creative.pl
Website: https://180creative.software

9. Miquido

Poland is one of leading Eastern European countries in software development and outsourcing, filled with hundreds of teams. One of the best mobile app development companies is Miquido, started in 2011 and employing over 100 engineers and designers. Being as Android certified agency under Google Developers program, they are acknowledged by Time, Forbes, Deloitte. Businesses like Skyscanner, Abbey Road Studios, Herbalife, Nestle entrust projects to Miquido, who base their software development process on Scrum.

Miquido

Top apps: Topline, Klassik Radio, TUI, HelloFresh, KoVue, EmpikGo, Industree.
Specialties: mobile/web development, design, Android, iOS, Amazon/AWS, Kotlin, Swift, Java, PHP, Node, Golang, React, Angular, MongoDB.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Krakow, Poland / Employees: 118 / Contact: +48536083559.
Website: https://www.miquido.com

10. Anadea

With over decade of market presence, Anadea Inc. is a company providing custom software development. With offices in Ukraine, Belarus, Spain and HQ in the USA, the team creates mobile apps and solutions, mostly for businesses. To be more precise, their expertise lies in areas of management/CRM systems, time tracking tools, real estate/education/healthcare/travel systems, and e-commerce products. Tech stack is extensive, including tools for server/client side processes, mobile, databases, cloud computing, payments, testing etc.

Anadea

Top apps: Dressli, Chatboard, Viventor, Coaching app, Agentfolio, Getsocio Mobile.
Specialties: mobile apps, custom software development, CRM, Ruby on Rails, Spring MVC, Java, ecommerce.
Hourly rate: $25–50 / Location: Ukraine, Belarus / Employees: 128 / Contact: +13152151575.
Website: https://anadea.info

11. Bontouch

Bringing Scandinavian ethics of design and no-excess custom software development, Bontouch is a team of 90+ experts. Heavily focused on mobile app development, mobile design and digital strategies, they are Google Certified agency working with state-of-the-art technologies. They also support UN agencies and NGOs like UN’s refugee agency, Kiva, Operation Smile, Pepp. And they conduct constant tech research, i.e. in computer vision, sensor integration, utilities, AR, in order to make smarter products.

Bontouch

Top apps: Post-it, Taxi Stockholm, Eurocard, AFA, Swedish Railways, Postnord.
Specialties: Android applications, iPhone applications, iOS apps, iPad apps, digital product strategy, humanitarian programs.
Hourly rate: $100–150 / Location: Stockholm, Sweden / Employees: 97 Contact: info@bontouch.com.
Website: https://www.bontouch.com

12. Intive

One of the largest IT and software development agencies in Germany, Intive offers outstanding services in creating mobile apps. With new technologies they always push the frontier to new options for improvement, as well new channels of income for clients. If you need big impressive numbers, this company got it: 19 years on market, 19 offices in multiple countries, 7 design studios, 90% returning clients, over 1,000 projects. They work for automotive industry (Audi, BMW, VW), financial sector (Credit Suisse, Santander, Credit Agricole), manufacturing (Viessmann, F24) and many more.

Intive

Top apps: Freeletics, T-Mobile, Viacom, Ringier, Qiagen, Zalando.
Specialties: mobile app development, product strategy, software maintenance, QA, design, wearable devices, Java, C#, JavaScript, Swift, PHP, Python.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Koln, Germany / Employees: 1,500 Contact: +499415695900.
Website: https://www.intive.com

13. Budacode

You can also find famous German excellency, here in app development, with smaller teams like Budacode. They specialize in all things JavaScript, using it to build high-performing iOS, Android, web and desktop apps. When looking for close cooperation and communication in person, with such team of ten experts you’ll know everyone by name and can count on good results. They also provide services in web development (with Node.js and Angular.js), IT consulting and social media marketing.

Budacode

Top apps: BeerGo, Transfermarkt, AnyPlan, Ivory.
Specialties: JavaScript, mobile apps, web apps, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality development, React Native, Ionic 2, Node.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Hamburg, Germany / Employees: 10 / Contact: +4915731970769.
Website: https://budacode.com

14. Iperdesign Inc.

With 18 years in business, and offices in Italy and USA, Iperdesign is among smaller app development companies who manages to catch big clients. Brands like Ernst & Young, Abbott, World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), Wall Street Journal, and hundreds of others entrust app making to them. The company promotes their so called “4D development process”. It consists of defining strategy, design, development and deployment. Applying it to each case and with the extensive tech stack they do great job in mobile development, web apps, design, CMS, ecommerce, etc.

Iperdesign Inc.

Top apps: Whook, Renal Chart, Abbvie Calculator, Hausmann, Peripheri, ConnecTable.
Specialties: mobile app development, mobile design, UX/UI, ecommerce, AR apps, WordPress, MySQL, HTML5.
Hourly rate: $100–150 / Location: Rome, Italy / Employees: 15 / Contact: +390664781980.
Website: https://www.iperdesign.com

15. IWA Ltd.

If in addition to app development you also need services like digital strategy, service architecture, UX design, prototyping, branding, lean analytics, check out IWA. based in Finland and with offices in Thailand, UAE, their open-minded team of frontend, backend, full-stack devs is there to turn your ideas into reality. Using only latest and relevant tools/technologies, they strive to create user-friendly apps that look wonderful on any device. Their approach is “agile” — working in 1 to 3 weeks cycles to ensure flexibility in decision making along the way.

IWA Ltd

Top apps: Ecocity Evaluator, Virta, Goland, Talokeskus, Flioz, Ankkalampi.
Specialties: Android, iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, Unity 3D, Amazon AWS, Bootstrap, Cordova, ECMAScript, Ember.js, PhoneGap, React.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Helsinki, Finland / Employees: 130 / Contact: +358407307813.
Website: https://iwa.fi

16. Eleks

Eleks is one of the biggest in staff and oldest in business IT companies in Ukraine. The country is well-known for wealth of developers, and if you’d specifically search for mobile app development companies from Ukraine, Eleks would definitely come up. Full-cycle development, any kind of technology, wide range of complementary services…you can count all on this huge team. Only positive customer feedback and affordable rates are good incentives to check it out.

Top apps: Teleologica, Russmann, Black Box, Reactoo, Havas, Xceedium.

Specialties: custom software development, tech consulting, business intelligence, data science, R&D, QA, staff augmentation, AWS, wearables, Windows server, Azure, AI, chatbots.

Hourly rate: $25–50 / Location: Lviv, Ukraine / Employees: 1,100 / Contact: +17029787116.
Website: https://eleks.com

17. Better Software Group

Young, dynamic and diverse team of software developers across offices in Norway, Poland, Sweden and Denmark. BSG emerged from several small agencies joining forces to provide efficient mobile app development and design. Now they cater to business fields of a) software platforms, b) custom development, c) research and development, d) innovation for enterprises. BSG Solutions builds products mostly for media, entertainment and travel companies. For instance, PlayBetter — a platform for multi-screen applications with no coding skills, or WorkBetter — a mobile platform for enterprise to manage operations, sales, logistics.

Better Software Group

Top apps: KFC app, Northstar, TubaFM, Meritum Bank, Skycash, Medicover.
Specialties: mobile apps, hybrids apps, PWA, web development and design, UX/UI, smart TV, Chromecast, fintech.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Oslo, Norway / Employees: 41 / Contact: +48601050325.
Website: http://bsgroup.eu

18. Huenei

Since 1995, Huenei has been both regional and offshore/nearshore IT services provider from Argentina’s capital. In terms of app development, they provide the whole product lifecycle or specific services like business insight and analysis, programming, quality assurance, etc. Moreover, you may also hire Huenei for maintenance of mobile apps, staffing, consulting or mobile proof-of-concept implementation. They develop apps on the following platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, JQuery, Phonegap, Rhomobile, Sencha Touch and Titanium.

Top apps: Claro, Virtusa, Falabella, Everis, Foodista, BBVA.
Specialties: custom software, mobile apps, business analysis and PM, software architecture, testing, Java, .Net, MS Sharepoint and Liferay, other IT services.
Hourly rate: $25–50 / Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina / Employees: 161 Contact: +541141063500.
Website: http://www.huenei.com

19. Okoone

Providing high-class mobile app, web and cloud solutions, Okoone operates from Hong Kong and is an established mobile agency in Asia. They always try to balance best technologies and affordable prices for work to help customers achieve goals. Along with mobile apps, the team offers web solutions, cloud computing and digital marketing. Native apps, iOS apps, Android apps, hybrid apps, web apps and other related services are there.

Okoone

Top apps: AirVisual, K1nd, GrandStream, OgilvyOne.
Specialties: mobile development, web development, cloud infrastructures, mobile marketing.
Hourly rate: $50–100 / Location: Hong Kong / Employees: 21 / Contact: +85577495202.
Website: https://www.okoone.com

20. Magneto IT Solutions

From the year 2009, Magneto IT Solutions is serving worldwide as a certified mobile application development company with presence in USA, INDIA and Bahrain. They have been growing in this sector on the basis of vision to serve enterprises with a tool to thrive in this mobile era. Being on the peak by tackling many companies in the field, Magneto IT Solutions always keep client satisfied which helped to grow by having 100+ happy clients and 300+ successfully deployed projects. Standing here is great experience, but this was made possible by the efforts of the team of 70+ highly experienced and technologically sound team consisting of developers, UI/UX, Designers & highly determined Project managers working to deliver excellent service. Magneto IT solutions had an outstanding experience serving right from small to gigantic companies, firms, businesses & government organizations, and that too at a competitive rate.

Magneto IT Solutions

Top apps: Lynkd, FAPm, Rockwell Trading Alerts, AirBowl
Specialties: Mobiles Application, custom software development, Native iOS Application, Native Android Development, iPad Application Development, API Development, iBeacon, web development, UX/UI design, web design, e-commerce development, SEO.
Hourly rate: $16 / Location: India, USA, Bahrain / Employees: 100 / Contact: +91–9921909374, +91–8141301021, +1 214 447 0720.
Website: https://magnetoitsolutions.com

21. Wildnet

Wildnet is an award winning, decade old, Agile Mobile, Web and Software application development company delivering mobility services for Native (iOS and Android) as well as Cross platform mobile applications built on Xamarin, React Native & Ionic. Wildnet believe in delivering best quality solution and On time delivery and has served more than 400 clients across the globe. Their support and client engagement sets them apart in the industry. Wildnet offers almost all emerging technologies and cater almost every industry like Education, Healthcare, banking, Travel, ecommerce, POS, Retail, Recruitment, Online booking, Hospitality and Real estate to name some.

Wildnet

Specialties: Xamarin, React Native, Universal windows platform, AngularJS, NodeJS, Cordova, Swift, Android SDK, Kotlin, LAMP, MEAN Stack, Devops, Salesforce, .Net, Magento, WordPress, WooCommerce, Cake PHP, Ruby on Rails, CodeIgniter, Python, Laravel, Django, Symfony, .Net , MVC framework, Blockchain and most important IOT.
Hourly rate: $25–35 / Location: India and the USA / Employees: 350 / Contact: marketing.p@wildnettechnologies.com , +91 9871078670
Website: https://www.wildnettechnologies.com

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Jaydip Dobariya

Jaydip Dobariya is the Marketing Head of B2B Marketing Insider and Head of Strategy at Peerbits, a leading Mobile App Development companies in USA — UAE & India