We build mobile apps in Dubai
Building mobile apps in Dubai
Qanat builds software for Dubai companies at a fixed price and a fixed date. Dubai has more software agencies per square kilometre than almost anywhere, which means the hard part is not finding a vendor — it is telling apart the ones who will still be reachable in month four.
- Scope
- Written
- Price
- Fixed
- Held back
- 20%
- Code
- Yours
Before anything is quoted
Agreed before we start
Until you accept
From the first commit
Scope
What a build of this kind actually contains.
Everything below is inside the quoted price. The items agencies leave out of a cheap quote — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
One codebase shipping to both stores unless the product genuinely needs native
- 02
Store submission handled end to end, including the review rejections
- 03
Push, offline behaviour and the flaky-network cases nobody demos
- 04
Analytics and crash reporting wired before launch, not after
- 05
Staged rollout with a rollback path
What we build it with
- React Native
- Expo
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Firebase
- Fastlane
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Committing to native iOS and Android before the product is proven. It doubles the build and the maintenance for a difference most first versions never need.
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
The constraint people miss in Dubai
Cheap quotes are usually cheap scopes. The gap between an AED 40,000 quote and an AED 140,000 quote for the same brief is almost always in what the cheap one silently excluded — and you find out in month three.
Who we build for in Dubai
- SMEs replacing spreadsheets and manual process
- Founders building a first product
- DIFC and free zone financial firms needing internal tooling
- Retail and B2B distribution digitising ordering
- Family-office groups modernising operations
What it costs
We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.
The price of mobile apps is decided by scope, not by category. Two projects with the same label routinely differ by a factor of five, and a number quoted before anyone has read your requirements is a guess dressed as a quote.
What we commit to is this: one price, written against a scope you have read and agreed, fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly that is our problem, not a change request.
If you need a budget figure first
Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges, with every figure sourced. That is researched market data for budgeting — not our price list, and not a quote.
Often built alongside
Same build, elsewhere
Questions
Mobile App Development in Dubai
How much does it cost to build a mobile app in Dubai?
It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting a figure before reading your requirements is guessing. The UAE software cost guide publishes sourced market ranges for budgeting. What we commit to is one fixed price against a scope you have read and agreed.
Native or cross-platform?
Cross-platform unless the product depends on something the platform only exposes natively — heavy real-time graphics, deep hardware access, background processing at the edges of what the OS allows. Cross-platform cuts 20–40% off the initial build and roughly halves the maintenance.
What is different about building software in Dubai?
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
How long does it take to build mobile apps in Dubai?
It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting you a duration before reading your requirements is guessing. We commit to a specific date in the quote, once the scope is written, and you see the software running well before that date rather than at the end.
Start here
Building mobile apps? Tell us what it has to do.
A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price against it. 20% of that price is held back until you accept the finished build, and the scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.
- Who reads it
- Alexandre Arnaud, Founder & Engineer. Not a coordinator, not an inbox.
- What happens
- A 20-minute call to pin the outcome, then a written scope and one fixed price against it.
- What it costs
- Nothing to get scoped and quoted. The quote is free and the scope is yours to take elsewhere.