We have been watching the tremendous growth in Android and Ios App market in India. There could be many reasons for it. But one of the important reasons is most of the startups are Application based startups if we consider the last few years. And the number of application based startups are skyrocketing. In addition to that, Indian Government Initiation of Startup India and Make In India is also one of the accelerators for this tremendous growth in a number of startups.



In today’s world, regardless of the size of the Business, Businesses owners are looking for making an Android and Ios application to their customers. They want their services to be accessible to every customer in smooth and neater way. Visiting a website for regular needs is very difficult. This is the reason why every business owner thinking to have an official Application for their customers. But it is also true that not every business needs an Application. Depending on the services that enterprise is providing, needs will change.

Not only business people but also young non-technical people who are willing to start a business are searching to hire technical developers to full fill their dream. In the process of searching for application developers, there will be many agreements and disagreements. One of the biggest hurdles is, the pricing does android and ios application developer charge to make that application. In this article, we see how much developers charge for making an android app and ios app in India.

As I mentioned in the title itself, this article focuses more on the cost of an android and ios developers charge and can that be predicted beforehand.

Most of the times does not matter how reputed the developer or the company is, they usually charge for the number of hours they spend on making the application. Not just in application making, many companies charge for their projects in the hourly rate. that hourly rate changes from freelancer to freelancer and company to company.

A skilled freelancer charges more than the average freelancer, a reputed company charges more than the normal company. Becuase always quality wins.

Companies/Freelancers charge more when they are very skilled at doing applications. A normal freelancer may charge Rs.25,000/- for making an Android application for a WordPress website parsing JSON data from the website. A skilled freelancer may charge Rs.35,000/- to do the same thing. Quality always has high pricing.

Nowadays there is a need for a backend server or at least a firebase messaging service to send a signal to applications to update the app. This is becoming a minimum requirement to have. A well-skilled freelancer may include all these things and charge accordingly.

but at the end of the day, pricing basically comes to hourly rate, some freelancers charge an hourly rate of Rs.200/- for 6 to 7 hours a day. Some Well skilled freelancers charge Rs.500/- hourly for 6 to 7 hours. Reputed Startups charge more than that and go up to Rs.10,000/- a day.

This is all comes down to Quality and number of hours spent on making the app.

I am not discussing anything about the big companies, they even charge more than we discussed. I am ending my calculations to reputed startups and not going above them.

The main Intention of this article is, as a customer can I predict the cost of making the application before going to a startup company or a freelancer.

Even it is very important for an early freelancer or an early stage software startup company to know how to charge for making android or Ios application. Charging more or charging very less result in losing the customers.

There are few Questions those repeatedly being asked in Google, but none have proper answer.

How much does it cost to develop an app in India ? How much does it cost to develop cheap android/ios app in India? How much does it cost to develop eCommerce app in India? How to calculate mobile app development cost in India?

If we look at all above questions then we find, People are looking for Cost in Indian context. Results of the above questions in google are pointing to US based links which are showing in Dollars. Application development prices in India completely different from the US.

Searching and asking different people and firms, we have compiled into an application called Mobile App Cost Calculator/Estimator For India which estimates the mobile app development cost in India. Especially in Southern India, a place where I live.

This app will give you an idea of how app development costs for your requirements. The App is basically a Estimator/Calculator which takes your input and show results based on your inputs.

Screen Shot Showing SKILL LEVEL and PLATFORM

Available Options and Features

Showing Cost On The Top Selected Need

This Calculator works on mainly four factors, one is the average number of hours spent. Second is the Rate factor which changes from firm to firm and feature to feature. rate factor stays between 0 and 1. If a company takes 10,000/- day for developing an android application. There might be some cases the company don’t want to charge much money for few ‘easily be done’ features, in that case, it will be less than 1. It may be 0.5 which comes down to Rs. 5000/- or it may be 0.75 which comes to Rs.7500/-. Rate factor helps in pricing each feature rather than pricing combined. You don’t see any option in the app to set, it is already been set for various skill levels. If the feature or UI development is mind bending then it is better to put it to 1 or near to 1. We will change them update to update depending on the market rates. You don’t have to worry about it.

Another is skill level, set your skill level to LOW SKILLED or FREELANCER or SKILLED FREELANCER or STARTUPS or REPUTED STARTUPS. Depending on your choice your cost varies.

Each Skill level is again divided into 20 parts, so you can drag metre from left to right to see the variations.

I hope you have enjoyed this article.

Thank you.