Hi,
In general words, the average mobile app development cost will depend on its type and functionality (amount of people & hours needed to build an application). Here is a nice article explaining
mobile app development cost in details.
Basically, there are three types of applications: simple, mid-level and graphically advanced.
A simple app that barely does anything requires 100 hours on average of developer’s work and 40 of designer’s. Roughly, it’ll cost you this: 140 work hours times 65 dollars = $9,100.
Mid-level complexity apps are usually created by three people - two developers and one designer, in 5 to 8 weeks. In this case, when there’s a unique and a bit more complex idea in your mind, it’s scary to entrust it to the shoddy contractors. Therefore, we’ll hire solid ones for $100 per hour. The price could be anything from $60,000 to $96,000.
Finally,
graphically advanced, enterprise Apps. It takes top talents to create those and a lot of man-hours - an amount hard to establish. Since highly complex development is typically done within non-fixed price agile projects.
However, let’s take a hypothetical but very probable timeframe - 700 to 2,000 hours. So, if you truly want quality - expect not less than a six figure number, anything from $100,000 up to a million or more.
Here is a short list of the well known apps and their costs:
- Instagram - eprox. $57,5 millions;
- Uber - eprox. $8,71 billion;
- Snap Inc. - eprox. $2,6 billion.