Maintenance & Support
App Development builds a mobile app for your business — most often cross-platform, so it reaches both iOS and Android from a single codebase rather than two separate builds.
Maintenance & Support for Your Business
Businesses whose customers would genuinely benefit from a dedicated app — recurring bookings, loyalty programs, or a service best used on the go — beyond what a mobile-friendly website already covers.
- One app, both platforms — no separate iOS and Android budgets
- Faster to build and update than two native codebases
- A direct channel to customers who'd rather tap an icon than open a browser
- Cross-platform app build (iOS and Android)
- Core app screens and navigation
- Integration with your existing backend or booking system
- App store submission support
- Launch testing across common devices
- Native-only features requiring platform-specific development (quoted separately)
- Ongoing app store fees (charged directly by Apple/Google)
- Post-launch feature additions beyond initial scope
How this
service works
What an App Costs in 2026, and Why the Range Is So Wide
The honest answer is that this market split in two. Traditional agency development still runs $40,000 to $400,000 with timelines of three months to a year. Alongside it, AI-assisted development has pulled the floor down sharply — published 2026 analysis puts AI tooling at 70-90% off traditional agency cost for an MVP, and 30-50% off labour cost on well-defined work without a drop in quality. A working cross-platform MVP in four to ten weeks under $10,000 is now a real thing rather than a promise. Our prices are anchored to that band, not the agency one, because that is the work we actually do. Quoting against $40,000 agencies would produce a bigger headline saving off a comparison we are not part of.
Three Tiers, and What Separates Them
Essential is $9,499 — cross-platform, one core flow done properly, authentication, five to eight screens, published to both stores. Business is $19,399, adding payments, an admin panel and integration with systems you already run. Above that — multi-role systems, complex dashboards, real scale — is a six-to-nine-month build and a different kind of team, and we will say so and point you elsewhere rather than stretch to cover it. Both tiers are starting figures with the scope written down before anything begins, not fixed packages — app scope varies far more than website scope, and pretending otherwise is how projects end in argument.
The Timeline Is the Part People Underestimate
Not the price. An Essential build runs four to ten weeks. Business is closer to eight to sixteen. Anything beyond those two is a six-to-nine-month build, which is why we do not sell it — we would rather say that plainly than let a published number imply it ships like a website. The other thing worth knowing before you start: app store review adds its own delay — typically one to three days for Apple, up to a week for Google Play — and that sits at the end, after everything else is finished. Build it into your launch date rather than discovering it there.
Cross-Platform Is the Right Default for Most Business Apps
A shared codebase — Flutter or React Native, usually — typically costs 30-45% less than developing separate native iOS and Android apps, because the same code ships to both platforms instead of two parallel builds each needing their own updates from now on. For booking apps, loyalty programs, local-service tools and most small-to-mid-sized business apps, the performance gap against native is something an end user would struggle to notice.
When Native Development Is Genuinely Worth the Extra Cost
Native earns its price in specific places. Deep hardware access — advanced camera control, biometric authentication, AR features. Graphics-intensive apps like games. Products where the last few percent of platform-specific performance actually matters to what's being sold. Outside those cases, cross-platform delivers comparable quality for meaningfully less money and gets to launch sooner.
An App Should Solve a Problem a Website Can't
A mobile-responsive website already covers most of what a business needs, which narrows the honest question about an app to one thing: is there a reason a customer would want this installed on their phone? Push notifications for appointment reminders. A loyalty program that rewards coming back. Offline access to something needed away from signal. Build an app because the website already exists, with no additional use case behind it, and the budget would almost always have done more somewhere else.
Launch Is the Start
Mobile operating systems update on their own schedule, and an app needs ongoing attention simply to stay compatible — much the way a website needs ongoing maintenance rather than a build-and-walk-away. Planning for that from the beginning, instead of treating store approval as the final step, is what keeps an app working as iOS and Android carry on moving underneath it.
Questions, Answered Directly
Cross-platform — Flutter or React Native — is the right default for most business apps. It costs meaningfully less than building separately for iOS and Android, with a quality difference most users won't notice. Native makes sense mainly for deep hardware access or graphics-intensive apps.
Not necessarily. A responsive website covers most needs. An app earns its place when there's a specific reason customers would want it installed, such as push notifications or a loyalty program.
It depends heavily on scope and features, so this gets quoted individually rather than squeezed into a fixed package. See the website pricing breakdown for how WebBizora's core web packages are structured, then get in touch for an app-specific quote.
Yes. Mobile operating systems update regularly, and an app needs periodic attention to stay compatible — much like a website benefits from ongoing maintenance rather than a one-time build.
WebBizora app development starts at $9,499 for a cross-platform iOS and Android app covering one core flow, $19,399 for a build with payments, an admin panel and third-party integrations, Projects larger than that — multi-role systems, complex dashboards, anything running six to nine months — we refer out rather than take on. Cross-platform by default, because it costs 30-50% less than two separate native builds and covers most business use cases.
What Website Maintenance Costs Here
Monthly, published, and cancellable. The hard part of comparing maintenance quotes is that “maintenance” means something different at every supplier — so each plan below lists what is actually in it, not just a number.
Essential Care
$79/month
Comparable plans $99 · 20% less
Keeps the site patched, backed up and monitored. For a brochure site that rarely changes.
- Core, theme and plugin updates
- Weekly off-site backups, restorable on request
- Security scanning and malware monitoring
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
- SSL and domain expiry watch
- Monthly update log — you can see what was done
- 30 minutes of small content edits
- Email support, next business day
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Standard Care
$199/month
Comparable plans $249 · 20% less
Everything in Essential, plus real working time each month for changes that actually need doing.
- Everything in Essential Care
- Daily backups
- 2 hours of content and design changes
- Core Web Vitals monitoring and tuning
- Broken link and 404 checks
- Accessibility spot-checks on new content
- Quarterly review with written findings
- Priority email support, same business day
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Commerce Care
$449/month
Comparable plans $549 · 18% less
For stores, where an hour of broken checkout costs more than a year of maintenance.
- Everything in Standard Care
- Checkout and payment flow testing after every update
- Product, stock and catalogue support
- Extension and app conflict monitoring
- 4 hours of changes
- Staging environment for larger updates
- Tax and shipping rule checks
- Same business day response on anything blocking a sale
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Published 2026 guides put small business maintenance at roughly $50–$150 a month for basic cover, $150–$400 for a standard plan and $400–$1,000+ for full service, with ad-hoc freelancer work at $50–$150 an hour. That last figure is the one worth holding onto: ten small changes billed hourly costs more than a year of Essential Care. Plans are monthly, there is no minimum term, and hosting stays in your name throughout.
If You Also Need the Site Built
Typical agency cost: $1,499+
A focused five-page site for a small business that needs to be found, understood and contacted.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom responsive design — no template
- Contact form with spam protection
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Accessible markup (WCAG-aware build)
- Basic schema and meta setup
- 2 revision rounds
- 30 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $2,399+
More pages, more integrations, and the structure a growing business needs to keep adding to.
- Up to 12 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Google Business Profile and maps integration
- Newsletter or CRM connection
- Multi-location or service-area pages
- 3 revision rounds
- 60 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $3,799+
Booking, payments and a design built around how your business actually converts.
- Up to 25 pages
- Everything in Business
- Booking or appointment system
- Online payments (Stripe or equivalent)
- Customer portal or member area
- Bilingual build where the market needs it
- Advanced schema and AEO structure
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $5,499+
A complete online store — catalogue, checkout, tax and shipping, built to sell from launch day.
- Up to 100 products at launch
- Everything in Premium
- Full catalogue with variants and filtering
- Checkout, tax and shipping configuration
- Payment gateway integration
- Order, stock and customer management
- Abandoned-cart recovery setup
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site