app development

Tailor-made apps, for Android and iPhone.

An app makes sense when it does something a website can’t: talk to Bluetooth, work in the background, alert you at the right moment, keep working offline. I design it with you, build it, test it on real phones and help you publish it.

A tailor’s hands measuring a smartphone with a tape measure, among paper patterns shaped like app screens: an app cut to measure

A real example: DashReset, an Android app written from scratch.

It started with a problem of my own: my motorcycle screen only connected to Android Auto after restarting the phone. DashReset does what the restart does in one tap, or by itself when the connection drops: it closes Android Auto, clears its cache, turns Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off and on. Free, in 10 languages, downloadable from the site.

KotlinAndroidBluetooth & Wi-FiBackground serviceAccessibility10 languages
App languages10
App size212 KB
Internet permissionnone
Price€0

What I can build

I always start with one question: what should the app do that your website doesn’t already?

Native Android apps

In Kotlin, with full access to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, notifications, background services and sensors. Published on Google Play or downloadable from your own site, like DashReset.

iPhone and Android apps together

One codebase for both platforms when the app has to reach everyone. The App Store needs an Apple developer account in your name: I walk you through every step.

Web apps that feel like apps

Opened from the phone without app stores and updated instantly: ideal for menus, bookings and light management tools. MenuRocket, my digital menu, works this way.

Connected to your site or back office

The app reads and writes the same data as your WordPress site or management system: bookings, orders, customers, availability. No double work.

Multilingual from day one

Texts ready for several languages from the start: DashReset ships in 10. It comes from the experience of TranslateRocket, my translation plugin.

Automations on the phone

What users do by hand every day — switch off, switch on, check, send — the app does by itself, at the right moment.

Android or iPhone? What really changes

Better to know before choosing.

Android: more freedom

An app can be distributed outside Google Play, from your own site, and can do things iPhone doesn’t allow. DashReset proves it: an app like that can’t exist on iPhone.

iPhone: Apple’s rules

Every app goes through Apple’s review and needs a developer account ($99 a year). Some features aren’t granted to any app: I tell you at the start, not halfway through.

Often a web app is enough

If the app only shows data and collects requests, a web app costs less, updates instantly and works on every phone. I’ll tell you if that’s your case.

How we work

A few steps, each with something concrete to see.

1 · Is an app really needed?

Sometimes the website or a web app is enough. If so, I tell you, and you save money.

2 · A prototype you can touch

Before building, you see the main screens and how you move between them.

3 · Building and real tests

The app is tested on real phones, not just on a computer: that’s where the real problems show up.

4 · Launch and care

App stores, your site or both. Android and iOS change every year: the app needs looking after.

What it’s not

Better said now than found out later.

No promise of the top of the charts

A well-made app isn’t enough to be found: people need to hear about it. I’ll help, but I don’t sell rankings.

No games

I build useful apps: tools for people at work, for a business’s customers, for solving a specific problem.

It doesn’t end at launch

Google and Apple change the rules every year. An app that isn’t updated stops working or disappears from the stores.

Got an idea for an app? Let’s talk.

Tell me what it should do: I’ll tell you honestly whether you need an app, a web app or just the website, and what it costs. I’m a private developer open to projects and collaborations.