03 — Service
Mobile Apps
Cross-platform apps with React Native and Expo — one codebase running on both iOS and Android, sharing the same backend as the web.
- Customers who return weekly
- Push, camera or offline
- Already have a web app
Lahore, Pakistan · remote worldwide
React Native and Expo give you one codebase that ships to both the App Store and Play Store, sharing its backend with your website — so a change to your data does not have to be made three times in three places. SpeakLab runs exactly this way: a web app and a companion mobile app over one Supabase backend.
What this fixes
- Right now
Two native builds means two codebases, two bug lists and two invoices for the same feature.
Once it's builtOne React Native codebase ships to both stores and shares the backend your website already runs on.
- Right now
Customers forget you exist between one purchase and the next.
Once it's builtPush notifications you control — restocks, reminders, order updates — arriving on the lock screen rather than in an inbox nobody opens.
- Right now
Every small fix waits a week behind an app-store review.
Once it's builtOver-the-air updates put the small things in front of users the same day.
What you get
- 01One codebase, both platforms, one set of bugs to fix
- 02Push notifications, camera, location and offline storage as needed
- 03The same backend and data as your website
- 04Over-the-air updates — small fixes ship without an app-store review
- 05Store submission handled, including the parts that get apps rejected
How it works
01Scope
What genuinely needs to be an app rather than a mobile website — that conversation first, honestly.
02Build
Screens and flows, tested on real devices rather than only in a simulator.
03Test
A TestFlight and Play internal-testing build in your hands well before launch.
04Ship
Store listings, screenshots, review submission, and the fixes that first review usually asks for.
Questions
Do I actually need an app?
Often not. If people will visit a few times a year, a fast mobile website beats an app they have to be persuaded to install. Apps earn their keep when you need push notifications, offline use, or hardware like the camera — or when customers open you weekly rather than yearly.
Will it feel like a real app or like a website in a box?
A real app. React Native renders actual native components, so gestures, scrolling and transitions behave the way the platform does. It is not a website wrapped in a shell.
What does an app cost?
A cross-platform app shipping to both stores starts at PKR 150,000 (about $540). Apps cost more than sites for reasons that do not go away: there are two stores to satisfy, real devices to test on, and a review process with its own rules. It costs meaningfully less when the app shares a backend with a site I have already built — at that point most of the work exists and the app is a new front end on it.
How long does app store approval take?
Apple usually reviews within a day or two now, Google similar. The delay is rarely the review itself — it is the first rejection, which is normal, and which I handle as part of the launch.
Can it work with my existing website or system?
If your system has an API, yes. If it does not, that becomes part of the work and I will say so during scoping rather than after.