App developers are responsible for building, testing, and deploying mobile apps. They are skilled in programming languages best for mobile apps across multiple platforms. These app development programming languages include Java, Swift, Python, Objective-C, Ruby, PHP, and more.
As you look for an app development company to help you with your mobile app, consider platform compatibility – Android, iOS, cross platform – and the programming languages the developer may need experience with. These criteria will narrow your search. Next, consider the features your app needs. More complex apps require more development skill and will be more expensive.
Luckily, the United Kingdom has some of the best mobile apps company to hire. Use our list to find and connect with mobile apps company in the UK. Evaluate their case studies, project types, and client reviews to determine which company is the best fit for you.
List of the Best App Development Companies in the UK
Where do companies turn when their current mobile app development isn’t making the grade and they need a fast course-correction? Brands like Toyota turn to Hedgehog Lab, a London-based agency that delivers mobile app development to organizations and companies that need results.
AkzoNobel is a paint and performance coating company that needed to create a mobile app with e-commerce capabilities. They employed Hedgehog Lab, who were quickly able to analyze their existing mobile app, then develop and execute a more effective approach that led to a measurable increase in KPIs.
The global banking group, Santander, recognised the banking industry is about to change rapidly, with the growth of FinTech digital technologies that are set to disrupt the industry. With this in mind, Santander's...
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Royal Pharmaceutical BNF App
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society supports the pharmacy profession in England, Scotland and Wales and since 1949 they have published the British National Formulary (BNF), a reference book that provides guidance on...
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LaserShip - elli 2.0 app
LaserShip is one of the largest eCommerce carriers in the US, providing same-day delivery services in the Midwest and Eastern US.
We partnered with LaserShip to help make their last-mile delivery services even more...
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Standard Life Aberdeen Choices app
With the financial services sector undergoing massive digital disruption, Standard Life Aberdeen approached us to help them develop a new savings and wealth management app for iOS and Android.
The Choices App leverages...
Fueled creates valuable and profitable apps for clients of all sizes, receiving notable recognition for their work from Creative Review and Digiday. The design and development agency specializes in projects within the arts, entertainment, and consumer products industries.
Afterlight already had an iOS app but approached Fueled to design an Android version that included all of the same functionalities. The photo-editing app features an accessible interface that allows users to enhance images through various filters, textures, and frames. Since launching, it has garnered over 20,000 users.
The Wall Street Journal regularly hosts major live events and conferences with top-tier international talent, from newsmaking CEOs to influential celebrities, thought leaders, and intellectuals. Fueled unified support...
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Wirecutter - New York Times
Wirecutter needed quick, collaborative product development. Having cemented their site as the go-to for reviews, the Wirecutter team began figuring out how to grow re-engagement with users who weren’t in an active...
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MGM Resorts International
The official app from MGM Resorts is your personal concierge – it lets you get to your room faster, unlock your room door with Digital Key, make & manage hotel, dining, and show reservations, and find the nearest...
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Ikon Pass
Ski resort giant Alterra Mountain Group generates most of their revenue from 300,000 annual passes, most of which are renewals. In order to ensure we had solid targets for off-season push notifications when it came time...
3 Sided Cube won App Agency of the Year at the 2018 UK App Awards and Most Innovative App Developer at the UK Agency Awards. Their team of 30+ designers and developers has served clients in over 90 countries across the world.
The American Red Cross has long-struggled to make donating blood an appealing way to make a difference. 3 Sided Cube created a mobile app that transformed blood donation. The app allows donors to track where their blood is being used to save lives.
With blood banks at an all-time low and blood donations continuing to drop-off all across the US, The American Red Cross reached out to 3 Sided Cube to develop a solution that would disrupt the donation process and...
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The World Resources Institute -...
With the reduction of deforestation high on many agendas, 3 Sided Cube partnered with The World Resources Institute to build an app and web platform that connects funding from serious investors to people growing trees and...
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LUSH - LUSH Lens
Lush asked 3 SIDED CUBE to aid them in the ambitious move to open the world’s first package-free cosmetics store. Lush needed a way of utilising technology to create a completely new and unique experience for customers...
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Nordstrom
Nordstrom, a luxury department store with locations across the US, approached 3 Sided Cube to help them build an app that would provide crucial information to all of their employees.
With enterprise clients like Honda and Denza in addition to multiple startups, Tapptitude has the experience to support their reputation. They’re European-based mobile app and UX designers with a global mindset.
Tenor created one of the most popular GIF apps in the world, with millions of users worldwide. Tapptitude designed their app to be as fun and dynamic as the GIFs it helps create.
Multi-million user base GIF keyboard app that allows users to choose from millions of emotionally tagged GIFs.
Services: Product Consultancy | Android Development | Quality Assurance
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Wellory
Wellory is a tech company on a mission to make personalized nutrition accessible for all. Wellory believes everyone deserves a healthy, long term relationship with food.
Services: Product Consultancy | UX & UI Design...
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OnTapp
Ontapp is an in-venue order management product for hospitality businesses. Both easy to use for customers and employees and beautifully engineered to work leanly, Ontapp creates smoother workflows in any restaurant, bar...
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OxWash
Oxwash is re-engineering the laundry process from the ground up. They’ve created a clinically-clean, net-zero carbon emissions process, from collection through washing and back to delivery for personal and business...
Digiryte is one of the UK’s most respected developers of web and mobile applications, with clients that include NHS and Channel 4. Their main services include technical consultations, app development, data science, and staff augmentation.
One of Digiryte’s success stories involves an adaptable web app for Close Brothers, a UK banking group. Digiryte built a simple and robust Financial Wellbeing Scoring System application with a visually minimalistic dashboard for easy use.
Platform: Web
Languages: Fullstack Ruby on Rails
A responsive web based application to make the expediting process faster, more reliable and automated thus making life easier for anyone who has to chase /progress...
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A Magento based ecommerce platform
Platform: Web
Languages: PHP, Magento
The Vitfinder system provides a Magento based ecommerce platform for customers along with a bespoke consultative recommendation module. The system’s recommendation engine utilises...
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OoberFit App | Health & Fitness App
Platform: Mobile
Languages: Flutter, ReactJS
The OoberFit App is a platform that connects the fitness aficionado with fitness connoisseurs on just a tap of a button. A system which is bifurcated into 2 verticals; One...
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Que App - Restaurant Que...
Platform: Mobile/Web
Languages: Flutter, Ruby on Rails, ReactJS
A cross-platform mobile application, which allows consumers to hire a queuer who will stand in line on behalf of customers when waiting for a table at a...
Mastering mobile app development is an essential need in today’s market. That’s why brands everywhere have turned to the London-based The Distance App Developers for mobile design expertise that leads to real results. When a brand needs to reach mobile users more effectively with an agency they can depend on, they turn to The Distance App Developers.
When one The Distance App Developers client found themselves lacking an effective mobile application, they came to The Distance App Developers to help them identify the most important features in a mobile app and execute them to perfection. The Distance App Developers delivered mobile design results that allowed their client to increase business on-schedule and within their budget.
The Distance App Developers provided the PGA tour with an insightful, multimedia content platform to support their lineup of tournaments. Designed to augment their print-based publications, the platform featured an...
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Tramble
Developed by The Distance App Developers, the Tramble app allows users to explore new parts of London through an innovative and gamified clue-based walking application. It went on to be featured in GQ and enjoy a high...
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Bentley
Bently wanted to allow their users to immerse themselves in the brand while experiencing the full range of cars and options currently available. They enlisted The Distance App Developers to design an inetractive...
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AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca came to The Distance App Developers when they wanted to develop a better financial reporting app. The Distance App Developers delivered a mobile application that provides reporting, analysis, and...
This established mobile app development company counts major brands like SwonSong among their clients. Based in UK, Sonin brings a bright and impactful approach to each unique enterprise project they take on.
Alpine Talent Management creates products for clients around the world. They turned to Sonin for a focused strategy that would highlight their unique brand voice and audience. Sonin delivered with highly modern and striking approach focused on making an impact.
Providing patients with instant feedback on the health of their lungs. Helping the 10,000 people diagnosed with a respiratory illness each week to live their lives uninhibited.
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Watco: B2B E-Commerce Platform
Creating a direct channel between customers and Watco’s expert technical team, helping every single customer find the right product for their needs and feel confident throughout the installation period.
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Belle Hutt: Fitness App
Helping every member of Belle's fast-growing community to find the perfect workout for their goals, preferred style, and mood.
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Buddyng: Travel App
Connecting like-minded students and aspiring adventurers through truly unforgettable travel experiences. Inspiring a modern era of exploration through a travel-based social media platform.
Apadmi uses their knowledge of mobile trends to help clients including Lexus, BBC, and Range Rover reach their audiences in entirely new ways. They’re a mobile technology company that works with clients of all sizes to deliver mobile solutions to their customers.
One example of Apadmi’s work includes a floor-to-ceiling design of The Guardian newspaper’s Android and Kindle Fire app. Highly visual and different from other traditional digital newspapers’ apps, The Guardian sets the benchmark for powerful mobile news applications.
Partnering with a new generation of traders with enhanced app performance and new components for mobile customers.
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The Perfect Play App
The pocket guide to become a pro footballer.
The Perfect Play app fuses advanced football training expertise with state of the art interactive augmented reality.
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Co-op Membership App
We collaborated with one of the UK's biggest retailers to deliver a mobile account management system that drives scheme interaction, empowering members and boosting engagement through mobile.
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My Argos Card App
A convenient and interactive store card management app to view your My Argos Card credit and purchasing account. The My Argos Card is used by more than 1.5m customers to spend over £700m in Argos stores and online.
This established mobile app development company counts major brands like Uber among their clients. Based in the United Kingdom, Netsells brings a bright and impactful approach to each unique enterprise project they take on.
Jaguar Landrover creates automobile products for clients around the world. They turned to Netsells for a focused mobile app that would highlight their unique brand voice and audience. Netsells delivered with highly modern and striking approach focused on making an impact.
After experiencing substantial growth, YourParkingSpace wanted to ensure that they had the infrastructure required to service a rapidly growing user base of landlords and tenants across multiple endpoints, devices and...
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Digital Transformation & App...
As Britain’s best baker, Warburtons are meticulous about their production standards and quality.
Every aspect of their output, from packaging print quality to crust texture and density, is monitored, recorded, reported...
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App Development for Startup...
Innovative B2C application for automatically claiming refunds when you were on a delayed train in the UK
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Signature Rail Application...
We helped enterprise rail software provider Signature Rail transform their legacy platforms into modern web-based solutions
Signature Rail's award-winning software is specifically designed to track the increasing strain...
Their clients include major enterprise clients like CApita, but Thumbunkeys is a mobile development agency that hasn’t lost its focus on innovation or creativity. This UK-based firm helps organizations around the world focus their strategy for greater success.
If you want to see how Thumbunkeys helps brands communicate with their audiences in a unique and crowded space, look no further than their work for Stansted Express. Thumbunkeys helped them define a strategy for their audience to improve their reach.
Brightec is an award-winning development agency working with clients like Range Rover, Rouche, and The Marine Conservation Society. Their main service lines are mobile app development and user experience design.
Working with nonprofit King's Education, the Bightec team created an app to help them showcase the best education options. The app helped the organization fulfill their mission of nurturing and developing young people by bringing their service to smartphones and tablets everywhere.
We helped one of the UK’s largest and best-loved book retailers stay relevant and profitable by enabling online shopping via their iOS and Android apps.
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KitchenCraft retail supply chain...
KitchenCraft has over 5,500 customers and UK retail partners including Selfridges, Waitrose and Amazon. With so many outlets stocking its products, the team wanted to build an app that could be used on any device to help...
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Dashboard App Development for...
Willis Towers Watson is a leading global professional company that helps clients turn risk into an opportunity for growth. The company approached Brightec to assist with creating a design to communicate a large quantity...
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Google’s Playbook for Developers
Brightec recently worked on a great app development project with design agency, Ribot. We helped them to deliver the very latest version of Google’s Playbook for Developers, an incredibly useful resource for Android...
Chelsea Apps counts impressive brands among their key clients. So it’s no wonder that this London-based firm has achieved widespread success in a wide range of industries for their targeted mobile and web app development work.
One example of their web development success comes from a globally recognized brand. Chelsea Apps helped them revitalize their materials to stand out in a crowded market and leave a powerful impression on more customers than ever before.
Bother came to Chelsea Apps with the idea of changing the way we shop, taking a ‘regulars’ approach to learn what items a user needs and when. This would allow for a user to choose their most commonly purchased...
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Peace One Day - Impact Profile
Impact Profile provides a central destination for individuals wishing to measure and showcase their own social contribution and impact, therefore inspiring others to do the same – social media for social good.
We want...
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Itsu - Loyalty App
Itsu challenged us to build a loyalty app that was genuinely unique and gave users an experience that truly felt ‘the itsu way’. We wanted to build something that was more than just a reward scheme. By integrating AR...
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Least - Faster commercial leasing
Least set out to create a better experience for commercial property leases, for both tenants and landlords. Creating an app that allows for clearer contracts and a better way to communicate would allow for the process to...
DMI has delivered brand development results to brands like Addison Lee, still expanding on its list of success for brands in a wide range of industries. This Maryland-based firm helps companies focus their branding strategy to improve their ability to create iconic brands.
If you want to see how DMI helps brands meet their goals in a crowded space, look no further than their branding work for Aerosoles. DMI helped them define and execute a strategy that would help them meet their goals.
The Challenge:
- Although Addison Lee was the first passenger transport company in London to offer its customers mobile apps, it received fierce competition from pure mobile start-ups
- DMI completely redesigned the apps...
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Mobile App Development for Drop...
The US Army National Guard, based locally in every state of the U.S., serves their community, state, and country. The National Guard wanted to raise awareness of their work, and its importance for society, with the use of...
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Mobile App Development for London...
London’s Heathrow Airport is a hub for international aviation. Each day, over 180.000 travelers pass through Heathrow’s doors, flying to and from over 180 destinations in over 90 countries around the world. To...
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O2 Priority Moments
O2’s Priority Ticketing, has been a great success in terms of brand consideration. An O2 study showed that customers, as well as non- customers appreciate the brand 10 to 20 percent more respectively if they know about...
iTechArt Group’s stylish and contemporary mobile design is evident in their work for brands like Gain Capital and Stella Service. This custom software development provider is based in New York and features a 1,800+ strong talent pool of designers, developers, and leaders.
ClassPass is a fitness membership organization that found itself in need of a more powerful, streamlined app. iTechArt Group worked with ClassPass’ online team to develop a feature-rich web solution for both iOS and Android users.
ClassPass is a monthly fitness membership that gives you access to the best boutique fitness studios.
Challenge:
ClassPass needed to enhance the existing technical solution with new features while improving overall...
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Web and mobile solutions for a...
Convene provides premium places to work, meet, and host events.
Challenge:
Convene needed an expert engineering team to automate the venue booking process and develop the company’s proprietary Elevate SaaS tech platform...
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Corporate travel solution
Rocketrip helps businesses reduce travel spend by incentivizing employees to save when they travel for business.
Challenge:
Ramp up the onsite team with senior-level talent in order to accelerate the development of the...
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Property management solution
BuildingLink helps thousands of buildings worldwide run smoothly and efficiently with state-of-the-art software and hardware that's years ahead of the competition.
Challenge:
BuildingLink needed a top-talent team to build...
Working closely with clients like BBC and Live Nation, Corporation Pop develops deeply interactive experiences that connect with consumers. They specialize in developing AR/VR technology, mobile apps, and custom software in industries like media, entertainment, and healthcare.
One of their recent projects was working with a publishing company to create an engaging brand experience they could take to their customers. Their solution was to create a 3D virtual reality experience that immersed and wowed their customers, grabbing their attention from moment one.
Future PLC approached Corporation Pop to create an innovative, VR experience for their B2B customers. The challenge for the team was to blend creativity and technical expertise to provide a smooth experience for VR users....
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Mobile App Development for 14-18NOW
14-18 NOW commissioned Corporation Pop to develop a mobile app that could create designs in augmented reality in remembrance of the British “Dazzle Ships.” The mobile app took dazzle art out of conventional gallery...
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'Success' for NCUK
Reaching teenagers in China, Nigeria and South Korea with an HTML5 advergame, delivered to Sina Weibo and Facebook…
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'Lives At War' for The Heritage...
This Unity 3D educational game for schoolchildren enables them to step in to a 3D virtual environment that recreates the streets of Brighton during World War 2. Here they can discover what wartime life was like for its...
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How long it takes to develop an app depends on the purpose and functionality of the app, how it's being developed, and how your customers intend to use it. With this in mind, mobile app development can take a little as 2-3 weeks or as long as one year.
Apps with intricate features or apps designed for multiple operating systems like Android and iOS, tend to take longer to build. They fall in the multiple months to one-year timeframes, depending on complexity. For apps like this, we recommend hiring an app development company.
Some apps can be developed in as little as 2 or 3 weeks, but they offer little complexity and fewer features than an app built using a more advanced framework and programming language. DIY app builder software is popular for apps built in a short time frame. You can use pre programmed templates to build a simple app quickly.
What Are the Top 7 Programming Languages for Mobile Apps?
There are 7 main programming languages for mobile apps: JavaScript, C++, Python, Objective-C, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Not all programming languages are created equally, though. Some languages are better than others, depending on the type of app being developed and the platform you're developing it for.
JavaScript: If your mobile app will be used across multiple platforms and via the web, JavaScript is a powerful language that offers a great deal of flexibility. It's easy to work with, is used by many developers, and is relatively fast.
C++: A capable, object-oriented language, C++ is often used for Android apps and is ideal for developing games, GUI-based applications, and cloud computing apps.
Python: A programming language suitable for desktop apps, machine learning, and media tools, Python delivers a great deal of flexibility for creating mobile apps. It's also fast, easy to use, and can be deployed relatively quickly.
Objective-C: Mainly used for iOS and macOS app development and operating systems, Objective-C is a general-purpose, object-oriented language that is easy to learn for most developers.
Java: The official Android development language, Java is an excellent, object-oriented language with built-in open-source libraries. It’s easy to work with and offers excellent documentation, along with good community support.
PHP: A highly-recommended programming language for mobile apps, PHP offers great database access and is ideal for e-commerce applications.
Ruby: A back-end, object-oriented scripting language, Ruby is successfully used to develop web applications, servers, and system utilities. Users find it easy to maintain and say it offers smooth performance.
What Are the Skills Needed for Mobile App Development?
Mobile app development skills include:
Coding languages
Agile methodologies, which include the ability to master rapid design, development, and release.
Attention to detail
Communication, so the developer acts as the liaison between the project development team and the client.
Understanding of UX and UI, so developers can create an interface and user experience that draws the customer into the application.
Analytical skills
Data expertise, so data engineers know exactly how to gather the right data and provide functionality within the app.
Security, so developers ensure a user’s privacy is secured and protected from hackers.
