While developing an app, the biggest question for any company is how much it would cost to develop the app. Companies would like to know how much would it cost for them to build the app from scratch.

1. How Much Does Your App Cost?
Estimating App CostDevelopment
While developing an app, the biggest question for any
company is how much it would cost to develop the
app. Companies would like to know how much would
it cost for them to build the app from scratch.

2. 1. Platform
More the number of platforms, higher the cost. There
are three major platforms, Android, iOS, and
Windows. Blackberry stands on own too but you might
want to give it a miss unless you have an audience of
BB users.
2. Number of screens
Every devices has its different screen sizes. Cost
related to app development depends on the number of
platforms, screens and backend functionality that
links these screens.
3. Data storage
What kind of data the app stores also affects costs. Is
it text, audio, video or images? The cost will depend
on how these data is treated.

3. 4. User management
What kind of system are you using to manage the
users? You may use email registration or social media
registration. Creating database to manage this
registration will have an impact on the cost.
5. Data integration
The cost will depend on the how much data are you
linking. More the data linking, hire the cost. The other
is third-party data, which includes Facebook, Twitter
or another website. This requires extra development
cost.
6. Location data
Location data means how many time the app pings to
the location server to estimate the location. It will
mostly affect the accuracy of location for the app,
which in long term effects the cost.

4. 7. Level of security
The higher the level of inscription, the hire will be the
development cost because more work goes into
making it. However, it depends on the application.
8. App Analytics
If you want to track your application and analyze the
data, it will cost you extra. However, it is not
necessary for all applications.
9. Scalability
In future if you want to improve the capability of an
app, generate more revenue and offer more features.
Leaving an area for such improvement on
development stages affects the cost.
10. User management portal
A backend content management system for your app
that will allow much better control over the app
content.
These major factors affect the cost of building an app.

5. If you think about these factors, you can get a rough
estimate.
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