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App developers in Dallas, TX

Mobile & web app development in Dallas

RapidDev builds custom mobile and web apps in Dallas, TX, typically shipping a production MVP in 6–12 weeks for a fixed $13,000–$25,000. That is a fraction of the cost of hiring an in-house team in Dallas–Fort Worth (roughly $360,000–$400,000 for a two-engineer first year) or commissioning a Dallas agency ($120,000–$400,000 per build). One team ships the iOS app, the Android app, and the web app on shared infrastructure, and the founder owns all of the code.

One team for your iOS, Android, and web build. We help DFW founders go from Figma or a Lovable prototype to a production app your enterprise buyers — and your investors — actually trust.

  • 600+ apps shipped
  • 4.9 on Clutch
  • Enterprise-diligence ready
  • Fixed-price, no surprises
4.9Clutch rating
600+Happy partners
17+Countries served
190+Team members

Why building in Dallas–Fort Worth is different

Dallas doesn't win on hype — it wins on customers. DFW is home to 24 Fortune 500 headquarters and more than 30 Fortune 1000 companies, which means a founder here is usually one warm intro away from a real enterprise pilot rather than chasing consumer virality. That changes what your app has to be: not a slick demo, but a product that clears an enterprise buyer's security and procurement review. The capital is here too — DFW startups raised roughly $2.2 billion in venture funding in 2024, and the metro has one of the highest concentrations of family-office capital in the country, with local offices writing $500K–$10M checks. Accelerators like Health Wildcatters (130+ portfolio companies, $350M+ raised) and Tech Wildcatters have turned Dallas into a genuine health-tech and B2B hub. We build for that reality: the polish that lands an enterprise pilot, the architecture that survives InfoSec diligence, and the speed that keeps you moving while a bigger competitor is still writing a spec.

Enterprise buyers next door

DFW packs 24 Fortune 500 HQs — AT&T, McKesson, Texas Instruments, CBRE, Tenet — into a single metroplex generating nearly $1.1 trillion in revenue. That means your first serious customer may be an enterprise procurement team, and your app has to clear their security review on day one. We build to that bar from the first sprint.

A real health-tech accelerator scene

Health Wildcatters, one of the nation's top healthcare accelerators, has grown a portfolio of 130+ startups that have raised over $350 million, and in 2025 opened a dedicated VC Center to connect founders with investors. Dallas has quietly become a genuine hub for digital health and life sciences — and health apps carry HIPAA weight we design for.

Family-office and VC capital

DFW startups raised about $2.2 billion in venture capital in 2024, and the metro holds one of the highest concentrations of family-office capital in the US — many write VC-sized checks of $500K–$10M. Local funds like Perot Jain, Tech Wildcatters, and RevTech Ventures back founders who show a working product, not a slide deck.

Enterprise gravity over consumer hype

Dallas's ecosystem spans fintech, healthtech, logistics, energy, and SaaS — with standout exits like Signify Health (to CVS) and Dialexa (to IBM). The metro rewards founders who sell into the enterprise base already headquartered here, and we build the production-grade software those deals require.

Dallas–Fort Worth by the numbers

Venture capital raised by DFW startups in 2024
$2.2B
Venture capital raised by DFW startups in 2024
Dallas Innovates / S&P Global, 2025
Fortune 500 headquarters in Dallas–Fort Worth
24
Fortune 500 headquarters in Dallas–Fort Worth
CultureMap Dallas / Fortune 500, 2026
Combined revenue of DFW's Fortune 500 companies
~$1.1T
Combined revenue of DFW's Fortune 500 companies
CultureMap Dallas / Fortune 500, 2026
Startups in the Health Wildcatters portfolio
130+
Startups in the Health Wildcatters portfolio
Health Wildcatters / Dallas Innovates, 2025
Raised by Health Wildcatters portfolio companies
$350M+
Raised by Health Wildcatters portfolio companies
Health Wildcatters, 2025
DFW's national rank among VC metro markets
Top 15
DFW's national rank among VC metro markets
Waveup / Dallas Innovates, 2025

Who we build for in Dallas–Fort Worth

Logistics & Supply Chain

Fleet, freight, and warehouse apps for the DFW logistics corridor anchored by American Airlines, BNSF, and the nation's busiest inland ports.

Digital Health

HIPAA-aware patient and provider apps for Dallas's fast-growing health-innovation hub — home to McKesson, Tenet, and the Health Wildcatters accelerator.

Fintech

Payments and lending apps with real compliance, built for a metro home to Charles Schwab, Comerica, and one of the deepest family-office pools in the US.

B2B SaaS

Multi-tenant dashboards and admin panels for DFW's deep bench of enterprise-selling SaaS startups — the kind that pitch Fortune 500 buyers next door.

Energy & Industrial

Field-service, monitoring, and asset apps for Texas's energy and industrial base — the sector that still moves the North Texas economy.

Real Estate & PropTech

Leasing, tenant, and property-ops apps for one of the country's hottest CRE and homebuilding markets — CBRE and D.R. Horton call DFW home.

What kind of apps can you build in Dallas?

RapidDev builds native and cross-platform mobile apps, Next.js web apps and dashboards, full MVP-to-scale product builds, and production AI features for Dallas founders — mobile and web ship from one team on shared infrastructure.

No stitching together an app shop and a web agency. We scope and ship your iOS, Android, and web product on shared infrastructure — so everything actually works together.

Mobile

Native & cross-platform mobile apps

One codebase, both stores. We build React Native and Expo apps that pass App Store and Play Store review the first time, with the native feel your users expect.

  • iOS + Android from a single React Native / Expo codebase
  • Push notifications, offline mode, and deep linking
  • App Store & Play Store submission handled end-to-end
  • Crash reporting, analytics, and OTA update pipeline
Web

Web apps & dashboards

Fast, SEO-ready web apps on Next.js. From buyer-facing marketing sites to the logged-in product itself — dashboards, admin panels, and customer portals your enterprise clients live in.

  • Next.js app with server rendering and clean SEO
  • Role-based dashboards and internal admin tooling
  • Stripe billing, subscriptions, and usage metering
  • Analytics, A/B testing, and conversion instrumentation
Mobile + Web

MVP-to-scale product builds

The whole thing, mobile and web, on shared infrastructure. Ideal when you're moving off a Lovable or Bubble prototype that's hit its ceiling and need production code that passes an enterprise security review.

  • Shared Supabase / Postgres backend across web + mobile
  • Auth, payments, and a real data model built to scale
  • Migration off no-code prototypes without losing your data
  • Handover docs so your future in-house team can take over
Mobile + Web

AI features & integrations

Ship the AI feature your product actually needs — chat, search, or agents — wired to your data with streaming, evals, and cost controls, not a demo that falls over.

  • LLM chat, RAG, and semantic search over your own data
  • Streaming UIs on both web and mobile
  • Usage-based billing and per-customer cost guardrails
  • Evals and monitoring so quality doesn't drift

How we work — no black boxes

You see a working, deployed build every single week. Here's the exact path from a first call to a launched app — five steps, no surprises.

  1. Step 145 min

    Free scope call

    We map your idea (or your stuck prototype) to a concrete feature list, a fixed price, and a timeline. You leave with a plan whether or not you hire us.

    What you get

    A fixed price + timeline

  2. Step 2Week 1–2

    Design & architecture

    Clickable Figma flows and a technical architecture you sign off on before a line of production code is written. No surprises later.

    What you get

    Clickable Figma + signed-off architecture

  3. Step 3Week 2–10

    Build in weekly sprints

    You get a working, deployed build every single week — not a black box. Test on real devices, give feedback, watch it take shape.

    What you get

    A deployed build every week

  4. Step 4Final week

    Launch & handover

    We handle App Store and Play Store submission, production deploy, and a full handover — code, docs, and access are yours to keep.

    What you get

    Live app + all code and access

  5. Step 5Optional

    Ongoing support

    Keep us on a retainer for new features and fixes, or take the wheel with your own team. Your call — we don't lock you in.

    What you get

    A retainer — or a clean exit

The stack we build on

Production-grade, boring-in-the-best-way tools that your future in-house team can hire for and maintain. No lock-in, no proprietary magic.

React NativeMobile
ExpoMobile
Swift / KotlinMobile
Next.jsFrontend
ReactFrontend
TypeScriptFrontend
Node.jsBackend
SupabaseBackend
PostgreSQLDatabase
Clerk / Auth.jsAuth
VercelHosting
OpenAI / AnthropicAI
StripePayments

How much does it cost to build an app in Dallas?

Building a custom app in Dallas costs anywhere from $13,000 with RapidDev to over $400,000 with a large agency, depending on who builds it. Here is the honest math on the four realistic paths — with real 2025 Dallas–Fort Worth numbers, not a vendor's guesswork.

Hire a team in-house in Dallas

~$360K – $400K / yr

true first-year cost of a minimal 2-engineer team

3–5 months just to hire, then build
  • Full-time institutional knowledge stays in-house
  • Direct control over roadmap and priorities
  • Right long-term move once you're past product-market fit
  • Dallas base salaries run ~$120K (full-stack) to ~$137K (iOS) each — loaded cost runs ~1.4x with benefits, payroll tax, equity and tooling
  • Senior engineers take 50–70 days to fill, plus 15–30% recruiter fees per hire
  • You're paying full salaries for months before a single feature ships
  • Two people can't cover iOS, Android, web, design and DevOps

Dallas / US agency

$120K – $400K+

typical price for a comparable custom build

4–9 months
  • Deep bench, senior talent, established process
  • Can handle very large, complex enterprise scope
  • 5–15x our price for a comparable v1 — you fund their overhead and account managers
  • Long timelines and heavyweight process before anything ships
  • Change requests are billed; scope creep gets expensive fast
  • Overkill for a founder shipping a fundable v1

Offshore / freelance

$25 – $50 / hr

typical Eastern Europe / LatAm blended rate

Highly variable — often 2–3x quoted
  • Lowest sticker price per hour
  • Fine for well-specced, low-risk pieces of work
  • 8–12 hour timezone gap turns a one-day fix into a week
  • Rework is common — cheap hourly gets expensive when it's built twice
  • IP ownership and security review often can't survive enterprise diligence
  • No single accountable owner when something breaks
Our recommendation

RapidDev

$13K – $25K

fixed price, quoted before we start

6–12 weeks to a live, submitted app
  • Fixed price with no hourly billing and no surprises
  • One team ships iOS, Android, web and design together
  • A working, deployed build every single week
  • Production-grade code you own outright — enterprise-diligence ready
  • 10–30x cheaper than in-house or agency for a comparable v1
  • Not the right fit for a 30-engineer enterprise platform build
  • Best for a focused, fundable v1 — not an open-ended R&D contract
Book a free scope call
Cost and timeline to build a custom app in Dallas: hiring in-house versus an agency, offshore, or RapidDev.
PathTypical costTime to first shipped product
Hire a team in-house in Dallas~$360K – $400K / yr3–5 months just to hire, then build
Dallas / US agency$120K – $400K+4–9 months
Offshore / freelance$25 – $50 / hrHighly variable — often 2–3x quoted
RapidDev$13K – $25K6–12 weeks to a live, submitted app

The numbers behind this, sourced

$120K
Dallas full-stack developer average base salary
Glassdoor, 2025
$137K
Dallas iOS developer average base salary
Glassdoor, 2025
$115K
Dallas React Native developer average base salary
Talent.com, 2025
50–70 days
Time to fill a senior engineering role
SHRM Benchmarking, 2025
15–30%
Recruiter fee on first-year salary, per hire
Dover / daily.dev, 2025
$171K
Average custom mobile app build cost (US agencies)
Industry benchmark of 5,000+ projects, 2025

For the price of two to three months of one Dallas engineer's loaded salary, RapidDev ships your entire app — mobile, web, and backend — in 6 to 12 weeks.

What does app development cost in Dallas?

App development in Dallas with RapidDev costs a fixed $13,000–$25,000, quoted before any code is written rather than billed by the hour. A focused single-platform MVP starts at $13,000; a full mobile-plus-web product with payments and AI features runs up to $25,000.

You get a fixed price before we write a line of code — quoted, not billed by the hour. Every Dallas build lands in the $13K–$25K range depending on scope.

Focused MVP

$13K – $16K
4–6 weeks

Solo founders and pre-seed teams validating one core flow with real users.

  • One platform — web or mobile
  • Core feature set, auth, and a clean UI
  • Deployed to production + store submission
  • Weekly builds and a working demo every sprint
Book a free scope call
Most popular

Launch-ready product

$17K – $21K
6–9 weeks

Seed-stage startups shipping a fundable v1 to the App Store and the web.

  • Mobile + web on shared infrastructure
  • Payments, notifications, and analytics wired in
  • Design system and enterprise-ready polish
  • App Store & Play Store submission handled
Book a free scope call

Scale build

$22K – $25K
9–12 weeks

Series A teams replacing a no-code MVP or adding serious AI features.

  • Complex data models, roles, and admin tooling
  • AI features with evals and cost controls
  • Migration off Lovable / Bubble / Bolt prototypes
  • Full handover docs for your in-house team
Book a free scope call

Recent work in Dallas–Fort Worth

A few of the builds we've shipped for Dallas founders. Details generalized to protect client confidentiality.

Digital Health
8 wksprototype → health-system pilot

Challenge: A Dallas founder had a Lovable prototype for a patient-intake app but couldn't pass a health system's HIPAA and security review to start a pilot.

What we shipped: We rebuilt the backend on Supabase with real RLS and audit logging, added role-based access for providers, and shipped native iOS + Android — clearing the pilot's security checklist.

React NativeSupabasePostgreSQL
Logistics & Supply Chain
0loads lost to offline gaps

Challenge: A DFW freight team's dispatch tool was a spreadsheet plus a Bubble app that broke whenever drivers went offline in the field.

What we shipped: We shipped an offline-first React Native app for drivers with a Next.js ops dashboard, syncing loads and proof-of-delivery the moment connectivity returned.

React NativeNext.jsSupabase
Fintech
3.1xfaster billing reconciliation

Challenge: A Dallas team pitching family offices needed usage-based billing and a real audit trail before an investor's technical diligence, but their MVP had neither.

What we shipped: We wired Stripe metered billing into a Next.js product, added per-customer cost guardrails and event logging, and had it diligence-ready before their raise.

Next.jsStripePostgreSQL

The team behind your build

190+ people across 17 countries, a 4.9 rating on Clutch, and 600+ apps shipped. Here's the leadership standing behind your build.

Matt Graham, CEO & Founder at RapidDev

Matt Graham

CEO & Founder

Founder of RapidDev, a global software firm whose team has delivered 1,000+ client projects. He helps founders cut through the hype and ship practical, production-grade software — fast.

Columbia University · Harvard Business School · U.S. Navy veteran · 1,000+ client projects

Matt on LinkedIn

Anna

COO

Runs operations across RapidDev's 190+ person, 17-country team — the person making sure your build ships on time and on scope.

Craig

CTO

Owns the technical bar for every build: the architecture, code quality, and security review that has to survive enterprise diligence.

Maria

Dev Lead

Leads the engineers who ship your weekly builds across iOS, Android, and web on shared infrastructure.

Frequently asked questions

Do you build both the iOS/Android app and the web app, or just one?

Both — that's the whole point of working with us instead of stitching two vendors together. We build your mobile app (iOS and Android from one React Native codebase) and your web app on shared infrastructure, so your data, auth, and payments live in one place instead of three.

We built a prototype in Lovable / Bubble / Bolt. Can you take it over?

Yes, and it's one of the most common reasons Dallas founders come to us. No-code prototypes are great for validation but hit a ceiling on security, scale, and hiring. We migrate your data into a real database and rebuild the product in production-grade code you own — usually without losing any of your existing data.

How much does an app cost, and how is it priced?

Most builds land between $13,000 and $25,000, quoted as a fixed price before we start — not billed by the hour. After a free 45-minute scope call we send a concrete feature list, price, and timeline. The band depends on scope: a focused single-platform MVP sits near the bottom, a full mobile + web product with payments and AI features toward the top.

How long does it take to launch?

Typically 6–12 weeks from kickoff to a live, submitted app. A focused MVP can ship in 4–6 weeks; a full mobile + web product with AI features runs closer to 9–12. You get a working, deployed build every week, so you're never waiting months to see progress.

Do we need to meet in person in Dallas?

No — we work with DFW founders remotely and asynchronously, which is how most Dallas teams already operate across the metroplex. You'll have a dedicated point of contact, weekly demos, and a shared board. If you prefer a video kickoff or working sessions, we're happy to schedule around Central Time.

Who owns the code and the App Store accounts?

You do — completely. The code lives in your GitHub, the App Store and Play Store listings are under your accounts, and we hand over full documentation at launch. We never hold your product hostage, and you're free to bring the work in-house or hire your own team whenever you want.

Can you build something that passes an enterprise security review?

That's a big part of what we do for Dallas founders. With 24 Fortune 500 HQs in the metroplex, your first serious customer is often an enterprise buyer with a real InfoSec checklist. We build production-grade auth, row-level security, audit logging, and clean architecture from the first sprint, so your app clears procurement and technical diligence rather than stalling in it.

What if we're not technical? Can we still work with you?

Absolutely — most of the founders we work with are non-technical or first-time technical founders. We handle every technical decision, explain trade-offs in plain English, and give you a product you can maintain or hand to a future CTO. You focus on customers and fundraising; we handle the build.

How can you be so much cheaper than hiring in-house or a Dallas agency?

It comes down to structure, not corners cut. We scope a fixed set of features up front, so there is no open-ended hourly meter. A small, senior-only team does the work directly — you are not paying for account managers, sales overhead, or junior engineers learning on your budget. And we reuse hardened production patterns for auth, payments, and infrastructure instead of rebuilding them from scratch each time. An in-house Dallas team carries full salaries — roughly $120K–$137K per engineer before benefits — plus months of ramp-up before anything ships; an agency layers overhead on top of the build. We simply do not carry those costs.

What happens if something breaks after launch?

Every build includes a 30-day bug-fix window after launch — if something we shipped breaks, we fix it at no extra cost. Beyond that, you can keep us on an optional monthly support retainer for ongoing fixes and new features, or take the code in-house and maintain it yourself. You own the code either way, so you are never locked in.

What if I want to change something mid-build?

Small adjustments within the agreed scope are just part of the weekly sprint — you review a working build every week and give feedback we fold in. If you want to add or swap something bigger that changes the scope, we handle it with a simple change order: we tell you the price and timeline impact before doing the work, you approve it, and only then do we build it. No surprise invoices, and no silent scope creep.

Book your free scope call

Pick a time and get your fixed price

Grab a 45-minute slot with our team below. We'll map your idea — or your stuck Dallas prototype — to a concrete feature list, a fixed $13K–$25K price, and a timeline. You walk away with a real plan either way.

  • A free 45-minute scope call — no obligation, no sales pressure
  • A fixed price and timeline before any code is written
  • You leave with a concrete plan, whether or not you hire us

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Ready to build your app in Dallas?

Book a free 45-minute scope call. You'll walk away with a concrete feature list, a fixed price, and a timeline — whether or not you decide to work with us.

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