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Mobile App Development · Dubai, UAE

Mobile app development company in Dubai

Inovsion designs, builds and launches iOS and Android apps from our office in Burjuman, Dubai — Flutter, React Native, Swift and Kotlin, with Arabic RTL, UAE Pass, local payment gateways and in-country hosting handled as standard, not as change requests.

Trusted by ambitious teams across the Gulf, Europe, North America and India
  • AMCO — Al-Haya Medical Company
  • Riyadh Pharma
  • Al Rajhi
  • Metropolis
  • MedEngage
  • Bader Academy
  • Air Synapsis
  • Almarsa Tech
  • MyWarrantys
  • HiCare
  • CraveWave
  • Unistanz
  • Urbansoft
  • OneTuch
  • ClueMaster
  • Elekore
  • ExtraMile Play
  • Fame Keeda
  • Rising Walls
  • igoal.io

Why Dubai companies build their apps with Inovsion

Dubai has no shortage of app developers. What it lacks is teams that treat the UAE's specifics as engineering requirements rather than late surprises: an interface that reads properly in Arabic and English, sign-in through UAE Pass, payments that clear through the gateways your finance team already reconciles, cash on delivery where customers still expect it, and personal data that stays inside the country under the UAE Personal Data Protection Law.

Inovsion is headquartered at Bank Street Building in Burjuman, Dubai, with a delivery centre in Bengaluru, India. Discovery workshops, design reviews and go-live happen in the room with you, on Gulf Standard Time; the engineering runs in a senior-led team that is ninety minutes ahead, so every working day overlaps. You get Dubai-level accountability at a cost base that lets the budget go into the product.

We build cross-platform in Flutter by default and native in Swift or Kotlin when the app genuinely needs it, with the back end on Azure UAE North or AWS Middle East (UAE) when residency matters. Every app ships under your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts, with your signing keys and your repositories, so you are never dependent on us to stay in control of your product.

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What We Build

Apps we build for Dubai businesses

Six kinds of product our Dubai clients ask for most, each delivered to production standard.

On-Demand, Delivery & Marketplace Apps

Customer, courier and merchant apps with live tracking, slot booking, promotions and cash-on-delivery flows — built for the pace of a Dubai delivery market where the first order decides whether there is a second.

Live trackingCOD & cardDriver appPromotions

Fintech, Wallet & Banking Apps

Onboarding with Emirates ID capture and UAE Pass, biometric login, card controls, transfers and statements — engineered to the security expectations of UAE financial regulators, with audit trails from day one.

UAE PassEmirates ID KYCBiometricsAudit trail

Retail & E-Commerce Apps

Bilingual catalogues, search that understands Arabic and English, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Tabby and Tamara instalments, loyalty and push campaigns timed around Ramadan, the Dubai Shopping Festival and the White Friday peak.

Arabic searchApple PayBNPLLoyalty

Real Estate & Community Apps

Listing apps with map search, virtual viewings and enquiry routing; tenant and community apps for maintenance requests, visitor passes, amenity booking and service charges across Dubai's master communities.

Map searchTenant portalVisitor passPayments

Healthcare & Clinic Apps

Appointment booking, teleconsultation, lab results, e-prescriptions and reminders for clinics and hospital groups — designed around Dubai Health Authority data-handling expectations and bilingual patients.

BookingTeleconsultResultsReminders

Enterprise & Field Workforce Apps

Inspection, facilities-management and logistics apps that work without signal on a site in Jebel Ali and sync when the connection returns — in English, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu for the people actually using them.

Offline-firstMultilingualCamera captureERP sync
Made for the UAE

What ‘built for Dubai’ means in practice

The integrations and details that separate an app made for the UAE from one merely translated for it.

  • UAE Pass sign-in and Emirates ID capture with OCR and verification
  • Arabic and English interfaces with true right-to-left layout, Arabic numerals and Hijri dates
  • Payments through Network International, Telr, PayTabs, Checkout.com and Stripe, plus Apple Pay and Google Pay
  • Tabby and Tamara buy-now-pay-later, and cash on delivery for customers who still prefer it
  • Makani numbers, map-based addressing and delivery zones across all seven emirates
  • WhatsApp Business notifications and support alongside push and SMS
  • VAT-compliant invoicing at 5% with tax registration numbers on every receipt
  • Hosting in Azure UAE North or AWS Middle East (UAE), aligned to the UAE Personal Data Protection Law
  • Ramadan and public-holiday scheduling built into notifications, promotions and support hours
  • Publishing to the UAE storefronts of the App Store and Google Play, with Arabic and English listings
Why Inovsion

Why Inovsion for app development in Dubai

Four commitments we hold to on every mobile engagement in Dubai — and that you can hold us to.

  1. 01

    An office in Dubai, not a sales desk

    Our regional headquarters is at Bank Street Building, Burjuman. Discovery workshops, design reviews and launch sit-downs happen in person, on Gulf Standard Time, with the people who will actually build the app.

  2. 02

    Senior engineers at a Bengaluru cost base

    Dubai leadership plus a Bengaluru delivery centre ninety minutes ahead: full working-day overlap, senior-led sprints and a rate that puts more of the budget into the product rather than the postcode.

  3. 03

    Arabic and RTL from the first screen

    Right-to-left layout, bidirectional text, Arabic numerals and Hijri dates live in the component library from day one and are tested with Arabic-speaking users, not bolted on before launch.

  4. 04

    You own the code, the keys and the accounts

    Apps ship under your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts with your signing keys, and the source lives in your repositories from the first commit. Leaving us should never mean losing your product.

How We Work

From first meeting in Dubai to the app stores

A fixed-scope discovery, then two-week sprints with a build on your phone at the end of each.

01

Discovery in Dubai

Two to three weeks. We map the user journeys, the UAE integrations you need and the data-residency constraints, and return a costed plan with a fixed price for the first release.

02

UX in Arabic and English

Clickable prototypes in both languages, reviewed with real users in Dubai, so RTL, copy length and cultural detail are settled before a line of code is written.

03

Build in two-week sprints

Flutter or native, with the back end and integrations built alongside. Every sprint ends with a TestFlight and Play internal build on your own device.

04

Test on real devices and networks

Device-lab testing across iPhone and Android, Arabic and English, patchy 4G and offline, plus security review and load testing on the API before anything goes live.

05

Launch, monitor, keep shipping

Store submission and review handling, crash and performance monitoring from day one, and a release train with a Dubai point of contact so shipping stays routine.

Technology

The mobile stack we build on in Dubai

Chosen for longevity, store compliance and the integrations a UAE app cannot do without.

Our default for most Dubai business and consumer apps: one codebase, one design system, both stores.

Flutter
Dart
React Native
Expo
TypeScript
Riverpod / Bloc
Budget

What a mobile app costs in Dubai

Indicative ranges for a first release, in US dollars and dirhams. Discovery is priced separately and fixed, so the number you decide on is a real one.

Focused first release

A handful of core journeys, one back end, both platforms if built cross-platform. US$25,000–60,000, roughly AED 92,000–220,000, over ten to sixteen weeks.

10–16 weeksiOS + AndroidFixed scope

Growth product

Payments, UAE Pass, real-time features, offline sync or a marketplace with several user types. US$75,000–180,000, roughly AED 275,000–660,000, over four to six months.

4–6 monthsIntegrationsMulti-role

Enterprise & regulated

Banking-grade security, in-country hosting, legacy integration and formal testing. From US$180,000, roughly AED 660,000 upwards, with a dedicated team and a quarterly roadmap.

6+ monthsUAE residencyDedicated team
Where We Work

Serving Dubai and every emirate

On-site in Dubai, and across the UAE for workshops, user testing and launch.

Dubai

Our home base. Business Bay, DIFC, Downtown, Dubai Internet City, Media City, JLT, Deira, Bur Dubai, Jebel Ali and Dubai South — we are usually there within the hour.

Burjuman HQ · DIFC · Internet City · JLT

Abu Dhabi

Apps for government-linked entities, ADGM firms and Masdar City ventures, with the extra scrutiny on data residency and security that the capital expects.

Al Maryah Island · ADGM · Masdar City · Khalifa City

Sharjah & the Northern Emirates

Retail, education, healthcare and manufacturing apps for Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Fujairah and Umm Al Quwain, with workshops on site.

Sharjah · Ajman · RAK · Fujairah

Free zones & startups

Fixed-price first releases and fractional teams for DMCC, DIFC, Silicon Oasis, DAFZA and in5 companies that need to ship before the next raise.

DMCC · DSO · DAFZA · in5
Client Voices

What partners say about working with us

“Inovsion took a process we had written off as impossible to automate and had a working system in production in nine weeks. The accuracy on Arabic documents was the part that surprised us most — it comfortably beat the vendor we had trialled before.”

Head of Digital Transformation
National pharmacy group, Riyadh

“What sets them apart is that they argued us out of two features we did not need. That saved real budget. The platform has been live for over a year with no unplanned downtime.”

Chief Technology Officer
Logistics operator, Dubai

“We had a Databricks estate nobody could explain and costs climbing every month. Their team restructured the pipelines and cut our monthly spend by roughly a third while making the data faster to query.”

Director of Data & Analytics
Retail group, Abu Dhabi

“The AI assistant they built now handles the majority of first-line queries in both Arabic and English. Our support team finally has time for the complex cases.”

Customer Experience Lead
Insurance provider, UAE

“Communication was the differentiator. Weekly demos, honest status, and no surprises at the end of a sprint. Rare in this industry.”

Founder
HealthTech scale-up, London

“They embedded three engineers with our team in Toronto and were productive inside two weeks. The seniority was genuine, not a CV exercise.”

VP Engineering
SaaS company, Canada
FAQs

Questions about app development in Dubai

A focused first release with a handful of core journeys typically costs US$25,000 to US$60,000, roughly AED 92,000 to AED 220,000, and takes ten to sixteen weeks. Apps with payments, UAE Pass, real-time features or offline sync generally fall between US$75,000 and US$180,000. We price discovery separately and fixed, so you decide on the build with a real number rather than an estimate.

Ten to sixteen weeks from the end of discovery to a first release in both stores is typical. Discovery itself takes two to three weeks. Apple review usually clears in one to three days once the submission is clean; we handle the metadata, privacy declarations and review responses.

Yes. Our regional headquarters is Office 216, Bank Street Building, Burjuman, Dubai. Discovery workshops, design reviews and launch planning happen in person on Gulf Standard Time, and our Bengaluru delivery centre works a fully overlapping day.

Yes. We implement UAE Pass sign-in and digital signing for apps that need verified identity, and Emirates ID capture with OCR and validation for onboarding and KYC. Both are built to the sandbox-then-production process the providers require, with the paperwork handled alongside the code.

Network International, Telr, PayTabs, Checkout.com and Stripe for cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay for wallets, Tabby and Tamara for instalments, and cash on delivery where your customers still expect it. Refunds, partial captures and reconciliation exports are built in, not left for later.

If you need it to. We deploy to Azure UAE North in Dubai or the AWS Middle East (UAE) region, or into your own tenant, and design the app around the UAE Personal Data Protection Law. Where a third-party service processes data abroad, we tell you before it is wired in.

Yes, and Arabic is a first-class requirement rather than a translation pass. Right-to-left mirroring, bidirectional text, Arabic numerals, Hijri dates and locale-aware formatting are in the component library from the first screen, and we test with Arabic-speaking users.

Flutter for most business and consumer apps: one codebase, one design system and one team across iOS and Android. Native Swift or Kotlin when the app leans hard on the camera or sensors, needs widgets or live activities, or has performance budgets a bridge cannot meet. We put the recommendation and its reasoning in writing during discovery.

Both. Fixed-price first releases and fractional teams suit DMCC, DIFC, Silicon Oasis and in5 startups that need to ship before the next raise; larger programmes with dedicated teams and quarterly roadmaps suit established groups. The engineering standard is the same either way.

You do. We publish under your Apple Developer and Google Play accounts with your signing keys, and the code lives in your repositories from the first commit. If you ever move on, you take everything with you.

Crash and performance monitoring from day one, OS and dependency updates, store-policy changes handled before they become rejections, and a release train for new features. Support tiers range from a monthly retainer to an embedded team with a Dubai point of contact.

Get in Touch

Talk to our Dubai team

A solution architect replies within one business day. Bring the idea, the deck or the app someone else half-built.

Visit us

Office No. 216, Bank Street Building, Burjuman, Dubai 46162, UAE

Working hours

Sun–Thu, 9:00–18:00 GST

Languages

English · العربية · हिन्दी

We reply within one business day. Your details stay confidential and are never shared.

Ready to build your app in Dubai?

Book a free 45-minute consultation at our Burjuman office or over a call. We will map the first release, sanity-check the budget and send a written summary — no obligation.