Rework or rewrite? 9 signs your app needs rescue, and what an audit checks
Your app's last team is slow or gone, releases have stopped, and a store warning just arrived. Here is how to tell whether to fix it or rebuild it, and what to check first.
NextEraSolutionsNotes on building mobile apps
Articles on planning, building, pricing and running iOS and Android apps. Each one names its sources and links the case studies it draws on.
Google Play and App Store rules: what changed on 1 October 2026, and what is due in 2027
Ten store rules took effect between April and October 2026, and eight more dates follow by the end of 2027. Every row links to Google's or Apple's own page.
How much does an app cost in the UK and Ireland? Our cost model, published
We price every app in engineering hours first. Here are the hours for six kinds of app that UK and Irish buyers ask us about, what each costs at our planning rate and at UK agency rates, and which choices move the number most.
Native or cross-platform? A decision matrix from POS hardware, Android Automotive and Screen Time
One row per real constraint we met, with our role on the project, what the constraint forces, and the verdict: native, shared codebase, or either.
Loyalty features that move repeat purchases: patterns from work on restaurant and coffee apps
Our engineers worked inside the product teams of two large US chains. Here is what their loyalty apps have in common, what a loyalty module costs, and when it pays back.
Adding AI vision to an app without a research team: background removal and label OCR
Two vision features we shipped in real apps, the choices behind them, and a table to help you decide whether a vision feature belongs in yours.
How to choose a mobile app agency in the UK or Ireland: a 17-question scorecard, with our own answers
Send the same questions to every agency on your shortlist, score each answer 0, 1 or 2, and drop anyone who fails a must-have. Below are the scorecard and our own answers, including the ones we can't give yet.
Release pipelines for a clinical app: what we automated for MobileVision
A clinical app can't afford a bad release: nurses rely on it during a shift. Here is what we automated between a code change and the app stores, and what we would check in any clinical mobile pipeline.
App discovery phase: what it settles that a ±15% estimate can't
Our cost calculator gives you a range, not a number. Here is what the range covers, what it can't cover, and the short piece of work that closes the gap before the build starts.
Agency, freelancer or dedicated developers? What mobile team augmentation costs per month
One senior mobile engineer, full time, for one month. Here is what that costs as an employee, as a contractor, through a UK agency, and from us. The rates come from public UK and Irish data, dated. The arithmetic is in the open, so you can redo it with your own numbers.
15% fewer inbound calls: the Merezha Prava client app, with the ROI maths
We built native iOS and Android apps and the backend for Merezha Prava, a Ukrainian legal-services company. Here is what changed, and how to work out whether an app like it pays back for your firm.
9 things 50+ law firm conversations taught us
Over three months we asked more than 50 law firms how they really talk to their clients. Nine things came up often enough to be a pattern.
The assumption that cost a law firm its own front door
A booking flow was built exactly as the brief asked. Clients could not get past its first step. Here is why, and where that gap sits in an estimate.
8 things we have learned building apps for client-heavy businesses
We talk founders out of apps more often than into them. These are the eight patterns that decide which way the conversation goes.
Retention or more ads? What the Bain 5% statistic really says
The research behind the statistic found that keeping more customers raised profit sharply at the companies it studied. But it is not a rule. Here is what the sources say.
App ROI is the labour you stop paying for, not new revenue
Most client-heavy firms put a mobile app on the wrong line of the P&L. The number you can measure and defend is the manual work it removes.
