Apps for Styrian businesses, including half-finished ones. We take over projects whose original developer is gone and get them into the store.
In Graz we run into apps that half exist more often than average. With two universities and a large tech scene, many projects here start as a thesis, with an intern or with a developer who has since moved abroad. The code then sits somewhere, may even run, but nobody dares touch it. We look at it, say honestly whether taking it over is cheaper than rebuilding, and then do one or the other.
ÜBERNAHME // BESTAND
Before promising anything we read the existing code and build the project once ourselves. Only then can we say whether taking it over makes sense. With a thesis project the honest answer is often no, because different goals were in the foreground there than maintainability.
STORE // FREIGABE
Many half-finished apps fail not on the technology but on approval. Apple reviews every submission, and the most common rejections concern missing privacy declarations, unclear purposes for permissions and sign-in flows. We put that in order before submitting.
HYBRID
For a new build we go hybrid in the vast majority of cases, meaning one codebase for iOS and Android. That halves the cost against two native versions, and with a normal business application nobody notices the difference.
For about half the inquiries the most honest answer is no. If nobody needs camera, location or notifications and the thing could run in a browser, a web app is cheaper, faster to finish and simpler to operate. We say so beforehand, because an app sitting in the store that nobody downloads costs more than none at all.
If the conversation shows a web app is enough, we take that route. What that means and what it costs is on our page about web app development.
A new build starts at 5,000€ with us for a simple case, 12,000€ with user accounts and a database and 25,000€ with connections to existing systems. For a takeover we can only name a price after reading the code and building the project once ourselves. That review is manageable and always worth it, because it is what makes the decision between takeover and rebuild possible in the first place.
ENTRY
from 5,000€
One clearly defined job, one screen after another.
MOST COMMON
from 12,000€
As soon as users log in and data gets stored.
INDIVIDUELL
from 25,000€
When the app has to connect to existing systems.
I write the quote, I design, I build. You do not get an account manager standing between you and the work, you talk to the same person from the first question until after launch.
If something does not make sense, I say so, even when that makes the project smaller. In the long run that is more pleasant for both sides. I drive to Graz for the first conversation, especially when several people from your company should be there.
That is the difference to a website, and it almost never comes up in a quote. Apple and Google release new system versions every year, and the stores regularly require rebuilt versions. Anyone who knows that beforehand plans differently and is not surprised afterwards. So it stands here and not in the fine print.
Fees per Apple Developer Program and Google Play Console, as of August 2026. Remaining items qualitative.
With its technical university and one of the largest universities of applied sciences in the country, Graz has more developers per head than any Austrian city except Vienna. That is an advantage for starting and a disadvantage for continuing: someone who supported a project as a student is often in Vienna, Zurich or Berlin two years later. What remains for the company is an app that runs as long as nobody wants to change anything.
Taking over somebody else code is sometimes more expensive than starting from scratch, especially when it was written without documentation and without tests. We have recommended both. What we do not do: promise a takeover before seeing the code and then ask for more during the project.
For an app project that is no disadvantage, because coordination happens on the code and on screen designs anyway. For the first conversation we drive to Graz if you want, especially when several people from your company should be there. After that it runs over video.
Because we look at somebody else code before writing a quote, and because afterwards we say honestly what it is worth. That is less convenient than selling every project as a rebuild, and in about half the cases it saves you money. On top of that you get the source code and the store accounts, so the same thing does not happen to you twice.
Describe briefly what the app should do and whether code already exists. If it does, we look at it before writing a quote.
An app starts at 5,000€ with us for a simple case without user accounts, 12,000€ with sign-in and a database and 25,000€ with connections to existing systems. Demanding applications reach 50,000€. For taking over a half-finished project we can only name a price after reading the code and building the project once ourselves. That review is manageable and is what makes the decision between takeover and rebuild possible in the first place.
Yes, and in Graz that comes up more often than elsewhere. We read the existing code and build the project once ourselves before promising anything. Only then can we say whether a takeover is cheaper than a rebuild. We have recommended both.
Because with the technical university and a large university of applied sciences, many projects here start as a thesis, with an intern or with a developer who works somewhere else two years later. The code may still run, but nobody dares touch it.
Then we say so and recommend a rebuild. Taking over somebody else code is sometimes more expensive than starting from scratch, especially when it was written without documentation and without tests. What we do not do: promise a takeover before seeing the code and then ask for more during the project.
Yes, because coordination on an app project happens on the code and on screen designs anyway. For the first conversation we drive to Graz, especially when several people from your company should be there. After that it runs over video.