Studio Builds
You bring the idea.
I'll build the app.
The done-for-you side of Kealy Studio. Taken from written spec to a live app on the App Store — then handed over, completely.
Builds start from
$900
Quoted properly once I've seen the scope.
How the price works Terms of service
Both stores. I take it all the way to a live listing — and then the whole thing is yours.
What a build includes
Expo · React Native · Supabase — shipped to both stores.
After handover
The app is yours. I'm still reachable.
Ongoing maintenance isn't in the build price — when the handover is done, the engagement is done and the app's future belongs to you. Plenty of owners take it straight from there.
You don't have to, though. A full membership keeps me on the other end of a message — the same person who wrote your app and knows exactly why it's built the way it is — with a 45-minute call every month on top. A bug at eleven at night, a store rejection, the feature you want next: send it over and I'll answer.
Why this doesn't cost what agencies charge
An agency quote prices in their learning curve — new stack, new architecture, new mistakes. Studio Builds doesn't have one. Every project ships on the same production stack the Studio teaches — Expo, React Native, Supabase — sharpened project after project, year after year.
AI now does the heavy lifting on top of that foundation, with me directing every line of it. The result: builds land in days or weeks, not months or quarters — and because the price follows the hours, a quick build is an affordable one.
That's the whole trick. No offshore teams, no corners cut — just a stack that has already made every expensive mistake, so your project doesn't have to.
How the price works
A price that says "from" should tell you what you'd actually get for it, so here's how mine is built.
$750
The foundation
Everything every app needs before it does anything of its own:
- The app itself, for iPhone and Android, from one codebase
- Sign-in with email, Google and Apple, and account deletion (the stores require it)
- Your database, with each user's data walled off from everyone else's
- Nightly backups of that database
- Taken through App Store and Google Play review
- The full handover: the code, the accounts and the keys, all in your name
+ $150
The smallest real feature
One thing your users come to the app to do, in its simplest form: something they create, see, edit and delete. A journal entry, a habit they tick off, a place they save.
An app needs at least one of these: a sign-in screen with nothing behind it gets rejected by the stores.
= $900
The smallest app that ships
That's where builds start.
+ $150–$350
Each feature after that
A simple one like the feature above costs $150. Something with roles and permissions, money that has to add up, or a server doing work in the background costs more, up to about $350.
Separate quote
Big integrations
A payment provider, a messaging API, or an app that has to work offline.
An example
A club app: members sign in and see what's on, a committee runs the club with their own permissions, and members' contributions are tracked against the club's expenses.
| The foundation | $750 |
| Events and RSVPs, the core feature | $200 |
| The committee: roles and permissions | $250 |
| Contributions and expenses that add up | $300 |
| The fixed quote | $1,500 |
The call is free. If we're a fit, a $150 deposit holds your place for 60 days and comes off the price in full. Then you get one fixed number, and it doesn't move unless the spec does: half when you accept the quote (less the $150), half on delivery.
Have a PRD? Great. Don't? Also fine.
A PRD — a Product Requirements Document — is the written spec your app gets built from. If you have one, send it over: it's the fastest possible start.
If you don't, two good options: describe the idea in the form below and we'll shape it together — or create a free Studio account and let the roadmap walk you through writing one yourself.
How it works
- 1
Tell me about it. The form below is enough — a few sentences about the app. You can book the call in the same breath, or wait for my reply.
- 2
We talk it through. Half an hour, free and no pitch, so I properly understand what you're building, and you can ask me anything before you commit to it. Every build is quoted against its actual scope: a two-screen utility and a marketplace with payments are not the same project, so $900 is where builds start, not what they all cost.
- 3
You hold your place, and I quote it. If we're a fit, a $150 deposit holds your place for 60 days, and it comes off the price in full. You write the spec in your own time (the studio walks you through it), and I send you one fixed price.
- 4
I build it. On the Studio's stack, with AI doing the heavy lifting and me directing it — then I take it through App Store and/or Play Store review.
- 5
Handover. Code, accounts, keys. It's yours.
Tell me about your app
Two quick questions — no essay required — then pick a time and we'll talk it through properly.
Step 1 of 3
Where's your app right now?