Most people searching for a mobile app development company in Chittagong have a phone full of half-finished APKs from a vanished freelancer. That is the problem I exist to fix.
I am RH Fardin — a one-person studio that designs, builds and ships mobile apps for Chattogram businesses. Restaurants and cloud kitchens off GEC that want their own ordering app instead of bleeding 30% to foodpanda. Trading houses and C&F agents around Agrabad who need a shipment-tracking or order app their buyers actually use. Retailers, gyms, clinics, delivery startups. I do the discovery, the UI in Figma, the code, the bKash and Nagad integration, and the Play Store and App Store submission — myself. Pricing starts at 50,000 BDT, 50% advance and 50% on launch, with the full design approved before a single screen is coded.
Senior solo operator, ~5 years building for the BD market. Design approved in writing before code. Direct on WhatsApp — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
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Almost everyone who messages me about mobile app development in Chittagong is on their second or third attempt. The first round was a freelancer found through a Facebook group who quoted 25,000 taka, sent a few screens that looked fine, took the advance, and then went quiet around the part that is actually hard — payments, login, push notifications, getting the thing approved on the Play Store.
What is left on the phone is an APK that crashes on a Redmi, no source code, no Apple account, and no idea where the back-end even lives. That is not a price problem. It is a finishing problem, and it is the single most common reason a Chattogram business comes looking for an actual mobile app development company chittagong owners can hand the whole job to and trust it will ship.
Here is what makes the brief specific to this city. Chattogram money is trade, food, and retail, and almost none of it touches a desktop. Your customer is on a mid-range Android phone — a Redmi, a Realme, an older Samsung — on a 4G connection that drops between Agrabad and the port.
When a restaurant near GEC wants its own ordering app, the real fight is not the design; it is whether bKash and Nagad checkout works cleanly on a cheap handset, whether the app is small enough to install over patchy data, and whether the kitchen actually gets the order. When a trading firm wants a buyer-facing app, the question is whether a sourcing office abroad can open it and see real shipment status, not a spinner.
An app that only behaves on a flagship phone and office WiFi has not solved anything. Building for the actual device and the actual network is the whole job here.
When you hire me, there is no project manager forwarding your messages and no junior you never meet writing the code that handles your customers' money. I am the discovery call, the screen-by-screen flow, the Figma prototype you tap through before anything is built, the front-end and the back-end, the payment integration, and the person who sits with your Play Store and App Store submission until it is live and not rejected.
One senior operator, roughly five years building for the Bangladesh market, one WhatsApp thread for the whole project. That single line of accountability is exactly why a solo studio finishes apps that agencies and freelancers leave at 80% — there is no one to hand the painful last 20% to, so it actually gets done.
I will also be straight with you about money, because app pricing is where most Chittagong founders get a shock. My floor is 50,000 BDT, but be clear what that buys: a focused, single-purpose app — a clean catalogue or menu, a contact and order flow, a polished build for one platform — not a full Uber clone for the price of a phone. The 90,000 BDT tier is a real app with user accounts, bKash or Nagad payments, push notifications and an admin panel to manage it.
1,50,000 BDT covers a more complete product with order management, roles, and both Android and iOS from one codebase. Anything genuinely custom — live tracking, multiple user types, deep logistics or marketplace logic — starts from 3,00,000 BDT, because that is honest work, not a number to win you cheaply and abandon later. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
Six things that separate an app that ships and survives from an APK that dies on the Play Store queue — and they are how I work from the 50,000 BDT tier, not premium extras.
The person you brief on call one designs the screens, writes the code, wires up payments and ships the app. No salesman-to-junior handoff that loses how your business actually runs between the pitch and the build.
Mobile payment integrated and tested on a real cheap Android, not just demoed once. Your customer pays from bKash or Nagad the way every Chattogram buyer expects, with the failure cases handled, not ignored.
I take the app through Google Play and App Store submission myself — store listing, icons, privacy policy, the review back-and-forth. The 20% that kills most freelancer projects is the part I own to the end.
Tested on mid-range Redmi, Realme and older Samsung handsets on real 4G between Agrabad and the port — not just my own device on office WiFi. A small install size and a UI that stays smooth on a slow phone.
Where it fits, one codebase ships both Play Store and App Store apps, so you are not paying twice or stuck on Android only. The right approach is scoped to your budget, honestly — not sold as a default upsell.
Source code, back-end and store accounts handed over in your name on launch, in one document. No vendor lock-in, no developer holding your APK hostage — the test most local freelancers quietly fail.
The hardest conversation I have with Chattogram founders is the one about scope, so let me have it here before you message me. Someone walks in describing an app like Pathao or daraz — live tracking, thousands of products, riders, multiple logins, a wallet — and then asks if 50,000 taka covers it. It does not, and any developer who says yes is either planning to disappear at the advance or planning to ship you something that breaks the first week.
A real app is not one thing; it is a front-end, a back-end, a database, payment integration, an admin panel, push notifications, and a published store presence, each of which is genuine work. That is why my tiers are honest: 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app, 90,000 BDT once you add accounts, bKash or Nagad payments and an admin panel, 1,50,000 BDT for a fuller product across Android and iOS, and from 3,00,000 BDT for anything with real tracking, marketplace or logistics logic.
The number is set by what the app has to do, not by what gets you to say yes fastest.
Here is the practical advice I give every founder, and it usually saves them money. Do not try to build the full vision in version one. The restaurant off GEC does not need a loyalty engine and a delivery-rider network on day one — it needs a clean ordering app with bKash checkout that the kitchen actually receives, shipped in weeks, earning before the next season. The trading firm does not need a full marketplace — it needs a buyer-facing app that shows real order and shipment status without a desktop.
Start with the version that solves the one expensive problem, get it live and used by real Chattogram customers on their real phones, then spend the next budget on what the usage actually proves you need. A small app that ships and earns beats a big app that lives forever in a Figma file.
Send me your idea and one line on who it is for; within a day I will tell you honestly which tier fits, what version one should be, and what 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000 BDT actually buys you.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
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The questions Chattogram founders actually open with on WhatsApp — starting with the one everyone asks first.
The floor is 50,000 BDT for a focused, single-purpose app on one platform — think a clean menu or catalogue with an order and contact flow. 90,000 BDT gets a real app with user accounts, bKash or Nagad payment integration, push notifications and an admin panel to run it. 1,50,000 BDT covers a fuller product with order management, user roles, and both Android and iOS from one codebase. Anything with live tracking, multiple user types, or marketplace and logistics logic starts from 3,00,000 BDT.
Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer. If a developer quotes you 20,000 taka for a payment app, that is the price of an app that never finishes — ask who ships it and who holds the source code.
Judge the work, not the headcount. Most agencies in Chattogram win the pitch with a senior face, then assign your build to a junior with under two years of experience while the senior moves to a bigger-ticket job — and freelancers vanish at the hard part entirely. With me, the senior person you brief is the same person who designs, codes, integrates payments and ships every screen. The honest trade-off: I take a few app projects at a time and I do not run a 24-hour helpdesk. I finish each app properly — payments, store approval, handover — instead of leaving it at 80%, which is exactly why a solo operator can be the safer choice here.
Yes — for the Chattogram market that is not optional, it is the whole point. From the 90,000 BDT tier I integrate bKash and Nagad payment so your customer checks out the way they already pay for everything else, and I test it on a real mid-range Android, not just a one-time demo. I handle the failure cases too — a dropped connection mid-payment, a timeout, a cancelled transaction — because on Chittagong 4G those happen, and an app that loses an order when the network blinks loses the customer.
Yes, and getting it published is part of the job, not an extra you chase later. I prepare the store listing, icons, screenshots and the privacy policy, submit to Google Play and the Apple App Store, and handle the review back-and-forth until the app is actually live and not rejected. The accounts are set up in your name and handed to you, so you own the listing. This last 20% is precisely where most Chattogram freelancer projects die — it is the part I own to the end.
For most Chattogram businesses I start honest: your customers are overwhelmingly on Android — Redmi, Realme, Samsung — so if budget is tight, an Android-first app gets you live and earning faster. Where iOS matters — a premium brand, overseas buyers, a founder set on both — I build with one codebase that ships Play Store and App Store from the same work, which is the 1,50,000 BDT tier. I will tell you which makes sense for your audience instead of defaulting to the more expensive answer.
Sometimes, and I will be honest after I look. Send me whatever you have — the code, the APK, the back-end details, the store account if there is one. If the previous work is clean and you actually own the source, I can often continue it and save you money. But a lot of abandoned Chattogram app projects come with no source code, a tangled back-end, or no Apple account — and in those cases rebuilding the right way is cheaper and faster than untangling someone else's unfinished work. Either way you will get a straight answer within a day, not a quote designed to lock you in.
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