How a mobile app actually gets priced in Bogura
"App banate koto taka" has no single answer — the honest one is "koto taka for what the app has to do, and on whose phones it has to survive."
Almost every Bogura owner who messages me about an app opens with the same question: "app banate koto taka lage?" It is the right question, and in this city it almost never gets an honest answer — for two reasons. The first is that there is no real app-development trade in Bogura to anchor a fair price, so you are quoted blind.
A Satmatha computer shop will say "15-20 hajar, Play Store e tule dibo" — a number that low can only mean your website or Facebook page wrapped in a WebView, which is not an app and will not survive a single payment. A Dhaka outfit, at the other end, throws out a frightening lakh-plus figure because that is their capital overhead talking, not your actual scope. Both numbers are quoted before anyone has asked what your app is supposed to do.
On this page I do the opposite: the floor is published, the tiers are fixed, and the only thing we genuinely work out is which tier matches what your Bogura business actually needs the app to do.
The second reason is the one nobody says out loud — a lot of pricing in this city is set by how prosperous you look, not by the work. Walk in dressed like a successful trader and the figure climbs; sound unsure and it drops to whatever keeps you talking. That is not pricing, it is guessing your wallet. An app's real price is set by scope, and scope is concrete. Does it just show information and take an enquiry, or does it handle login, ordering, a cart, and live stock?
Does money move through it — bKash and Nagad payments, advances against festival doi orders, dues for a coaching centre — because real payment handling and proper testing is where serious cost actually lives? Does it need push notifications, offline behaviour when the data thins toward Shibganj or Dhunat, a dashboard for you to run it from? One screen of these features and ten screens of them cannot honestly cost the same — the tiers exist precisely so the figure follows the work instead of following your appearance.
There is a Bogura-specific trap worth naming, because it costs owners here real money. The cheapest "app" is almost always the most expensive thing you ever buy, and not in the way you would guess. The 15,000-taka WebView wrapper does not just underperform — it shows a blank white screen the moment the data drops, it cannot send a push when your fresh doi or new seed stock lands, and it collapses the first time a customer tries to pay by bKash.
So you have spent 15,000 taka, your customers have judged your business by a broken icon, and you still need the real app — meaning you pay twice, and the second time on top of the reputation the first one quietly burned. The reason my floor is 50,000 BDT is not that I am dear; it is the honest least it costs to ship a real app that actually opens, notifies and takes a payment on the cheap Androids your North Bengal buyers actually carry.
Pricing the whole job once is cheaper than buying a wrapper and then buying the app.
And when you hire me, the person quoting the price is the person writing the code. There is no salesman lowballing to land the job and a junior padding the scope afterwards, and no Dhaka-agency overhead — a Gulshan tower, account managers, a margin layered onto every billed hour — baked invisibly into your number.
That is the real reason my mobile app development price in Bogura sits well below a capital agency for comparable work: you are funding one senior operator with around five years of shipping Bangladeshi apps, not a building full of people who never touch your project. The figure holds and the structure is plain. 50,000 BDT for a focused, real first version. 90,000 BDT for the standard build most growing Bogura firms land on, with ordering, payments and notifications.
1,50,000 BDT for a larger app with deeper flows, dashboards and bilingual screens. From 3,00,000 BDT when the brief is genuinely custom. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch — bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — and you approve every screen in Figma before I write a single line of code.
See pricing in BDT