Mobile app development price in Chattogram, written out in full: the build cost, and the running costs nobody quotes you on
Most Chattogram owners get one number for an app. A year later comes a nasty surprise: hosting, store fees, gateway charges and "maintenance." I'm RH Fardin, one senior developer who designs and builds the whole app myself. The mobile app development price in Chattogram starts at 50,000 BDT. On this page I show you the build tiers and the second-year running costs together. So the figure you plan around is the real one.
Build from 50,000 BDT. Tiers at 50,000, 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT, with custom from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. About 5 years shipping, and I code every screen myself. No junior, no agency markup.
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When a Chattogram owner messages me about an app, the first line is always "koto taka?" That's fair. You should know the number before anything else. So here it is. The mobile app development price in Chattogram with me starts at 50,000 BDT. It runs through tiers at 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT. A truly custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT.
But I've watched Agrabad and GEC businesses get burned, and I've learned something. The build price is only half the question. The other half is what the app costs to keep running after launch. Nobody asks about it, and most quotes stay silent on it. That's where the real shock usually hits, around month eight.
Picture a wholesaler near Khatunganj who paid an app firm a fixed sum. He launched and felt good, until the renewal invoices started. First came hosting and a server fee. Then an Apple developer account that must be paid every year, or the app drops off the iPhone store. Then a payment gateway cut on every bKash or SSLCommerz sale. Then a "maintenance retainer" nobody mentioned at quote time.
None of that was in the headline mobile app development price Chattogram firms had quoted, so it all felt like a betrayal. It wasn't fraud. It's just how app costs work everywhere. The dishonest part is leaving it out, so the first number looks smaller than the real one.
I'm RH Fardin, and I'm the only person who touches your project. I have about five years of writing code and shipping for Bangladeshi businesses. That includes importers, garments suppliers, clinics, shops and real estate firms. I quote the build tier plainly. In the same conversation, I lay out the running costs for year two, so there's no ambush later.
My price is lower than an Agrabad firm's because I have no office on GEC More and no sales team. No project manager forwards your WhatsApp to a junior. That overhead is the markup you skip. What you don't skip is honesty about the total cost. You should be able to budget the whole thing, not just the part that fits on a poster.
If your real budget is under 50,000 BDT, I'll say so on the first call. I won't squeeze your idea into a number that ships something broken. For many early-stage Chattogram businesses, the smarter first spend isn't a full app at all. It's a fast installable web app at the floor price. The heavier native build waits until the orders prove it out.
I'd rather point you to the cheaper but right option than take your money for a half-app. That kind of app dies before the next Eid rush and lands on someone else's desk to rebuild. The prices below are for work I'll stand behind, total cost and all.
No "packages starting from" fog. Here's the real mobile app development price in Chattogram tier by tier. You see what each build includes, and a straight word on what each one costs to keep alive after launch.
An installable app for one focused job. It could be a catalogue with enquiry, a single-service booking, or a menu-and-order flow with a bKash number wired in. It runs on cheap Androids over patchy Agrabad signal. Year-two running cost is the lowest of any tier: just hosting and a domain, with no store fees.
A real multi-screen app with a catalogue, customer accounts, order or appointment history, notifications and an admin panel you can actually run. This is the tier where a growing GEC shop or clinic starts working through the app daily, not just showing a list.
A full app with proper in-app payment through bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz checkout, not a number to copy. It adds order tracking, user roles, a Bangla-English structure and an owner dashboard. It's for a Chattogram trader ready to move real money and volume through the app.
Native iOS and Android, distributor or buyer portals, live tracking, ERP or inventory links and multi-vendor flows. This suits port-city logistics and wholesale firms. I quote it only after we scope it. I'll spell out the higher store and maintenance costs of native before you commit.
For every tier, I list year-two running costs one by one: hosting, domain, any store fees, gateway cuts and optional maintenance. Then I add them into one total. You plan the whole spend, not just the launch, and never get an ambush invoice in month eight.
Whatever tier you pick is a set scope at a fixed price. No "bhai aro 30,000 lagbe" in week three. New ideas during the build get quoted as a clear add-on you sign off first. The figure you agree is the figure you pay.
Here is the honest breakdown almost no app firm in Agrabad or GEC puts in writing before you pay the advance. After launch, an app has running costs, and they depend on the tier you chose. A 50,000 BDT installable web app is the cheapest to keep alive. You pay for hosting and a domain, and that's about it. There's no Apple account, no Google fee and no store review cycle, because it lives on the web and installs to the home screen.
Step up to native iOS and Android in the custom tier, and the running costs change shape. Apple's developer account is a yearly fee. If it lapses, your app disappears from every iPhone in Chattogram. Google's fee is a one-time payment. Two codebases also mean more maintenance than one. None of that makes native wrong. For the right logistics or wholesale case, it's worth it. But you deserve to see those numbers beside the build price, not find them at renewal.
Then there's the cost that grows with success: payment. A manual "pay to this bKash number" block is nearly free and sits inside the 50,000 BDT floor. A real in-app gateway is different. bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz handles checkout, confirmation and matching payments. The provider takes a cut on every order, separate from anything I charge. That's not a hidden fee from me. It's the gateway's standard rate. The more you sell, the more it adds up, so plan for it from day one.
The same logic runs through every line. Think of maintenance you can do yourself versus pay me for, extra admin screens, or links to your inventory or a courier API. My job isn't to hide these so the headline price looks tiny. It's to put the full sum in front of you, build plus run, so you decide with both eyes open. That's why a port-city business hires one accountable person, not a firm that only shows the part of the bill that sells.
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The real price questions Chattogram business owners ask me before they commit.
The mobile app development price in Chattogram with me starts at 50,000 BDT. That buys a focused installable app, like a catalogue or booking flow. The 90,000 BDT tier adds accounts, history, notifications and an admin panel. The 1,50,000 BDT tier is a full app with real in-app payment, order tracking and an owner dashboard. Custom builds, like native iOS and Android, portals and integrations, start at 3,00,000 BDT after we scope them. Payment is 50% advance and 50% on launch. I'll show you year-two costs before you decide.
Too few Chattogram owners ask this, so I answer it up front. At the 50,000 BDT tier, it's just hosting and a domain, small and predictable. Native builds in the custom tier add Apple's yearly developer fee and Google's one-time fee. They also need more maintenance for two codebases. If you take in-app payments, the gateway charges its own cut on every order. That's the rate of bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz, not mine. I write it all out beside the build price, so nothing surprises you in month eight.
Two reasons. First, much of their quote assumes native iOS plus Android, with store overhead and two codebases. For most Chattogram businesses, a single installable web app does the same job for 50,000 BDT. Second, you don't pay for an office on GEC More, a sales team, or a project manager passing your messages to a junior. It's just me building it. Same senior work, none of the markup. And unlike the firms quoting lakhs, I tell you the running costs before you sign, not after.
A 15,000 BDT app is almost always a renamed template. The payment half works, and you'll give up on the admin panel in a week. Then you pay again to rebuild it properly. Below 50,000 BDT, I can't ship something a real Chattogram business can run on, so I won't pretend I can. If your budget is truly tight, tell me. I'll tell you which features to drop so a smaller, solid version fits at the floor, not a bloated, broken one.
Never the whole amount up front. You pay 50% in advance to start, and 50% on launch day before the app goes live. So you always see real progress before the second payment. The advance can come by bKash personal, Nagad, bank transfer, or international wire. The wire option suits a diaspora-owned Chattogram business paying from abroad. You get a proper invoice with a transaction reference field, so it goes through your books cleanly.
No. Every project carries a design-approval guarantee. I send the core screens before I write live code. If you still don't like the direction after one revision round, I refund the advance minus a fair fee for the design work done. Each tier is a fixed scope at a fixed number, so the price can't quietly creep either. Any new feature during the build is quoted as a clear add-on you approve first. The figure we agree is the figure you pay.
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