Mobile app development price in Chattogram, written out in full — build cost, and the running costs nobody quotes you on
Most Chattogram owners get one number for an app and a nasty surprise a year later — hosting, store fees, gateway charges, '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, and on this page I show you the build tiers and the second-year running costs in the same breath, so the figure you plan around is the real one.
Build from 50,000 BDT. Tiers: 50,000 / 90,000 / 1,50,000 BDT, custom from 3,00,000 BDT. 50% advance, 50% on launch. ~5 years shipping, every screen coded by me — 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?' — and 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, runs through 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers, and a genuinely custom build starts at 3,00,000 BDT. But here's what I've learned watching Agrabad and GEC businesses get burned: the build price is only half the question. The half nobody asks about — and most quotes stay silent on — is what the app costs to keep running after launch. That's where the real shock usually hits, around month eight.
Picture a wholesaler near Khatunganj who paid an app firm a fixed sum, launched, and felt good — until the renewal invoices started. Hosting and a server fee. An Apple developer account that has to be paid every single year or the app drops off the iPhone store. A payment-gateway cut on every bKash or SSLCommerz transaction. A 'maintenance retainer' that was never mentioned at quote time. None of that was in the headline mobile app development price chattogram bd firms had quoted, so it all felt like a betrayal. It wasn't fraud — it's just how app economics work everywhere. The dishonest part is leaving it out of the conversation so the first number looks smaller than the real one.
I'm RH Fardin — the only person who touches your project. Around five years writing code and shipping for Bangladeshi businesses: importers, garments suppliers, clinics, shops, real estate. I quote the build tier plainly, and in the same conversation I lay out the running costs for year two so there's no ambush later. The price I charge is lower than an Agrabad firm's because there's no office on GEC More, no sales team, no project manager forwarding 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.
And if your real budget is under 50,000 BDT, I'll say so on the first call instead of squeezing your idea into a number that ships something broken. For a lot of 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, with the heavier native build kept for when the orders prove it out. I'd rather route you to the cheaper-but-right option than take your money for a half-app that dies before the next Eid rush and lands on someone else's desk to rebuild. The price below is 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, 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 — a catalogue with enquiry, a single-service booking, a menu-and-order flow with a bKash number wired in. Runs on cheap Androids over patchy Agrabad signal. Year-two running cost is the lowest of any tier: just hosting and a domain, no store fees.
A real multi-screen app: catalogue, customer accounts, order or appointment history, notifications and an admin panel you can actually run. The tier where a growing GEC shop or clinic starts working through the app daily, not just displaying a list.
A full app with proper in-app payment (bKash/Nagad/SSLCommerz checkout, not a number to copy), order tracking, user roles, Bangla-English structure and an owner dashboard. For a Chattogram trader ready to move real money and real volume through the app.
Native iOS + Android, distributor or buyer portals, live tracking, ERP or inventory integrations, multi-vendor flows — port-city logistics and wholesale operations. Quoted only after we scope it, and I'll spell out the higher store and maintenance costs that native carries before you commit.
For every tier I write out year-two running costs separately — hosting, domain, any store fees, gateway transaction cuts, optional maintenance. Bundled into one figure so you plan the whole spend, not just the launch, and never get an ambush invoice in month eight.
Whatever tier you pick is a defined scope at a fixed price. No 'bhai aro 30,000 lagbe' in week three. New ideas mid-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've paid the advance. After launch, an app has running costs — and what they are depends entirely on the tier you chose, which is exactly why I tie them to the price up front.
A 50,000 BDT installable web app is the cheapest to keep alive: you pay for hosting and a domain, and that's roughly it — no Apple account, no Google fee, no store review cycles, 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 that, if it lapses, pulls your app off every iPhone in Chattogram; Google's is a one-time fee; and two codebases means 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 discover them at renewal.
Then there's the cost that scales with success: payment. A manual 'pay to this bKash number' block is nearly free and sits inside the 50,000 BDT floor. But a real in-app gateway — bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz handling checkout, confirmation and reconciliation — carries a per-transaction cut the provider takes on every order, separate from anything I charge. That's not a hidden fee I'm adding; it's the gateway's standard rate, and the more you sell the more it adds up, so you should factor it in from day one.
The same logic runs through every line: maintenance you can do yourself versus pay me for, extra admin screens, integrations with your existing inventory or a courier API. My job isn't to hide these so the headline mobile app development price in Chattogram looks tiny — it's to put the full sum in front of you, build plus run, so the decision is yours with both eyes open.
That transparency is the whole reason a port-city business hires one accountable person instead of a firm that only shows you the part of the bill that sells.
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A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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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 for a focused installable app — a catalogue, booking or order flow that installs to the phone. 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. Genuinely custom builds — native iOS and Android, portals, integrations — start at 3,00,000 BDT, quoted after we scope it. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch, and I'll show you the year-two running costs before you decide.
This is the question too few Chattogram owners ask, and 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, plus more maintenance for two codebases. If you take in-app payments, the gateway (bKash, Nagad or SSLCommerz) charges its own per-transaction cut on every order — that's their rate, not mine. I write all of this out beside the build price so nothing surprises you in month eight.
Two reasons. First, a lot 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 and lands at 50,000 BDT. Second, you're not paying for an office on GEC More, a sales team, or a project manager forwarding 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.
Because a 15,000 BDT app is almost always a renamed template with payment that half-works and an admin panel you'll abandon 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 genuinely tight, tell me and I'll tell you which features to drop so a smaller, solid version fits at the floor — instead of a bloated, broken one that doesn't.
Never the whole amount up front. It's 50% advance to start, 50% on launch day before the app goes live, so you always see real progress before the second payment. The advance can come via bKash personal, Nagad, bank transfer, or international wire if you're 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 production code. If you genuinely don't like the direction after one revision round, I refund the advance minus a fair fee for the design work already done. Whatever tier you start on is a fixed scope at a fixed number, so the price can't quietly creep either; any new feature mid-build is quoted as a clear add-on you approve first. The figure we agree is the figure you pay.
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