"App banate koto taka lagbe?" In Dhanmondi the honest answer is a range, not one number — and anyone who quotes a flat figure before asking what the app does is guessing.
Straight pricing on mobile app development in Dhanmondi, in BDT, from one senior solo developer who scopes, designs, builds and ships the whole thing himself. Booking, ordering and single-purpose apps for clinics, coaching centres, restaurants and shops start at 50,000 BDT; a full custom app with accounts, a backend, admin panel and bKash payments starts from 3,00,000 BDT. One accountable person — no sales desk, no junior, no padded estimate.
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Every Dhanmondi business owner I talk to opens with the same line: "app development e koto taka khoroch?" It's a fair question and it deserves a fair answer, but here's the thing most quotes hide — the same sentence, "I need an app," can mean a 50,000 BDT booking screen or a 5,00,000 BDT platform, and the words give nothing away.
A diagnostic centre off Road 27 that wants patients to pick a test, book a slot and pay an advance is a different invoice from a restaurant on Satmasjid Road that wants its own ordering, delivery tracking and a kitchen dashboard. The price isn't arbitrary. It tracks the number of screens, the number of user roles, whether there's a backend and admin panel, which payments you wire in, and whether you need both Android and iOS.
Anyone who gives you a single flat figure before asking those things is either guessing or padding.
So I price the way an honest contractor prices a renovation: I look at what you actually need built, then I give you one fixed number in BDT — not a USD figure you have to convert at today's rate, and not an "estimate" that quietly doubles by launch week. The smallest engagement I take is 50,000 BDT. A focused, single-purpose app or a tight booking or ordering flow can sit inside my 90,000 and 1,50,000 BDT tiers when the scope is clean.
A genuine custom mobile app — real user accounts, a backend, an admin panel, bKash or Nagad inside, push notifications — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and gets scoped piece by piece so you can see exactly what each part of the number is buying. Payment is always 50% advance, 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer.
I'm RH Fardin, a website and app designer-developer working solo in Bangladesh for about five years. That matters to your price more than it sounds, because a software house in Dhaka has to fund an office, a sales team, project managers and three layers of staff before a single screen gets drawn — and that overhead is in your quote whether they show it to you or not. With me, the person who gives you the price is the person who builds the app. There's no markup for a lobby, no junior "learning on your project" at your expense, and no account manager whose salary you're indirectly paying. You're buying the work, not the brand around it.
The part that actually saves Dhanmondi clients money happens before any number is agreed: I'll tell you straight if you're about to overbuy. A lot of owners walk in convinced they need a full native app for both stores, when their customers would happily use a one-tap booking app that costs a third as much. Cutting scope you don't need is the single biggest lever on the final price, and I pull it on purpose even though it shrinks the invoice — because a 50,000 BDT app people actually use beats a 3,00,000 BDT one that gets eleven downloads. That's how I'd want to be quoted, so it's how I quote.
Six things that decide whether your app costs 50,000 BDT or 3,00,000 — and how I keep you from paying for the parts you don't need.
Price tracks what the app does, not how it looks. A single booking flow is the 50,000 BDT end; accounts, a backend and an admin panel push you toward 3,00,000. I scope tightly so you pay for function, not flourish.
A one-tap Progressive Web App often does the job for a third of a native build's cost. For most Dhanmondi clinics and shops it's the right call, and I'll say so even though native is the bigger invoice.
Wiring in bKash, Nagad, SSLCommerz or AamarPay with OTP, IPN callbacks and reconciliation is real work that adds to the number. I tell you upfront what each integration costs so it never ambushes you at launch.
Building Android and iOS at once roughly doubles the budget. Since most of your Dhanmondi customers are on Android, launching there first and adding iOS later when the numbers justify it keeps the price honest.
One number in BDT on the quote, 50% advance, 50% on launch. No surprise "out of scope" emails mid-build, no padded hours, no change-order invoice landing the week you finally go live.
You're not funding an office on Mirpur Road, a sales team or a project manager who forwards your messages. One senior operator does the work, so the price reflects the build — nothing else.
Somewhere in Dhanmondi there is always someone offering to build your app for 20,000 or 25,000 taka, and I understand the pull — when every quote feels like a guess, the lowest number looks like the safe one. It isn't. At that price you are not getting an app; you are getting a WebView wrapper around a website, slapped into an APK, with no backend, no real accounts and no one who will answer when bKash changes an API or Android tightens its rules and the thing stops working.
The build limps for a few months, breaks on a busy evening, and the person who made it has gone quiet. Now you pay a second developer to understand a mess nobody documented, and the 25,000 taka app has cost you more than the proper one would have. The cheapest quote in Dhanmondi almost always becomes the most expensive mistake, because price and value are not the same thing and the gap is where small businesses get burned.
What you're really paying for in a fair app price isn't lines of code — it's that the thing still runs in eighteen months and someone who understands it picks up the phone.
When I quote a Dhanmondi project, the number includes the boring parts that the cheap quotes skip: a backend that won't fall over, payment callbacks that actually reconcile, a design you signed off before I wrote a line, 30 days of free post-launch bug fixes, and full ownership of the source code and your store accounts so you're never locked in. Because I'm one accountable person and not a rotating team, the developer who knows every screen of your app is reachable on WhatsApp long after launch.
That continuity is the part of the price most owners don't value until the night something breaks — and the cheap quote never had it to sell.
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The pricing questions Dhanmondi owners actually ask me on the first call — starting with the one everyone leads with.
There's no single number, and I won't pretend there is — but here's the honest map. The smallest engagement I take is 50,000 BDT, which buys a focused booking or ordering app, or a tight single-purpose build. A fuller app with more screens, a few user roles or a cleaner booking flow sits in my 90,000 to 1,50,000 BDT tiers.
A genuine custom mobile app — real accounts, a backend, an admin panel, bKash or Nagad inside, push notifications — starts from 3,00,000 BDT and is scoped piece by piece. The final figure depends on how many roles, which integrations, and whether you need both Android and iOS. You get one fixed price in BDT after a scoping call, never a guess. Always 50% advance, 50% on launch.
Because "app" covers everything from a single booking screen to a full platform, and quotes rarely tell you which one they're pricing. The number is driven by the count of screens, how many user roles (customer, admin, staff), whether there's a backend and admin panel, which payment gateways you wire in, and whether you build Android only or both stores. A 25,000 taka quote and a 3,00,000 BDT quote can both be "an app" — one is a WebView wrapper, the other is a real product. The right way to compare quotes isn't the bottom line; it's what's actually in scope. I write the scope down so you can see exactly what your number buys.
Honestly, cut scope you don't need rather than chase the lowest quote. For most Dhanmondi clinics, salons, coaching centres and shops, a Progressive Web App that opens from a link and installs in one tap does the real job — booking, ordering, paying with bKash — for a fraction of a native build, and it starts at the 50,000 BDT tier. Launching on Android first instead of both stores is the other big saving, since nearly all your local customers are on Android. I'll show you where the money actually goes and where it's safe to trim, so the price comes down without the app turning into a broken WebView.
Always BDT, always one fixed number you don't have to convert at today's dollar rate. Payment is 50% advance to start and 50% on launch, by bKash, Nagad or bank transfer — whatever's easiest for you. There's no padded "discovery phase" invoice, no hourly meter running in the background, and no maintenance retainer you didn't agree to. If a new feature comes up after launch, I quote it separately at a transparent rate so you decide whether it's worth it. The price we shake hands on is the price you pay.
Yes, and I tell you that upfront rather than hiding it. In-app payment via bKash Tokenized Checkout, Nagad Merchant, SSLCommerz or AamarPay is real work — the OTP flow, the IPN callback, refund handling and reconciliation all have to be wired and tested, so it adds to the number. You apply for the merchant accounts yourself with your TIN, bank account and KYC, and I handle the entire technical side. I'll quote the payment integration as a clear line so you can see exactly what it costs and decide whether you need it at launch or later.
The quote covers scoping, design (which you approve in Figma before I write any code), the build, testing, store submission paperwork, going live, and 30 days of free post-launch bug fixes. You also own the full source code and your developer accounts on launch day — no lock-in. What's extra is genuinely new work: a feature that wasn't in the agreed scope, a second platform you decide to add later, or ongoing changes after the free fix window. Each of those is quoted separately at a transparent rate. There are no surprise "out of scope" charges mid-build, because we agree the scope in writing before the advance.
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