You want a straight answer to one question: koto taka for a mobile app?
Most Gulshan agencies dodge it with a meeting and a vague proposal. I give you tiers, scope and a number before you commit a single taka. One senior developer designs, codes and ships the whole thing - no juniors learning on your budget.
~5 years building apps - tiers from 50,000 BDT, custom from 3,00,000 BDT, 50% advance / 50% on launch.
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The reason you can't get a price for mobile app development in Gulshan is that most quotes are written to be un-comparable on purpose. One agency quotes a 'basic app' at 80,000, another at 4 lakh, and both decline to say what's inside. The vagueness isn't an accident - it's so they can renegotiate after you've already paid an advance. I work the opposite way: you see the tier, the feature list and the number before any money moves.
Here's the honest floor. A real, store-ready mobile app starts at 50,000 BDT - that is genuinely the bottom, and below it you are buying a template or a glorified web wrapper that the Play Store will eventually flag. From there it's three clear tiers: 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app, 90,000 BDT when you need accounts, content and a few moving parts, and 1,50,000 BDT for something with proper backend logic, multiple user roles and integrations like bKash or Nagad. Anything genuinely custom - real-time features, complex dashboards, a system other apps plug into - is custom-quoted from 3,00,000 BDT.
Gulshan buyers are a specific kind of client. You're often running an established business - a restaurant, a clinic, a boutique, a service firm off Gulshan Avenue or near the lake - and you've already been burned by either an overpriced foreign-feeling agency or a cheap freelancer who vanished after the advance. So I keep it boring and accountable: 50% advance to start, 50% on launch, and a design-approval guarantee, meaning I don't write a line of production code until you've signed off on how every screen looks. You're never paying for something you haven't seen.
I'm one operator with about five years shipping apps, and that's the whole pitch. There's no account manager translating your idea badly to a developer in another room. When you message me about mobile app development in Gulshan, the person who reads it is the person who builds it. That's why my prices can be lower than an agency's and my answers faster - there's no layer to feed.
Six concrete reasons the price-to-value math works better with one senior developer than with a Gulshan agency.
You get the tier and the number before you pay anything. No 'send us a brief and we'll get back to you' stall - if your app fits 50,000, 90,000 or 1,50,000, I tell you which and why.
A Gulshan agency stacks office rent, sales staff and project managers onto your invoice. I don't have those, so the same app costs you less and I still earn fairly.
Bangladeshi users expect to pay with bKash or Nagad, not a foreign card. I wire those payment flows in properly so your app actually converts for local buyers.
No production code until you approve every screen. You see exactly what you're buying first, so 'this isn't what I imagined' never becomes a fight after launch.
Plenty of your users are on 4G in a basement or a moving CNG. I build apps that load and stay usable on weak connections, not just on office WiFi.
One senior person designs and codes your app. Questions get answered by someone who knows the code, not relayed through a junior who's guessing.
The single biggest price driver isn't 'how the app looks' - it's how much it has to think. A 50,000 BDT app shows content and does one job well: a menu, a booking form, a catalogue, a portfolio. The moment you add user accounts, saved data and a login, you're into the 90,000 tier because now there's a backend keeping state for every user.
Add real transactions - bKash/Nagad payments, order tracking, multiple roles like admin and customer, push notifications that fire on real events - and you're at 1,50,000 because each of those is a system, not a screen. When people in Gulshan are shocked by a high quote, it's almost always because the idea they described casually was secretly a 1,50,000 app wearing a 50,000 description.
The other quiet cost is the backend nobody mentions. An app on someone's phone is only half the product; the other half is the server it talks to, and that needs to be hosted, secured and maintained. A cheap quote that ignores this is setting you up to pay again later, or to watch the app die when the free trial server expires. When I quote a tier I'm pricing the whole working thing - the app, the backend it depends on, the payment integration and the launch to the store - so the number you approve is the number that gets you a live, usable app, not a demo that needs a second budget to actually function.
Clear packages, fixed quotes, paid in BDT. Pick a starting point — I'll tailor the exact scope on a quick call.
Every project starts at ৳50,000
A sharp, credible site that makes the right first impression and brings enquiries.
Books a 15-min call · fixed BDT quote · 50/50 · hosting extra
A full, professional site that ranks and converts for a growing business.
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An online store built to sell and scale.
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Need something bigger? Custom & enterprise builds from ৳3,00,000. Pay by bKash, Nagad, bank transfer or card. Ask for an exact price or send an email.
Straight answers to what Gulshan business owners actually ask before building an app.
It starts at 50,000 BDT for a focused single-purpose app and goes up by what the app has to do: 50,000 for a simple app, 90,000 when you need user accounts and content, and 1,50,000 for backend logic, multiple roles and payment integration. Genuinely custom builds are quoted from 3,00,000 BDT. I give you the exact tier once I hear your features - no vague 'it depends' meeting first.
Because there's no agency to pay for. Their quote carries office rent on Gulshan Avenue, a sales team, and project managers - all of which land on your invoice before a single feature gets built. I'm one senior developer, so you're paying for the app, not the overhead around it.
Yes, and they should - most of your Bangladeshi customers won't reach for a card. Payment integration is part of why an app moves into the 1,50,000 BDT tier, since each gateway is a real system to wire in and test, not a checkbox. I set it up so the payment actually completes and reconciles, not just opens a redirect.
50% advance to start, 50% on launch. The advance covers design and build; the balance is due when your app is live and working. There's no slice of mystery 'maintenance' money baked into the quote - the tier price is the tier price.
That's what the design-approval guarantee is for. I don't write production code until you've signed off on every screen, so you see and approve the real look first. The 'this isn't what I wanted' argument that wrecks so many app projects simply can't happen - you already approved it.
I build so the same app runs on both Android and iPhone from one codebase, which keeps you from paying twice. Most Gulshan businesses lead with Android since that's where the users are, then publish to the App Store too. The tier covers the build; the small annual Apple and Google store fees are paid directly by you to them.
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