Most of your customers are already browsing your store on their phones. A dedicated app gives them something a mobile browser tab can't: saved payment details, push notifications, biometric login, and a faster checkout. We've been building custom Shopify apps since 2017, and every mobile app we ship is wired directly to your store via the Storefront API. Your Shopify admin stays the one place you manage everything.
We use React Native for most projects. One codebase covers iOS and Android, which keeps cost down and keeps both apps moving in sync. For brands that need deep platform-specific capabilities (think intensive AR, complex animations, or low-level hardware access), we build natively in Swift or Kotlin instead.
A fully branded shopping app for iPhone and iPad, listed on the Apple App Store. We take care of Face ID / Touch ID biometric auth, Apple Pay, and push notifications via APNs. All the things iPhone users expect to just work. They do.
A fully branded shopping app for Android phones and tablets, listed on Google Play. Google Pay, biometric auth, and Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications, working across the full spread of Android devices your customers actually use.
The core feature set covers everything a shopping app needs to work well. Beyond that, we build in whatever makes sense for your brand: loyalty programmes for repeat-purchase stores, subscription management for subscription businesses, or B2B-specific flows for brands with trade customers. You can also see our custom Shopify app development work for more on backend capabilities.
The mobile app connects to your Shopify store through the Storefront API: Shopify's GraphQL API built for customer-facing commerce. This means the app is always live and in sync with your store. There's no separate product catalogue to manage, no separate inventory system to maintain. Every product update, price change, inventory adjustment, promotional discount, or new collection you publish in your Shopify admin shows up in the app immediately. Your store admin is the single source of truth. That's it. Customer accounts, orders, and checkout all run through Shopify too, so your support team, fulfilment workflow, and reporting stay exactly as they are. The app is an additional channel, not a parallel system. If you're also looking at Shopify Plus, the same principle applies across all your channels.
Mobile web experiences are decent. A purpose-built, branded app is better: for retention, conversion, average order value, and the relationship your customers have with your brand.
React Native lets us build for both iOS and Android from a shared codebase. That keeps cost down and development time manageable while delivering a smooth, performant experience on both platforms. Where platform-specific requirements demand it, we build natively in Swift or Kotlin. Our team of 30+ in-house specialists (no freelancers, no outsourcing) handles the full stack.
Discovery to App Store live. Every mobile app project follows a five-phase process with clear milestones, regular demos on real devices, and full documentation at handover. No surprises mid-project.
We document every required feature, user flow, integration point, and design requirement before anything else happens. Platform targets are confirmed, and a milestone-based project plan is agreed. You get a detailed feature specification and cost breakdown out of this phase, not just a rough estimate.
Our designers create wireframes for every screen, then high-fidelity mockups in your brand's visual identity: typography, colour, iconography, and micro-interactions. iOS and Android design conventions are both respected. Everything is reviewed and signed off before development begins.
React Native development kicks off with the Shopify Storefront API connected from day one. We build in two-week sprints with working demos on real devices after each one. Push notifications, payment methods, and all secondary features are built and tested incrementally. Nothing gets left to the end. We also do the performance work during this phase, not as an afterthought.
We test across a range of physical iOS and Android devices: multiple screen sizes, OS versions, and network conditions. All user flows are tested including checkout with real payment methods. Performance, accessibility, and edge cases are covered before any submission goes in.
We prepare all App Store metadata, screenshots, app preview assets, and content ratings. Both Apple App Store and Google Play submissions are managed by our team. If there's any reviewer feedback, we respond and resubmit until the app is approved and live. You don't have to touch any of it.
It depends on the platform targets, the number of features, design complexity, and any custom integrations. A well-featured Shopify mobile app covering browsing, cart and checkout, customer accounts, push notifications, and wishlists typically starts from $15,000 to $30,000 for a single platform.
A dual-platform app (iOS and Android) built in React Native typically runs from $20,000 to $50,000+. Apps with advanced features such as loyalty programmes, subscription management, AR product visualisation, or deep ERP integration sit higher than that.
We’ll give you a detailed, itemised estimate after a proper discovery session. No guesswork.
The app connects through Shopify’s Storefront API: a GraphQL API built specifically for customer-facing commerce. Every product, price, inventory level, collection, and promotion in your Shopify admin is available in real time through this API.
Managing the app’s product catalogue is identical to managing your web store. It’s all done in your Shopify admin. Customer accounts, orders, and checkout all flow through Shopify, so your support team and fulfilment workflow don’t change at all.
A well-featured Shopify mobile app typically takes 12 to 20 weeks from kick-off to App Store and Google Play approval. That includes 3–4 weeks of design, 8–12 weeks of development, 2–3 weeks of QA testing on real devices, and the App Store review process.
Apple’s review typically takes 1 to 3 business days for new apps. Google Play’s is usually faster. Complex apps with advanced integrations can run up to 24 weeks. We’ll give you a milestone-based timeline after scoping your specific requirements.
React Native is the right choice for most Shopify mobile apps. It uses a single codebase for both iOS and Android, delivers near-native performance, supports all Shopify API integrations, and costs significantly less than building two fully native apps separately.
Fully native development (Swift for iOS, Kotlin for Android) is only worth it when the app needs highly platform-specific capabilities that React Native can’t handle: intensive graphics, deep hardware access, or complex AR. For eCommerce, React Native works well in almost every case.
Yes. We handle the full submission process for both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store as part of every project. That includes configuring App Store Connect and Google Play Console, preparing app metadata, generating screenshots and preview assets, completing content rating questionnaires, and managing the review process through to approval.
You don’t need to manage any part of the submission yourself. If Apple or Google raises any feedback during review, we respond and resubmit until the app is live.
Yes. Push notifications are standard in every Shopify mobile app we build. The system supports promotional campaigns (new arrivals, sales, exclusive offers), transactional notifications (order confirmed, shipping dispatched, delivered), cart abandonment reminders, back-in-stock alerts, and wishlist price-drop notifications.
Campaigns are managed via a backend dashboard your marketing team can use independently. They can schedule, target customer segments, and send notifications without involving a developer. iOS notifications go via APNs; Android via Firebase Cloud Messaging.
Yes. Authentication runs via Shopify’s Customer Account API. Existing customers log in with the same credentials as your web store. Their order history, saved addresses, wishlist, and loyalty points are all right there in the app.
New customers can register directly in the app, and their account is created in your Shopify admin automatically. Biometric authentication (Face ID on iOS, fingerprint on Android) can be turned on for returning customers. Shopify’s new Customer Accounts system is supported.
The app supports all payment methods already active on your Shopify store, because checkout runs through Shopify’s native checkout infrastructure. That includes Shopify Payments (all major cards), Shop Pay, Apple Pay (iOS), Google Pay (Android), PayPal, and any Buy Now Pay Later options you’ve enabled like Klarna, Afterpay, or Affirm.
Customers can save their payment method for one-tap checkout on future orders. The app doesn’t handle card data directly. All payment processing goes through Shopify’s PCI-compliant infrastructure.
Standard features in every app we build: product browsing with search and filtering, collections, product detail pages with variants and media galleries, cart and checkout, customer accounts, order history and tracking, push notifications, and wishlists.
Additional features we build on request: loyalty programme integration, product reviews display, subscription management (Recharge, Skio), referral programmes, multi-currency and multi-language support, barcode scanning, social login (Apple, Google), live chat integration, personalised product recommendations, and AR product visualisation where it fits your product type. Our New York team can walk you through what makes sense for your specific store.
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