The honest answer
An app costs more than a website, and the price range in Nepal is genuinely wide. A small utility can come in under a few thousand rupees worth of simple development. A serious product with accounts, data, and polish runs into the lakhs. The number follows the job.
What the budget covers
A realistic app budget has more than the coding line. We list it so it surprises nobody later.
- Design and planning: wireframes, flows, and a tested interface before the code.
- Development for each platform the app runs on.
- Backend and data: where the app stores and shares information.
- Testing on the real devices people actually use.
- Deployment: app store accounts, cloud hosting, SSL, and launch setup, which we price from NPR 15,000.
- Ongoing maintenance, because an app in the store needs updates to stay alive.
The cost nobody plans for: upkeep
Operating systems change and devices get updated, so an app quietly needs a maintenance plan the way a car needs service. Our maintenance packages start at NPR 10,000 a month, and for an app that recurring cost matters more than the build, because an app that stops working quietly loses both users and trust.
Start smaller than you think
The most expensive app mistake is building everything at once. A lean first version that does one job well tells you what your users actually need, and the money spent discovering that is the best money in the project.
We have built everything from small offline utilities to full systems. The successful ones all started with a focused question: what is the one thing this must do better than anything else?
