Mobile App Development Company Edinburgh

Native and cross-platform mobile app development for Edinburgh businesses that need App Store-ready products, compliance-aware architecture, and senior engineering ownership from discovery through to launch, built for a city that has been researching AI since 1963 and now manages more institutional investment than any UK city outside London.
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4.9

Google Rating

97%

Client Retention

15+

Industries Served

Global

Delivery

Built with Precision. Validated by Results.

Edinburgh businesses need a mobile development partner who ships on schedule, communicates clearly, and builds apps that hold up under App Store review and real user load. Every Akoode project runs through our in-house team from architecture to deployment, no handoffs, no surprises.

Proven Delivery Track Record

We build scalable mobile products for Edinburgh startups, asset managers, and enterprise teams across Scotland's financial and technology sectors. Every engagement follows a structured roadmap with milestone tracking, sprint reviews, and clear delivery accountability from day one.

Transparent Collaboration, Edinburgh Timezone

Our teams keep dedicated UK-India overlap hours for real-time communication during planning, reviews, and deployment, with Edinburgh clients staying connected through Slack, Jira, GitHub, and weekly sprint reporting for the length of the engagement.

Long-Term Technology Partners

Edinburgh clients tend to stay with Akoode well past their first release, because we architect for maintainability from the outset rather than leaving a rebuild waiting two years down the line.

Recognised on Clutch and Google

Akoode is well rated on Clutch and Google across FinTech, HealthTech, SaaS, and enterprise technology, and our mobile engineers ship production work daily in Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, and AI-integrated mobile features.

Platform Ratings

What our clients say across leading platforms.

Google, 4.9 out of five stars
Google
4.9
Clutch, 5.0 out of five stars
Clutch
5.0
GoodFirms, 4.8 out of five stars
GoodFirms
4.8

What clients love about working with us

On-Time Delivery

97% of projects delivered within committed timelines. Milestone tracking and sprint accountability keep every engagement on schedule.

Clear Communication

Dedicated UK-India overlap hours for real-time collaboration during planning, sprint reviews, and deployment cycles.

Quality and Reliability

Scalable, secure, production-ready mobile apps built with documented architecture and clean code standards from day one.

Long-Term Partnership

Most clients continue working with Akoode well beyond launch. We design for maintainability so scaling doesn't mean rebuilding.

Why Edinburgh Businesses Need Research-Grade Mobile Engineering

Edinburgh has been building artificial intelligence for longer than almost anywhere else in the world. In 1963, Donald Michie, a Bletchley Park codebreaker who had worked alongside Alan Turing, founded Europe's first AI research group at the University of Edinburgh, making it only the second university anywhere, after Stanford, to teach the subject. Sixty years of continuous AI and computer science research followed. A mobile app built in Edinburgh sits in a city that has been asking hard questions about what a machine can reliably do since before most software companies existed.

The same city manages more institutional money than any other part of the UK outside London. Edinburgh is the UK's second-largest financial centre, home to Baillie Gifford, an independent investment manager founded in the city in 1908 that now manages over £286 billion in assets, and to a BlackRock office that, when fully built out, will become one of the firm's largest sites globally. Money at that scale does not tolerate a slow or inaccurate app, whether it is client-facing or internal.

Akoode works with Edinburgh-based founders, CTOs, and product teams who want mobile engineering held to the same research discipline and financial-grade reliability this city has built its reputation on. Our teams have delivered across FCA workflows, NHS Digital standards, and enterprise security requirements, building native and cross-platform mobile apps across Edinburgh and the wider UK mobile app development market that meet App Store and Play Store expectations from day one. 

Market Position

Edinburgh is the UK's second-largest financial centre by assets under management, home to global asset managers including Baillie Gifford and a major BlackRock office.

Timezone Overlap

4 to 6 hours of daily UK-India crossover enables active collaboration throughout Edinburgh business hours.

Research Heritage

Home to Europe's first AI research group, founded at the University of Edinburgh in 1963, still active today as the School of Informatics.

Sector Depth

Deep delivery experience across Edinburgh's dominant verticals: asset management, insurance, FinTech, HealthTech, and enterprise SaaS.

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The Future of Mobile App Development in Edinburgh

AI-powered mobile engineering and scalable app solutions for modern Edinburgh businesses. 

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Mobile App Development Services in Edinburgh

Akoode delivers full-cycle mobile app development services in Edinburgh, covering product strategy, UI/UX, engineering, AI features, and post-launch optimisation for startups, scale-ups, and enterprise businesses.

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Native and Cross-Platform Mobile App Development in Edinburgh

Akoode builds native iOS and Android apps and cross-platform apps using Flutter and React Native for Edinburgh businesses across asset management, FinTech, insurance, and healthcare. We handle the full lifecycle: architecture, UI design, backend integration, App Store and Google Play deployment, and ongoing optimisation.

  • Native iOS development in Swift and SwiftUI
  • Native Android development in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
  • Cross-platform apps using Flutter and React Native
  • Biometric authentication and secure API integrations
  • App Store and Google Play deployment management
Tech Stack:Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Firebase, Expo
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AI-Powered Mobile Apps for Edinburgh Businesses

Edinburgh businesses are moving AI from proof-of-concept into production mobile experiences, in a city where AI research has been a serious discipline since 1963. Akoode builds AI-powered mobile features using RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, computer vision, and predictive analytics, covering in-app assistants, document scanning, personalised recommendations, and intelligent automation, all built for UK GDPR-aligned data handling.

  • In-app LLM assistants using OpenAI, Claude, and open-source models
  • Computer vision for document and image capture features
  • Predictive analytics and recommendation engines
  • AI-powered workflow automation inside the mobile app
  • Secure, explainable AI aligned with UK GDPR standards
Tech Stack:OpenAI, LangChain, PyTorch, Vector Databases, Python
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Mobile Backend and API Development in Edinburgh

A mobile app is only as reliable as the backend behind it, and that matters more in a city managing hundreds of billions of pounds in assets. Akoode designs and builds APIs and backend services that support real-time features, secure authentication, and third-party integrations, including Open Banking APIs and payment processors, for Edinburgh mobile products that need to scale.

  • RESTful and GraphQL API design with clear documentation
  • Open Banking integrations via TrueLayer, Plaid, and direct bank APIs
  • Real-time features via WebSockets and push notification infrastructure
  • Third-party and legacy system integrations
  • API security, rate limiting, and enterprise authentication
Tech Stack:Node.js, FastAPI, Python, GraphQL, OAuth 2.0, Docker
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Mobile MVP Development for Edinburgh Founders

Getting a mobile app to market fast without accumulating technical debt is the challenge every Edinburgh founder faces. Akoode's mobile MVP process prioritises speed and scalability, building the core app functionality needed to test assumptions and attract early users, without architectural shortcuts that become expensive problems later.

  • Scoped MVP delivery with defined milestones and transparent pricing
  • Architecture decisions made with scale in mind from week one
  • UI and UX design optimised for user testing and early conversion
  • Backend and API structure ready for feature expansion post-launch
  • Post-MVP product roadmap included in every engagement
Tech Stack:React Native, Flutter, Node.js, Firebase, PostgreSQL
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Mobile App UI/UX Design for Edinburgh Products

An app that confuses a first-time user gets uninstalled within minutes, regardless of the engineering quality underneath. Akoode's design team builds mobile interfaces around real user behaviour and platform conventions, following Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Material Design principles so an Edinburgh app feels genuinely native on both iOS and Android.

  • User research and journey mapping before any screen is designed
  • Platform-native design following Apple HIG and Material Design
  • Interactive prototypes tested with real users before development
  • Accessibility-aware design aligned with WCAG 2.1 AA standards
  • Design systems built for consistency as the app grows
Tech Stack:Figma, Flutter, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose
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Post-Launch Support and App Store Optimisation in Edinburgh

Launch day is the start of a mobile app's life, not the end of the project. Akoode provides ongoing support, crash monitoring, and App Store optimisation to keep an Edinburgh app performing, ranking, and converting well after the initial release.

  • Crash monitoring, performance tracking, and rapid bug fixes
  • App Store and Google Play listing optimisation for discovery
  • Usage analytics dashboards to guide the post-launch roadmap
  • Regular OS compatibility updates for new iOS and Android releases
  • Ongoing feature development based on real user data
Tech Stack:Firebase, Sentry, Amplitude, App Store Connect, Google Play Console
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How Akoode Delivers Mobile App Development Projects in Edinburgh

A structured six-stage delivery process keeps every Edinburgh mobile engagement on track, transparent, and accountable, from the first technical conversation through to launch and beyond. 

Technologies Used by Our Edinburgh Mobile App Development Team

Proven technology choices, selected based on performance profile and long-term supportability. No experimental frameworks introduced mid-project.

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Outcomes You Can Take to Your Board Meeting

Real mobile projects, measurable results. Shipping speed, App Store performance, and product impact you can report upward. 

Building a Closed-Loop Ambassador Referral Platform for a Tourist Attraction

Key Outcomes

4

Commission Tiers

5-Minute

Sync Cadence

Challenge

None of this broke all at once. As the partner base grew past what a spreadsheet or a verbal agreement could realistically track, four problems started compounding on top of each other.

What We Built

Digitizing the spreadsheet was never really the goal. The brief was to replace a process that was blind to attribution with a closed-loop system where every sale, commission, and payout could be traced end to end.

Building a Real Estate CRM That Runs the Whole Brokerage — Web Dashboard, Field Mobile App, and Subscription Billing

Key Outcomes

16

Feature Modules

4

Property Categories

Challenge

None of these problems were dramatic on their own. A duplicated call here, a stale price there. What made them expensive was how they fed each other — because listings lived in one place and enquiries in another, no agent could verify anything while standing in front of a client, so they guessed, and every guess created a correction somewhere downstream.

What We Built

We were explicit with the client early on: layering software over the existing spreadsheet habits would just add a fourth place to look. The brief we agreed on was replacement. Everything an agent touches during a working day had to live in the new system by launch, or the old habits would survive alongside it and nothing would change.

Vallo Parking - A Three-Surface Parking Platform

Key Outcomes

3

Connected surfaces

4

Sign-in paths

Challenge

No single failure here was fatal on its own. Stacked together, they were. A driver who can't check availability arrives at a full lot. A driver who can't pay in advance queues at the barrier. A lot with no arrival record can't settle a dispute. An owner who can't list a space themselves waits on staff. And a business with no console can't see any of it happening. Every gap made the next one more expensive.

What We Built

The client wasn't asking for a listings app with a payment button bolted on. They needed the whole operation to run on software: the driver's journey from search to departure, the owner's ability to put inventory on the platform without help, and their own ability to see and control all of it. Three audiences, one system, no manual bridge between them.

What Our Clients Say

Akoode technologies completely revamped my website. They did better than I expected, but what I really appreciated was how they always took their time to ensure I knew what was happening every step of the way. They continued to work with me even after the project was completed, taking care of everything I asked time and time again. I highly recommend them and I would certainly use them again in the future, no hesitation.

Raphael Jube

Mobile Apps Built for Edinburgh's Most Demanding Sectors

Akoode has delivered mobile apps across the UK's most technically complex and heavily regulated industries, from FCA-supervised financial platforms to NHS-adjacent HealthTech and high-growth SaaS businesses.

Healthcare

NHS-adjacent patient engagement and telehealth apps built with HIPAA and UK GDPR-aware data handling from the first architecture decision, supporting appointment scheduling, secure messaging, and remote monitoring through HL7 FHIR-integrated systems for Edinburgh's hospital trusts and health providers. 

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Retail and E-Commerce

Mobile-first headless commerce apps built on Shopify Plus and custom stacks, with AI-powered personalisation and product recommendations built into the app itself, giving Edinburgh's independent and national retailers a mobile storefront that actually converts.

Retail and E-Commerce
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Media and Entertainment

Mobile content and digital publishing apps with subscription and paywall management built for the UK market, alongside video streaming and AI-powered content tagging that keeps an Edinburgh media app's discovery experience sharp as its catalogue grows, including around Fringe season traffic spikes. 

Media and Entertainment
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Finance and Banking

Mobile apps built for FCA-regulated FinTech and asset management businesses, with KYC and AML onboarding, Open Banking integrations through TrueLayer and Plaid, and real-time fraud detection engineered to the standard a city managing over a trillion pounds in assets already demands. 

Finance and Banking
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Automotive

Connected vehicle apps and telematics integrations for fleet management and route optimisation, alongside dealer and aftersales service portal apps, built for automotive and mobility businesses operating across Edinburgh and the Lothians. 

Automotive
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Agriculture

Smart farming and precision agriculture apps with IoT sensor integration for crop monitoring, paired with supply chain traceability features for Scottish food and drink production networks, giving agtech operators reliable field data even outside strong signal coverage.

Agriculture
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Telecommunication

Customer self-service and billing management apps for telecom operators, built with network status and fault reporting features and AI-powered churn prediction, so an Edinburgh telecom provider's app becomes a genuine support channel rather than a source of frustration.

Telecommunication
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Manufacturing

Shop floor mobile apps for production monitoring, connected to IoT-enabled machine monitoring and mobile-integrated ERP systems, built for manufacturers across the wider Edinburgh and Lothians industrial base who need real-time visibility, not a delayed end-of-shift report. 

Manufacturing
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Public Sector and Government

Secure citizen-facing mobile service apps built with accessibility as a first-class requirement, aligned with GOV.UK design principles and integrated with UK and Scottish government APIs and data standards, so Edinburgh public sector apps genuinely work for residents.

Public Sector and Government
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Real Estate

Property listing and viewing scheduling apps with AI-powered valuation analytics built in, alongside mobile CRM and client portal apps for estate agencies, built for an Edinburgh property market shaped by the city's distinct New Town and Old Town character and strong buyer demand. 

Real Estate
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Energy and Utilities

Smart meter mobile apps with real-time consumption analytics, grid fault reporting features, and Ofgem-aware compliance architecture, giving Edinburgh energy and utility providers a mobile channel customers can actually use to track and manage their own usage. 

Energy and Utilities
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Travel and Hospitality

Booking and reservation management apps with dynamic pricing and real-time availability, plus guest experience and loyalty programme features integrated with GDS, OTA, and payment processor systems, built for a city whose tourism and festival trade produces some of the sharpest seasonal demand swings in the UK. 

Travel and Hospitality
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Education

LMS-connected mobile learning apps with live class and webinar tools, progress tracking, and mobile assessment flows, built for edtech teams translating classroom or corporate training into a product that fits a city home to some of the UK's oldest and most research-active universities.

Education
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Insurance

Mobile policy administration and claims apps with document capture and real-time status tracking, paired with fraud detection and risk scoring integrations, built to reduce the friction that usually pushes an Edinburgh insurance customer back toward the phone. 

Insurance
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Logistics and Supply Chain

Real-time fleet tracking and route optimisation apps paired with warehouse management tools and end-to-end shipment visibility, built for logistics operators serving Edinburgh and the wider east of Scotland corridor who need live, accurate data rather than a status update that arrives too late.

Logistics and Supply Chain
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Why Edinburgh Mobile Teams Choose Akoode as Their Engineering Partner

Senior-led delivery, AI-first engineering, and a no-subcontracting model that gives Edinburgh clients direct access to the people building their app. 

Awards & Recognitions

Recognised by leading platforms, startup ecosystems, and global technology communities.

Top US-Based IT Services Firm 2026
Clutch
Outlook
Ai Automation
Business Standard
YourStory
Good Firms
Top Machine Learning Companies - Goodfirms
Top eCommerce Development Company
Entrepreneur
ZBusiness
Times of India
Hindustan Times
Top US-Based IT Services Firm 2026
Clutch
Outlook
Ai Automation
Business Standard
YourStory
Good Firms
Top Machine Learning Companies - Goodfirms
Top eCommerce Development Company
Entrepreneur
ZBusiness
Times of India
Hindustan Times

No Subcontracting, Your Project Stays In-House

Every Akoode engagement runs entirely inside our own in-house team. Edinburgh clients work directly with the developers, architects, designers, and strategists actually responsible for delivery, with no third-party shops and no white-labelling anywhere in the process.

AI-First Mobile Engineering, Live in Production

Akoode builds AI directly into production mobile apps, from document analysis to intelligent automation, recommendation engines, and AI-powered search. These are live features generating measurable commercial returns, not research demos, fittingly for a city with genuine AI research roots.

Senior Engineers Lead Every Edinburgh Engagement

A senior engineer leads every Edinburgh project, directly involved in architecture decisions, sprint reviews, and deployment, writing code alongside the team rather than managing tickets from a distance.

Compliance Designed In From the Start

Akoode designs mobile apps around UK GDPR, App Store and Play Store review guidelines, and regulated industry workflows from the first design sprint, particularly critical in a city built around financial services, rather than retrofitting compliance before submission.

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Flexible Engagement Models for Edinburgh Mobile App Development Projects

Choose how you want to work with us. Every model includes dedicated engineers, full IP ownership, transparent communication, and direct access to the people building your product. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers on process, pricing, timelines, compliance, and what working with Akoode actually looks like for Edinburgh mobile app projects. 

Mobile app development costs in Edinburgh depend on scope, complexity, platform choice, and engagement model, and typically come in below equivalent London pricing for the same depth of work. An MVP typically starts from £20,000 to £50,000 depending on feature depth and whether it targets one or both platforms. Akoode provides detailed scoping and transparent pricing during discovery.
Akoode works across the full spectrum: early-stage Edinburgh startups building their first app, growth-stage companies scaling an existing product, and enterprise or asset management teams running larger mobile transformation programmes. Startups typically work on fixed-cost MVP engagements, while larger firms tend to move to dedicated team or staff augmentation models.
A dedicated team provides a complete cross-functional unit, developers, QA, designers, and a technical lead, working on your app full-time as an extension of your organisation. Staff augmentation adds individual specialist engineers directly into your existing in-house team to fill specific skill gaps or accelerate velocity.
Timelines depend on scope and complexity. A well-scoped MVP typically takes eight to twelve weeks from discovery to App Store submission. An app with real-time features, payment integration, or complex backend logic usually requires three to five months. During discovery, we produce a realistic project roadmap with milestone dates before development begins.
Compliance is addressed at the architecture stage, not bolted on before launch. For Edinburgh clients, particularly the asset management and FinTech firms this city is known for, our teams map UK GDPR requirements, data residency obligations, and FCA-relevant regulations into the app design from the first sprint.
Yes. Akoode signs NDAs before any detailed technical or commercial discussions. All intellectual property created during the engagement transfers fully to the client, and Akoode retains no rights to the code, designs, or product documentation delivered under the engagement.
Submit your project requirements through the contact form on this page. A senior member of the Akoode team will review your submission and respond within one business day. If your project is complex, we'll recommend a paid discovery engagement to produce a detailed technical scope and delivery roadmap before a fixed commitment is made.
It depends on your priorities. Native Swift and Kotlin apps give the best performance and deepest platform integration, which matters most for apps with heavy device feature use. Flutter or React Native gets a single codebase to both platforms faster and at lower cost, which suits most MVPs and business apps. We recommend the right approach during discovery based on your actual requirements.
Our teams operate dedicated UK-India overlap hours that cover the majority of the Edinburgh working day. Planning sessions, sprint reviews, design critiques, and deployment calls are scheduled during this window, and clients communicate directly with their development team through Slack, Jira, and GitHub throughout the project.
Akoode has taken over mobile projects started by other development teams on multiple occasions. The process starts with a technical audit of the existing codebase, App Store account, and documentation. Our senior engineers assess quality, identify risks, and produce a remediation plan before development continues.
Submission is part of every mobile engagement. Our team handles listing preparation, metadata, privacy disclosures, and the review guideline issues that most commonly cause a first submission to bounce back, so Edinburgh clients are not learning App Store and Play Store review requirements for the first time on launch day.
Yes. AI development is a core capability, not an add-on. Akoode builds in-app AI features using RAG pipelines, LLM integrations, computer vision, and predictive analytics, covering document analysis, intelligent search, recommendation engines, and operational automation, all built with explainability and UK GDPR-aligned data handling as standard.
Our strongest sector experience in the Edinburgh mobile market covers asset management, FinTech, insurance, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS. For financial services, we have delivered mobile apps across FCA-regulated platforms and Open Banking integrations. For healthcare, our work includes NHS-adjacent apps and HL7 FHIR-integrated patient engagement tools.

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