Web and mobile apps from one studio
Big agencies are slow to decide, and a single freelancer can struggle with the full breadth of a product. A studio-sized team sits comfortably between the two.
Projects run on milestones rather than an open-ended discovery phase. Every phase ends with something you can click, test, or release.
Most people who reach this page are brands hiring an app development agency. Cross-platform app development with React Native, Next.js, and production backends.
What you get
- Web and mobile apps
- Shared design systems
- API and cloud setup
- Store and web launch
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your app development agency, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On app development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for teams in Lahore stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For app development agency work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- React Native
- one codebase for iOS and Android, which halves the surface area you maintain after launch
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
- Firebase
- auth, push, and realtime sync without standing up your own infrastructure first
- AWS
- the services you grow into, once a managed platform stops being enough
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Scope and architecture
Users, data, integrations, and constraints, ending in a written plan for the app development that you approve before anyone opens an editor.
- Weeks 2-3
Design the critical path
The screens that carry the product, prototyped and clickable. Design and engineering review together, so nothing gets drawn that cannot ship.
- Weeks 4-8
Build in weekly slices
Every week ends with something on a real URL. web and mobile apps lands early, because the rest of the plan depends on it working.
- Launch
Ship, measure, hand over
Release, monitoring, analytics, and a documented handover, so your team can carry it without calling us.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on app development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in Lahore
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Lahore developer ecosystem with rising product-quality demand. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your app development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the app development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Conference App
Mobile · Flutter · Zoom
Cross-platform conference app with Firebase auth, realtime data, and Zoom video sessions.
Freelance Flutter product covering authentication, realtime storage, and Zoom API video conferencing for event attendees.
- · Cross-platform Flutter client
- · Firebase authentication
- · Realtime event data
- · Zoom video conferencing
Flutter · Firebase · Zoom API
Horizan Labs
Frontend · Internship
Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.
Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.
- · Responsive marketing pages
- · Team-based frontend delivery
- · Modern React/Next stack
- · UI performance and accessibility focus
React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL
Working with teams in Lahore
Lahore developer ecosystem with rising product-quality demand. We work with clients in Lahore remotely and keep overlapping hours in PKT. We usually collaborate in English/Urdu.
How we work with Lahore teams
Lahore sits in our own time zone, so there is no scheduling overhead: same-day answers, same-week iterations, and site visits where they are useful.
What Lahore clients usually need
Lahore work skews towards ecommerce, marketplaces, and business platforms where the buyer has a working operation and needs the software to catch up with it.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in PKR locally, with export handling for clients billing overseas. Local payment gateway integration and Urdu content support are both routine parts of scope.
