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App Marketing Networks 2014

Indian App
Developers
Guide
Indias booming app market is ripe for companies to
launch their business into the mobile sphere. Weve
researched the best app development agencies across
the country to help you get a foothold on Indian soil.

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Indian App Developers Guide

Indias mobile app market is booming, with more than 26.5 million smartphones shipped to
the subcontinent in the second quarter of 2015, an increase of 44% from 18.4 million during
the same period in 2014.
With that kind of boom in the market, the field is ripe for companies to launch their business
into the mobile sphere, whether they be local or international. As with all markets however,
especially one as varied as India, good local knowledge is required, and that is why weve
researched the best app development agencies across the country.
Weve gone for a mix of competencies, expertise and budget-levels here, with companies
who have worked both for large enterprises and others who concentrate more on SMEs. All
of them were chosen for being extremely competent in a variety of platforms and applying
the best cutting edge technology, as well as having an office on Indian soil.
The list below is not a ranking, it is simply our favourite
app development agencies in India.
.
Weve collated the following data on them:
Main Activity: The main avenues of activity of the company, such as straight-up coding,
UX/UI design, branding and others.
Industry Focus: Previous experience with companies and the sectors in which
they operate.
Client Size: The size of the companies they usually deal with
Company Size: So you know how many people youll be dealing with

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Key Clients: The biggest and best-known clients of the developer, generally large enterprises.
Avg. Hourly Rate: A range of rates you might expect to pay for development of your app
and other services

Sourcebits

Sourcebits is an all rounder, offering services that go from mobile strategy to app development, marketing and analytics as well as lifecycle management. Their India office is in Bangalore, and in 2013 they were nominated in the World Start Up report as Gaming Industry
Leaders in India. They have offices in San Francisco, London and Greece, and despite having
some important clients like Disney and Intel, the majority of their business is SMEs, and have
recently launched App Fuel $10k worth of free app design and development for projects
over $50k.
Main Activity: Mobile App (33%), App UI/UX (33%)
Industry Focus: Retail, IT, Government, Consumer Products, Business Services (10%)
Client Size: Small Business and mid-market (40%)
Founded: 2006
Company Size: 150+
Key Clients: Bank of America, Disney, GE, Intel, MIT, IBM, P&G, Hersheys, Coca-Cola
Avg. hourly rate: $100 $149

Konstant Infosolutions

Konstant Infosolutions has an office in Jaipur, with its headquarters in the US east coast, and
is eclectic in the services it offers, from native app development for iOS, Android, iPad, Windowsphone and cross-platform using PhoneGap, to UX/UI design, mCommerce and eCommerce development, backend integration and more. Their portfolio is equally varied: since
foundation in 2003 theyve delivered 300+ mobile apps and 3500 projects, covering a huge
variety of sectors from Gaming to health care, from arts to real estate.
Main Activity: Mobile Development (45%), Web Development (30%)
Industry Focus: Health care, transportation, arts, consumer products (all 10%)
Founded: 2003

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Client Size: Midmarket (55%)
Company Size: 50-249
Key Clients: Holiday Inn, Citrix
Avg. Hourly Rate: Under $25

Viteb

Viteb boasts a strong experience in providing mobile solutions to businesses and enterprises,
having worked with technologies for field reporting, online payment methods and cloud solutions. Their model is slightly different from the other companies here in that they outsource
carefully vetted developers, chosen depending on your apps requirements. There are also
multiple hiring models, starting from Full-time (160 hours a month) to an hour-to-hour basis
for smaller projects, with full ownership of the code at the end of the project.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (45%), App UI/UX (20%),
Web Development (20%)
Industry Focus: IT, Business Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Consumer Products
and Services (all 25%)
Founded: 2005
Client Size: Small Businesses and Midmarket (70%)
Company Size: 50 249
Key Clients: Picit, Tow Help, StrongBox, Marabous, Journal of Asian Martial Arts, JDStop
Avg. Hourly Rate: $25 $49

hedgehog lab

hedgehog lab is a tech consultancy founded in 2007 which now spans the UK, the US and
India, specifically in Hyderabad. They have a particular experience with media organisations,
having worked with Channel 4, News International and the FT, to name a few. Their mobile
development services cover everything from discovery and ideation to publishing and postlaunch support, and they can do so for a wide base of platforms including iOS, Android, iOS
Wear, Android Wear, Windows Phone, HTML5 and Blackberry.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (60%), enteprise software development (20%)

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Industry Focus: NA
Founded: 2007
Client Size: Small Business (50%), Midmarket (30%)
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Key Clients: Jamie Oliver, FT, News International, Channel 4, East Coast Trains
Avg. Hourly Rate: $100 $149

Appstudioz

Appstudioz, an Affle company, calls itself a design-led engineering company, combining cutting edge technology like location-based services, Open GL and security architecture with
gorgeous UI design and an emphasis on good user experience. From their offices across the
world, the India one in Noida, UP, theyve delivered 1400+ mobile applications, both native
and cross-platform, and the guarantee 24/7 support both during development and
post-launch.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (50%), Application UI/UX (35%)
Industry Focus: Consumer products and services (15%), Media (10%), Arts, entertainment and music (10%)
Founded: 2011
Client Size: Midmarket (40%), Enterprise (35%)
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Key Clients: Samsung, Mahindra Comviva, HCL, Adidas, Reebok
Avg. Hourly Rate: $25 $49
A screenshot of Appstudioz navigation apps portfolio

source: appstudioz.com

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ChromeInfo Technologies

ChromeInfo Technologies deals with companies of all sizes and has a wide mobile portfolio
which includes trivia apps, geolocated social networks and a tourist guide to the city of Shanghai. Its headquarters are in Noida, with a client relationship office in San Jose, California. Over
the last five years theyve delivered 500+ mobile projects using their 3A Methodology: the
Adaptive Agile Approach is a collaborative method which allows you, the client, to see daily
updates on your apps progress while developers ensure functionality and excellent design.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (60%)
Industry Focus: Education (30%), IT and Transportation (both 20%)
Client Size: Midmarket (50%)
Founded: 2010
Company Size: 50-249
Key Clients: Yellowstone Wildlife, Bitesize LLC
Avg. Hourly Rate: < $25

Qburst

Qbursts focus is mid-market and small business projects, but their portfolio has all sorts of
apps in it, from social networks to game-making platforms, and video streaming to fitness
apps. Their key client roster includes AstraZeneca, Burberry and the National Geographic,
showing they have what it takes to produce high-quality applications. With their India offices
in Trivandrum, Qburst has 1000+ employees ranging from business specialists to dedicated
UX/UI designers and engineers.
Main Activity: Mobile app development (35%), Web Development (20%), BI and Big Data
Analytics and Solutions (20%)
Industry Focus: Health care and life sciences (15%), IT (10%)
Client Size: Midmarket and Small Businesses (40%)
Founded: 2004
Company Size: 1001 -9999 employees
Key Clients: National Geographic, Burberry, Dell, Peugeot
Avg. Hourly Rate: $25 $49

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[x]cube Labs

[x]cube Labs has delivered 700+ apps for big-name clients like Honeywell, Amazon and
Nokia, to name a few. Its two offices are in Kondapur, Hyderabad and Dallas, Texas. Proud of
its ability to deliver disruptive apps, it has created over $2 billion in extra business value for
its clients since foundation in 2008. To be so successful, it deals with all sorts of technologies
and solutions including wearables, gaming, cloud solutions, big data, analytics and the internet of things.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (35%), Enteprise Software Development (30%)
Industry Focus: NA
Client Size: NA
Founded: 2008
Company Size: 250-999 employees
Key Clients: Amazon, Nokia, Dreamworks, Texas Instruments
Avg. hourly rate: $25 $49

Prismetric

Prismetric, based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, offers the full suite of mobile development services for multiple platforms, both native for iOS, Android and Windows as well as Phone-Gap
for cross-platform. They also do game development, wearables (both Android and Apple),
eCommerce and marketing strategy for mobile apps. Their porftolio is very varied, with their
biggest focus being Business services at 20% of their work, but also having worked in the
transportation, arts, real estate, media and government sectors.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (70%)
Industry Focus: Business services (20%), Consumer products, IT (both 10%)
Founded: 2008
Client Size: Midmarket (50%), Enteprise (30%)
Company Size: 10-49
Key Clients: Peugeot, Singapore Post, Chase Bank
Avg. Hourly Rate: Under $25

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Digital Brand Group

Digital Brand Group is a team of mobile consultants, strategists and developers founded
in 2006 with their Indian office in Trivandrum. As well as all the services around app development, which they both natively and cross-platform, and strategy they are also experts in
brand identity creation and management. Digital Brand Group offers free different engagement models according to the level and scope of work your app requires, and are willing to
give a free online quote before they begin a project.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (45%), web development (25%)
Industry Focus: Consumer products and services (20%), Advertising and marketing
(15%), Health care and life sciences (15%)
Founded: 2006
Client Size: NA
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Key Clients: Digi-Tribute, American Honey, Hoonigan, Tamyia, Cobra
Avg. Hourly Rate: $50 $99
Screenshot of the Cinepop app by DBG

Source: Digitalbrandgroup.com

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Dot Com Infoway

Dot Com Infoway is another company whose model depends on outsourcing their mobile
development. Given the flexibility of the model and the pool of developers they have access
to, they can deliver native and cross-platform apps for all systems including Blackberry and
HTML5. With their offices in Chennai and New York, their model clearly works as theyve
created over 2000 apps in the last 15 years to 500+ clients.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (50%), App UI/UX (30%)
Industry Focus: Advertising and Marketing (50%), Business Services (30%)
Founded: 2000
Client Size: Small Business (50%), Midmarket (30%)
Company Size: 50-249
Key Clients: bWired, Forix
Avg. Hourly Rate: Under $25

Robosoft Technologies

Robosoft Technologies has worked for some of the biggest clients in India, having developed
the mobile application for NDTV, one of the countrys biggest media corporations. Their offices are in Udupi (Karnataka), Mumbai and Bengaluru as well as the US and the UK. As well
as doing app development, UX/UI design and testing, they also consult on mobile strategy
and marketing, and are particularly versed in cloud technology and data analytics.
Main Activity: End-to-end mobility solutions, Strategy, Design & Engineering
Industry Focus: Consumer Mobility, Enterprise Mobility and Games & Entertainment
Founded: 1996
Client Size: NA
Company Size: 400-500
Key Clients: ESPN, Viacom18, Sony, NDTV, Times of India, Conde Nast, Disney, Logitech,
PopCap, Vodafone and National Geographic
Avg. Hourly Rate: NA

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OpenXCell

OpenXCell prides itself in providing mobile app and web development at extremely low
costs thanks to its outsourcing model from their pool of over 100 highly qualified developers.
Theyve managed to deliver high quality products like this, having worked for large corporations like Blizzard and Unilever through the years. Their India offices are in Ahmedabad
(Gujarat) and their services cover everything from eCommerce platforms to UX/UI design,
branding, cloud deployment and QA testing.
Main Activity: Mobile App Development (70%)
Industry Focus: Media, IT, Utilities, Arts, Gaming (all 20%)
Founded: 2008
Client Size: Enterprise (45%), Midmarket (40%)
Company Size: 50-249
Key Clients: Unilever, Ubisoft, Google India
Avg. Hourly Rate: <$25

Final thoughts
India is the future for many businesses and companies, especially in the mobile sphere. We
hope the above list will help you find a partner to deliver your app to one of the worlds fastest growing mobile markets.

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