Hire iOS Developers — Ship Polished Native Apps

A focused MVP — user auth, core feature set, API integration, and basic onboarding — typically takes ten to sixteen weeks from signed contract to TestFlight-ready build, and another one to three weeks for App Store review and approval. Apps with complex offline sync, real-time features (WebSockets, push-triggered refresh), or hardware integrations (Bluetooth, camera ML, NFC) add four to eight weeks. We break this into two-week sprints with a working TestFlight build after each sprint, so you always have something testable rather than waiting until the end.

A dedicated senior iOS engineer runs $60–$90/hour. Most iOS app builds involve a two-person pod: one iOS engineer and one backend engineer if the app needs a new API, or just the iOS engineer if you already have a backend. A twelve-week MVP engagement with a single iOS engineer runs approximately $55,000–$80,000. We quote against a defined feature list and don't charge separately for App Store submission overhead, crash monitoring setup, or TestFlight configuration — those are part of a professional delivery.

Yes. Our iOS engineers have worked on mixed Objective-C/Swift codebases and understand bridging headers, toll-free bridging, and the practical cost of incrementally migrating legacy Objective-C to Swift. We'll audit your existing codebase, identify the highest-risk areas, and propose a migration plan that adds new features in Swift while stabilising existing Objective-C rather than requiring a risky big-bang rewrite.

We typically integrate Firebase Crashlytics for crash reporting (free tier covers most use cases), Firebase Analytics or Amplitude for behavioural analytics, and Sentry for non-fatal error tracking in production. If you're already using a different stack — Datadog Mobile, New Relic, or a custom analytics pipeline — we'll meet you there. We also wire up Apple's built-in crash reporting via Xcode Organizer so you have two independent sources of truth on release stability.

Offline-first iOS apps require a clear sync strategy upfront — a decision that's expensive to change later. We typically use Core Data with NSPersistentCloudKitContainer for iCloud-synced apps, SQLite via GRDB for local-first apps with custom sync, or a combination of local caching and background URLSession tasks for apps that need eventual-consistency sync with a custom backend. We document the sync model, conflict resolution strategy, and failure modes before writing implementation code, then build against it in a way your team can reason about and debug independently.