UK development team · Serving US businesses
Turn your idea into an iOS and Android app your customers love using. We design, build and connect the whole product, so you can focus on growing your business.
Share your details. We’ll call to discuss your app. No obligation.
Budget guide · Focused first versions from around $7,500.
Apps with payments, an admin portal, integrations and multiple user roles commonly fall around $15,000–$40,000. Larger platforms cost more.
Indicative only. We confirm features, delivery stages and a written quote after reviewing your scope.
ONE TEAM.
THE WHOLE PRODUCT.
Client project · Logistics
A custom web platform bringing shipment management, dispatch, depot scanning and customer communication together.
Tracking, quotes and guest access in one place.
Shipping Control Center
Delivered web platform
More than a good-looking app
Bookings, orders, payments and updates. Give people a simple reason to keep coming back.
Connect your app to the systems behind it. Less chasing, less retyping, more getting things done.
Start with the features that matter. Launch a focused first version, then build on what your users need.
See the whole picture
A great app is only half the story. We build the dashboard, data and integrations that make it work for your business.
Try a booking. Watch the dashboard update.
Interactive product concept with sample data. No real booking is made.
Try it. No real booking is made.
Your next move starts here
Answer a few short questions, then leave your name and phone number. We’ll review your project before calling you. No obligation to go ahead.
Have an early idea or an existing app? Both are welcome. There’s no obligation to go ahead with a build.
Made for your industry
From the first booking to the next order. Explore the kinds of experiences we can build around your customers and your team.
A connected customer experience
Help customers find, book or buy what they need. Give your team the tools to take care of everything that follows.
Illustrative product concept.
Interactive examples with sample data · No real orders or bookings
Everything, in one place.
THE LUNCH FAVOURITEA clear plan for a better day.
THE AUDIO EDITWhy Dicem
“We start with the business problem, not the technology.”
Dicem Limited is a UK company. You deal with the team building the software, in your working hours.
We scope against the outcome you need — fewer manual hours, more bookings, better data — before writing code.
Built for your process rather than forced into a template, so the app fits how your business actually runs.
One team for the app, the admin portal and the API layer, so responsibility never falls between suppliers.
We build AI into products where it removes real work, not as a feature added for its own sake.
A defined scope, agreed stages and regular working builds — you can see progress rather than take it on trust.
Built to carry more users, more data and more features without a rebuild in eighteen months.
Support, maintenance and further development are available after launch if you want us to stay involved.
How it works
Seven stages, each with something you can see and sign off. You are never asked to take progress on trust.
A short, agreed sprint
Tests one tightly defined workflow, often with sample data. A 14-day sprint, where agreed, covers this limited scope; it is not a complete production app or app-store launch.
Typically a few months
A focused feature set with design, development, backend work, testing and launch preparation. The scope and your feedback determine the schedule.
A phased plan after discovery
More user roles, integrations, data migration or complex workflows need additional time. We agree milestones before development begins.
Your written proposal separates prototype work, production development and launch. App-store review and third-party approvals can affect the final release date.
We work through the problem, the users and the must-have features, then set a realistic scope and budget range.
Screens, user journeys and data structure are mapped so everyone agrees what is being built before design starts.
You review the interface as a clickable prototype and change it while changes are still inexpensive.
The app, backend, database and admin portal are built in stages, with working builds you can try as we go.
Functional, device and edge-case testing across iOS and Android, plus your own acceptance testing.
We prepare the store listings, handle the submission process and get the app through review and live.
After launch we monitor, fix and build the next set of features based on how people actually use it.
What we build
Ten of the application types we are asked for most. If yours is not listed, it is still worth a conversation — everything we build is custom.
Give customers their own account, history and self-service actions instead of phone calls and email threads.
Put the job sheet, checklist or approval in the hands of the person doing the work, and see it update in real time.
Take bookings around the clock with availability rules, reminders and payment, and cut no-shows.
Connect two sides of a market with listings, verification, messaging and commission handling built in.
Track jobs from dispatch to proof of delivery, with live routing and a dispatcher view of the whole fleet.
Run recurring plans, tiers, trials and upgrades with billing and churn reporting behind the app.
Use AI where it earns its place — summarising, classifying, drafting and answering inside the product.
Coordinate visits, notes and records for care teams, with role-based access over sensitive data.
Own your ordering channel and your customer data instead of paying commission on every order.
Build a customer app that reads and writes to the CRM you already run, so nothing is entered twice.
Complete product development
An app on its own is half a product. We build the layers underneath it too, so you get a system your business can actually run on.
The system we deliver
Technology
We pick the stack that fits your project and your budget to maintain — not whatever is newest.
Questions
The questions we are asked most often, answered straight.
Focused first versions start around $7,500, and apps commonly sit in the $15,000–$40,000 range once payments, an admin portal, integrations and multiple user types are involved. Larger platforms run higher. The honest answer is that cost follows scope: the number of screens, user roles, integrations and how much needs building behind the app. We give you a written range after the assessment rather than a number before we understand the project.
A focused production app typically takes a few months. A 14-day sprint, where agreed, is limited to a prototype or proof of concept for one defined workflow. Larger platforms need a phased delivery plan. Your written proposal separates prototype work, production development and launch. App-store review and third-party approvals can affect the final release date.
Yes. We usually build cross-platform with React Native so one codebase serves iOS and Android, which keeps build and maintenance costs down. Where a project genuinely needs native iOS or Android, we will say so and explain why.
Yes. We take on rebuilds and rescues of existing apps, including projects started by another developer. We review the current code and data first, then tell you honestly whether rebuilding or continuing is the better route.
Yes, and we consider it part of the product rather than an extra. Most apps are only usable by a business if someone can manage users, content, orders and reporting from a web portal. We build that alongside the app.
Usually yes. If your CRM, ERP, booking system or accounting software has an API, we can connect to it so data flows both ways. We check integration feasibility during the assessment before anything is promised.
Yes. We build AI into applications for things like summarising records, classifying enquiries, drafting responses, search over your own documents and in-app assistants. We will also tell you when AI is not the right tool for a given feature.
Ownership of the software we build for you is set out in writing in your contract before work begins. Our standard position is that the client owns the application code on full payment. Third-party libraries and services keep their own licences.
Yes. We prepare the store listings, assets and metadata, handle the submission and work through any review feedback until the app is live. Apple and Google make the final approval decision, so no developer can guarantee acceptance.
Yes. Ongoing support, maintenance, OS updates and further feature development are available. We agree what you need at the end of the build rather than tying you into something before launch.
Yes, and we often recommend it. Building the core feature set first gets you to market sooner, keeps the initial budget lower and means later development is guided by real user behaviour rather than assumptions.
Yes. Dicem is a UK-based development company and we work with businesses internationally, including across the United States. We run meetings in your time zone and communicate in English throughout.
Share your app idea and contact details. Our team will call you to discuss your requirements, budget and next steps.
Share your details. We’ll call to discuss your app. No obligation.
