iOS App Development in Dubai

In the UAE a large share of customers, and most business buyers, use iPhones. If your app is not on the App Store, they cannot find it. Getting there takes two things: an app that feels right on an iPhone, and a clean pass through Apple's review.

• Customer apps. Ordering, bookings, accounts, loyalty, notifications and payments, with the admin screens your team needs to run it.
• Apps with the camera inside. Scans, photos and AI results on screen. Our AI Smile Scan reads a smile from the phone camera.
• iPhone and Android together. Most businesses need both. We build both from one codebase so you do not pay twice for the same screens. Read more on our mobile app development page.

Apple reviews every app and every update before it goes live, and it can reject an app for small things. We prepare for the common ones before we submit:

• Your own Apple Developer account. For a company listing Apple asks for a D-U-N-S number for your business. We guide you through it so the app shows your company name, not ours.
• Privacy details. Apple asks what data the app collects and why. A missing or wrong answer is one of the most common reasons for a rejection.
• Sign-in rules. If the app lets people sign in with Google or another account, Apple usually requires Sign in with Apple as an option too.
• Payment rules. Physical goods and services, like food, laundry or a booking, can be paid with a normal card payment. Digital content inside the app usually has to use Apple's in-app purchase. We plan this before we build, not after a rejection.
• Testing on real iPhones. You get test builds on your own phone through Apple's TestFlight every week, so you see the real app long before launch.

The ONOSONIC app on the App Store is live today. We built it for a Dubai oral-care brand and took it through Apple's review. It is also on Google Play.

1. A short chat. What the app must do, who uses it, and how it earns its keep. If a website or a web app would do the job for less, we say so. Our guide on website vs web app vs mobile app explains the difference.
2. Screens first. You click through the whole app before any code is written.
3. A fixed price in writing. Once the screens are agreed, the price is fixed.
4. Weekly test builds on your own iPhone.
5. App Store submission under your account, then updates when Apple changes its rules.

It depends on the number of screens and on whether the app needs accounts, payments or a back office. We quote a fixed price after one call. The quote covers design, the build, App Store submission and support after launch. Adding the Android version from the same code costs much less than building it separately.

Updated 28 October 2026.