App maintenance services for apps that already shipped and need a steady hand.

Picking up someone else's app starts the same way every time: a real read of the codebase before promising a timeline, not a guess based on a quick look. I check what state the architecture is actually in, what technical debt is load-bearing versus cosmetic, whether the release pipeline is trustworthy, and what the crash and store-review history looks like. Only after that does a maintenance plan or fix estimate mean anything.

This is deliberately not a rewrite-first approach. Most apps that need a rescue do not need to be rebuilt from zero — they need the actual problems fixed: the crash that keeps recurring, the release that keeps failing review, the feature that was half-built and abandoned. Rewrites are sometimes the right call, but only after the diagnosis says so, not as a default.

Crash and ANR reports get triaged by actual user impact, not by whatever is easiest to fix first. That means reading crash-reporting data properly, reproducing the failure reliably, and fixing the root cause rather than patching the symptom — a distinction that matters when the same crash keeps resurfacing release after release under a different stack trace.

Android and iOS both ship yearly OS updates that can quietly break an app that was fine last year — new permission models, deprecated APIs, changed background-execution rules, updated Play Store and App Store policy requirements. Apps that go unmaintained for even a year or two tend to accumulate a backlog of these changes that becomes its own project. Staying current, or catching up on what was missed, is core maintenance work here.

For apps that are stable but need a developer on call, a retainer covers a set amount of time each month for bug fixes, small features, dependency updates, and store-release management — without re-negotiating a new contract every time something comes up. It is the same "maintain" phase every build here ends in, just as a standing engagement instead of a one-time fix.

One of the testimonials below — "Crash fixes, launched app" — is exactly this kind of engagement: an app that needed stabilizing and a release that needed to actually go out. That is the pattern maintenance work here follows: diagnose honestly, fix what is actually broken, and get the app back to a state where it can keep shipping on its own.