A freelance mobile app developer who owns the build end to end.

The honest case for a freelance mobile app developer over an agency comes down to two things: no layer between you and the person writing the code, and no markup for account managers and junior staff you never asked for. When you hire me, you get 8+ years of production app delivery directly — the person who scopes the project is the person who builds it and the person who answers when something breaks after launch.

The honest case against it: I am one person. For larger scopes I bring in trusted specialists rather than pretending I can do everything alone, but I stay the single point of ownership rather than handing you off to a project manager. If a build genuinely needs a ten-person team from day one, that is a different kind of engagement than the ones I take.

A few things worth checking before hiring anyone for a mobile build, freelancer or agency:

It means the same person scopes the architecture, writes the code, sets up the release pipeline, submits to the App Store and Google Play, and stays on for the maintenance that follows — fixing bugs, keeping up with OS updates, and shipping the next round of features. Nothing gets lost in a hand-off between a build team and a separate support team, because there is no hand-off.

Native Android with Jetpack Compose, iOS with SwiftUI, Kotlin Multiplatform where sharing logic across platforms genuinely pays off, and Compose Multiplatform where a shared UI is the right call for desktop and mobile together. Backend work — Ktor services, Supabase and Postgres, Firebase — when the app needs a server side, not just a client. See the toolkit on the homepage for the full list.

Founders scoping a first mobile app who want one accountable person rather than a large team overhead. Teams that need senior implementation support without adding management layers. Anyone with an existing app that needs a developer who can read someone else's code and pick up where it left off, without a lengthy ramp-up.