Our iOS app development team designs, builds and launches custom iPhone and iPad apps for businesses, churches, nonprofits and founders. Your app comes from the same team that publishes its own apps on the App Store.
As an iPhone app development company that also builds and manages websites, we build custom iOS apps for businesses, churches, nonprofits and founders. Here are common kinds of iPhone and iPad apps and the features people usually want in each. Yours can mix and match.
Custom business apps
Your own app for customer accounts, quotes, orders and service requests, connected to the systems you already run, for small businesses and enterprise teams alike.
Customer accounts
Service requests
Push notifications
Field service and employee apps
Job lists, inspections, checklists, photos and time tracking for crews in the field, synced back to the office.
Inspections
Job photos
Works offline
Healthcare and medical apps
Appointment requests, visit reminders, check-in and care instructions for practices, clinics and wellness providers.
Appointment requests
Visit reminders
Care instructions
Fitness and wellness apps
Class schedules, workout plans, progress tracking and member check-in for gyms, studios and coaches.
Class schedules
Progress tracking
Member check-in
Restaurant and food ordering apps
Menus, order ahead, pickup and delivery updates, and rewards that bring your regulars back.
Order ahead
Delivery updates
Rewards
E-commerce and retail apps
Your catalog, checkout, order tracking and member offers in an app your best customers keep on their home screen.
Product catalog
Order tracking
Member offers
Real estate and property listing apps
Searchable listings with photos, maps, saved favorites and showing requests for brokers, agents and property managers.
Listing search
Maps and photos
Showing requests
Booking and scheduling apps
Appointments for salons, coaches, tutors and service businesses, with reminders and easy rescheduling.
Online booking
Reminders
Rescheduling
Church apps
Sermons, events, giving links, prayer requests and check-in in one church app, from a team led by a senior pastor.
Sermons
Giving links
Prayer requests
Nonprofit, membership and event apps
Member directories, event registration and check-in, volunteer sign-ups and donation links in one place.
Member directory
Event check-in
Volunteer sign-ups
Startup and MVP apps
App development for startups: a focused first version, tested with real users on TestFlight, then launched on the App Store.
Focused first version
TestFlight beta
App Store launch
Game apps
Puzzle, word and multiplayer games with leaderboards, achievements and rewards, like the games we publish.
Leaderboards
Multiplayer
Rewards
Turn your website into an app
Already have a website? We can turn it into a native iPhone app that shares its content and adds what only an app can do, like push notifications, saved accounts and offline access. Apple can reject apps that simply repackage a website, so we build the real thing.
Each one is published by CalTech Web on the App Store, so you can download it and try our work for yourself. Under each app is what the same work can do in an app built for you.
Little Way Home
Puzzle game · iPhone
An undersea block puzzle with more than 230 levels, where a crew of crabs carries blocks home to their burrow.
For your app: The same tools can power loyalty points, member badges and progress that follows a customer from one device to the next.
Every feature below is running today in one of our own apps or our TestFlight test builds.
Native iPhone and iPad apps
Written in Swift and SwiftUI, Apple's own tools, so your app feels at home on every iPhone and iPad.
Built in: DownAcross, Glowgrid
Real-time sharing
Several people working on the same data at once and seeing each other's changes as they happen.
Built in: DownAcross
App and website together
One back end behind your app and a browser version, so people without an iPhone can still take part.
Built in: DownAcross
iCloud sync
Progress and data that follow your users from one Apple device to the next.
Built in: Little Way Home, Glowgrid
Accounts and sign-in
Sign in with Apple or an emailed code, with account deletion handled the way Apple requires.
Built in: Our TestFlight test builds
Push notifications
Timely reminders and alerts your users choose to receive, with a clear switch to turn them off.
Built in: Our TestFlight test builds
Leaderboards and achievements
Game Center scores, rankings and achievements that give people a reason to come back.
Built in: Little Way Home, Glowgrid
Works offline
Apps that keep working in a dead zone, on a plane or out in the field.
Built in: Glowgrid
Invite links and codes
Bring people in with a link or a short code, so a whole group can join in seconds.
Built in: DownAcross
Usage and crash reports
Know which features people use and fix problems before most users ever notice them.
Built in: Little Way Home
Ads and rewards
Optional rewarded videos with the consent screens privacy law requires, when ads fit your model.
Built in: Little Way Home
Privacy done right
App Store privacy details, a privacy policy and a support page in place before your app ships.
Built in: Every app we publish
How it works
Our iOS app development process
Here is how to make an app for your business with us: five steps from first call to App Store, with a working build on your own phone long before launch day.
STEP 1
Talk it through
A 30-minute call with Brandon about your app, who will use it and what it needs to do on day one.
STEP 2
Written scope and quote
What the app will do, in writing, with a quote, before any work starts.
STEP 3
Build and test on your phone
As features land, you install test builds on your own iPhone through Apple's TestFlight and tell us what to change.
STEP 4
Launch on the App Store
We prepare the listing, screenshots and privacy details, submit the app to Apple and answer review questions.
STEP 5
Optional ongoing care
An optional support and maintenance plan keeps your app working with each new iOS release. New features are quoted as you need them.
Pricing
How much does it cost to make an app?
iOS app development cost depends on what your app needs to do, so we do not publish a price list. We quote each app from a written scope, and you see the quote before any work begins. App builds are quoted separately from our $99/month website plans.
The fastest way to a number is a short call. Tell us what the app needs to do and we will help you find a first version that fits your budget, then add to it once real people are using it.
A focused app with a handful of screens costs far less than one with dozens.
Accounts and data
Sign-in, saved data and a server behind the app add to the build.
Real-time features
Live updates between people, like shared boards or chat, take more engineering.
Connections
Linking to systems you already use, such as a database, CRM or website.
iPad and web versions
A tailored iPad layout or a browser version for people without an iPhone.
Content and art
Custom illustrations, sound or a large library of content to load in.
Brandon Hopkins
Founder, CalTech Web
Why CalTech Web
An iOS app development company you can actually reach
When you hire an iPhone app developer, you should know who is building your app and how to reach them. We are based in Madera, California, and build apps for clients across the US.
We publish our own apps
Our apps are live on the App Store today, each one through Apple's review, so we know the road your app will travel.
One team for your app and website
We already manage more than 800 websites, so your app, your website and the data behind them can come from one team.
Building for the web since 2004
Brandon Hopkins founded CalTech Web in 2019 after 15 years building websites for businesses.
A real person answers
Call (559) 282-3075 and you reach our team in Madera, California, Mon to Fri, 8:00am to 5:00pm PT.
Our focus is native iPhone and iPad apps written in Swift. When people on Android or a computer need to take part, we can give your app a browser version on the same back end, the way DownAcross players join a puzzle from any browser.
Can you build an app that works with the website or systems we already have?+
Yes. An app can read from and write to the same data as your website or business systems, so your team updates information once and it shows up everywhere.
Do you handle the App Store submission and review?+
Yes. We prepare the App Store listing, screenshots, privacy details and privacy policy, submit the app to Apple and answer any questions from App Review. We have done this for every app we publish.
Do you offer app maintenance after launch?+
Yes, as an optional support and maintenance plan. Apple releases a new version of iOS every year and most apps need small updates to keep pace. The plan keeps your app current, and new features are quoted as you need them.
Have an app idea? Let's talk it through.
Book a 30-minute call with Brandon. You will leave with a clear idea of what your first version should include and what it takes to build.