Mobile apps that earn their place on the home screen.
Custom iOS and Android apps for customer-facing products and field teams alike. Native performance, offline-ready, built end-to-end by senior Australian engineers.
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Custom software for the work you actually do.
Mobile is one part of what we build. Whatever the work needs — on a phone, in the field, or across your whole operation — we build it end-to-end.
Why build a custom app?
App builders and off-the-shelf field tools get you part of the way. Here's why businesses choose a custom mobile app — and a custom software development partner — instead.
Built for the way work happens
Customer-facing products and field teams need different things — native performance, offline capability, and workflows that fit the job in hand. A custom app is built around how your people actually work, not how an app builder thinks they should.
No per-seat licensing
Off-the-shelf field apps charge per user, every month, forever. Build your own once and roll it out across the whole team — every new hire, depot, and region — without the seat tax compounding as you grow.
You own the app
The codebase, the data, and the IP are yours. No platform lock-in, no roadmap you don't control, and no risk of a vendor sunsetting the app your operation runs on.
What does it cost?
Custom mobile builds scale with the platforms you target and the complexity behind the app. Here's roughly where most engagements land.
Starter
From $60k / build
A focused single-platform app for one product or workflow.
Growth
$150k / build
Native iOS and Android with offline support and back-end integrations.
Enterprise
$300k+ / build
Multi-role field apps tied into your operations platform at scale.
Don't want the big CapEx spend up front?
Talk to us about our Bespoke SaaS delivery model — all the benefits of custom software, paid monthly, with full IP handover at the end of the term.
Got an app idea — or a field team stuck on paper?
Tell us what your customers or crews need to do on a phone. We'll show you what a custom app built around that actually looks like.
Built with your team, not just for them.
Every build begins with our fixed-price Discovery engagement. The aim is simple: understand how your team actually works, sketch the solution together, and prove the design before a single line of production code gets written. It's the discipline our clients hire us for.
Talk to the people who use it
We sit with the people who'll touch the software every day. Their pain points are your requirements. We listen for what slows them down today and where a tool built for them would change the day.
Map the work, not just the wishlist
The actual processes the software has to serve: intake, approvals, handoffs, the exceptions. We document them in your team's language, not ours, so everyone agrees on what's being built before anything gets built.
Sketch the screens together
Whiteboards, paper, low-fidelity mockups. Visual conversation surfaces disagreements about how the work really flows in seconds, disagreements that written specs would let slip silently into the build.
Build a clickable prototype
Realistic enough to test. Your team plays with it, finds what's wrong, and tells us what to fix, cheaply, before a line of production code exists. Most surprises surface here, not in user acceptance testing.
Ship, refine, repeat
Two-week sprints. Working software in front of your team continuously. They feed back, we refine, they feed back again, until the tool fits their day so well they'd resist going back.
WHY WE WORK THIS WAY
Visual conversation moves faster than written requirements, and your team can tell us what's wrong before we build it. Mockups and prototypes turn a 6-month spec debate into a 6-week design loop. Cheaper iteration. Fewer surprises. Software your team actually wants to use.
Apps in the wild.
AccessIQ
AccessIQ started as an internal tool at the Benchmarque Group and grew into a market-leading SaaS LMS for the Australian training sector. 22,000+ students, 1,700+ workshops, 95% rating their experience 'very good' or 'excellent'.
CleanBins
Alliance built and operates CleanBins — an AI computer-vision platform for council waste contamination detection. 6 councils, 600,000+ collections analysed, 98%+ accuracy, in partnership with the NSW EPA.
Broker Engine
Stuck in an expensive Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Broker Engine moved off the platform and saved hundreds of thousands in annual license fees. The result is what many consider Australia's best CRM for mortgage brokers, with a 92% NPS.
The software is a perfect blend of the best of both our companies' thinking. We can't speak highly enough of the work Alliance Software has done.
Marcus Andrews
Founder & Counsellor, Life Supports Counselling
Let's build something
great together.
Every great project starts with a conversation. Tell us what you're working on and we'll figure out the best way to help.
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