How Much Does it Cost to Maintain an App
App maintenance is an ongoing investment to ensure your app continues to meet user expectations, stays competitive in the market, and remains secure and functional.
How about if we reveal all what is covered in the scope of the App maintenance, Why do you need to regularly manage your App, what kind of hours and money should you be planning to invest to manage your app in 2023? It will be cool, ya?
Ideally, a basic App Maintenance Cost Plan of 160 hours per month will do a fair job to manage and upkeep a commercial version of your App and this would cost you less than $ 3000/ Month. Now depending upon the needs, number of App users, number of requests/ issues reported etc. you may need to retain your App maintenance team for more hours than just 160 on month on month basis.
1. What is covered in the Scope of App Support & Maintenance?
The App is needed to be regularly updated largely for its following parts and components:
iOS App and Android Apps whether built in native or cross platform tech.
Web Parts/ Web App (Front end, backend, Web replica of mobile apps).
Native APIs and Third-party APIs.
Database, Design files.
Any new feature development utilizing during the maintenance.
Upkeep and updates of beyond-the-app-technology and assets like App Install Ad creatives, beyond the App user onboarding (like through QR code or through an integrated partner’s app or site), Marketing automation, analytics, integration with external Apps and so on.
2. Activities that we perform for App Support & Maintenance
Following are the high level tasks that are performed to regularly upkeep and update your App:
1. Complete QA Testing by a dedicated QA Engineer and Business Analyst to figure out all possible Bugs — mostly a one time effort for every major release.
2. Fixing of Bugs are Reported by the client + Bugs as reported by our Testing Team across iOS, Android, Backend, Web or anywhere else.
3. Updating the App and its underlying Technology Whenever there is a soft or major OS update from Apple or Google.
4. Updating Apps to be compatible with all latest releases of all third Party APIs being used in the App and in the backend.
5. Regular App Performance optimization for a high performing App
6. Periodical App Code clean up as a regular practice and Code repository Maintenance.
7. Regular Documentation, Creating App’s SDKs and APIs
8. Regular Store upload, putting web parts on live server, coordinating with App stores on behalf of the client.
9. Server Maintenance corresponding to the cloud provider’s infrastructure and features
10. Managing, Recording, and Sharing the Timesheet with the client
3. App Maintenance Plans and Pricing from Agicent
We’ve kept it very simple, you retain us for X number of hours a month for App maintenance and pay the fee. Obviously, the more hours you retain us for the better will be the pricing. We always ask our clients to start with the lowest plan and then we jointly analyze in 3 months if 160 hours are enough to handle the App support demands and if not then only we ask you to increase the plan with justification.
Source: https://www.agicent.com/blog/h....ow-much-does-it-cost
