Google and Apple move the goalposts every year. When the developer who built your app is gone, or busy, the app quietly stops being installable for new users. I take that job off you for a flat monthly price, and the deadline emails come to me.
Two client apps live in the stores, kept there by me. One of them has been through every Google Play requirement from 2025 to now and is still listed. My name is on neither. That is the arrangement.
Send the store link. You get a written check-up in two business days. Free, no call.
None of this is my opinion. Each one is on the platform’s own page, linked, with the date. Next year the same three arrive again with new numbers. That is the job.
New uploads must target Android 16. Existing apps must target at least Android 15 or they stop being available to new users on newer phones. An extension to 1 November 2026 can be requested, once.
Source: Play Console Help, opens in a new tabEvery upload to App Store Connect must be built with Xcode 26 and the iOS 26 SDK. An app on an older toolchain cannot ship a fix, even a one line one, until the build setup is brought forward.
Source: Apple Developer, opens in a new tabReact Native 0.82 removed the legacy architecture. Any library that never made the move stops working on upgrade, and the further behind an app is, the more of them it has.
Source: reactnative.dev, opens in a new tabAn app that misses one of these does not crash. It just stops appearing for new users on new phones, and nobody tells you. The first sign is usually a flat install graph.
Most apps want the first one. The second is for apps with a backlog. The third is for an app that has been left alone too long. The fourth is for when you want something new in it.
$500per month
For an app that works today and has nobody watching the store deadlines.
Month to month. Cancel any month. Billed at the start of the month.
Start with a check-up$1,000per month
For an app with a list of bugs and small improvements that keeps getting longer.
Month to month. Cancel any month. Billed at the start of the month.
Start with a check-up$1,500fixed
For an app nobody has touched in a year and that no longer builds or uploads.
You pay when it is live. If the check-up shows it is worse than this, I say so before you commit.
Start with a check-up$2,000fixed
For one thing your users should be able to do that they cannot do today. AI or otherwise.
Not what you wanted? I take the code back and you pay nothing.
Send the featureKeep-alive is the floor, not a teaser. If a month needs more than what is listed, I say so before doing it, and you decide. Nothing gets invoiced that was not agreed in writing first.
Rescue and Feature are paid on results. Rescue when the app is live again. Feature when you have watched it run. The monthly plans are the only things paid in advance, and those you can cancel any month.
Every developer you email sounds equally confident, so I take that part out. You do not have to trust the pitch. You send a link and get a diagnosis you can check against the sources above, before any money is mentioned.
That is the whole first step. App Store, Google Play, or both. No form to fill, no call to book, no deck to read.
What is about to break and when, what fixing it costs, and what keeping it from happening again costs. Free, in writing, and if the app is fine it says so.
You add me as a user on your store accounts and give me the repository. From that month on, the letters from Google and Apple land on my desk, not yours.
The check-up is not a sales call in disguise. It is what I can see from the outside and what I would need access to see the rest. If your app is fine and your current developer is doing the job, it says that, and we are done.
Both are live, both were built end to end by me, and my name is on neither listing. That is the arrangement you would be buying. The code is under NDA, the apps are not, so every claim below is checkable from the store page. Where you would have to install the app to see something, it says so.
A social and messaging app with chat, voice and video calls, communities and a feed. React Native, iOS and Android.
These are the screenshots on the App Store and Google Play listings. Open one and check.
A study app for Class 11 and 12 students. Notes, concept videos behind QR codes, and practice questions. React Native, Android.
These are the screenshots on the Google Play listing. Open it and check.
Maintenance is the job. This is the range. Each of these is running in one of the two apps above, tagged with which one. A feature is $2,000 fixed, about two weeks, and you watch it run on your data before you pay.
A message about to land harsh is caught on the way out, and a softer version with the meaning kept is offered. The sender picks.
A phone number or an address typed into a message without thinking is flagged before it goes.
Self harm signals in a message are detected and surfaced. A safety net inside the product, built and described as one.
Posts, comments and messages rendered in the reader's own language. Google's model through their API. The wiring across every surface is mine.
Each student's activity turned into a read on what they know and what they keep avoiding, generated per student.
Ask. If I have built it before I will say where. If I have not, I will say that instead, and you decide.
A flat price only works when both sides know what it covers. These are the conditions that make that possible.
That is the whole first step. Two business days later you have a written check-up: what is about to break, what it costs, and whether I am taking it. If the app is fine, it says that. The only thing you risk is the ten seconds it takes to paste a link.
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