William A
Posted on Feb 09, 2021
Exyte
15 Reviews
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Award-Winning Mobile and AR Development Company
Developers with 5+ years of experience in iOS, Android, and the Art of Clear Communication.
The development community and our clients back up our expertise:
- 15 000+ stars on GitHub
- 28 5-star customer reviews
- Over 30 tech articles and tutorials available for free
- 50+ successfully completed projects
Our areas of focus:
- Native iOS and Android development in Swift and Kotlin
- Writing modern SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose code and modernizing existing UIKit and Android View codebases
- Implementing responsive custom UI with complex animations and screen transitions
- Augmented Reality using ARKit on iOS and ARCore on Android
United States
408 Broadway,
NYC,
New York
10013
+1-646-583-0519
United Kingdom
2 Palmers Road,
London,
London
E2 0SX
07383579063
UAE
Dubai Silicon Oasis, DDP, Building A,
Dubai,
Dubai
$50 - $99/hr
10 - 49
2014
Service Focus
Industry Focus
- Information Technology - 100%
Client Focus
80% Small Business
10% Large Business
10% Medium Business
Review Analytics of Exyte
- 15
- Total Reviews
- 5.0/5
- Overall Rating
- 0
- Recent Reviews
What Users Say
Excellent development partner all-around
William A
Look no further: The folks at Exyte are the real deal!
J Archer
VR model design for our project
Kathleen Judith , Senior Project Manager at TechnipFMC
AR functionality development
Kaylee Stevens , Senior Manager Project Management at Kier Group
AR Development Services for Tech Startup
Jennifer Cathy
What Users Like The Most
- Very flexible, highly talented, and easy to work with.
- Technical expertise
- Quality of code, responsiveness to inquiries, sense of humor.
What Users Like The Least
- Within the arena we used them, hard to imagine better performance.
Detailed Reviews of Exyte
15 Reviews
- All Services
- Mobile App Development
- AR & VR Development
- Relevance
- Most Recent
- Rating: high to low
- Rating: low to high
J Archer
Posted on Feb 02, 2021
Look no further: The folks at Exyte are the real deal!
Kathleen Judith, Senior Project Manager at TechnipFMC
Posted on Jun 15, 2020
VR model design for our project
Kaylee Stevens, Senior Manager Project Management at Kier Group
Posted on Jun 11, 2020
AR functionality development
Jennifer Cathy
Posted on Jun 04, 2020
AR Development Services for Tech Startup
Alexander Masalov, CEO at WINKAM
Posted on May 28, 2020
Backend Dev for Mobile Gaming Platform
Victor Shilo, Director Of Engineering at EastBanc Technologies
Posted on May 25, 2020
Great mobile development shop
Evi M, Co-Founder & CEO at at uMake
Posted on May 22, 2020
Exyte - Mobile Development
Petrenko Vasily, Co-Founder at at The Deep VR
Posted on May 25, 2020
Game Development for Location Based Virtual Reality
Brian Bauer, Marketing Guy at Solipoints.com
Posted on May 19, 2020
Good, thoughtful developers
Cal Hockaday
Posted on Apr 06, 2020
Reliable and skilled native mobile app developers.
Mike Bysiek, CEO and Founder at Ubik Group
Posted on Apr 01, 2020
Enterprise Tech Development
J A, Software Developer
Posted on Mar 31, 2020
Fantastic work and professional communication.
Grigory Markin, Research Staff at University of Luebeck
Posted on Mar 30, 2020
I’ve been satisfied with their work, and the management is great. I haven’t had to explain to everyone what needs to be done.
Paul, founder at Let's Play Golf App
Posted on Mar 27, 2020
Real rockstars in cutting edge technologies
Client Portfolio of Exyte
Project Industry
- Designing - 20.0%
- Healthcare & Medical - 40.0%
- Social - 10.0%
- Utilities - 10.0%
- Transportation & Logistics - 10.0%
- Education - 10.0%
Major Industry Focus
Healthcare & Medical
Project Cost
- $10001 to $50000 - 50.0%
- $50001 to $100000 - 30.0%
- $500000+ - 10.0%
- $0 to $10000 - 10.0%
Common Project Cost
$10001 to $50000
Project Timeline
- 1 to 25 Weeks - 20.0%
- 26 to 50 Weeks - 40.0%
- 51 to 100 Weeks - 40.0%
Project Timeline
26 to 50 Weeks
Portfolios: 10
Executive Interview of Exyte
Igor Zapletnev
CEO & Founder
Please introduce your company and give a brief about your role within the company?
At Exyte, we started by developing mobile apps. Now, we have 30 + engineers and we have moved into the development of more complex technical solutions: Blockchain, AR/VR, and ML.
I'm a CEO and a programmer as well. After starting Exyte, I first was engaged in projects as a programmer, but now there are so many projects that my engagement has been reduced to scaling processes and maintaining the boutique quality of work. After all, what we are most proud of is our excellent reviews.
As for the internal side of the work, I am responsible for customer satisfaction and ensuring that developers work on interesting and challenging projects.
I'm a CEO and a programmer as well. After starting Exyte, I first was engaged in projects as a programmer, but now there are so many projects that my engagement has been reduced to scaling processes and maintaining the boutique quality of work. After all, what we are most proud of is our excellent reviews.
As for the internal side of the work, I am responsible for customer satisfaction and ensuring that developers work on interesting and challenging projects.
What was the idea behind starting this organization?
I worked for hire and it was a classic outsourcing services business, meaning you have a roadmap of solutions made by the customer. You have to stick to that roadmap and often you don’t even have the ability to communicate with the customer. But I wanted to be creative and approach the problem analytically, and not work on a script. That way, I could offer customers new perspectives on the situation.
For this reason, my friend and I decided to gather an experienced technical team and give them the opportunity to use the most advanced and promising technologies to solve important business problems.
For this reason, my friend and I decided to gather an experienced technical team and give them the opportunity to use the most advanced and promising technologies to solve important business problems.
What are your company’s business model–in house team or third party vendors/ outsourcing?
The entire development team is located in our office.
There are several advantages to having an in-house team:
There are several advantages to having an in-house team:
● speed of communication and issue solving
● exchange of experience (employees grow faster)
● colleagues communicate more closely with each other, and this affects their loyalty to each other
● a better understanding of corporate culture
● exchange of experience (employees grow faster)
● colleagues communicate more closely with each other, and this affects their loyalty to each other
● a better understanding of corporate culture
We never outsource development to third party companies because it’s impossible to fully control the quality of results. Doing everything internally guarantees the quality of product and on-time delivery.
How is your business model beneficial from a value addition perspective to the clients compared to other companies' models?
We look at projects not as developers, but as business-analysts. We solve money and risk management issues with the software we develop, we don’t just solve programming puzzles. There are situations when people come to us with one task, and we use technical knowledge and practical expertise to reformulate the task, thus saving the client’s money/time/nerves.
To give an example, one of our clients approached us with a machine learning/computer vision problem. They wanted to create an app which would analyze video in real time and help people learn and improve their dancing skills.
Originally, the client wanted to use ARKit and CoreML. We explained that the current state of technology prohibits achieving any accurate and usable result, then made several suggestions on how it can be done otherwise and transformed their product into a working solution with speech recognition and AR.
Another customer wanted to develop a new version of an IDE for development, where developers can create internal applications for banking systems. Their original choice was the Eclipse platform. We suggested choosing VSCode instead of Eclipse as a more modern development platform that works faster and has better usability. The project is still ongoing and is being actively developed.
To give an example, one of our clients approached us with a machine learning/computer vision problem. They wanted to create an app which would analyze video in real time and help people learn and improve their dancing skills.
Originally, the client wanted to use ARKit and CoreML. We explained that the current state of technology prohibits achieving any accurate and usable result, then made several suggestions on how it can be done otherwise and transformed their product into a working solution with speech recognition and AR.
Another customer wanted to develop a new version of an IDE for development, where developers can create internal applications for banking systems. Their original choice was the Eclipse platform. We suggested choosing VSCode instead of Eclipse as a more modern development platform that works faster and has better usability. The project is still ongoing and is being actively developed.
What industries do you generally cater to? Are your customers repetitive? If yes, what ratio of clients has been repetitive to you?
Our expertise focuses on healthcare, finance, logistics, real estate, education, social, and entertainment.
Almost all of our clients stay with us long-term, with the duration of the project at least a year. If a project ends, oftentimes clients try to work with other companies and then return to us. Sometimes, while working with us, customers build their own IT teams or merge with larger companies that have their own pool of contractors. In nine cases out of ten, the client returns to us when the efficiency of invested funds decreases.
Exyte is really proud of the team interaction system that exists within the company, and we are constantly improving to work even more efficiently and quickly. Customers see this and trust us.
Almost all of our clients stay with us long-term, with the duration of the project at least a year. If a project ends, oftentimes clients try to work with other companies and then return to us. Sometimes, while working with us, customers build their own IT teams or merge with larger companies that have their own pool of contractors. In nine cases out of ten, the client returns to us when the efficiency of invested funds decreases.
Exyte is really proud of the team interaction system that exists within the company, and we are constantly improving to work even more efficiently and quickly. Customers see this and trust us.
Mention the objectives or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app.
We always ask our clients these four questions to give a time and cost estimation:
● Does your project need an R&D phase? It is important for some projects to understand, for example, how accurate the definition of full-body tracking is in ARKit and whether it can be improved using machine learning. This is not development, but it’s necessary to define the scope of it.
● Do you need your app to work offline? If you want the application to be stable with a poor Internet connection (or without it), it requires additional investment.
● Do you need tablet support? Tablets require a separate design that is usually distinct from the design of a mobile app.
● How many features and screens are there?
● Does your project need an R&D phase? It is important for some projects to understand, for example, how accurate the definition of full-body tracking is in ARKit and whether it can be improved using machine learning. This is not development, but it’s necessary to define the scope of it.
● Do you need your app to work offline? If you want the application to be stable with a poor Internet connection (or without it), it requires additional investment.
● Do you need tablet support? Tablets require a separate design that is usually distinct from the design of a mobile app.
● How many features and screens are there?
How much effort in terms of time goes into developing the front end and back end of a mobile app?
It depends heavily on the application in question. For some applications, a user experience with beautiful, smooth animations in SwiftUI is important. If so, then most of the time will be spent developing the interface. For AR projects, you need to define an object and its volume using AR toolkits. In this case, most time is spent on developing analysis and recognition.
Overall, it can vary from a few weeks to several years.
Overall, it can vary from a few weeks to several years.
What are the key parameters to be considered before selecting the right platform for a mobile application?
Each platform has its own pros. GooglePlay has a huge audience, while AppStore’s audience pays better. But there are cons as well. It’s difficult to get to the top of AppStore because you’re competing with high-quality apps, while in Google Play, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of similar apps (sometimes of low-quality which makes people trust you less by proximity). The best solution is to support both platforms but have different marketing for each.
Which platform do you suggest your clients to begin with when they approach you with an idea (Android or iOS) and why?
First, we analyze the target audience of the app, and only then make our choice depending on the result.
Android or iOS, Native or Hybrid — which platform is best to use to build your app? What are your recommendations?
There are not a lot of time-tested solutions on the market. I would even say there are only two: native development or cross-platform development on ReactNative. Such solutions as Xamarin and PhoneGap are being used less and less, and you need to have a really good reason to start a new project using these technologies. Flutter is still a completely new platform, I would wait some time to make sure that it is viable.
I always recommend native development, since in this case you will definitely not face any restrictions from the platform, and the experience of using a native application is much better for the user. If you look at the top apps of AppStore, you will hardly find a cross-platform solution in the first hundred.
However, ReactNative cross-platform development has one big plus: faster and cheaper development for two platforms at once. Good for MVP and hypothesis testing. Once the hypothesis is verified, you can develop a native app to improve the user experience. Moreover, over time, the “speed and cheapness” of development on ReactNative will decrease, and at one point it may turn out that a certain feature is faster to develop natively on two platforms.
Also, it is easier to find a good expert in one area than in several areas. In order for a developer to develop a native app for iOS – they only need to know iOS, while to develop for ReactNative, the developer needs to know iOS, Android, and ReactNative at the same time.
I always recommend native development, since in this case you will definitely not face any restrictions from the platform, and the experience of using a native application is much better for the user. If you look at the top apps of AppStore, you will hardly find a cross-platform solution in the first hundred.
However, ReactNative cross-platform development has one big plus: faster and cheaper development for two platforms at once. Good for MVP and hypothesis testing. Once the hypothesis is verified, you can develop a native app to improve the user experience. Moreover, over time, the “speed and cheapness” of development on ReactNative will decrease, and at one point it may turn out that a certain feature is faster to develop natively on two platforms.
Also, it is easier to find a good expert in one area than in several areas. In order for a developer to develop a native app for iOS – they only need to know iOS, while to develop for ReactNative, the developer needs to know iOS, Android, and ReactNative at the same time.
What are the key factors that you consider before deciding the cost of a mobile application?
In our world, time is money. So, this answer repeats the one to "Mention the objects or the parameters critical in determining the time frame of developing a mobile app”. Once again:
● The need for an R&D phase.
● Whether offline functionality is necessary.
● Tablet support.
● Number of features and screens.
● The need for an R&D phase.
● Whether offline functionality is necessary.
● Tablet support.
● Number of features and screens.
What kind of payment structure do you follow to bill your clients? Is it Pay per Feature, Fixed Cost, Pay per Milestone (could be in phases, months, versions etc.)
We offer two payment options:
● Time And Materials. We recommend this for R&D projects or when the customer does not have a clearly described technological scope for the project.
● Fixed Price. If the project has a clear technological scope, we split the project into milestones and issue an invoice at the end of each milestone. Usually, a milestone takes 2 weeks.
● Time And Materials. We recommend this for R&D projects or when the customer does not have a clearly described technological scope for the project.
● Fixed Price. If the project has a clear technological scope, we split the project into milestones and issue an invoice at the end of each milestone. Usually, a milestone takes 2 weeks.
Do you take in projects which meet your basic budget requirement? If yes, what is the minimum requirement? If no, on what minimum budget you have worked for?
We work on projects starting from $15K unless they are travel-to-Mars level interesting.
What is the price range (min and max) of the projects that you catered to in 2019?
In 2019 project prices varied from $40K up to $450K.
Which business model do you suggest to your clients enabling them to generate revenue from mobile applications? Why?
After analyzing the target audience, we offer customers one of these models:
● One-time payment.
● Subscription model. It is especially useful when the user uses the app on a regular basis. For example, a fitness app with training programs or an app for learning a language.
● In-app purchases that open up additional functionality. For example, additional filters in AR applications.
● One-time payment.
● Subscription model. It is especially useful when the user uses the app on a regular basis. For example, a fitness app with training programs or an app for learning a language.
● In-app purchases that open up additional functionality. For example, additional filters in AR applications.