Exyte

Award-Winning Mobile and AR Development Company

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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
$50 - $99/hr
10 - 49
2014
Locations
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

Focus Areas

Service Focus

70%
20%
10%
  • Mobile App Development
  • Blockchain Technology
  • AR & VR Development

Client Focus

80%
10%
10%
  • Small Business
  • Large Business
  • Medium Business

Industry Focus

100%
  • Information Technology

Exyte Executive Interview

Igor Zapletnev
Igor Zapletnev
CEO & Founder
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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.
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.
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:
●    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
 
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Exyte Clients & Portfolios

AirMeasure – Measure Anything. Anywhere.
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AirMeasure – Measure Anything. Anywhere.
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$10001 to $50000
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Designing

With AirMeasure the user is able to indicate the boudnaries of the room in AR, and get a generated top-down plan of that room that can be further edited. 

Nourish – Let’s Get Growing
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Nourish – Let’s Get Growing
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$50001 to $100000
40 weeks
Healthcare & Medical

It’s no secret that balanced nutrition is essential to improving health, well-being, and performance. Eating more nutrient-rich and less nutrient-deficient food also increases energy, lifts mood, and sharpens focus.

Help users turn healthy eating intentions into solid habits and grow their virtual garden.

Voicely – Talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere
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Voicely – Talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere
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$500000+
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Social

Voicely is a voice-oriented social media app where you can make friends all over the world, meet like-minded people, and have meaningful 1-on-1 converstaions. Talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere

Walktober – Step out and step up to better health
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Walktober – Step out and step up to better health
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$50001 to $100000
64 weeks
Healthcare & Medical

Walktober encourages everyone to take advantage of fall’s cool temperatures and spectacular views as you step out and step up to better health. This popular program’s engaging tour of international autumn favorites — with several exciting new enhancements — will inspire you to stay active in October and beyond.​

RedRhino – Makes pool leaks go away
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RedRhino – Makes pool leaks go away
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$0 to $10000
24 weeks
Utilities

Red Rhino, the pool leak experts, are on a mission to WOW customers by resolving their pool leaks with remarkable service. Since 2006, our day to day tasks has been an opportunity to serve our customers, business partners and our co-workers. Our company values Family, Excellence, Fun, Innovation, and Character.

Trace – Take back control of your grow
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Trace – Take back control of your grow
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$10001 to $50000
60 weeks
Transportation & Logistics

Trace was created with the mission of using a public, permissionless, general-purpose blockchain like Ethereum and easy-to-use mobile software to bring transparency to the hemp industry. The mobile app allows growers, extractors, test facilities, and distributors to interact with accountability, while safeguarding their digital security.

Yo Ho Ho – Wellness campaigns that work
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Yo Ho Ho – Wellness campaigns that work
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$50001 to $100000
68 weeks
Healthcare & Medical

Follow the swashbuckling adventure of Jesse Smith and his parrot sidekick Penny as they track down your stolen treasure from Grim Gus Battaraz. Every week a new chapter of the exciting story unfolds as you log healthy behaviors.​

MicroSkills – Moments matter & Micro-Skills
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MicroSkills – Moments matter & Micro-Skills
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$10001 to $50000
40 weeks
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A set of practical and unique skills that help you to intervene in key moments at work - maximizing your effectiveness, your quality of contact, and your ability to think and do new things together with your team. Large organizations use these Micro-Skills at scale in order to increase the frequency of insight and breakthrough throughout their business.

uMake – 3D Modeling CAD for iPad and iPhone
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uMake – 3D Modeling CAD for iPad and iPhone
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$10001 to $50000
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“It is quite magical to see how simply uMake works.”  

– TechCrunch

Awarded 2015 iPad Pro App of the Year and Editor's Choice on the App Store, uMake lets CAD professionals and 3D modeling enthusiasts create immersive 3D content on the go. Now with features as easy sketch planes, with an intuitive sketching experience; along with 3D tools such as Pull & Push and easy complex surfaces creation; and viewing experience using Augmented Reality (AR) features - it is one of the most natural and most powerful 3D modeling and design apps available.​

WorkoutLabs – Simple Fitness for Everyone
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WorkoutLabs – Simple Fitness for Everyone
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$10001 to $50000
32 weeks
Healthcare & Medical

With thousands of users on our web platform, WorkoutLabs Fit makes fitness simple for everyone with meticulously-designed workouts and plans, easy-to-follow exercise illustrations, and a fully-editable calendar – all in a beautifully intuitive app you’ll love.

Since launch in 2013, WorkoutLabs users have created over 2.5 million workouts and used our simple approach to exercise to get fitter and healthier. We’re excited

 to launch our first mobile app and welcome you to the family!

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