Hire iOS App Developers in India

Because a single published number would mislead most of the people reading it. Six things set the real rate: seniority, how many engineers you take, contract duration, payment terms, whether the engagement is remote or onsite, and whether you are contracting from India or overseas. A senior engineer on a two-year rupee contract with advance billing and a junior engineer on a three-month hourly engagement billed net-30 in dollars are genuinely different prices. Publishing one figure would mean overquoting most Indian clients or underquoting most overseas ones.

What we will commit to is speed: tell us the seniority, the headcount and roughly how long, and you get a firm written quote with the rate, minimum term and notice period within one working day. No discovery call required first, and no obligation after.

Only if it is rebuilt on Apple's current tools. Apple raises the minimum every year: since 28 April 2026, every app uploaded to App Store Connect has to be built with Xcode 26 or later, using the iOS 26 SDK. An app last built on an older Xcode keeps working for people who already have it, but you cannot ship a bug fix or a new feature until it is rebuilt, and the rebuild often surfaces deprecated code, signing issues and broken third-party libraries.

Apple also asks for privacy details on every submission, including a privacy manifest for apps that use certain system APIs. Our engineers handle the yearly Xcode upgrade and these submission requirements as routine maintenance, so they never block a release.

Almost never. Swift and Objective-C run side by side in the same app, so the usual path is to write every new file in Swift from tomorrow and leave working Objective-C code alone until it needs changing. New screens can be built in SwiftUI, and old UIKit screens converted one at a time. Your users see no disruption, and the codebase gets easier to hire for every month.

A full rewrite is occasionally right, usually when the architecture itself is the problem rather than the language, and we will tell you plainly if yours is one of those. The Futuristic Schools iPhone app is Objective-C, and we still maintain it. There is a full comparison of the four options further up this page.

Go native when the app is built around the iPhone itself: deep camera, location or background work, iPad-specific layouts, or the newest Apple features on day one. Go cross-platform when you need the same app on iPhone and Android from one team. If you choose native for both, you need a separate native Android engineer as well. We staff all of these, so there is nothing for us to gain by steering you. Our React Native and Flutter pages cover the cross-platform side in detail.

Yes. Most iOS work is picking up a project rather than starting one. We start with a short paid code audit: an engineer gets the app building in the current Xcode, maps the modules, checks every library for abandoned or outdated versions, sorts out certificates and provisioning, and writes up what exists and what the risks are before you commit to anything longer. If the app is in worse shape than you were told, you will hear it from us at that point rather than three months in.

You do, all three. IP assignment is written into the contract before work starts, alongside a mutual NDA, and it covers source code, designs and documentation. We do not reuse your code on other projects.

The Apple Developer account is the part buyers miss until it hurts. It should be enrolled in your company's name, which needs a D-U-N-S number, with our engineers added as team members in App Store Connect, not the other way round. Signing certificates and provisioning profiles then belong to your account too. If a vendor or a former developer holds the account, changing vendor means an app transfer at best, and losing your reviews and ratings at worst. Gainr publishes under its own company account, and that is how we set every engagement up.

Both are covered in the contract. You get a five-day free trial: five business days with the engineer at no cost, on your real tickets, and if it is not a fit you owe nothing. After that, you get a free replacement within five business days at any point in the engagement, with no need to justify the decision.

Leaving is the bigger risk on an iOS app, because the engineer carries your signing setup, release history and App Review lessons in their head. Our attrition is under 5% against an Indian IT average of 20 to 25%, so it rarely happens. Our longest iOS placement at Presidio ran 27 months. Ask every vendor on your shortlist for their attrition number, in writing.

Our screening runs in five stages: a stack-specific CV screen covering Swift or Objective-C, SwiftUI or UIKit, which Xcode and iOS versions they have upgraded through and which apps they have shipped to the App Store; a scored technical assessment on our own assessment tool, which a candidate has to pass before going further and whose report you get alongside the CV; a live coding round on a real Swift problem; a technical interview with a senior engineer covering lifecycle, async/await and threading, memory leaks, code signing and App Store releases; and a communication check plus reference verification. We do not use take-home assignments because they can be outsourced.

Three matched profiles reach you within 48 hours for our in-house bands, with the assessment reports attached; engineers with more than five years of iOS come through our partner network and usually take one to two weeks. Once you sign off, the engineer is in your standup within two working days. You can interview as many engineers as you like at no cost.

Yes. Our engineers manage certificates and provisioning, push builds to TestFlight for internal and external testers, prepare the App Store listing and privacy details, submit for review, respond to rejections and roll out with phased release, which spreads an update to your users over seven days for automatic updates. We will tell you upfront when a feature is likely to attract a rejection, which is usually in-app purchases for digital goods, account deletion, or permission prompts that do not explain themselves.

Yes. Most of our iOS work ships as one app for both, with layouts that use the larger screen properly rather than a stretched iPhone screen: split views, sidebars and multitasking support where they help. SwiftUI makes this far easier than it used to be, which is one more reason to build new screens in it. We do not sell Apple Watch apps, widgets or App Clips as a specialism, and we will say so if your product depends on them.

Both. Within India, we have placed iOS, Android and React Native engineers onsite at Presidio's delivery centres in Coimbatore, Chennai and Bengaluru, working inside the client's own project teams. Onsite carries allowance costs, so it is quoted separately and needs a longer commitment to make sense for both sides.

For clients outside India we work remotely from Coimbatore (IST, UTC+5:30). UK clients get four to five hours of natural overlap. For US clients our engineers shift their hours to give at least four hours of overlap, enough for a daily standup and working sessions. The overlap window is agreed in writing before the engagement starts.

We look in-house first, across our own 80+ engineers in Coimbatore. If the match is not on our payroll, we have standing partnerships with more than 30 established Indian IT services companies and access to their benches. Either way you deal only with us: we source, screen and assess the engineer, we hold the contract, you get one invoice, and the 5-day trial, the 5-business-day replacement, the IP assignment and the NDA apply identically.

Teams work the same way. A typical mobile pod is an iOS engineer, an Android engineer, a QA engineer and a part-time UI/UX designer, with a senior from our partner network added when the app needs one. Per-head cost is meaningfully lower than hiring the same roles one at a time.