How long does it take to build an app in Dubai?
Published timelines in Dubai run 12 to 20 weeks for an app on iPhone and Android, 2 to 4 months for a web application, and 3 to 5 months once payments and integrations are in it. The First Build delivers web, iPhone and Android in 90 days, which is 13 weeks, with the store submissions inside the same window.
What timelines does this market publish?
An app on iPhone and Android with eight to fifteen screens is quoted at 12 to 20 weeks. A simple web application is quoted at 2 to 4 months. A business app with payments and integrations is quoted at 3 to 5 months, and a product of medium complexity at 5 to 8 months.
A basic first version, the cut-down one built to test an idea, is quoted at 6 to 10 weeks. A platform an enterprise runs on is quoted at 10 to 18 months.
Bought separately, a web application at 2 to 4 months and phone apps at 12 to 20 weeks add up to between five and nine months, because the two are scoped, quoted and scheduled as two projects.
What arrives inside the 90 days?
The product on three surfaces, built from one scope: a web application, an iPhone app and an Android app. The source code is handed over, and the apps are submitted to the App Store and Google Play.
90 days is 13 weeks. The published figure for the phone apps on their own is 12 to 20 weeks, and the web application sits inside the same 13 weeks beside them.
A date that matters is a date in a contract. The deadline is written into the service agreement, and the clock starts at payment rather than at a kick-off meeting scheduled some weeks later.
What makes 13 weeks possible?
The scope is closed before the clock starts. Much of a long estimate is time spent agreeing what the time is for: a discovery phase, then a specification, then a revised specification, each of them a document produced before any of the product exists.
Here the deliverables are identical on every project and named in the contract, so what varies is the product rather than the shape of the engagement. The brief arrives as one sentence, which is a brief a team can begin on the hour it lands.
And it is one team from the first screen to the store listing. The people who design the product are the people who build it and the people who ship it, so the handovers that consume a large share of a multi-month estimate have nowhere to happen.
What makes a build run late?
A feature added after the work began. It is the most frequent cause of a launch date moving, and it moves the date by more than the feature is worth, because everything already built around it gets revisited.
A closed scope and a fixed price are what hold that still. Anything added is quoted and scheduled on its own, which keeps the first date intact and makes the second one visible before it is agreed.
Store review is the other one. Both stores publish requirements about privacy, permissions, account deletion and payment, and meeting them is part of the build rather than a correction after it, which is why the submissions sit inside the 90 days.
The First Build · AED 150,000 · Delivered within 90 days.
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Updated 2026-09-12