On the App Store
Mr. Indecisive
Swipe to settle where to eat. Behind it is a website where our team checks what people post and answers them.
We build iPhone apps in Toronto.
One team at 1050 King Street West draws your app, writes it, and gets it through Apple's review.
What you get
Three of our apps are on the App Store.
Open one on your phone before you call us.
On the App Store
The Dispatch
Toronto news and a live map. People subscribe and pay inside the app. It is the reading app for the newsroom we publish every day.
On the App Store
Find The Title
Share a clip from any app and it tells you which film or show it came from. We built all of it, including the accounts and the search behind it.
What we do, from start to finish
01
Design
We draw every screen first, the way iPhone owners expect an app to look. You approve the list before anything is built.
02
Build
We write it in Swift, Apple's own language, and connect it to the tools you already use, like Stripe or your booking system. You run it on your own phone through TestFlight while we build.
03
Ship
We write the App Store listing, fill in Apple's privacy forms, send the app in and answer Apple's reviewers. Our camera crew, in this office, shoots the launch photos and video.
The tools and services we build on are listed on the stack.
More of our apps
We built these too. They are not on the store.
These are finished apps we built and run ourselves.
Built, not published
Dispatch Live
Film live from wherever the news is. If the newsroom uses your footage, you get paid.
Built, not published
Mr Syn
Put money on a fitness challenge. Your phone's GPS proves who won, and the winners split the pot.
Built, not published
GEB, Gesture Beats
Turns hand movement into a beat, read through the phone camera in real time.
Built, not published
TNAADO Connect
A business card you share from your phone. It keeps a record of everyone you meet, with a website behind it.
Built, not published
Wildin
A night out already planned and already paid for, booked in the app.
Built, not published
Citadel
Runs AI on your own computer, so nothing you type ever leaves it. Same team wrote it.
More are finished and not announced yet. Everything we have built is at the technology portfolio.
How long
From the call to the App Store.
About four months, or five for a bigger app. Every stage is agreed in writing before we start, and you see working versions along the way.
- 01 The first call, then everything in writing You get the list of screens and the name of the engineer building it. Nothing is built until you have it. 3 business days
- 02 Screens drawn, the plan agreed How the app stores your information, every screen drawn, the other tools it connects to, and who is allowed to see what. All agreed before we build. 2 weeks
- 03 Building, with test versions for your phone Twelve weeks for a smaller app, sixteen for a bigger one. You run it on your own phone while we are still writing it. 12 to 16 weeks
- 04 Sent to Apple for approval Testing on real phones, then the App Store listing and the privacy forms, then we send it in. How long Apple takes is the one part nobody controls. 2 weeks
- 05 Live, and handed to you It goes live on the App Store. Then we hand you the code, the Apple signing files and the server behind it. 1 week
Proof
What sits behind an app.
Here is what an App Store page cannot show you: the website that runs behind an app, and the room we build it in.
Ours · built, not published
The control panel that comes with the app
Most apps need a website behind them that only staff can open. This one sits behind Dispatch Live, the app reporters film with, and works out what each reporter is owed and pays them. The numbers in the screenshot are test data.
Where we are
Our King Street West office
The designers, the engineers and the camera crew all work at 1050 King Street West, so the photos and video for your launch are shot the week the app goes live. More about the office.
Websites & design
We design the website, not only the software.
We build websites too: a simple site for a clinic, an online shop, a single page for an ad campaign, a magazine-style site for a realtor. We design yours from scratch as well as build it.
sluekie.com
01 Sketch
02 Design
03 Live
Five sites we built. Pick one
Phase 01
Sketch
Every page is drawn before a line of code: what sits where, what a visitor sees first, and what a phone gets instead.
Phase 02
Design
We design it. Typefaces, colour, spacing, and how your logo and brand are applied across every page.
Phase 03
Build
We build it by hand and it works right down to phone size. Your words and pictures go in, and every connection to another tool is tested. You see it on a private link first, before anyone else can.
Questions
The questions people ask first.
Who submits it to the App Store and handles the review?
We do. That covers the App Store listing, the privacy forms, uploading the build, and answering Apple if the first attempt comes back. We publish our own apps, so we have been through Apple’s review many times.
Do I own the app and the Apple account?
Yes. The app goes on the App Store under your own Apple Developer account, so the listing, the reviews and the customers are yours from the first day. At launch we hand you the code, the Apple signing files and the server behind it.
What if it also has to run on Android?
An iPhone-only app is written in Swift. One that has to run on Android too is written once in Expo, a toolkit that builds both from one set of code. We tell you which one you need before anything is agreed in writing. If it does not need to be on a phone at all, software that runs in a browser is a different page.
Book a call
Describe the app, and we will count the screens.
Thirty minutes with the engineer who would build it.
Before the call
The Screen Map: your app, drawn and counted
We draw every screen your app needs, numbered, before we speak, and name every connection to another tool.