Frequently Asked Questions

Blue Whale Apps is a creative development agency founded in 2006. Since then, we have been engaged in providing technology solutions and app development services on web, mobile and cloud platforms. Our expertise lies in developing both consumer and enterprise mobile apps on iOS and Android platforms as we have been developing mobile apps since the App Store and Play Store started. Other than this, we have expertise in providing creative UI/UX design, branding, and digital transformation services to businesses across the globe.

Blue Whale Apps is headquartered in Washington, D.C with offices in Florida and New York.

Firstly, we at Blue Whale Apps, live by our vision and mission of providing cost-effective technology solutions, while striving to make ourselves the most innovative and tech-savvy company. In other words, we make sure that we deliver the required services and solutions to our clients at the most competitive rates in the market, while utilizing the latest and trending technologies.

Another difference is that we focus on branding and design more than others. This means that we give importance to your unique brand, logo, colors, and overall user experience while developing solutions to ensure the solution you get is highly suitable and relevant to your brand and position in the market.

Thirdly, we assign dedicated project team containing, a project manager, developer, senior a designer, front-end and back-end developers, a DevOps professional and a QA team right from the start of the project so that your project is kicked-off quickly and there are no delays in timeline and pre-defined project milestones. We also ensure complete security and privacy of the clients and their project information as part of our core values.

We give importance to following a transparent approach when it comes to projects. There are weekly phone calls, regular email communications and status updates provided on cloud-based collaboration tools to provide project updates.

We follow a calendar and a periodic feedback system at defined milestones/sprints throughout the development process before releasing the final app to the client. This helps us avoid any project rework or discrepancies which might lead to delay in the overall project lifecycle.

We, at Blue Whale Apps, follow Agile and Scrum methodology, wherein we encourage periodic development and testing to ensure the cost of changes in the application is minimum. With this approach, we encourage teamwork, accountability, and frequent inspection as well as adaptation to deliver quality output within the timeline. Although requirements are bound to change, we follow the best agile practices to incorporate changes without disturbing the development process.

As part of Scrum methodology, we have an iterative and incremental development process, wherein the entire project is broken down into sprints. Based on these sprints, we analyze the development efforts and commit the resources to each sprint right from the start of the project that helps in maintaining a continuous delivery of the pre-defined sprints within the agreed timeline. With this, we follow test-driven-development (TDD) and continuous integration (CI) cycles to ensure quality and speed in the ongoing projects.

Since each project is different, the requirements differ for each project. However, it is advisable for clients to share everything that clarifies the project requirements. This may include, a document containing required features, design drawings, PSD files, pre-prepared mock-ups, wireframes (if any), design assets, API and technical documents, access to the development environment, codebase, internal data, and tools (if any). Along with this, we highly appreciate samples of existing apps, design or functionality (if any).

The timeline to complete an app development project depends upon the type, features, and complexity of the app. However, ideally, it takes around 4-5 months’ time on an average in which we divide the development in different phases. Phase one covers the initial planning, designing, and prototyping efforts which can last for 4-6 weeks, while phase two involves development, integration, testing efforts, which can take around 6-8 weeks. Further, it takes around 1-2 weeks in final changes and 2-3 weeks in server-side deployment, publishing, and App Store approval.

The client owns the legal right and ownership of the technology solution or application developed. All the development done by us is the absolute property of the client, including source codes, intellectual property, NDA, etc. Upon completion of the project, we provide all access and aspects of the project data with full code and copyrights to the client.

To ensure that your app idea and IP is protected, we consent to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which restricts any unapproved sharing of your app data or source code and guarantee strict security and protection of your IP. Moreover, we do not reuse code or technology that we have developed for our client for any other client.

In addition, our team of developers has also signed an agreement that they cannot share, circulate, or utilize your application source code outside of the office network for any personal or career-related purpose.

No application can be guaranteed for app store approval. However, we have built hundreds of app and have successfully deployed them both on App Store and Play Store. This is why we pride at having 100% App Store Approval ratio.

Our teams have an understanding of these app store guidelines and also have knowledge about instances that pose rejection risks such as legal/business issues, technical issues, etc. We ensure to make necessary corrections in case your app is rejected due to technical reasons and appeal for successful inclusion in the App Store or Play Store.

Certainly. We have a dedicated App Marketing and PR service to help you successfully launch your app and get marketing exposure. Learn more about our App Marketing and PR offering.

We encourage you to take a look at our customer reviews to get references and recommendations about our company.

We also have been featured among Top Mobile App Developers and Mobile Development Companies in Miami by Clutch.