appico is an India-based, AI-amplified studio that designs, builds and ships apps, websites and software for founders in London and the UK. Senior team, about 7 hours of working-day overlap with UK time, and the code in your name from day one.
Hiring senior engineers in London is slow and expensive, and the UK rates for a designer, developer, QA or AI engineer run several times what the same seniority costs in India. We close that gap honestly: a senior India team, available now rather than after months of hiring, building the same quality a local team would, and we are upfront that we deliver from India rather than a London office.
This pairs naturally with our guide to outsourcing app development to India, which covers the savings, the process and how to vet a team.
UK morning lines up with the India afternoon, so you get most of a shared working day for calls and reviews without changing your hours. In practice that means a predictable daily window for calls, demos and decisions, with the rest of the day spent building. Where the overlap is short, we run a dedicated shift aligned to your hours at a small premium, so you are never waiting a full day for a reply.
Pricing: a website from 1,000 dollars, a well-scoped MVP from 10,000 including source and deployment, a mobile app from 12,000, larger builds up to about 150,000. See the full picture in our MVP cost guide and US vs India cost breakdown.
No. appico is an India-based studio and we build for London founders remotely. You get senior engineering at India rates, with about 7 hours of working-day overlap with UK time and clear communication, and you own all the code and accounts.
UK morning lines up with the India afternoon, so you get most of a shared working day for calls and reviews without changing your hours. We set fixed overlap hours for calls and standups, work asynchronously the rest of the day, and can provide a dedicated UK-hours shift at a small premium.
Pricing is fixed by milestone and agreed before we start. A website starts from 1,000 dollars, a well-scoped MVP from 10,000 including source code and deployment, and a mobile app from 12,000, with larger builds up to about 150,000. Building with a senior India team keeps it well below local the UK rates.
Yes, always. Source code, repositories, domains, hosting and app-store accounts are in your name from day one, with an NDA on request. The product is your asset, not a rental.
Quality varies between companies, not countries. Our senior engineers have shipped for global brands, and we back it with code review, testing and a staging link by day 3. Vet the team, not the geography.