Mobile App Development Company in Munich

A Munich app budget grows with every system the phone has to talk to: a scoped MVP mobile app at Munich rates, a production-ready consumer mobile app with payments, deep linking, analytics, customer support tooling, German and English localisation, BFSG accessibility evidence, and a first round of App Store and Play Store optimisation, or a connected-car companion app integrated with BMW or VW Group telematics, an Allianz-style insurance mobile with full claims workflow, or a Siemens-style industrial mobile tool with offline sync, MQTT or OPC UA, and IEC 62443 controls. Scope drivers include iOS and Android native (or a single Flutter or React Native target where suitable), authentication, a first feature surface, push notifications, and a hosted EU backend on AWS eu-central-1 or Azure Germany West Central. Munich rates sit above Berlin and Hamburg because senior iOS and Android engineers in Munich command BMW and Allianz salary benchmarks. We give Festpreis proposals in EUR with milestone invoicing under standard German BGB contracts.

Yes. We build connected-car companion apps that integrate with OEM telematics, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, UWB digital key where the OEM supports the Car Connectivity Consortium Digital Key Release 3 specification, EV charging coordination across Ionity, EnBW Hypernetz, and Tesla Supercharger Open Network, and the V2X bridges that hand off route and traffic data between phone and vehicle Head Unit. For BMW and VW Group customers we work inside the documented OEM integration toolchains and respect the OEM brand and design system. For tier-one suppliers (Continental, Bosch Mobility, ZF, Infineon for automotive silicon) we build the proof-of-concept apps that prove a new feature to the OEM customer before the embedded team commits. Every connected-car build ships under UNECE WP.29 R155 vehicle cybersecurity management system controls (mandatory for new EU vehicle type approvals since July 2024), ISO 21434 automotive cybersecurity, KBA Type Approval coordination through the OEM, and an HSM-backed key management story for the digital key and remote command signing. We also build the OTA coordination layer so the mobile app version and the embedded HU firmware do not desync in customer hands.

The Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz (BFSG) is the German implementation of the European Accessibility Act and applies to B2C digital products from June 28, 2025. For mobile apps it requires conformance with EN 301 549, which in turn maps to WCAG 2.1 AA. Practical obligations include screen reader support (VoiceOver on iOS, TalkBack on Android) with proper accessibility labels and traits, sufficient colour contrast across light and dark themes, dynamic type and font scaling support up to the platform maximum, hit targets no smaller than forty-four points (iOS) or forty-eight density-independent pixels (Android), keyboard and switch control navigation, captioning and audio description for media, and a published Barrierefreiheitserklärung (accessibility statement) including a feedback channel. We build BFSG conformance into the design system from week one and run automated checks (Accessibility Inspector on iOS, Accessibility Scanner on Android, Axe-style runtime audits) in CI plus manual VoiceOver and TalkBack passes per release. The published statement and the evidence pack go to the Marktüberwachungsbehörde (the federal accessibility market surveillance authority) on request. Penalties for non-conformance run up to EUR 100,000 per violation.

Yes. We build claims apps, telematics apps (Pay-As-You-Drive and Pay-How-You-Drive), policy management apps, health and life apps, and broker apps for German Versicherer. For BaFin-supervised customers we stay inside EU regions (Azure Germany West Central, AWS eu-central-1 Frankfurt) for any backend processing, apply BaFin VAIT (Versicherungsaufsichtliche Anforderungen an die IT) and MaRisk Versicherung controls, and align with §3 VAG governance requirements. Telematics scoring models that influence pricing now fall under the EU AI Act high-risk Annex III classification for life and health insurance pricing, so we ship the model card, the post-market monitoring plan, and the human oversight workflow. Consent management is built on the BFDI guidance for mobile tracking (the German federal data protection authority) and the Telekommunikation-Telemedien-Datenschutzgesetz (TTDSG) §25 cookie and tracking rules as they apply to mobile SDKs. We integrate Allianz-style ADAC dispatch flows, GDV-standard claims taxonomy, and SEPA refund handling, and we publish the IDD product oversight and governance disclosure inside the app. Every release ships through a Konzernrevision-ready evidence pack.

Industrial mobile in Munich means apps used by factory operators, maintenance technicians, quality engineers, and plant managers across Siemens-scale facilities. The pattern set includes: offline-first sync because factory floors lose WiFi constantly (we use Realm, Core Data with CloudKit alternatives, or Room with a custom sync layer); hardware-backed barcode and QR scanning on Zebra TC series and Honeywell CT series handhelds in addition to standard iPhone and Android; MQTT and CoAP clients to ingest live telemetry from PLCs and edge gateways like Siemens IPC227E; OPC UA mobile clients (typically via a backend OPC UA gateway, not direct from the device) for plant-floor data; integration with SAP S/4HANA Plant Maintenance (PM) and Quality Management (QM) modules and Siemens Opcenter; IEC 62443 zone and conduit controls in the architecture; multi-factor authentication via smart card or YubiKey for shift-floor login; and a Betriebsvereinbarung template covering §87 BetrVG co-determination for any feature that touches operator performance data. We also build the audit log that satisfies the Betriebsrat inspection right and the Konzernrevision evidence pack.

Munich apps face strict consent and data transfer obligations and the BFDI (Bundesbeauftragter für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit) plus the Bavarian LDA (Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht) actively enforce them. On iOS we treat App Tracking Transparency (ATT) as a hard gate for any SDK that performs cross-app or cross-site tracking, with a German-language ATT prompt that explains the purpose in plain Sie or Du tone matching the brand voice. We default to no third-party trackers loading until ATT and the in-app TTDSG §25 consent banner have both been answered, with a documented per-SDK consent mapping. On Android we ship for the Privacy Sandbox transition (Topics, Protected Audience, Attribution Reporting) and assume the Google Advertising ID is unreliable for German users who opt out via Android system settings. For backend analytics and crash reporting we default to EU-hosted providers (Firebase EU, Adjust EU, PostHog self-hosted on eu-central-1, Sentry self-hosted on eu-central-1) and document any cross-border transfer with a Transfer Impact Assessment (TIA) and standard contractual clauses, aligned with the EDPB post-Schrems II guidance. The Datenschutzbeauftragter signs off the SDK list before the first store submission.

We default to native Swift and SwiftUI on iOS and native Kotlin and Jetpack Compose on Android for any project that touches automotive (CarPlay, Android Auto, UWB digital key, telematics), payments at scale, hardware sensors, offline-first industrial sync, or high-touch consumer experiences where the German market expects polish on par with BMW ConnectedDrive or the MVG München app. React Native is a fit when the app is genuinely feature-flat across platforms, the team is JavaScript-heavy, and the product roadmap does not anticipate deep platform integration; recent BMW and Allianz tooling has shown React Native can survive in enterprise settings if the architecture allocates native modules for the hard parts. Flutter is a fit for internal tools, prototypes, and B2B apps with simple UI and tight branding, particularly where Dart skills are available; Flutter is a poor fit for accessibility-critical apps because the embedded rendering pipeline still creates BFSG conformance work that native platforms hand you for free. We run a platform strategy workshop in week one with cost, risk, and roadmap modelling so the decision is documented and signed off rather than defaulted into.

We treat the App Store and Play Store launch as a project phase, not a deployment step. The week before submission we lock the privacy strings (App Store Privacy Nutrition Labels per data type and purpose, Google Play Data Safety form per data category, full SDK inventory mapped to both), the German and English store copy with proper App Store Optimisation (keyword research for the German market, not a translation of English keywords), the screenshots in German and English at every required device size, a German-language app preview video where the product justifies it, the support and marketing URLs with German-language content and an Impressum that satisfies §5 TMG, and the privacy policy in German that satisfies the BFDI and Bavarian LDA expectations. Submission goes in with German as the primary store language for the German market and English as the global fallback. We coordinate the App Review and Play Review timelines around the marketing launch with a one to two week buffer for rejections, and we ship the first three to five updates pre-planned to address the inevitable review feedback. For BMW or Allianz scale customers the launch also includes a press release coordination, a Marken-Marketing review, and an internal Konzernrevision sign-off.