We design and build mobile apps for iPhone. Scoped properly, and live on the date we gave you.
Where quality meets ambition.
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What we build
We build for iPhone only. That focus is deliberate — it's where your customers already are, and doing one thing properly beats doing two things adequately.
Booking, ordering, payments, renewals, appointments. The things your customers currently phone about during office hours, done in a few taps at eleven at night.
For businesses whose customers have to wait on someone.
Deliveries, inspections, site visits, field reports. Built to keep working in a basement or on a rural road with no signal, then sync the moment a bar comes back.
For teams who work away from a desk.
The first real version of an app idea — designed, built, tested with actual people, and published under your own developer accounts rather than ours.
For founders and companies launching something new.
About us
Karasand Labs is a mobile development studio based in Toronto. We design and build applications for phones — from the first sketch through to launch and the updates that follow.
We build and maintain products of our own alongside client work, so we live with the same store reviews, support inboxes and iOS updates our clients do. We measure our work by whether people keep an app installed — one that gets deleted after a week solved nothing, however good it looked in the pitch.
How it works
Every project runs the same way. A build you can install and use each week, a shared board you can open any time, and a direct line to the people writing the code.
Week 1
A two-day session where we work out what the app actually needs to do. You leave with a written scope and a firm quote, whether or not you hire us.
Weeks 2–3
A clickable prototype on a real phone before any code is written. You hold it, tap through it, and tell us what's wrong while changes are still cheap.
Weeks 4–10
A real build on your phone from week one, updated every few days. Friday demos, and no surprises waiting at the end.
Weeks 11–12
Device testing, the store listing, and submission to Apple — review included, which is the part most timelines forget. Then 30 days of fixes.
Our own apps
Karasand Labs runs two of its own products. They pay for themselves, and they keep us honest — we deal with store reviews, support emails, ratings and OS updates on our own apps every week, not just on yours.
Spending & budgeting
Nobody wrecks their budget in one afternoon. It goes on the four-dollar coffee, the delivery fee, the subscription nobody cancelled. Cashleak finds the small leaks and shows you what they quietly add up to over a year.
Study & test prep
Most study apps let you practise what you already know. StandardWise works the other way round — it tracks the questions you keep getting wrong and puts them back in front of you until they stop being questions.
Working together
Most people start with a fixed-scope app and move to an ongoing arrangement once it's live. You can also start at either end.
Most first apps. Typically eight to sixteen weeks.
Monthly, cancel with 30 days' notice.
Send us a few lines about what you have in mind. You'll get an honest read on scope and timeline — including whether an app is the right answer at all. Sometimes it isn't, and we'll say so.
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