Swift,
Apple-native.
SwiftUI, UIKit and Combine engineers — Core Data, Apple Pay, CallKit, CarPlay, watchOS, App Clips. Senior people who know when to dip into Objective-C and when not to.
Swift / iOS
engineering services.
SwiftUI, UIKit and Combine engineers — Core Data, Apple Pay, CallKit, CarPlay, watchOS, App Clips. Senior people who know when to dip into Objective-C and when not to.
iOS app development
SwiftUI-first, UIKit fluent — supports back to iOS 15, optimised for the latest device generation.
Async & concurrency
Swift Concurrency, actors, async/await — race-free code that's still fast on M1 and slow on a 1st-gen SE.
Persistence & data
Core Data, SwiftData, GRDB, Realm — the right tool for the use-case, no «we always use X» dogma.
Apple Pay & wallet
Apple Pay, Wallet passes, Tap-to-Pay, Apple Card — payment flows the user actually completes.
watchOS, tvOS, visionOS
Companion apps for Apple Watch, tvOS apps, visionOS spatial computing — Apple-platform polyglots.
Maintenance & iOS upgrades
Annual iOS upgrade prep, deprecation hygiene, App Store policy compliance.
How we build
shipped iOS apps.
Same engineers from kickoff to handover. Weekly demos. No offshore rotation, no body shop.
Consultation
Transparency from the start. We discuss the plan, build a precise deployment roadmap, and at each stage encourage you to participate.
UI / UX design
A talented design team creates an accurate user-journey map. User-friendly interfaces built on extensive research — Material 3 done right.
Reliable engineering
A decade of native iOS development. SwiftUI-forward delivery, with UIKit where it still wins.
Six steps to ship
an iOS app.
From a fuzzy idea to a Play Store-live product, with a checkpoint at every stage.
User research
1 – 2 weeksUser Research Mastery — define user roles, set expectations, conduct up to 10 impactful interviews. Insights become a guaranteed roadmap.
Product scope
1 weekCompelling user stories crafted with stakeholders. Clarity, collaboration and adaptability converge to transform vision into software.
Design
2 – 3 weeksRobust UI designs for visual appeal or efficient UX prototypes for real user insights. Transform your vision into a user-centric reality.
Development
6 – 14 weeksAgile development transforms the process into a dynamic, customer-driven journey. Iterative approach, rapid sprints, change embraced seamlessly.
QA
1 – 2 weeksRigorous testing in staging. Each step a precision move toward a seamless user experience. QA engineers act as continuous guardians.
Deployment
1 weekPlanning, version control, testing, cutting-edge strategies like canary releases. Trouble-free installations with continuous monitoring.
The actual
iOS / Swift stack.
What goes into a Magora iOS app — Swift and SwiftUI, async/await, modular targets and a CI that signs and ships without drama.
- Swift 5.10
- Objective-C (legacy)
- C++ (audio · ML niches)
- Metal Shading Language
- SwiftUI
- UIKit
- Combine
- Catalyst
- MVVM
- TCA
- Clean Architecture
- VIPER (legacy)
- Resolver
- Factory
- Needle
- Swinject
- async / await
- Combine
- GCD
- OperationQueue
- SwiftData
- Core Data
- Realm
- Keychain · CryptoKit
- URLSession
- Alamofire
- Apollo (GraphQL)
- gRPC-Swift
- Core ML
- Vision · ARKit
- HealthKit
- BLE · Bluetooth
What clients
say.
Verified reviews from our Clutch profile — 4.9 out of 5 across 71 client reviews.
“They came through as more of a tech partner rather than just developers for hire.”
“They didn't simply take our requirements and run with them; they truly made an effort to understand everything.”
“Partnering with Magora for the development of the messenger was a decision we will never regret.”
iOS apps
we've shipped.
Four from the wider portfolio — Swift apps running on millions of iPhones and iPads today.
Dayinsure
Native iOS app for pay-as-you-go insurance — Apple Pay, Apple Wallet, Family Sharing.
See case study → Sleep · iOSSweet Dreamers
Sleep-pattern iOS app with Apple Health and watchOS companion.
See case study → Lighting · iPadOrganic Response
BLE-driven commercial lighting control with floor-plan-aware iPad UI.
See case study → FMCG · iOSDanone field rep
Field-rep loyalty companion across Danone's distribution network.
See case study →An iOS app development company,
or Swift engineers on your team.
Looking for an iOS app development company in the UK? Magora designs, builds and publishes native iPhone and iPad apps in Swift and SwiftUI from London — as a complete product team, or as senior Swift engineers joining yours. We set up the Apple Developer account in your company's name and take the app through App Store review.
End-to-end iOS apps
Discovery, UX, SwiftUI front end, back end and QA — one team from the first workshop to the App Store.
Mobile app development →A dedicated iOS team
Senior Swift engineers and QA who join your roadmap, sprint with your team and scale month by month.
Dedicated teams →App Store publishing
Developer account in your company's name, TestFlight, privacy details, App Review and release management.
What launch really costs →Discovery first
A short paid Discovery (from £3,000) turns your iOS idea into a costed scope, architecture and roadmap before the build.
Discovery phase →Pricing is published: senior engineers are from £49 an hour (about £390 a day), Discovery from £3,000, an MVP from £10,000 and a full production project at £25,000–£60,000. See UK software development pricing.
The honest
questions.
A freelancer can be the right call for a small, well-specified change. A company brings the rest of what a launch needs — product scoping, design, back end, QA on real devices, App Store submission and support after release — and continuity if one person is unavailable. We also provide senior Swift engineers to work inside your team. See mobile app development in London.
Discovery from £3,000, an iOS MVP from £10,000 and a full production app at £25,000–£60,000; senior Swift engineers are from £49 an hour (about £390 a day). Apple also charges $99 a year for the Developer Program — our guide to the Apple Developer fee covers what else launching costs, and the app development cost guide covers the build.
Yes. We set up the Apple Developer account in your company's name (including the D-U-N-S number an organisation account needs), run TestFlight testing, prepare the App Store listing and privacy details, and take the build through App Review. The account and the app stay yours.
Magora is a London-based software development company that provides mobile app development, web and AI product development, and helps businesses ship bespoke solutions backed by 15 years of delivery.
Our senior Product Owners and Project Managers dive into your business goals during Discovery to create a product vision that gives end users a seamless experience.
Top-notch mobile, web and AI developers plus QA engineers deliver high-quality code at any complexity, and our UI/UX design team ensures the experience meets the strictest guidelines.
A senior engineer is from £49/hour (about £390 a day), minimum four weeks — the same published band as our PHP engineers, because seniority rather than language sets it. Our 2026 paid pricing (GBP):
- Free working prototype + written analysis from a senior Product Owner before any paid engagement — no commitment, no charge.
- Product Discovery: from £3,000.
- Startup MVP: from £10,000.
- Full production mobile or web project: £25,000–£60,000.
- AI development, bespoke enterprise software and CRM platforms: scoped after Discovery.
We transfer full ownership of source code, designs and IP to the client on payment.
Yes. Magora has a dedicated AI & ML practice delivering LLM-powered applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, AI agents, deep learning models, fine-tuned open-source models, and integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini APIs. See also our take on generative AI and Apple Intelligence on iOS.
Engagements range from short proofs of concept to multi-month production builds. All work is discovery-led, GDPR-compliant, with full ownership of code and data delivered to the client.
Magora Systems is headquartered in London, United Kingdom, at Office 4.01, 4th Floor, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ.
Legal entity is Thinking Fish Ltd (UK Companies House 03637036), incorporated in 1998; Magora has traded since 2010. We also operate a US presence at 17001 Collins Ave, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160.
Finance (FinTech), healthcare and pharma, hospitality and tourism, real estate, transport and logistics, e-commerce and retail, education, automotive, construction and IT/telecom.
Past clients include AstraZeneca, Grant Thornton, Toyota, Unilever and Cisco. See full case studies.
Yes. As a UK-based developer, Magora delivers GDPR-compliant systems by default: data-minimisation review during discovery, consent flows, data-subject-access tooling, encrypted-at-rest storage, audit logging, and EU/UK data-residency options on AWS and GCP.
For AI projects Magora also runs an EU AI Act readiness review before deployment.
Yes — to stay among cutting-edge technologies and keep up with changing demand, the product needs constant maintenance. During the maintenance period we analyse all incoming inquiries, evaluate severity and: fix defects, form a Product Backlog from low-medium defects and user feedback, plan and propose enhancements that add value, update libraries and tweak based on API changes to maintain stability, and monitor the code stage for critical security updates. Same team also handles legacy software modernisation if your stack needs lifting.
IPR in bespoke software shall, without prejudice to our rights in pre-existing IPR, be transferred to you on payment of the requested amount relating to such work. Where you have provided us with third-party materials, it is solely your responsibility to ensure those materials may be used as directed without infringing any IPR, laws or regulations.
Artem leads an engineering team at Magora and reviews the technical content on this page: architecture, stack choices and delivery estimates.
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