This Bos magazine project was designed and built by Magora. We are a London software development company (since 2010) building mobile and web apps for UK businesses, from a free working prototype to launch and support.
Almost every magazine now needs a mobile edition. The publisher of BOS magazine asked us to build its iOS app from scratch, plus the tool its editors would use to publish each issue.
Readers had to be able to find, buy and read the latest issue in seconds, on iPhone or iPad, and keep access to everything they had paid for across devices. Editors needed to upload new issues without developer help.
Design came first, because a reading app is judged on how it feels; the purchase and restore flows were then built and tested against App Store rules.
BOS got an easy-to-use reading app and a simple publishing tool: readers buy an issue from the sofa or a coffee shop, and the editors release new issues on their own schedule.
Readers got a simple way to buy and keep every issue, and the editorial team could publish on its own schedule without developer help.
At our current rates, a build of this scope would cost about £15–30k — an estimate from the feature list, not the original invoice.
Today we would ship one cross-platform reader for iOS and Android, with offline reading, push notifications for new issues and subscriptions managed in one place across the app stores and the web. A first release of a product like this typically takes 6–8 weeks; our rates start from £49/hour per developer, and £65–£70/hour for a full team with QA and product ownership. Discovery starts from £3,000.
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IOS reading app for BOS magazine plus a web tool for editors to publish issues
Magora's own estimate from the feature list, published on this case page at current rates; not the original invoice
Readers buy and keep every issue; the editorial team publishes new issues on its own schedule without developer help.
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