Native iOS
Swift and SwiftUI apps that feel unmistakably Apple — widgets, Live Activities, App Intents, and buttery 120fps interactions.
Mobile app studio · Lehi, Utah
Apps people can't put down
Pulsar Labs designs and ships native iOS and Android apps that climb the charts and keep users coming back week after week. From first sketch to App Store feature, we're the studio behind products people open every single day.
- 4.9★
- avg. store rating
- 40M+
- downloads shipped
- 12 wks
- idea to App Store
Good morning
Maya Delgado
- 8,412steps
- 486kcal
- 42min active
Tempo Run · 5K
Coach plan · starts 6:30 AM
🔥 21-day streak
This week
Training load
26.4 mi
distance
8:12 /mi
avg pace
New PR — 10K
51:08 · Saturday long run
October
Your goals
Run 60 miles
72%43.1 of 60 mi · on pace
12 strength sessions
58%7 of 12 · 2 this week
Sleep 7h+ nightly
84%26 of 31 nights
Product teams that trusted us with their launch
- ◉ Stride
- ▲ Nestfund
- ☕ Brewly
- ⌂ Haven
- ◆ Torchlight
- ∞ Loopwise
- 40M+
- downloads across shipped apps
- 4.9★
- average App Store rating
- +87%
- median day-30 retention lift
- 23
- apps featured by Apple & Google
What we build
Every layer of a five-star app
Strategy, design, native code, backend, and the store presence that gets you discovered — one senior team, end to end.
Native Android
Kotlin and Jetpack Compose builds tuned for the whole ecosystem — Material You theming, foldables, and Play policy compliance from day one.
Cross-platform
When one codebase is the smarter bet, we ship Flutter or React Native without the “feels like a web view” tax. We'll tell you honestly which fits.
Backend & APIs
Realtime sync, auth, payments, and push at scale on Firebase, Supabase, or custom GraphQL — architected so v2 doesn't mean a rewrite.
App Store Optimization
Keyword strategy, screenshot A/B tests, review velocity, and featuring pitches. Getting built is half the job — getting found is ours too.
Growth & Analytics
Event taxonomies, funnels, and lifecycle messaging wired into Amplitude and RevenueCat — so every release is a measurable experiment.
How we ship
From idea to App Store in 12 weeks
A fixed cadence with zero mystery. You see a TestFlight build every Friday from week five — not a big reveal at the end.
- Wk 1–2
Discovery & product strategy
Stakeholder workshops, competitor teardown, and a ruthless MVP scope. We leave with user stories, success metrics, and a monetization thesis.
- Wk 3–4
Design sprints
High-fidelity screens and a tappable prototype tested with real users. Motion specs, dark mode, and a component library your devs will love.
- Wk 5–9
Build in two-week sprints
Native code with CI/CD from day one — Fastlane and GitHub Actions push a signed TestFlight and Play internal build every Friday afternoon.
- Wk 10–11
Beta hardening
Public TestFlight and Play beta, crash triage in Sentry, performance passes, accessibility audit, and store metadata locked and localized.
- Wk 12
Launch & phased rollout
We handle App Review, stage the rollout, watch the dashboards, and ship the day-one patch before your users ever notice they needed it.
Selected work
Apps that shipped, then took off
Three recent launches — and the numbers their founders quote in board meetings.
Fitness · iOS + Android
Stride
A social running coach with adaptive training plans. We built native apps, live workout sync, and the streak system users won't break.
- 2.1Mdownloads, year one
- 4.9★38k ratings
- FeaturedApp Store “Apps We Love”
Fintech · iOS + Android
Nestfund
Automated micro-saving for first-time homebuyers. Bank-grade security, round-up rules, and a goal engine that makes compounding feel fun.
- $310Massets tracked
- +64%day-30 retention
- FinalistBest of Google Play
Food & loyalty · Flutter
Brewly
Order-ahead and loyalty for a 40-location coffee chain. One Flutter codebase, POS integration, and pickup timing accurate to the minute.
- 58%of orders via app in 6 mo
- +41%average order value
- 190kloyalty members
Under the hood
A stack chosen for the next five years, not the last five
- Swift
- Kotlin
- Flutter
- React Native
- Firebase
- Supabase
Pulsar shipped in twelve weeks what our previous agency couldn't in a year — and it debuted at 4.8 stars. They argued us out of features we didn't need and into the ones our users now rave about. Friday TestFlight builds became the meeting our whole company looked forward to.
Co-founder & CEO, Stride
Ways to work together
Pick your launch velocity
Flat, honest pricing. Every engagement includes senior engineers only — no bait-and-switch to the bench.
MVP Sprint
$48k flat
Validate fast on one platform.
- 6 weeks, one platform (iOS or Android)
- Core flows + design system
- Firebase or Supabase backend
- TestFlight / Play beta with 100 users
- Launch-readiness checklist
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Full Build
from $120k
The 12-week idea-to-store program.
- iOS + Android, native or Flutter
- Backend, auth, payments & push
- CI/CD, analytics & crash reporting
- ASO launch kit + featuring pitch
- 90 days of post-launch support
Team Extension
$19k /mo per pod
Senior firepower inside your sprints.
- Two senior engineers + product designer
- Embedded in your standups & tooling
- Ship against your roadmap
- Month-to-month, 30-day notice
- Knowledge-transfer guarantee
Have an idea? Let's make it unmissable.
Tell us what you're building in a 30-minute discovery call. You'll leave with a scope sketch, a timeline, and a straight answer on cost — free, no strings.
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