How much does a mobile app cost in Morocco?
A mobile MVP — authentication, three to five screens, one core use case — costs 40,000–70,000 MAD. A mid-size app with integrated payment, push notifications and a dedicated backend across ten to twenty screens runs 70,000–150,000 MAD. Above 150,000 MAD you are in complex territory: real-time features, geolocation, B2B multi-role logic. Maintenance starts at 1,500 MAD/month.
Key facts
- MVP (3–5 screens, one use case): 40,000–70,000 MAD
- Mid-size app (payment, push, backend): 70,000–150,000 MAD
- Complex app (real-time, B2B multi-role): 150,000+ MAD
- Maintenance: from 1,500 MAD/month
- React Native shares roughly 95% of code across iOS/Android
- React Native: 8–12 weeks; native: 16–24 weeks
Three tiers, three kinds of project
A mobile MVP exists to validate a behaviour: authentication, one main journey, three to five screens, a light backend, and store submission. That is 40,000–70,000 MAD. Moving to 70,000–150,000 MAD means the app becomes a product: integrated payment, push notifications, a dedicated backend, ten to twenty screens, full design. Beyond 150,000 MAD, complexity rarely comes from screen count but from real-time features, continuous geolocation, or B2B multi-role logic. Our full offer is on the mobile app development in Morocco page.
React Native or native: the real criterion
React Native shares roughly 95% of code between iOS and Android, which cuts both budget and timeline — eight to twelve weeks against sixteen to twenty-four for native, and one codebase to maintain instead of two. Native keeps the edge on graphics performance, total access to system APIs, and AR, VR or wearable cases. For the large majority of projects React Native is the rational choice; native is justified by a specific technical need, not by principle.
Cost does not stop at launch
Shipping to the stores is not the end of the project. An app lives against two operating systems that update every year, and an app that breaks on a new iOS release loses its users within days. Maintenance — crash monitoring, annual iOS and Android updates, fixes, small improvements — starts at 1,500 MAD/month. Add ASO, onboarding and analytics, which determine whether the app is actually used.
React Native vs native iOS + Android
| Criterion | React Native | Native (Swift + Kotlin) |
|---|---|---|
| MVP budget | 40,000–70,000 MAD | 60,000–120,000 MAD |
| Delivery time | 8–12 weeks | 16–24 weeks |
| Shared iOS/Android code | ~95% | 0% |
| Standard UX performance | Near-equivalent | Better |
| AR / VR / wearables | Limited | Recommended |
| Long-term maintenance | 1 codebase | 2 teams |
Published ROUGUITECH ranges, based on shipped store deployments.
Related questions
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