Mobile app development in New England.

BCKPCKR builds iOS and Android apps for small and medium-sized businesses across Boston and the broader New England region. Whether you need a brand-new mobile app, a companion to an existing web product, or an internal tool for your team, we design and ship software that feels native on every device.

What we build

• Consumer-facing iPhone and Android apps with App Store and Play Store publishing
• Internal mobile tools for field teams, inspectors, and service technicians
• Mobile companions to existing Rails, Node, or Django web apps
• Offline-capable apps for spotty connectivity (common for crews working across New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont)
• Push notifications, background sync, camera and location features, payments, and authentication

Our mobile stack

For most projects we reach for Hotwire Native — the same technology 37signals uses in Basecamp and HEY — because it lets a small team share one codebase across iOS and Android while still delivering a genuinely native shell. When a client needs fully platform-native features, we also build in Swift/SwiftUI for iOS and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android.

Who we work with

We partner with founders, marketing teams, and CTOs in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, the North Shore, Worcester, Providence, Portsmouth, Portland, and throughout New England. Engagements can be a fixed-scope build, an ongoing retainer, or fractional CTO support.

If you're weighing whether to go native, cross-platform, or build mobile at all — get in touch and we'll give you a straight answer.