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ScopePlay is a South African mobile app development company working with Cape Town founders and businesses. We turn ideas into custom mobile apps your customers carry with them, from R20 000.

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A written scope in 48 hours

We build for

  • App Store
  • Google Play
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How it works

Three steps, and the first two are free.

  1. 01FREE

    A 15-minute call

    Tell us the idea, or the job you want the mobile app to do. We ask a few questions. No slides, no sales pitch.

  2. 02FREE

    A free scope in 48 hours

    What we would build, in what order, and how long it takes. Yours to keep, even if another developer builds it.

  3. 03WEEKLY

    See progress weekly

    Log in each week to watch your app come to life on our CRM.

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Payments & wallet apps

Balances, cards and every transaction — live.

  • Live balances
  • Card controls
  • Instant EFT

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Delivery & tracking apps

A live route, a real ETA and the driver on it.

  • Live route
  • Driver chat
  • Proof of delivery

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Fitness & booking apps

Goals, sessions and bookings in one place.

  • Activity rings
  • Live heart rate
  • Class bookings

What we build

Our Responsibilities. Your Results.

Custom mobile apps

Whatever you have in mind, we can build it from scratch to do exactly what you need. One mobile app, on iPhone and Android, in your customers' pockets. Booking apps, ordering apps, job cards in the field, member portals, trackers.

Hosting and maintenance

We keep what we build running. Fast, secure hosting, daily backups, certificates and updates handled, and someone to call when something needs changing — so the app stays looked after long after it goes live.

Websites that do more than sit there

Premium websites for startups and established businesses. Designed and built for you — fast to load, easy to find on Google, and simple to keep up to date as you grow.

Questions

What founders and owners ask first.

How much does it cost to build a mobile app in Cape Town?

It depends on the scope, but as a rough guide builds start from around R20 000 and go up from there. A single-purpose app — a booking app, a quoting calculator, a member portal with one type of user — sits at the lower end. A full system with several user types, payment or accounting integrations, and compliance rules to meet costs considerably more. What moves the number is the size of the scope, how many outside systems it has to talk to, how many different types of user it needs, and how clear the requirements are to start with. The free scope puts all of that on paper first, and only once you have approved it do we put a written estimate to exactly what it says.

How long does it take to build a mobile app?

Again it comes down to the scope: anywhere from about 5 days to 4 months. A small app — a lead capture form, a single calculator, a simple booking flow — can be live inside a week. A larger system with several user types, integrations and admin screens runs closer to two to four months. The scope document commits to a handover date before anything is built, and that is the date we work to. We build in one-week sprints, so there is a working link to click through every week rather than one big reveal at the end.

Do I own the code?

Yes. The code, the database and the hosting and domain accounts are all in your name, handed over on a repository you control. If you ever stop working with us, nothing switches off and any developer can pick it up.

I am not technical. Will I understand what is going on?

That is the main thing we design around. We explain every technical choice in plain English, you get a written scope you could hand to any developer, and every week there is a real screen to click through instead of a status report. You should not need to speak developer to get a mobile app built. If you are not yet sure what you want built, that is normal — the first call is for working it out.

Do you work with Cape Town clients?

Yes. We work with founders and businesses in Cape Town regularly. We are based in Pretoria and run projects remote-first, with on-site sessions in Cape Town for kick-off and training where that makes sense. Tell us where you are on the call.

Start here

Tell us what you want built.

  1. You pick a call slot — 15 minutes, no obligation
  2. We talk through what you want built
  3. You get a written scope in 48 hours, yours to keep

We reply within one working day.

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