App Development Cost in Bangladesh (2026): BDT and USD

This guide is for two readers. One runs a business in Bangladesh and is pricing an app in Taka: a delivery app, a booking app, or an app for a shop that already sells online. The other is a founder in the US, the UK or Australia who has quotes from home and wants to know what a Bangladeshi team would charge, and what the catch is.

We build web and mobile software for clients worldwide, including online stores for Bangladeshi brands. We didn't run a survey for this post, and we found no published survey of app prices in Bangladesh. So every number below either links to the page it came from or carries a label saying it's our estimate. Each one appears in Taka and in dollars.

One note for readers outside South Asia: a lakh is 100,000, so Tk 1.5 lakh is Tk 150,000.

How much does it cost to build an app in Bangladesh in 2026?

One Bangladeshi vendor's published price list puts a basic app at about Tk 1.5–3.5 lakh ($1,200–2,800), a medium one at Tk 4–12 lakh ($3,200–9,700) and a large business app at Tk 12–30 lakh ($9,700–24,300). Those are vendor estimates, not survey data, and they cover the build only.

The ladder comes from Bdtask's cost guide, last updated June 28, 2026, which prices in Taka. Every dollar figure in this post uses Bangladesh Bank's weighted average rate of Tk 123.65 to the dollar for October 19, 2026. If the rate moves, so does the dollar column.

• Basic app

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 1.5–3.5 lakh

  About (USD)

  $1,200–2,800

  Build time Bdtask gives

  1–2 months

• Medium complexity app

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 4–12 lakh

  About (USD)

  $3,200–9,700

  Build time Bdtask gives

  2–4 months

• Large-scale business app

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 12–30 lakh

  About (USD)

  $9,700–24,300

  Build time Bdtask gives

  4–8 months

• Enterprise-level application

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 30–60 lakh+

  About (USD)

  $24,300–48,500+

  Build time Bdtask gives

  6–12 months

A second Bangladeshi agency, Dcastalia, publishes a dollar ladder dated October 2025. It quotes $2,000–5,000 for a simple app (about Tk 2.5–6.2 lakh), $5,000–15,000 for a medium one (Tk 6.2–18.5 lakh) and $15,000 or more for a complex app. It calls the ranges 'an estimate', which is honest of it.

Put the two side by side and they don't line up. Dcastalia's simple app reaches $5,000, well inside Bdtask's medium band. Neither page defines 'simple' the same way, and neither cites a source for its prices.

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So treat these ladders as the range of opening quotes you're likely to hear. They aren't a price list. We don't publish one either: we price each app from its feature list, because two 'medium' apps can differ by more than the whole basic band.

Why do app quotes in Bangladesh vary so much?

Scope drives most of the difference. The rest comes from two markets sharing one country: shops that price for Bangladeshi clients, and export agencies that price for foreign ones. For similar work, their hourly rates can sit far apart.

Published rates show the split. Bdtask's Taka price guide gives an hourly rate of Tk 1,000–4,000, about $8–32. On Clutch's Bangladesh app developer list, where firms market themselves to buyers abroad, the most common band is $25–49 an hour. Both can be true at once, because they're priced for different clients.

Who builds your app matters as much as where. You'll usually hear from three kinds of seller:

• Freelancers. Often the cheapest quote, and often one person doing every job. Fine for a small app if you can manage the project yourself.
• Small local shops that sell packaged or template apps, sometimes listed on marketplaces with a price tag. Fast and cheap when your app matches the template. Painful when it doesn't.
• Export agencies with project managers and testers, and contracts written for foreign clients. They cost more per hour and usually include work the cheaper quotes leave out.

That missing work is where most cheap quotes come from. A low number often skips proper UI design or the admin panel your staff will use. Testing on real phones goes too, and sometimes the store submission itself. Ask every seller to price each of those as its own line, and the gap between quotes usually shrinks.

What do Bangladeshi app developers charge per hour?

The most common rate for Bangladeshi app firms on Clutch is $25–49 an hour (about Tk 3,100–6,100). When we read the first page of Clutch's Bangladesh app developer list on October 22, 2026, 49 firms showed a rate: 24 in that band, 16 under $25 and 8 at $50–99.

One more firm listed $150–199. Minimum project sizes ran from $1,000+ to $100,000+. Each company reports its own band, and the order of the list includes paid placement. Read the bands as asking prices from firms that sell abroad. They aren't a market average.

For context, our own planning figure for a blended senior team in South Asia is $25–60 an hour (Tk 3,100–7,400), from our guide to what custom software costs worldwide. That's an Arrowbin estimate, not survey data. It sits close to what the Clutch listings show.

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Salaries sit underneath those rates, and public pay data for Bangladesh is thin. Paylab's software engineer page says 80% of software engineers earn Tk 16,927–103,219 a month gross (about $140–830), but that comes from 25 verified respondents. Stack Overflow's survey had 92 qualifying Bangladeshi developers across two years. That's too few for a median, which is why there's no reliable Bangladesh salary median in our salary data.

If you're comparing teams, ask who's on yours. A rate tells you little until you know the seniority it buys.

What does each kind of app cost: Android, iOS, cross-platform or web app?

In Bdtask's published tables, a basic Android app costs Tk 1.5–3 lakh ($1,200–2,400) and a basic iOS app Tk 2–4 lakh ($1,600–3,200). Prices climb as you add a backend, an admin panel and integrations. One cross-platform codebase for both phones usually costs less than two separate native apps.

• Basic Android

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 1.5–3 lakh

  About (USD)

  $1,200–2,400

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Custom design instead of a template

• Medium Android

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 3.5–10 lakh

  About (USD)

  $2,800–8,100

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Online payments, maps, an admin panel

• Advanced Android

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 10–25 lakh+

  About (USD)

  $8,100–20,200+

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Live tracking, chat, a heavy backend

• Basic iOS

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 2–4 lakh

  About (USD)

  $1,600–3,200

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Fixes after Apple's review

• Medium iOS

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 4.5–12 lakh

  About (USD)

  $3,600–9,700

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Subscriptions, payments, an admin panel

• Advanced iOS

  Published range (BDT)

  Tk 12–25 lakh

  About (USD)

  $9,700–20,200

  What usually pushes it up (our view)

  Wallet or fintech features

Bdtask prices iOS a little higher at every level, and it also prices single Android features. Those feature lines are more useful than any tier. An admin panel runs Tk 80,000–4 lakh+ ($650–3,240+), payment gateway integration Tk 40,000–1.2 lakh ($320–970) and chat Tk 80,000–2.5 lakh ($650–2,020).

Add the cheap end of all three, Tk 2 lakh together, to a Tk 1.5 lakh basic Android app and the price more than doubles. Add the top end, Tk 7.7 lakh or more, and you're at the edge of the advanced band.

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Should you build cross-platform or native?

For a first version, we'd usually pick cross-platform. Flutter or React Native builds both apps from one codebase, so you pay for one set of screens and fix each bug once. Bdtask's language table starts Flutter work at Tk 3 lakh, its lowest entry. Go native when the app leans hard on the camera, Bluetooth or heavy animation, or when nearly all your users are on one platform.

In Bangladesh that last case is common. StatCounter's mobile OS figures put Android at 93.47% of mobile web traffic in September 2026. If your customers look like that, an Android-only first version saves real money, and iOS can follow once the app earns it.

What about a web app instead?

Neither price list covers web apps. For an internal tool, a booking system or a staff dashboard, a web app is often the cheaper first version: one build runs on every device, and no store has to approve it. We build those as custom web app development projects and price them the same way, from a feature list.

What does an e-commerce app cost in Bangladesh?

Bdtask publishes Tk 3.5–12 lakh ($2,800–9,700) for an e-commerce app on Android and Tk 4–14 lakh ($3,200–11,300) on iOS. Selling through the app then adds payment and delivery fees on every order.

Take one common payment setup. SSLCommerz lists a Tk 25,500 Basic plan (about $206), marked non-refundable, plus 2.5% per successful transaction (3.5% for AMEX). It says the rate covers bKash and Nagad as well as cards. Our guide to SSLCommerz and bKash fees in detail compares it with integrating the wallets directly.

Cash on delivery has its own cost. Steadfast's pricing page lists a 1% cash on delivery and risk management charge, before delivery charges and VAT. On a Tk 2,000 order, that's Tk 20 to the courier, or Tk 50 to SSLCommerz if the customer pays online.

If you already sell through a website, ask whether the app quote reuses that store's backend or builds a second one. Two backends means two copies of your stock and prices to keep in sync. That's an expensive thing to discover after launch.

What does an app cost to run after launch?

Budget for four things after launch: store accounts, servers, per-order fees and upkeep. Apple charges $99 a year (about Tk 12,200) and Google Play a one-time $25 (about Tk 3,100). We estimate yearly maintenance at 15–20% of the build cost; Bdtask publishes 15–25%.

The store fees come from Apple's enrollment page, which says Apple bills in local currency where available, and from Google Play's sign-up help. They're the smallest line on the bill.

Google Play also costs you time before launch. Personal developer accounts created after November 13, 2023 must run a closed test with at least 12 testers, opted in for at least 14 days in a row, before the app can go live. New organization accounts face a different hurdle: Google asks for a D-U-N-S number at sign-up, per its 2023 announcement.

Upkeep isn't optional on mobile. From August 31, 2026, Google Play requires new apps and app updates to target Android 16 (API level 36). An app nobody maintains soon can't ship even a bug fix.

The rest varies too much to price honestly here: servers, one-time password SMS, push notifications, email. Get those as monthly figures in writing from whoever builds the app. They're the lines that grow with your users.

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In that example, a Tk 8 lakh app (the middle of Bdtask's medium band, about $6,500) costs roughly Tk 9.6–10 lakh ($7,800–8,100) in its first year. Servers and per-order fees come on top. The store accounts are small change next to upkeep.

Is it cheaper for a US, UK or Australian company to build an app in Bangladesh?

Usually the hourly rate is lower, but the total depends on how much rework and management you take on. Choose the team on proof and process first. Look at the rate after that.

You already have quotes from home. The useful comparison is line by line, for the same written scope, with the seniority of each person named. A national average can't tell you whether this team's senior developer is senior. And as the salary data above shows, Bangladesh has no reliable public pay median to check against.

There's a real export market to choose from. BASIS, the Bangladeshi software industry association, says nearly 500 of its members exported in FY 2024-25, around 300 of them regularly, to more than 104 countries, as reported by the Financial Express. Exporters are the firms most likely to be set up for foreign contracts and dollar invoices, and for calls at odd hours. The cheapest local tier often isn't.

Time zones shape how a project feels day to day. Bangladesh runs on UTC+6 all year, with no daylight saving. London and Sydney get two to four hours of shared working day, depending on the season. For New York there's no overlap in normal office hours: Dhaka's evening is your morning. Our overlap comparison for ten team cities shows how that compares with Latin America and Europe.

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Our view: for US clients, the overlap matters less than the habit of writing things down. A team that sends a short written update and an installable build before your morning starts will feel closer than one that's online at the same hour and vague.

What's the catch when you hire a Bangladeshi app team?

The real risks are who actually does the work, who ends up owning the code and the store accounts, and how payments and fixes after launch are handled. None of that is unique to Bangladesh. You can settle each one in writing before you sign.

• The team you meet isn't always the team that builds. Ask for the names and experience of the developers on your project, and whether any work is subcontracted.
• The contract should name the legal entity you're paying and the governing law. It should also say the code and designs become yours once paid for. Have your own lawyer read it.
• Code should live in a repository your company owns from the first week, not arrive as a zip file at the end.
• Store accounts should be yours. Apple says an organization needs a D-U-N-S Number to enroll, and the organization's name shows as the seller on the App Store, so start that paperwork early.
• Agree the currency up front. A dollar invoice spares you exchange-rate arguments; decide who pays the bank fees on each transfer.
• Ask to install a test build at every milestone. A demo on someone else's phone proves very little.

A good team will agree to all six without fuss. Treat pushback on any of them as information.

How do you get a fair app quote in Bangladesh and protect it?

Ask for a written scope and a quote that prices each part of the job on its own line, from design to store submission. Then make sure the contract puts the code and the store accounts in your name.

This is the checklist we'd hand a friend before they sign with anyone, us included:

1. A written scope: every screen, and what a user can do on it.
2. Every part of the job priced on its own line, from design through to the store release.
3. Apple and Google developer accounts opened in your company's name, with the developer added as a user.
4. Source code in a repository you own, plus a handover document at the end.
5. The currency (BDT or USD), and for a Taka quote, whether VAT is included.
6. Payment milestones tied to builds you can install, not to calendar dates.
7. A bug-fix period after launch, with its length in writing.
8. The maintenance price, quoted before you sign.

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Be wary of anyone who wants 100% up front, or who sends a firm price within an hour of a two-line message. A serious estimate needs your feature list, and it should come back with questions.

If one quote is far below the others, hold it against the checklist. Usually a line is missing. It's often testing, or the admin panel.

So what should you budget first?

Write the feature list, price the first version against the ranges above, and add a year of running costs. That gives you a number you can defend, in Taka or in dollars, before anyone quotes.

If you'd like a team to price it, we do Android and iOS app development for clients worldwide, usually from one cross-platform codebase. Book a 30-minute call with your feature list, and we'll tell you which parts drive the cost and what we'd leave out of version one.