Move over, India and China. There’s a new mobile development outsourcing hub in town.
Eastern Europe.
Countries in the region, like Poland and Croatia, offer an unbeatable combination of affordable rates, a large pool of talent, and a great cultural fit.
And with thousands of software development agencies in Eastern Europe, clients are spoiled for choice.
But if you’re looking for the best of the best, here are the top mobile app developers in Eastern Europe that deserve your consideration.
DECODE is a full-service software development company headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, with a second office in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was founded in 2012 by three engineers from the University of Zagreb.
The company currently has a roster of more than 90 developers across a wide range of skills and experiences.
This talent pool allows us to work on complex projects efficiently, whether it’s a bespoke messaging app or an Internet of Things (IoT) project.
We offer a full-stack mobile app development service, from product discovery to quality assurance and maintenance, and we’ve since expanded into AI software development and AI integration alongside our core mobile and web work.
DECODE works best as a dedicated outsourced team that will handle your project from start to finish.
However, we can also be tapped to extend your current team or work on specific areas on an ongoing project.
Our skills, work ethic, and experience have allowed us to work on over 100+ successful projects for prestigious brands like Metaswitch, AT&T, and Norfolk Southern.
We serve any industry but are well-adept at telecommunications, fintech, healthcare, and transportation
DECODE holds ISO/IEC 27001 certification, meaning we have proven security procedures that help us develop safe apps that protect user data.
But despite DECODE’s excellent service, technical capabilities, and extensive portfolio, we’re also cost-effective.
Rates range from $50 to $99 an hour.
Droids on Roids
Droids on Roids is one of Poland’s top mobile app agencies, now operating as a full digital product studio covering strategy, discovery, design, and development for mobile and web.
The company was founded in 2011 in Wroclaw and is now part of Apadmi Group, one of Europe’s leading digital product consultancies.
It has delivered more than 130 products for clients including Carlsberg, NCC, SadaPay, and CCC Shoes & Bags.
Droids on Roids offer the full spectrum of mobile app development, including native apps and cross-platform solutions using Flutter and Kotlin Multiplatform. The firm also covers product strategy workshops, UX research, and product design under one roof.
Their delivery model, which they call TAP (Team and Process), emphasizes cross-functional teams (solution architects, business analysts, UX researchers) and data-driven, agile delivery.
Droids on Roids cater well to startups through enterprise clients in fintech, e-commerce, IoT, and healthcare.
They’ve picked up a string of 2025 industry awards, including Top App Development Company Europe and Top Flutter Developers.
Rates are in the $50 to $99 per hour range, with a typical minimum project size of $75,000+.
SolveIt
SolveIt is a full-cycle mobile app development company founded in 2016, with offices in Poland, the United States, and Sweden.
The company focuses on funded startups and small to mid-sized businesses that need to launch an MVP, scale an existing mobile product, modernize legacy software, or take over a project from another development team.
SolveIt provides product discovery, UX/UI design, native iOS and Android development, cross-platform development with Flutter, backend and web development, quality assurance, AI integrations, and post-launch support.
One of its notable projects is RVista, a US travel platform that combines Flutter mobile apps with a React-based web application and gives users access to more than 25,000 RV resorts and 60,000 points of interest.
SolveIt has developed and launched more than 100 digital products used by over 25 million people. Its experience covers healthcare and wellness, real estate, travel and booking, e-commerce, logistics, and social networking.
The company has a 5.0 rating on Clutch, while its development rates typically range from $25 to $49 per hour.
Empat
Empat is an AI-driven product development company, building AI-powered software for startups and enterprises.
The agency was founded in 2013 and is headquartered across Kyiv, San Francisco, and London, having expanded well beyond its original Ukraine base.
Empat’s core offer centers on AI-accelerated development, including AI agent builds, fast fixed-scope MVPs, and even “vibecode rescue” work to stabilize apps built with AI coding tools. They also still run their original Startup Studio model and an in-house coding school.
Empat has delivered 300+ projects across 23 markets, with clients including Porsche, Panasonic, CBRE, Heinemann, and Transparency International. They’re Claude, OpenAI, and GitHub Copilot certified partners, plus HIPAA-compliant and AWS/Azure/Google Cloud partnered.
Price-wise, Empat is still one of the more affordable options, with hourly rates at $25 to $49.
itCraft
itCraft is a Warsaw-based end-to-end software development partner, trusted by startups and global brands alike.
Founded in 2010, the company runs a lean in-house team of 60+ developers, UX/UI designers, QA engineers, analysts, and DevOps professionals, all working in Agile Scrum.
Their client roster includes large enterprise names: Dräger, Deloitte Digital, DHL, Rossmann, LUX MED (Bupa Group), Sodexo, and Makro C&C. They’ve delivered more than 350 successful digital products to date.
Notable outcomes include BeeSpeaker (Mobile Trend’s 2024 Startup of the Year), Home Doctor (€4 million Series A raise), and the Mindleap acquisition.
itCraft is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001 certified, and their rates have held steady at $50 to $99 an hour, with a minimum project size of $25,000+.
Miquido
Miquido is another veteran agency in the Polish app development scene.
Since 2011, they have completed over 150 successful software projects in the fintech, e-commerce, entertainment, and healthcare niches.
They position themselves as a mobile platform partner for enterprise service businesses, specializing in designing and scaling mobile ecosystems as primary revenue channels, rather than a general full-stack development shop.
One of Miquido’s key competencies is artificial intelligence. They have extensive technical skills in data science, natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision.
Based in Kraków, Miquido focuses on healthcare, utilities, travel, and foodtech, serving global leaders like TUI, Skyscanner, and Dolby. Over 70% of their revenue is now mobile-driven, and they maintain a 0.03% crash rate across platforms serving 100 million+ users worldwide.
Their newer technical angle leans into “Software 3.0,” pairing secure Edge AI with CI/CD pipelines running 100+ builds a day. They’re also a Google Certified Agency.
Rates are at $50 to $99 per hour, with a minimum project size of $25,000+.
Netguru
Netguru is a software development company headquartered in Poznan, Poland, with a presence in Berlin and London.
Founded in 2008, it’s one of the most respected agencies in the country, trusted by the biggest names in the world, like UBS, Volkswagen, and Ikea.
Netguru offers a full spectrum of software development services beyond mobile apps. They’re also proficient in web design, big data consulting, and cloud consulting.
Netguru has narrowed its positioning considerably: it’s now a one-stop shop for digital commerce, helping brands modernize B2B solutions, marketplaces, and retail ecosystems with AI-driven technology, design, and engineering.
That’s a shift from its earlier broader “full spectrum of software development” pitch.
Their rates have held at under $100 per hour ($50 to $99), with a minimum project size of $50,000+.
nomtek
nomtek is one of Eastern Europe’s notable software development agencies.
They have sharpened its focus into three verticals: MedTech (patient-facing apps and clinical tools built for regulated environments and EU AI Act readiness), HR Tech & Staffing (candidate and worker apps for high-volume, high-churn platforms), and Field Force (offline-first apps for reps and technicians).
This is a notable narrowing from their earlier broader mobile/AR/VR positioning.
The Wrocław-based firm, founded in 2009, now runs a team of around 100 consultants and has delivered 250+ products over 17 years.
Clients include Siemens, Randstad, Monster, Kapsch, Unicity, Ricardo, Jägermeister, and Qualcomm.
They describe their approach as “fullstack” in the sense of owning the whole product and picking the stack (React Native, Flutter, native Swift/Kotlin) to fit the problem, adding AI features like agentic assistants and document processing where they measurably help.
Rates sit at $50 to $99 per hour, with a minimum project size of $25,000+.
SoftwareHut
SoftwareHut is an award-winning agency based in Poland.
They’re now part of the TenderHut Group and have expanded beyond Poland with a US office in New York, alongside its Białystok HQ.
Founded in 2015, the agency continues to offer tailor-made solutions for startups, SMEs, and enterprises, combining software development with IT project management.
They’re a Microsoft Gold Partner and hold ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001 certification.
Their client roster includes Microsoft, Skyscanner, Sonetel, and Qbank. Awards include multiple Deloitte Technology Fast 50/500 rankings and placements on the FT 1000 list of Europe’s fastest-growing companies.
And even with all of that, SoftwareHut remains one of the more budget-friendly options in Poland, with rates still in the $25 to $49 per hour range.
Tapptitude
Tapptitude is a Romanian mobile development agency geared towards smaller businesses and startups.
They have evolved into what they call a “Product Studio for Positive Impact at Scale,” partnering with funded startups and established brands as a product partner, not just a dev shop, across the full idea-to-scale journey.
Founded in 2013, the agency is headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with additional locations in London and New York, and has grown to 50-249 employees.
They still serve IoT, fintech, health, and proptech, among other industries, with services spanning product strategy, UX/UI, development, and now AI/ML and data science work too.
Tapptitude’s rates are in the $25 to $49 per hour range, with a minimum project size of $5,000+, making them one of the more accessible options on this list.
Wolfpack Digital
Wolfpack Digital now brands itself as building “Powerful Tech Products Start-to-End”.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with an office in Dublin, they’ve delivered 250+ digital products, and their platforms now reach over 10 million users a month with 100k+ user ratings averaging 4.6 stars.
Alongside their earlier European Technology Award, they’ve since picked up a Webby Award for Responsible AI and a Web Excellence Award.
Rates are at $50 to $99 per hour, with a minimum project size of $10,000+.
You Are Launched
This agency’s name gives you a clear idea of what it’s all about—launching successful apps for startups and smaller businesses since 2016.
You Are Launched is a firm proponent of the lean startup methodology.
They’re well-suited for creating MVPs and prototypes for startups wanting to get their apps to market as soon as possible.
Since 2016, they’ve helped launch 70+ startup products across mobile, web, SaaS, AI, marketplaces, healthtech, edtech, fitness, and fintech.
The company is now based in Limassol, Cyprus, with a second location in Dnipro, Ukraine, and has grown to 50-249 employees.
Their low-risk pitch is intact: a 2-week trial period, post-payment format, weekly sprints, and 100% code ownership.
Rates are under $50 an hour ($25 to $49), with a minimum project size of $25,000+.
Which agency should you go for?
We hope we’ve enticed you to consider Eastern Europe for your next outsourced app project. Right now, it’s one of the most cost-effective ways to build successful apps.
Of course, you can only reap these benefits if you hire the right agency.
There are several factors to consider when doing this, which could spell the success or failure of your project.
To help you out, we’ve written an excellent article on how to pick the right agency. Click here to read it.
And once you’ve read it, feel free to contact us and we’ll set up a quick call to see how we can meet your needs.
Marko started DECODE with co-founders Peter and Mario, and a decade later, leads the company as CEO. His role is now almost entirely centred around business strategy, though his extensive background in software engineering makes sure he sees the future of the company from every angle.
A graduate of the University of Zagreb’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, he’s fascinated by the architecture of mobile apps and reactive programming, and a strong believer in life-long learning. Always ready for action. Or an impromptu skiing trip.
