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Did you know that in 2022, Tinder’s revenue was estimated to be 1.79 billion U.S. dollars, with an increase of about nine percent from the previous year? And what about Uber, which generated $31.8 billion U.S. dollars in revenue in 2022, with an 82% increase from the previous year? Or, is it worth reminding you that Instagram helped Mark Zuckerberg to be among the five richest people on the planet for many years now?
As we can see, while some plan to do something big all their life, others are already doing it! In this article, we’ve decided to push you towards this life-changing step, software product development, by presenting you our list of twenty-five brilliant app ideas, the implementation of which mobile app development services will be needed.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is over and people are no longer forced to be in isolation 24/7, communicating with the outside world and entertaining themselves mainly through smartphones, nomophobia, and their addiction to gadgets, hasn’t gone away.
According to statistics from 2022, the average person spends about five hours on smartphones daily, which is 3% more than in 2021. Due to the transformation of the service sector, which is increasingly becoming part of the digital reality, this percentage will only grow over the years. This means that if you have an idea to develop a mobile application, whether it’s native or cross platform app development, now is the best time to bring it to life.
Below we’ll share with you a list of twenty-five Android and iPhone app ideas that are in high demand and have already demonstrated great results in profit making. However, you should keep in mind that there are still many niches on the market, so if you have an idea, you need to start implementing it today. NIX experts will be glad to help you bring your business idea into reality based on our three-decade experience in software development across different niches. Check out our mobile app development success stories to grab more ideas and best practices in mobile development.
This type of mobile app will provide your target audience with an easy way to book bus tickets. All in all, these solutions make it all easy and in one central location, whether it’s checking bus availability, buying tickets, making online payments with multiple secure payment methods, checking journey details, discounts and offers, or canceling tickets if they’re not needed.
Such app ideas usually imply the development of these features:
Regarding functionality and convenience of the interface, we can highlight the following five:
Users of this type of mobile apps will no longer need to wait in line at their favorite hotels and/or restaurants and be able to easily perform reservations whenever they want. With it, they’ll be able to find the place they are interested in and book a place for the desired date and time.
Usually, this type of app consists of three parts: user app, restaurant/hotel app, and admin panel. The basic list of must-have features for each of them includes the following:
We would include the following five examples among the best restaurant reservation app ideas that have become real products:
No one ever wants to overpay for a product if it’s available somewhere at a lower price. Therefore, you can provide this opportunity to your users through your mobile application by creating a smart search that would find the same product in online and offline stores and sort the search results by price.
Most often, such apps include three parts with specific functions:
Among the top iPhone and Android apps for comparing product prices are, in our opinion::
Probably each of us is faced with the problem of packing and transporting personal belongings during the move. To help your users cope with this challenge, you can launch your own packing and moving application that connects moving professionals with their customers.
Here’s a basic feature list for apps of this type:
Here are the greatest five iPhone and Android app ideas of this type:
Many people want to share their well-being with those who need it. You can help them with this by implementing a mobile donation application with a catalog of current offers and a payment gateway for fast money transfers. Therefore, the basic feature list will include the following:
We bring to your attention the following five app ideas that will provide you with a clearer understanding of how your digital solution can be realized:
As employees increasingly have to interact with each other at a distance due to the rapid transition to remote or hybrid work modes adopted since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, they need convenient tools for effective data sharing and chatting. You can help them do that with this type of business application.
Most often, such apps include the following features:
We recommend you check out the following five apps:
Nowadays, many people choose food delivery instead of wasting their time preparing homemade meals. In turn, you can launch a special mobile application with a restaurant catalog, payment gateway, and geolocation API so that they can quickly satisfy their hunger from their favorite eateries.
The average feature list looks like:
You can check out these five popular food delivery apps to get inspired:
People with hearing disabilities and foreign tourists may experience problems in verbal communication with others. So why not help them deal with this challenge with a voice translation mobile application? Whether it’s a language translator or an app for transforming spoken language into printed text, with the correct implementation, you will definitely be able to conquer your target audience!
The basic set of features for such apps includes the following:
Here is a list of the five most popular iOS and Android apps of this type:
There are many people who remain faithful to religion. You can combine tech and religion and develop a mobile application that will become a portable guide to the religion preached by your users. For example you can create a Bible reading app, a Bible study app, a devotional app, and more.
Here’s is a list of features which can be presented in such an app:
We had a hard time picking the best religious apps. However, you can take the following ones as examples:
Our generation increasingly prefers renting houses or apartments over buying ones, which means you will have enough potential users for your mobile application if you consider this particular idea. Also, such iOS and Android app ideas may be of interest to tourists who, for some reason, don’t want to stay in hotels and hostels. In general, such applications help facilitate the interaction between the parties involved in real estate lease transactions—in particular, tenants, landlords, and real estate agents.
As for the typical feature set, it can look like this:
The most full-featured mobile Android and iOS app ideas for property management were implemented in the following solutions:
In modern reality, people have to get new knowledge on their own and often on the go. So why not help them with this by creating your own mobile application for education—be it for learning new languages, exact disciplines, or something else? In general, there’s a variety of educational app types, so let’s look at the most popular ones:
As for functionality, it must be divided, at least, between two panels—a student panel and a tutor (or app administrator) panel:
Please note that some features may be optional as it all depends on the specific type of application you are going to create.
We hope the following apps will give you the inspiration you need to implement your own educational app development ideas:
What do you think about iOS and Android app ideas for social networks? While the number of users of Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok grows every day, people want to get new, more narrow-focused social tools in the digital plane. You can provide them with such a tool by launching your own social network in the form of a mobile application.
Often, the list of basic features of such applications includes the following:
Needless to say, the most popular mobile apps for social interaction are the following five:
Above, we already talked about how popular dating apps are now, and the income from Tinder just for the last year is proof of this. You can try to generate similar app development ideas but with your own unique features.
For example, you can add your branded features to this list:
Let’s take a look at popular dating apps for iOS and Android besides Tinder:
With the help of a digital itinerary application, you can provide your users with the opportunity to independently build routes in unfamiliar locations. Overall, this is one of the best iOS and Android app ideas for travelers who want to travel on their own.
As for the basic feature set, it can be as follows:
Let’s check the most popular examples of trip planning mobile apps for iPhone and Android:
Regardless of the era, people always want to feel safe, and even if this is opposed by certain circumstances that are beyond their control, they still need to be able to hide in time or otherwise prepare for a disaster. By developing a mobile application that warns of upcoming dangers, whether it be weather or air raid alerts, you will allow your audience to feel more confident even in such stressful situations.
The basic list of functions for apps of this type can be:
Since there are special requirements for mobile applications that implement such Android and iOS app ideas, we recommend analyzing the following examples:
The tasks and business processes that companies face daily become more complex, and to effectively complete them, these companies’ management must break them down into smaller processes and tasks, assigning individual employees to each of them. Since the traditional physical whiteboard and sticky notes approach doesn’t work in environments where at least some of the employees work remotely, companies may need their digital alternatives presented in a mobile app format. This type of mobile software can be one of those Android and iOS app ideas that can bring you colossal profits.
Usually, an average list of functions includes:
Let’s move from theory about great application ideas to practice and check out the following list of real-life examples:
It is important for people to understand that a specific product, whether it is personal hygiene or food, consists of the right and most harmless (or better, useful) ingredients. However, not every one of us can keep in mind all the possible chemical compounds that large corporations use such as dyes, stabilizers, preservatives, and fragrances. In turn, you could make everyday life much easier for the most conscious audience by providing them with a convenient INCI decoder in the form of a mobile application that would connect to a smartphone’s video camera and interpret the list of ingredients for each product that appeared in the lens.
So, what about the functionality of such apps? Below, we’ve compiled a basic list:
To better understand how the implementation of these mobile application ideas works, check out the following list:
Today, each of us is surrounded by information about tens of thousands of success stories. Such incessant informational noise can be both an incentive for decisive action and an obstacle to the fulfillment of cherished dreams. At the same time, not every one of us can afford to hire a personal mentor for motivation. So maybe it makes sense to create a digital version of it. In particular, you can try to implement one of the coolest application ideas in mobile format.
As for its basic features, the can be:
Now we want to encourage you to take decisive action by sharing a list of mobile applications that have already achieved success:
Many people would like to have more than 24 hours in a day, which is impossible. However, there are many methods for effective time management that allow even the busiest people to complete all tasks on time. You can implement the most popular time management practices in your mobile application and, thus, help your audience act on their timelines.
Now, we propose you check the average feature list for such an app:
Of course, we will not do without real examples of these mobile app ideas. Here is our list:
In 2023, sustainability is no longer just a fad for those who used to practice vegetarianism or buy eco-friendly products. Today, being sustainable in daily life is an urgent need to help people save our planet and its resources for future generations. You can start implementing this noble concept today with your mobile application, spreading the best practices of a sustainable lifestyle to everyone who has installed it on their smartphone.
Let’s look at the main list of functions that such an application should have:
Here are five great examples of already implemented mobile app ideas that can be your starting points for custom development:
The work of recruiters is becoming more and more difficult since choosing a suitable candidate among thousands of worthy ones is clearly not an easy task. Job seekers who spend a lot of time trying to find the most worthy company for employment face similar difficulties in choosing. As for your role in this, you can act as an intermediary between these parties and help them find each other faster and with greater accuracy through your mobile application.
This type of application usually implies a division into three parts. In this regard, we can highlight the approximate set of functions for each of these parts:
Below, we propose you analyze several mobile applications to come up with the best combination of features and design:
With the ever-growing popularity of social networks, the art of creating aesthetic photos becomes more and more valuable. While the vast majority of active users of these web resources choose third-party photo editing tools instead of the ones that come by default on their smartphones, you can take the chance to offer them your own software product.
Let’s take a quick look at basic features of a photo editing app:
As with the previous ideas, here are five cool real-life examples that implement this one:
Would you like to help your audience manage their time more purposefully? In this case, you can provide them with a convenient mobile tool to control the time they spend on social networks, as sometimes they become the main reason for being constantly distracted.
The basic list of features of such applications is quite short:
Even for such a unique type of mobile app ideas, we were able to pick up five real examples:
Paying bills on time, especially utilities, is a kind of art that identifies each of us as an adult, right? At the same time, for many of us, bill management is still a serious problem that leads to debt and a bad reputation. Perhaps you would like to help other people meet this challenge. In that case, you definitely shouldn’t lose sight of this idea for mobile development.
Now, as in the previous cases, let’s look at the basic list of features for this type of application:
Let’s take a look at a few successful mobile apps of this type:
Maintaining your own car is often an expensive pleasure, and more and more modern people are beginning to realize this truth. This is the reason for the current popularity of car sharing app idea, which include geolocation capabilities and contacts of car owners who are ready to rent their vehicles to other people. In general, there are three business models in car sharing you can choose from:
According to the model of your choice, the feature list for your future app can be as follows:
Below we’ll share our top car sharing apps—perhaps some of them will give you worthwhile insights for your custom development:
In general, there are still many niches on the market for which you can make mobile software, so if you have some app ideas, you just need to start implementing at least one of them. For all this, you can contact us — our expertise covers end-to-end development. You can check our portfolio to learn more about the successful outsourcing examples of our company.
If you have doubts about the demand for your future solution on the market, our development specialists will help you with Proof of Concept to research the market, validate your app ideas, find the best ways to implement your plans, etc. We can also develop an MVP: a product with basic functionality that will be suitable for testing on the target audience and can be released as quickly as possible. At the same time, you will save your money due to its basic nature and, thus, be able to optimize its final list of features based on the feedback of real users.
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There are many factors which influence the final success you may get from the app. Above, we described top ideas to make an application, including apps for job boards, donations, food delivery, voice translator, dating, digital itinerary, motivation, task management, etc. Combine different app features to cover your customers’ needs to the maximum extent. Create mobile products which don’t have analogs on the market—implementation of new app ideas can be your big thing to achieve success and outperform your competitors.
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NIX experts will help you with Proof of Concept, researching the market and validating your app ideas to hit the target. This will help you save resources and choose the right course in transforming your business idea into a real mobile product. From your side, verification of ideas to make an application can be sequentially performed in the following four steps:
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Usually, the popularity of mobile app ideas is determined by whether they satisfy the needs of the target audience. This means that applications of any type, if implemented correctly, can be popular and bring huge profits to their owners.
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If you have Android and/or iPhone app ideas, you can submit them to Mobile App Fund or discuss them directly with your outsourced app development team for implementation and present it later in Google Play and the App Store.
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To protect your app ideas at their ideation and implementation stages, you should sign an NDA with your development team. As for the post-release stages of your application, you can reserve its name, file a trademark, and even patent it.
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