SERVICES · Full-lifecycle App Studio
Most agencies stop at launch. DevNest covers the full app lifecycle — design and engineering, growth marketing, and monetization strategy — under one roof. So your app doesn't just live in the App Store. It earns there.
12+ apps live
Most development shops sell hours. We sell shipped apps. Our pricing is fixed-scope, not time-and-materials — because we've shipped enough apps to know what they actually take. And because we run our own apps, we'll push back on feature decisions that won't move retention or revenue. That conversation alone has saved our clients an average of [FILL IN: percentage]% of their initial scope.
Kick-off to live in store
ASO refresh, analytics setup, retention systems live (push notifications, email, in-app messaging).
Apps shipped to production
Most app marketing agencies have never run a profitable app. They optimize for vanity metrics — installs, impressions, click-through rates — because that's what they can measure for clients. We optimize for the metrics that decide whether an app is a real business: paid retention, lifetime value, payback period. Because those are the metrics that decide whether our own apps survive.
. ASO audit, retention curve analysis, current acquisition channel review. Output: prioritised growth roadmap.
ASO refresh, analytics setup, retention systems live (push notifications, email, in-app messaging).
Paid campaigns launched on the channels best matched to your app and target market. Tight budget control, daily monitoring.
Weekly creative tests, monthly cohort reviews, quarterly strategic resets.
This is where the operator advantage matters most. Almost no agency offers genuine monetization services because almost no agency has done it. We have. Every paywall test we run on a client app has been validated against our own paywalls first. That's not a positioning claim — it's how we work.
Category benchmarking, monetization model selection, pricing structure design — accounting for purchasing power across your target markets.
Paywall design and build, subscription/IAP setup, analytics integration.
Initial paywall live, A/B test queue running, first cohort data flowing.
Continuous testing on paywall copy, pricing, and tier structure. Most apps see 30–80% revenue lift in the first 90 days.