I am the developer for Coupious mobile coupons iPhone app and with the amount of time that I spent on that application (v1.0 - v1.5), it was probably a $15,000 - $20,000 investment. However, to be fair, I do admit that I was the only developer working on it and when I started the project, I had never seen or used Objective-C before. Despite that, three months later, it was released so the numbers are probably a little skewed because there was a fair amount of learning going on as well as coding.

然而，有能力的iPhone开发者根据他们的技能和使用平台的时间在80美元至150美元之间运行。我想说，对于一个简单的应用程序，应用程序可能运行2K-5K，中等复杂度的应用程序运行5K-15K，相当复杂的应用程序运行15K-30K。游戏应用甚至更多。

之所以这么高，是因为这项技能是相当专业的，不是每个人都能做到

Appsamuck iPhone教程的目标是31天的教程，最后是31个为iPhone开发的小应用程序，所有源代码都可以下载。他们还提供商业服务来构建应用程序!

如果你想知道你是否能编码，至少你可以下载代码，看看是否有任何东西对你的需求有帮助。另一方面，你也可以从他们那里获得为你开发应用的报价，所以你可以尝试硬币的两面，外包和内部。当然，这也取决于你有多少时间!这当然值得一看!

(好吧，在我上次尝试发布有用的帮助后，我四处寻找!)

I am an account exec at a web and mobile development company and hear this question everyday. Unfortunately, iPhone apps are not cheap. You can expect around $100 per hour if you are staying on US soil. I have seen some offshore Indian developers out there for as low as $20 per hour. It all depends on the number and complexity of the functions you wish the app to perform. Simple one function apps are normally around 4-5k. They are so expensive because you are paying a team of people a healthy hourly wage and any type of raw prototyping, development, and coding takes time. Apps can exceed 60-100k pretty easily. Southwest Airlines making an app with a full ecommerce platform that allows you to buy tickets over your phone is an example. All of that porting into their IT is a big job.

And offshoring the project is definitely not always a better option. If you do so you better know who you are dealing with. Do not get me wrong there folks over there who do a bad ass job for a way better deal, but they are not that easy to find. Those guys could fuck around for 5 months on a simple project that would take 6 weeks here, or just not complete it at all and hand it over half finished. I have seen this scenario many times where we finish the work. The project management becomes a challenge. It can be difficult to communicate exactly what you want the app to do.

有很多方法可以花更少的钱来开发一个应用程序，但通常情况下，你得到的是一分钱一分货——没有经验的开发人员留给你一堆不可能维护的意大利面条代码，或者有经验的开发人员，你必须跨越文化和语言的鸿沟与他们交流。

开发Twitterific这样的应用程序并不容易。这是一个非常精致的应用程序，非常注重细节，大多数人——实际上是许多开发人员——都没有注意到或意识到背后的努力。你或许可以通过海外开发或“与没有经验的开发者合作”，以3500美元或5000美元的价格编写Twitter iPhone客户端，但你不会因此获得Twitterific的服务，而且花这么多钱你甚至连一个像样的应用程序都做不到。

你可能会花很多时间来管理这个过程，在需求上来回折腾，争取得到你真正想要的东西，而不是他们想给你的东西。

“减价”开发也存在风险，无论是离岸开发还是使用经验不足的开发人员——你很可能最终得到无法使用的东西，或者因为崩溃或行为不稳定而获得1星评级的东西。你可能偶尔会发现开发商的低价宝石，但考虑到目前市场的绝对需求，它们不会长期处于低价状态。

By virtue of my books and blog, people often reach out to me when they need help with their iPhone applications. I get, on average, 4 or 5 inquiries a month from people asking for help fixing applications they had developed either over-seas or by inexperienced developers here in the States. In most cases, I end up having to tell them they'd be better off throwing their code out and starting over with a developer who knows what they're doing rather than trying to fix the code they bought on the cheap. If they insist on trying to "fix" what they have, I decline the work.

巴拉克·奥巴马的应用程序从第一个代码到发布花了22天的时间。3名开发者(尽管并非所有人都是全职开发者)。一共10个人。图500-1000工时。承包费率为每小时100-150美元。图50000 - 150000美元。将你的应用程序与奥巴马进行比较。应用和相应的规模。

iPad版《River of News》花了大约400个小时开发1.0版本，我不知道我的设计师花了多少时间(20-50个?)按照美国的劳动力价格，这至少是4万美元。但这种紧密的发展是可能的，因为它是一个人的操作。当你将编写代码的人和决定产品功能的人分开时，会增加大量的开销。

如果你打算把钱汇到海外，你最好确切地知道你想要什么。由于语言和时差的原因，在你探索可能性的时候很难进行迭代设计。