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

以上所提到的价格是你希望支付给美国开发者的价格;然而，我确实认识一些人，他们可以通过离岸开发者以低至4000美元的价格开发自己的应用。

这是一篇来自一个组织的博客文章:http://www.lolerapps.com/why-outsourcing-iphone-apps-was-a-no-brainer-for-us

此外，卡拉·怀特写了一本很棒的电子书，讲述了她把自己的应用程序“内部秘密”外包给iPhone应用程序的过程。她谈到自己是如何得到一笔好交易的，因为她愿意与一个仍在学习iPhone应用程序开发的团队合作。

所以，除了上述开发者所讨论的高价游戏，我们还有其他选择。

我是一名非常优秀的iPhone应用程序开发人员，我的服务收费超过每小时150美元。我在开发iPhone应用程序及其服务器端组件方面有丰富的经验。我也曾多次被叫去修复海外开发的应用程序。以下是我的看法。

Design costs money, good design costs lots of money. Expect several designer weeks of work per app screen. Offshore teams do not do design. Server development and infrastructure is critical if the app is to succeed. A slow server response, or an overloaded server will hamper your app, and crimp sales and satisfaction. The server side of the equation will cost the most and take the most time to develop. Those who offshore their server development will find that quality and uptime are both terrible, in my experience. App development if done right takes time too. A professional developer will ensure all HIG rules are followed, the app is properly structured and contains no known errors, it performs well, and it passes the app store validations. Offshore teams just cut code.

I'm just about to release a shopping app for a client. The design work was done by 2 client in-house designers over 2 weeks, quick because they had all the image assets already. Think 2 people x 10 days x 8 hours = ~$24,000. The server side had to be modified to provide data for the iPhone app. We used their in-house team and in-house platform and in-house API, 2 developers, 4 weeks, or about $50,000 and that's because they already have a web shop and API. Cost them about $400,000 to get there (excluding platform). And I wrote the app side in 3 weeks, given that a lot of my code is duplicated from previous projects, another ~$25,000, the cheapest app I ever did.

总花费:10万美元，这真是太便宜了!

他们会免费提供，这样客户就会用iphone从他们的商店购买。

对于你的应用程序，彼得，如果你有服务器、api和设计，我猜根据复杂程度需要3万到6万美元。如果你没有设计，加倍。如果你没有api，再翻倍…

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.

我不愿意承认我做iPhone应用的成本有多低，但我可以告诉你，我不会再做了。那个说“简单，一个功能的应用程序就可以做到。”(独立开发者)……5000美元”是正确的;然而，这仍然是低数字，并且假设几乎没有项目设计，平面设计或网络后端工作。

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.