We are mobile developers

We are a lean mobile development consultancy specialising in working with small to medium companies with limited technical ability and becoming their development team to help them build and launch world class apps and services.


Utilising our founders wealth of experience building apps at companies like Aviva, Just Eat, Tesco, Penguin Random House and utilising the latest technologies we have built complete end to end solutions for companies like Sing King, Satalia, Jobhawk and Cabvision, amongst others.


We can work standalone or with your development teams and UI/UX designers to provide specialist support and have a proven track record building apps with millions of users.

We are platform agnostic

We can fit into your development framework, and write code for multiple environments

  • iOS
  • Android
  • Desktop
  • Wearables
  • Smart TV
  • IoT

We work across many industries

We have experience working across multiple sectors

    • Recruitment
    • Transport
    • Travel
    • Kids
    • Games
    • Commerce



Projects

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Sing King

The home of Karaoke

  • leisure / games
  • android
  • ios
  • ai note detection

Sing King is the world's biggest online karaoke community with 11 million YouTube subscribers and counting.

As their sole development team we built their native iOS and Android apps, their in house tools for content management and their backend stack.

singking.com

What they say

Neil and Gareth were an essential part of Sing King’s journey for over 4 years. Putting aside their excellent full stack development capabilities across mobile, they were instrumental in helping shape the product as well as help define what we were ultimately trying to achieve for our users. They will be a key asset for any company looking to build out mobile apps, from fast prototyping to creating robust systems, their wealth of technical knowledge is invaluable

Chris Michael / Sing King CEO

Animation showing the Jobhawk app in action

Jobhawk

Construction labour marketplace

  • recruitment
  • android
  • ios

Jobhawk is a tech-led startup that helps the UK's leading subcontractors find the best bricklayers, carpenters and other tradesmen, with less effort. As their technology partners, we build and maintain their family of cross-platform apps.

jobhawk.co

What they say

What we achieved with elementfortynine was on-time delivery of mobile apps, with a solid code-base, that puts our business in a great position to scale with some of the biggest names on the high street

Steve Langkamp / Jobhawk

Dorling Kindersley: Help your kids with music

Music theory companion app

  • kids' apps
  • education
  • iOS
  • android

We built the Dorling Kindersley companion app for use with their Carol Vorderman - Help Your Kids With Music book enabling QR code sign in and soundboard for playback of audio tracks corresponding to the extracts featured in the book.

App Store
Animation showing the DK Music app in action

Cabvision

Driver accounts and payments

  • transport
  • bluetooth
  • card payments
  • xamarin
  • ios
  • android

Cabvision Network designs, fits and operates payment systems, including passenger operated payment terminals to Licensed London Taxis.

We worked with them to port their apps to a new, more maintainable cross-platform framework. In addition we designed and built their own custom expense tracker (MoneyBag). We also added hardware integration with Payment card readers and printers along with custom Bluetooth integration for Taximeters.

cabvision.com

Team

Neil Pepper

Neil Pepper

Co-founder

Mobile development veteran having been a professional software developer for over 30 years, 20 of them in mobile development. Equally happy as a member of large teams or leading small teams. Neil has a wealth of experience building applications in a multitude of languages like C++, C#, ObjC, Swift, Kotlin, Dart and environments like iOS, MacOS, Android, Windows.

Gareth Pym

Gareth Pym

Co-founder

Over 30 years experience in full-stack software development on a variety of platforms covering desktop, web and mobile as well as architecting solutions from initial requirements. Currently building native iOS & Android phone & tablet apps in Swift/SwiftUI / Kotlin/Jetpack Compose or maximising code re-use building cross platform mobile apps in Flutter / Xamarin/Maui.

Contact us

Find us

The Barn
6 Abbey Mews,
Robertsbridge,
East Sussex, United Kingdom,
TN32 5AB

Get in touch

+447974174972

biz@elementfortynine.com