The business case
Mobile-first isn't a trend. It's the balance sheet.
The Gulf is as mobile-first as anywhere on earth — and a good app doesn't just show up there, it pays for itself. Here's the phone's real worth: the size of the market, and what it returns once you're in it.
The market, and the returnThe numbers that matterCleared
$19.5B
where the GCC mobile-app market is headed by 2035 — growing nearly 20% a year.
✓50%+
of GCC shoppers now buy through their phones — the app is the storefront.
✓3×
apps turn visitors into buyers at roughly three times the rate of a mobile website.
✓~90%
of the time people spend on their phones happens inside apps — not the browser.
✓Figures: Market Research Future, data.ai, Criteo, Statista (2024–2026) — representative; confirm before publishing.