Taqaan

Services/Application Development

Build

The apps your business runs on — and the ones you launch to the world.

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 return
The numbers that matterCleared
$19.5B
where the GCC mobile-app market is headed by 2035 — growing nearly 20% a year.
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50%+
of GCC shoppers now buy through their phones — the app is the storefront.
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3×
apps turn visitors into buyers at roughly three times the rate of a mobile website.
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~90%
of the time people spend on their phones happens inside apps — not the browser.
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Figures: Market Research Future, data.ai, Criteo, Statista (2024–2026) — representative; confirm before publishing.

What we build

Two kinds of app. One team that builds both.

Every app we build does one of two jobs — the ones you launch to the world, and the ones your business quietly runs on. Here's everything we build, sorted by which job it does.

Apps you launch

Public & customer apps

The apps your customers download and judge you by — fast, Arabic-first where it matters, and good enough to earn a place on the home screen.

The app your customers keep on the home screen — or delete within a week. We build iOS and Android apps polished enough, fast enough and Arabic-first enough to earn that place, then handle the launch onto both stores.

  • Native-quality iOS & Android from one codebase — one build, both stores.
  • Arabic + English, right-to-left done properly, not bolted on afterwards.
  • Payments, wallets & loyalty built in, tuned for how the GCC actually pays.
  • Push, offline & performance ready for real-world networks and devices.
  • App Store & Google Play submission and launch handled end-to-end.
Plan your app →

Your customers would rather help themselves than wait on hold — overwhelmingly. A good portal hands them their orders, documents, requests and updates in one place, any time, in the language they prefer — and turns scattered calls and emails into one clear thread, on the record.

  • Customer & partner self-service — orders, documents and requests in one thread.
  • Role-based access & audit trail — the right people, the right record.
  • 24/7 access — no queues, no office hours, no waiting.
  • 91% of customers prefer self-service when it's offered; responses run ~37% faster once a portal automates the back-and-forth.
Explore a portal →

Figures: SuperOffice, HubSpot, Orases (2024) — representative; verify before publishing.

The part customers never see but always feel — the moment a payment clears, an invoice validates, a wallet tops up. We connect your apps to the gateways and government systems that make them real, and keep them talking reliably.

  • Payment gateways & wallets — mada, Apple Pay, STC Pay and the methods your customers expect.
  • ZATCA e-invoicing (Fatoora) integration, built by a finance-led team.
  • REST APIs & webhooks secured with OAuth / JWT.
  • Reliable by design — retries, logging and monitoring, not fire-and-forget.
Connect your systems →

Apps you run on

Internal business apps

The systems your team lives in — the tools that retire the spreadsheets and manual work quietly holding the business back.

When no product on the market matches how you actually work, we build the one that does — the system your business runs on, shaped to your exact process instead of the other way around.

  • Bespoke business systems modelled on your real workflow.
  • Workflow automation that retires spreadsheets and manual handoffs.
  • Dashboards & admin panels your team actually wants to open.
  • Role-based access and built to scale as you grow.
Scope your system →

The tools your team lives in, in the browser — from a single internal dashboard to a full multi-tenant SaaS platform. Fast, secure, and available anywhere without an install.

  • Internal tools & dashboards with real-time data and reporting.
  • Admin & control panels for the people running the business.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS platforms with subscriptions and role-based access.
  • Secure by default — proper auth, permissions and OWASP hygiene.
Build your platform →

The engineering behind it

ReactNext.jsReact NativeNode.jsPythonLaravelPostgreSQLCloud & DevOps

AI & development

What AI is actually doing to development.

AI has gone from novelty to default in how software gets built — a powerful accelerator that still needs a careful human hand. Straight from the developers who build for a living:

How we work, too — AI to move faster, people to make sure it's right.

How we put AI to work → Data & AI
0%of developers now use or plan to use AI tools — up from 76% a year earlier.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 2025 ↗
0%of new code at Google is now AI-generated, then reviewed by engineers — up from 50%.
Sundar Pichai / Google, 2026 ↗
0%of developers trust AI output to be accurate — down from 40%. Two-thirds spend longer fixing “almost right” code.
Stack Overflow, 2025 ↗
0%of developers still don't use AI agents, or stick to simpler assistants — autonomous coding is real, but early.
Stack Overflow, 2025 ↗

What we've done

Apps that moved the numbers.

A launched app is only worth it if it changes something real — sales, speed, reach, or hours saved. A few we're proud of.

Retail · Shopping app

38%of sales now come through the app

A retailer that put the shop in every pocket

We launched an Arabic-first shopping app with wallet payments and loyalty built in. Within months it became a major sales channel — and the cheapest place to reach repeat customers.

120k+Downloads
+29%Repeat orders
4.7★Store rating

Logistics · Delivery app

+30%faster deliveries

Drivers and customers, on the same map

A delivery operator was coordinating by phone. We built driver and customer apps with live tracking and route optimisation — so dispatch got calmer and customers stopped calling to ask “where is it?”

-25%Cost per delivery
LiveTracking
-60%“Where is it?” calls

Healthcare · Booking app

-42%patient no-shows

Clinic bookings that patients actually keep

A clinic group's phone lines were jammed and no-shows were high. We built a patient booking app with reminders and rescheduling — filling more slots with far less front-desk load.

70%Bookings self-serve
-55%Front-desk calls
24/7Booking

Education · Custom LMS

1 platformfor an entire university

A learning platform built for how they teach

Off-the-shelf tools didn't fit, so we built a custom LMS for a university — courses, content, assessments, grading and student communication in one place, matched to their exact academic workflow.

8k+Students onboarded
+22%Course completion
-35%Admin time

Client identities kept confidential. More engagements available on request.

Got an app worth building?

Whether it's the system your team needs or the app your customers will download, tell us what it should do — we'll map what it takes to build it, and what it would change.