Studio class app
On-demand and live classes for a boutique studio, a schedule synced with its booking system, class packs and member streaks. Video is encoded once and delivered through a CDN to phones and tablets.
Mobile App Development · Los Angeles, CA
Mobile App Development in Los Angeles
We handle mobile app development in Los Angeles for fitness studios, media companies, creators and beauty brands, working with LA teams remotely. These apps tend to sell subscriptions and stream video, so most of our effort goes into playback, billing and the first five minutes after install.
- Spinning case: classes filmed in LA, streamed in-app
- In-app subscriptions set up for Apple and Google
- Backends load-tested before a launch or creator post
- 01 Discovery call
- 02 Scope and estimate
- 03 Design and prototype
- 04 Build and test
- 05 Store release
Los Angeles apps are mostly about an audience
Ask a Los Angeles client what the app is for and the answer is usually about people, not features. A studio wants members to keep riding at home. A creator wants to stop renting their fans from a platform. A beauty brand wants a direct line for launch day. In each case the hard engineering sits in video, payments and traffic spikes, because the audience arrives all at once and leaves fast if playback stutters.
Our work on Spinning shaped how we handle this. It is an indoor-cycling training company whose master instructors film classes in Los Angeles, and subscribers take those classes through the app. On LA projects we settle the video pipeline and the billing model during discovery, before anyone designs a screen, since both decide the architecture. Before launch we load-test the backend against the size of your mailing list or following.
Typical mobile app development projects in Los Angeles
Creator membership app
A creator moves paying fans off a third-party platform into an app they own, with members-only video, a community feed, live drops and tiers billed through the App Store and Google Play.
Aesthetics booking app
Treatment menus, before-and-after galleries with patient consent, deposits at booking and reminders for a medspa group with several locations. Designed for HIPAA, with your compliance team setting the rules.
Pricing a Los Angeles subscription app
We work at $25–50 per hour, and each package below has a fixed price agreed before the first sprint, which makes a launch easier to plan.
| Package | Proof of concept | MVP | Market ready | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | From $2,400 | From $9,600 | From $24,000 | From $48,000 |
| Typical timeline | 2–4 weeks | 2–4 months | 4–7 months | 7+ months |
| Common LA scope | Clickable prototype of the member experience to test with your audience or pitch a partner | Class or creator app with a video library, sign-up and in-app subscriptions | Live sessions, community features, analytics and a backend load-tested for launch day | Multi-studio or multi-creator platform with content management, roles and partner integrations |
Technologies
- Swift, SwiftUI
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose
- Flutter
- React Native
- Node.js, Laravel, Python
- Firebase, AWS, Google Cloud
- Stripe, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- OpenAI and other LLM APIs
Collaboration
Working with Los Angeles teams
Our team works U.S. business hours, and for Los Angeles clients we put standups and demos in the Pacific morning. Before a launch we go through your marketing calendar and submit to the stores early enough that a review delay does not move the campaign.
Our U.S. operations are facilitated through Orcatec LLC, our trusted American business partner, enabling seamless collaboration with clients across the United States.
Related work
Fitness · Mobile product
Spinning
Studio classes, delivered on demand to subscribers on iOS and Android.
2 mobile platforms: iOS and Android
Read the case study →
Healthcare · Booking
BeauBella
Six questions in, three bookable treatment-and-travel packages out.
6 questions to get started
Read the case study →Frequently asked questions
What did you build for Spinning, and does it apply to an LA studio?
Spinning is an indoor-cycling training company. Its master instructors film classes in Los Angeles, and subscribers take them through an app. For a studio the useful part is the pattern, meaning a content pipeline from shoot to app, a class library and memberships. Your schedule, booking system and brand would shape everything else.
Do creator and fan apps have to use Apple and Google billing?
For digital content bought inside the app, generally yes, and the stores take a commission. Rules on linking to web checkout have changed in recent years and differ by region, so we check the current guidelines during discovery. Many creators also sell on the web and let paying fans sign in to the app.
Will the backend hold up when a launch is announced to a big following?
We plan for it. The app reads from caches and a CDN where it can, the backend scales automatically on AWS or Google Cloud, and before launch we run a load test sized to your audience. For product drops we add a queue so checkout stays up when everyone arrives in the same minute.
Can a medspa app in Los Angeles handle patient photos and health data?
Yes, with care. We design for HIPAA: encrypted storage, access by role, consent captured before photos are saved, and hosting under a business associate agreement with the cloud provider. Your compliance team or counsel sets the policies and signs off. We build to them and document how the data moves.
What drives the cost of an app for an LA studio or creator?
Video is the big one. Live or on-demand, offline downloads and the number of devices you support all change the estimate. Subscriptions and community features add to it. A proof of concept starts at $2,400, an MVP at $9,600, a market-ready app at $24,000 and an enterprise platform at $48,000. Our rate behind these packages is $25–50 per hour.