How to Make a Mobile Coaching or Mentoring App

Here are a few other reasons to develop a coaching application, let’s check them!

👍 Top 4 Reasons to Develop a Mobile Coaching App

Many coaches underestimate the potential of mobile technologies. Yet, having a branded coaching mobile app often leads to better customer experience and more sales.

So, here are 3 good reasons why developing a coach application for your business is a good idea!

# 1: Your audience is there! 🤳

One of the key rules of any business says:

Be where your customers are.

Plus, the stats show that your customers are on their mobile phones!

According to the Pew Research Center, 96% of Americans own a mobile phone. What’s more interesting is that the results are high (90%+) in every age category.

⚙️ Features to Develop a Coaching Application

Сoaching apps differ - one may need to be interactive in order to be used by the audience during live sessions, while another may aim to build a fully-functional mobile platform to sell courses online.

🎓 Our Expertise in Coaching App Development

Hiring a Tech Partner that has already tackled similar challenges might be a good idea from several different points of view:

• They aren’t completely new to the industry. Thus, they probably know something about its trends, users’ expectations, etc. So you are likely to be on the same page from the very beginning.
• They can share a relevant Tech Stack — a set of tools to implement specific features or just make the development easier, faster and cheaper in general.

You can also check this guide on mindfulness coaching app development company by our team:

The app offers online courses on topics ranging from confidence and motivation to wellbeing and fighting phobias. After buying a course, users can listen to audio tracks so as to achieve the desired results.

So what technical tools may help your tech team build a coaching app like this? Check out the list below!

🛠 Tech Stack

These are some tools that have been used by our team on other projects or tested out by other developers. Share them with your Tech Team so they use them when developing your coaching application:

• If you need to create a coaching or mentoring application with in-app payments, we recommend using the Braintree or Stripe SDKs.
• To implement Push Notifications you can use services of such providers as OneSignal, Urban Airship, Amazon SNS or Firebase Cloud Messaging.
• Facebook Mobile SDKs are helpful in many ways. For example, you can use them to implement monetization, social login, analytics, customer support via Messenger, etc.
• When working on a similar coaching project, we used GraphQL — an interaction protocol between FrontEnd and BackEnd — and related tools such as Apollo Client, Prisma and Nexus.

I bet you're interested what the possible costs of coaching or mentoring application are. Take a look!

💸 How Much Does It Cost to Develop a Coaching app?

In this paragraph, we'll provide you with 2 estimations to cover both types of mentoring application.

However, notice that these are rough estimations since your own app may not meet this range. Why? Because it may have more or less features, special requirements for the UI, integration of other services, etc.

It also depends on the hourly rate of your development team. To make this estimation, we took a rate of $40/hour which is pretty average for Eastern Europe.

Let's start with an estimate of the costs of an Online Coaching App:

Yet, keep in mind that these are only rough estimations. Your own coaching app costs may be different depending on things like:

• hourly rate of your development team (here we took an average rate $80/hour but it may go up to $200+ if you decide to work with developers from North America or Western Europe);
• features you'd like to see in your app;
• needed technologies.

Based on the app structure and hourly rate provided above, the costs of a typical Online Coaching App are between $46,000-66,000, and of a typical Live Sessions App — between $39,000-56,000.

🎁 Bonus: Coaching App Development Presentation

We've also prepared an informative & insightful presentation that covers all the aspects of coaching app development — from key features to сosts: