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How Much does it Cost to Develop Yoga and Meditation App
This is a user generated content for MyStory, a YourStory initiative to enable its community to contribute and have their voices heard. The views and writings here reflect that of the author and not of YourStory.
Yoga and Meditation App
Today we are living in a fast moving world, where people have lots and lots of stress of living life, with no time to enjoy or have some quality time. Even if people take some time out of their busy schedule they either watch T.V or play games on mobile, these things might relax you a bit but does not provide the complete inner peace or relaxes your body. Meditation or “Dhyana” is an extreme form of concentration. It allows your mind to focus on one thing and detaches you from all worldly things. It gives you complete inner peace and refreshment required to do the daily task. It increases deep sleep and with variety of Meditation Music it feels you relaxing.
Therefore developing Yoga and meditation application is a great idea looking into today’s scenario. People have started to realize the importance of meditating and doing yoga to stay fit and fine. In the world of mobile technology people prefer to do yoga by watching some videos and practice them. I think it is a correct opportunity to develop yoga and meditation app which helps people meditates, do yoga and various other things virtually.
To develop an application for Yoga and meditation you would need certain features in the application.
1) Detailed voice and visual instruction guides you through every pose, including each inhalation and exhalation.
2) Beautifully illustrated pose images with correct posture and alignment.
3) Dictionary of poses containing the descriptions and benefits of each pose.
4) Smooth and easy procedure to register. Integrated with various social networking sites for easy registration.
5) Easy to search yoga and meditation videos helping clients to watch and perform yoga at their home itself.
6) Devotional and peaceful tone to perform yoga and meditation.
7) Ticket selection, booking and payment for paid yoga seasons.
8) Online store for purchasing items like yoga mat, songs, yoga dress etc.
9) Multiple payment options
10) Maintains an ongoing log of all your yoga practices to track your progress.
11) Play music from your music library in place of the default music.
12) Daily workout charts and reminders on paid basis. This feature will work like online personal trainee and provide a customizable activity sheet for each of your member in consideration of some price.
These are few of the key features that you can add on to your app to make it competitive and easy to use for your clients. On business perspective if you are able to provide all the free access area with quality, then more often than not people would like to go for your paid services.
How Much Will Your App Cost you.?
Generally developing an app like it would cost you around $9000+. Depending upon various factors prices may affect. There are generally factors which would lead to affect the price of your development.
1) Mobile Platform
There are majorly two platforms which are widely used and accepted in the market, namely iOS and Android. Each of the platforms have different cost of development, Android development are comparatively cheaper than iOS platform. If you want to cover a wide range of public and have a good budget then it is highly recommended to develop application for both the user to cater wide pupil.
2) App Features
Features of the app is directly proportionate to its price. As you go on to add on the features, developing cost also raises hence the cost of development also increases. To develop a good quality application you will need certain amount of features for popularity of your application. For people with low budget are recommended to provide few but quality features.
3) Special functionality
Some of the exclusive features like Push Notification, Statistical views, In-App payments method are few of the exclusive features which can be a boon for your application. Off course you need to pay more to access these exclusive services.
4) UX/UI
All your features will be of no use if they are not provided in a proper structure. Your app design should be beautiful and user-friendly which will allow your users to enjoy all the features of the application with ease. Design of your Application is the most important aspect of application; hence you are advice to spent good amount on it squeezing the budget of other aspects.
5) Application Size
Size of the app matter, greater the size, more time to develop hence greater cost of development. As you add more and more number of features, Pictures, videos and graphic the size of the application tends to rise.
6) Quality
Quality of the application should be your vital focus, there could be developers who can provide you with application with certain features with low cost and quality, which would not be appreciated by your customer and may not even use if after use it once. Hence always go for quality over price.
Conclusion
These are the certain aspects which need to be look before deciding the budget of your application. To stand out the completion you would always need an application rich in features with beautiful outlook. This would come at some cost. Remember Yoga and Mediation is a kind of application which could have various kinds of users like students, teachers, old people, mid-age people and institution willing to post video or event. You should develop your application keeping in mind all these people. My advice is to choose a quality app development team to develop your application.