Top Educational App Development Companies

Why are educational apps so useful for users?

• The complex of necessary programs is in one application.
• Keeping time and money for lecturers.
• Learning at any time and any place convenient for the user.

And for business owners, they are beneficial because of the monetization of the application.

Educational application your personal assistant when learning and work because it provides access to all the information needed in the learning process and offers different methods for learning and using it. All around the world, such projects are rapidly gaining popularity among people of different generations and professions:

• applicants and students can prepare for exams;
• specialists can maintain a high level of qualification or get a new one;
• people who have decided to try something new or get additional education have a possibility to learn the necessary skills and gain new knowledge;
• educational institutions can o address different learning challenges.

In case you have already firmly decided to develop a mobile application, your next task ─ to find the most reliable and experienced educational app developer.

This process can be divided into four steps:

1. Selection of candidates - educational app development companies

You can find educational app developers using the following sources:

• Rating lists;
• References from your friends;
• Business contacts;
• Google search.

Be sure to examine each educational app development company: first, go to the website, look through the portfolio, and assess the scale of the company and its maturity. Check the section "about the company," blog, news. Find the educational app development company page in social networks or profiles of its managers.

Important evaluation criteria are recommendations from friends/colleagues in your field and relevant experience (or similar in scale).

2. Collection of commercial offers

If all chosen educational app development companies imagine your idea differently, you will get a completely different app as a result. Remember, the high cost of services does not guarantee that your project will not go beyond the planned budget after considering all your idea features. Similarly, the low cost of educational app development services is not a risk indicator, nor does it mean that the evaluation is underestimated or that there will be some problems during project development. It would help if you understood that they could represent their work's composition in their own way and choose different technologies.

At this stage, you are bound to have a lot of negotiations and meetings with educational app developers. Teams will present themselves and ask you questions. Your goal ─ is to determine which educational app development company will carry out your project and develop a perfect app.

3. Filtering phase

Immediately exclude educational app development companies that have risk criteria or in whose competence you doubt. 

4. Decision making

Assess all information and potential risks and determine the most suitable education app developer company. 

These steps will allow you to study your potential performers most comprehensively and make decisions that will reduce the risk of failure.

Checklist - what should you pay attention to while choosing educational app development companies

1. Experience. How many years does the organization functioning in the field of mobile application creation, mostly educational apps? Depending on the work experience, there are an informal gradation of developers for beginners, more experienced specialists, and professionals.
2. Portfolio. It is a must for a good educational app development company. You can get detailed descriptions of the company's technologies while developing mobile applications and evaluating the company's work in the implemented projects. Look at how many educational apps this firm already created. 
3. Team. How many developers work in the company? This is important as it affects the term of your order and creativity while developing the project. 
4. Stages of cooperation. Contract, terms, development process and launch and post-development period.
5. Guarantees. What guarantees does the educational app development company provide for its services? Does the developer provide the term of warranty service on completion of the project development and launch?
6. Under what conditions will the application functionality be improved and extended if necessary in the future?
7. Does the mobile application development cost include technical support? 

Just one more reminder: 

While communicating with a developer, ask if there are projects in his portfolio with similar functionality regarding your ideas - educational apps.

Be sure to keep in mind that if you want to develop your own business and increase your income, you will also need to promote your mobile application, expanding its functionality regularly. But it is another story and another kind of company.