Brisbane App Developers Behind $1.5B+ in Client Revenue

PixelForce is an award-winning app development company working with Brisbane startups, franchise operators and enterprises to design, build and scale iOS, Android and web apps. Brisbane is where more of our work sits than anywhere outside our home city: Fitstop, Revia, Train With Cass, Move With Us and Crop Shop Boutique are all Brisbane clients. We deliver as a senior in-house Australian team from our Adelaide headquarters, half an hour away either side of daylight saving.

  • SWEAT - built and scaled to a $400M acquisition
  • EzLicence - $100M+ in annual bookings
  • 100+ products shipped · 99.99% uptime
  • AWS Advanced Tier Partner - fully AWS certified
$1.5B+Client revenue generated
100+Products shipped
99.99%Uptime in production
50M+Users served

Trusted by the founders and teams behind category-leading apps.

Brisbane is the city where more of our work sits than anywhere outside our home town. As app developers, PixelForce has shipped 100+ products across 13 years for startups, scale-ups and enterprises, generating more than $1.5 billion in combined client revenue. In Brisbane specifically we built the Fitstop member app and franchisee operations portal across 100+ gyms and 50,000+ active members, rescued Train With Cass and Move With Us, launched Revia, and automated order tracking for Crop Shop Boutique.

RAA - PixelForce's Client
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EzLicence - PixelForce's Client
Move With Us - PixelForce's Client
Government of South Australia - PixelForce's Client
University of South Australia - PixelForce's Client
The University of Adelaide - PixelForce's Client
and many more …

App developers built for Brisbane's market.

Yes - PixelForce works with Brisbane businesses as their app developers, and as a mobile app developer Brisbane teams can reach in their own time zone, delivering with a senior in-house Australian team from our Adelaide headquarters. Brisbane is the fastest-growing capital market in the country, with infrastructure and investment accelerating ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and real demand across logistics and freight, resources services, tourism and events, healthcare and professional services, from the CBD out to the technology precincts of Fortitude Valley, Newstead, Teneriffe and Milton. It is also the city where multi-site and franchise operators are most concentrated, which is a particular strength of ours. Brisbane and Adelaide are half an hour apart year round, in one direction or the other depending on daylight saving, so the working day overlaps completely.

How we work with Brisbane businesses

Brisbane clients get a dedicated senior squad on a fixed cadence and direct access to the people writing the code. The half-hour time difference means same-day answers rather than overnight ones, and we have run enough Brisbane engagements - Fitstop, Revia, Train With Cass, Move With Us, Crop Shop Boutique - to know how the city's operators actually work. There is no offshore hand-off and no account manager between you and the engineers. You get weekly demos, transparent progress and a product lead who owns the outcome.

  • Senior in-house Australian squad, no offshore hand-off
  • Half an hour apart, so the working day overlaps completely
  • Direct access to designers and engineers
  • A product lead accountable for outcomes

Built for Brisbane startups and scale-ups

Brisbane rewards operators who can move before the 2032 Games reshapes the market, and it has produced a run of creator-led and health products that scaled nationally. We help founders go from an idea to a fundable, launch-ready product without the technical debt that sinks a second raise. Revia is the Brisbane version of that: a 4-month build that reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours of launch. Our 98 percent first-time app store approval rate means a Brisbane launch date holds.

  • Idea to fundable, launch-ready product
  • Revia: number 3 in Apple Health and Fitness within 48 hours
  • 98 percent first-time app store approval rate
  • Architecture that scales without a rebuild

Enterprise-grade for Brisbane organisations

Brisbane's established operators - franchise groups, logistics and freight businesses, healthcare providers and the professional services firms across the CBD and Milton - come to us to build revenue platforms and to rescue underperforming ones. For Fitstop we built both sides of that problem: the member app and the franchisee operations portal, across 100+ gyms and 50,000+ active members, lifting user retention by more than 10 percent. As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with 15+ AWS-accredited engineers, we build on infrastructure holding 99.99 percent uptime across 100+ shipped products.

  • AWS Advanced Tier Partner - fully AWS certified
  • Fitstop: 100+ gyms, 50,000+ active members, retention up 10 percent
  • 99.99 percent uptime across 100+ shipped products
  • A technical audit before any Brisbane rebuild

Why Brisbane founders pick our app development team.

Four reasons Brisbane founders, franchise operators and enterprise teams keep choosing PixelForce. The short version: a track record in this city you can ring up and check, a senior in-house team you actually work with, technical range across iOS, Android, web and cloud, and a partner who argues about retention and unit economics rather than feature counts.

A verifiable track record

We built and scaled SWEAT to a $400M acquisition - 30 million subscribers across 155 countries - and the platform passed Big 4 due diligence at exit. We built and still operate EzLicence, Australia's number-one driver-education marketplace, processing $100M+ in annual bookings. Across 13 years and 100+ products, our clients' apps have generated more than $1.5 billion in revenue. Brisbane buyers do not have to take that on faith: Fitstop, Revia, Move With Us, Train With Cass and Crop Shop Boutique are all local, and all of them are in the catalogue below.

  • SWEAT: built and scaled to a $400M acquisition
  • EzLicence: $100M+ in annual bookings
  • $1.5B+ combined client revenue
  • 100+ products shipped over 13 years

A senior in-house team

Brisbane clients work with a 100% in-house Australian team of product strategists, designers, engineers and QA specialists, not a rotating cast of offshore contractors. The people who scope your app are the people who build it, which is exactly why handovers go well: we took Train With Cass over from a previous developer and took the crash rate down 90 percent while achieving 99 percent uptime and cutting maintenance costs 50 percent. Across 100+ shipped products we hold 99.99 percent uptime, and clients such as SWEAT have stayed with us 7+ years.

  • 100% in-house Australian team
  • Train With Cass: crash rate down 90 percent, 99 percent uptime
  • 99.99 percent uptime across 100+ shipped products
  • Clients who stay 7+ years

Deep technical range

Native iOS and Android, cross-platform builds in Flutter, progressive web apps, and the AWS infrastructure underneath them. Brisbane platforms most often come to us straining under their own data: on Move With Us, a platform with 200,000+ users, we refactored the user program engine from duplicated per-user data to templates, shrinking the core workout table from 42GB to 0.9GB and cutting database CPU peaks from 40 percent to under 5 percent. With 15+ AWS-accredited engineers we fix root causes rather than symptoms.

  • Native iOS, Android, Flutter and web apps
  • AWS Advanced Tier, 15+ accredited engineers
  • Infrastructure tuned for scale and cost
  • Root-cause engineering, not quick patches

Business fluency

We talk in retention, LTV, CAC, activation and revenue per user, which for a Brisbane franchise or multi-site operator usually resolves into one question: does the app keep members from churning? Fitstop lifted user retention by more than 10 percent. Every engagement opens with a fixed-scope Scoping and Design phase and our 1-3-1 method: one clear problem, three costed options, one honest recommendation, before a line of production code is written.

  • Retention, LTV, CAC and activation modelling
  • Fixed-scope Scoping and Design first
  • The 1-3-1 method: one problem, three options, one recommendation
  • A plan tied to commercial outcomes

App development services for Brisbane.

Six services Brisbane businesses engage us for, from a first MVP through to enterprise platforms and rescues. Franchise and multi-site operations, health and fitness products, and e-commerce operations tooling account for most of what this city asks us to build. Each is delivered by the same senior team on the same fixed cadence - take one, or combine them into an end-to-end build.

iOS app development

Native iPhone and iPad apps built in Swift and tuned for performance, battery life and App Store approval. We handle HealthKit, push notifications, in-app purchases, offline-first data and Apple Watch companions. Revia reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours of launch, which is what a well-executed iOS release can do for a Brisbane brand with an existing audience. Our 98 percent first-time approval rate means the launch date holds.

  • Native Swift for iPhone and iPad
  • HealthKit, IAP and Apple Watch support
  • Offline-first data with reliable sync
  • 98% first-time App Store approval

Android app development

Native Android apps in Kotlin, built for the full spread of devices a Brisbane audience carries. Material Design interfaces, Google Play billing, background services and Google Fit integration. For gym networks, logistics operators and field teams across South East Queensland, Android coverage is not optional, and the low-end devices are the ones that decide your crash rate. We optimise across the whole device spectrum and manage the Play Console release process end to end.

  • Native Kotlin, Material Design interfaces
  • Google Play billing and Google Fit
  • Optimised across the device spectrum
  • Managed Play Console release process

Cross-platform (Flutter)

One codebase for both platforms - the right call when time-to-market and budget matter more than platform-specific extremes. We shipped Traininpink on iOS and Android simultaneously with Flutter in 3.5 months. For a Brisbane operator wanting members on both platforms from day one without paying for two builds, cross-platform is usually the honest recommendation.

  • One Flutter codebase for iOS and Android
  • Faster time-to-market, lower build cost
  • Near-native performance and feel
  • Ideal for MVPs and market validation

Web app development

Progressive web apps, dashboards, marketplaces and customer portals on modern, maintainable stacks. The Fitstop franchisee operations portal is the Brisbane example of the pattern: the staff-facing system that makes the member app work across 100+ gyms. For Crop Shop Boutique we connected ShipBob, Klaviyo and Shopify in a 2-week development cycle, automating 100 percent of pre-shipment customer notifications and eliminating the manual CSV export workflow.

  • Progressive web apps and dashboards
  • Two-sided marketplaces and portals
  • Built for real transaction volume
  • Clean integration with existing tools

MVP & startup builds

A focused first release that proves the idea and stands up to investor scrutiny. We scope ruthlessly to the features that matter, ship fast on our component library, and instrument the product so you learn from real users. Revia went from brief to a category-ranking launch in a 4-month build. Brisbane founders use our MVPs to raise, validate and grow, then scale the same codebase rather than starting over.

  • Ruthlessly scoped first release
  • Investor-ready quality and analytics
  • Fast delivery on a reusable component library
  • Scales into v2 without a rebuild

App rescue & cloud

Inherited an underperforming app, or a cloud bill that keeps climbing? Brisbane has given us two of our clearest rescues. We took Train With Cass over from its previous developer and cut the crash rate 90 percent, reached 99 percent uptime and halved maintenance costs; on Move With Us, with 200,000+ users, crash rates came down 50 percent, performance improved 40 percent and user satisfaction rose 30 percent, with zero business interruption during the fix. Across 15+ rescues in the past 3 years, app ratings have recovered from 3.8 to 4.6 stars.

  • Train With Cass: crashes down 90 percent, maintenance cost halved
  • Move With Us: crashes down 50 percent, performance up 40 percent
  • Zero business interruption during the fix
  • 15+ platform rescues in the past 3 years

A Brisbane-ready marketplace: $100M+ in bookings.

PixelForce built and still operates EzLicence, Australia's number-one driver-education marketplace. It processes more than $100 million in annual bookings, with 250,000+ lesson hours booked each year, 1,000 verified instructors, and 8,000+ five-star Google reviews on the platform. When EzLicence's financial reports would not balance, we replaced report-time reconstruction across a dozen unrelated tables with a canonical double-entry credit ledger, and every liability report now draws from one reconcilable source. A Brisbane marketplace, franchise network or multi-site operator gets that same discipline applied to whatever its equivalent of a booking is.

EzLicence marketplace app screen EzLicence booking flow screen
Built & operated by PixelForce $100M+ annual bookings · #1 in Australia

What it is like to work with us.

“PixelForce have been a key factor in our success. They have made our operations and systems seamless with data that enables the business and key stakeholders to make quick decisions.”
Simon Strode Managing Director, EzLicence
#1
  • Driver-education marketplace #1 in Australia
  • $100M+ in facilitated bookings
  • 250K+ lesson hours per year
  • 8,000+ five-star Google reviews

The team behind a $400M app.

PixelForce built and scaled SWEAT, Kayla Itsines and Tobi Pearce's fitness app, from launch to a $400M acquisition by iFIT - 30 million subscribers across 155 countries, and the platform passed Big 4 due diligence at exit. SWEAT co-founder Tobi Pearce is now a strategic investor and advisor to PixelForce. We later added multilingual support across eight languages, lifting retention 25 percent and engagement 40 percent. The health and fitness products Brisbane keeps producing are built by the team that already took one of them all the way to an exit.

SWEAT app workout screen SWEAT app progress screen
Built by PixelForce $400M acquisition · 30M subscribers, 155 countries

Recognised by Apple, Clutch and the clients who keep coming back.

Independent recognition a marketing budget cannot buy - Apple Best of Developers, Top Clutch App Development Company in Australia 2026, and consistent App Store and Google Play featuring. For Brisbane businesses comparing app developers, the more useful signal is that several of the clients reviewing us below are local, and are still with us.

Apple Best of Developers
Apple Watch App of the Year
Apple TV App of the Year
Clutch Top App Development Company
Clutch Top App Development Company
Clutch Top iPhone App Development
Clutch Top iPhone App Development
Clutch Top Android App Development
Clutch Top Android App Development
Clutch Top User Experience Company
Clutch Top User Experience Company
Australian Technology Services Achiever
ACS Digital Disruptor Gold Award
Web Excellence Awards

One conversation.
Three phases.
Built to grow.

The same canonical PixelForce engagement model behind 100+ shipped products and $1.5B+ in combined client revenue, applied to your app. The 1-3-1 method runs through every conversation - one problem, three options with honest trade-offs across budget, timeline and scope, one recommendation. No Blueprint, no Build.

  1. 0
    Free

    Discovery call

    A free, no-obligation conversation to find the right path for your app before you commit a dollar.

    • Mutual NDA signed up front
    • 1-3-1 method: one problem, three options, one recommendation
    • Honest trade-offs across budget, timeline and scope
    • A straight answer on what a credible build looks like
  2. 1
    4-8 weeks

    Scoping & Design

    Everything you need to build with total confidence - a fully costed, designed plan with no scope surprises.

    • Strategic workshops and BRD
    • Full UX/UI design system, every screen built
    • PRD and a fixed-cost Statement of Work
    • No Blueprint, no Build - Phase 1 before any Phase 2 quote
  3. 2
    3-6 months

    Development, QA and Release

    From approved designs to your live app, built and tested at a steady sprint cadence.

    • Sprint cadence with regular demos
    • QA across iOS, Android and the edge cases
    • End-to-end App Store and Google Play submission
    • Built to scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000 users
  4. 3
    Ongoing

    Post Launch Support

    We do not disappear at launch - monitoring, warranty, and an optional retainer keep your app growing.

    • 24/7 monitoring and a critical-defect warranty
    • Ongoing technical support
    • Optional Product Retainer: four-week sprints and quarterly reviews
    • The model that grew SWEAT to a $400M platform

App development case studies.

Selected work built by our 100% in-house team for Brisbane clients and others across Australia. Fitstop, Revia, Train With Cass, Move With Us and Crop Shop Boutique are all Brisbane projects, sitting alongside SWEAT and EzLicence. Every project reflects a deliberate choice about product model, retention and scale, never a generic build.

Train With Cass 2.0

Train With Cass 2.0 One codebase, both platforms

Brisbane, Australia Train With Cass

PixelForce rebuilt Train With Cass on Flutter for iOS and Android. The app reached Android for the first time ever on 25 March 2026, from one codebase.

Move With Us

Move With Us From Technical Debt to a Platform Built to Scale

Brisbane, Australia Move With Us

PixelForce rescued and modernised Move With Us, Rachel Dillon's cross-platform fitness app, reducing technical debt for a faster, more stable platform.

Revia

Revia Hybrid training, without the intimidation

Brisbane, Australia Revie Jane

PixelForce built Revia, Revie Jane's hybrid training app for women, which reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours of launch.

Fitstop

Fitstop From a Queensland garage to a four-country franchise

Brisbane, Australia Fitstop

PixelForce built the Fitstop member app and franchisee operations portal across 100+ gyms and 50,000+ members, lifting retention by more than 10 percent.

Train With Cass

Train With Cass Stabilise first, decide second

Brisbane, Australia Train With Cass

PixelForce rescued the Train With Cass fitness app: crash rate down 90 percent, 99 percent uptime, maintenance costs cut 50 percent, and no member disruption.

The Recipe Hub

The Recipe Hub From recipe feed to nutrition platform

Gold Coast, Australia The Recipe Hub

PixelForce built The Recipe Hub, a cross-platform iOS and Android nutrition app for coach Chloe Condon: macro-friendly recipes, tracking and meal planning.

EzLicence

EzLicence Connecting Learners & Instructors

Adelaide, Australia EzLicence

How PixelForce built EzLicence, Australia's largest driving-lesson marketplace - real-time booking, verified instructors and automated payments connecting 300,000+ learners with 1,500+ instructors.

SWEAT

SWEAT The World's #1 Female Fitness App

Adelaide, Australia Sweat

How PixelForce built and scaled SWEAT with Kayla Itsines and Tobi Pearce - from an Adelaide startup to 30 million+ users across 155 countries and a reported $400 million exit.

CSB

CSB The gap between paid and delivered

Gold Coast, Australia CSB

PixelForce connected ShipBob, Klaviyo and Shopify for activewear brand CSB in a 2-week development cycle, automating 100 percent of pre-shipment notifications.

Pilates Obsession

Pilates Obsession From Studio to Global Platform

Melbourne, Australia Pilates Obsession

How PixelForce built Pilates Obsession, a cross-platform fitness app for instructor Sara Colquhoun - structured Mat and Reformer programs and an on-demand class library, launched in three months.

OneCoach

OneCoach One brand, many programs, one CMS to run it

Sydney, Australia OneCoach

PixelForce built One Playground's OneCoach as a static Next.js site on a Strapi headless CMS, so non-technical staff publish content live in about 45 seconds.

The EzLicence Handbook

The EzLicence Handbook Seven years of decisions, in one place

Adelaide, Australia EzLicence

PixelForce shipped The Handbook, an AI knowledge system for EzLicence, in 4 weeks: a 50 percent efficiency gain and 90 percent of documentation updates automated.

App developers Brisbane - common questions.

What Brisbane founders, franchise operators and product leads ask before appointing an app development partner - cost, realistic timelines, how a senior team half an hour away works day to day, and what happens after launch. Straight answers from 13 years of shipping apps.

Yes, and we have the local record to show for it. Fitstop, Revia, Train With Cass, Move With Us and Crop Shop Boutique are all Brisbane clients with published case studies. Brisbane and Adelaide are half an hour apart year round, in one direction or the other depending on daylight saving, so the working day overlaps completely and questions get same-day answers. We run weekly demos, keep dedicated channels for real-time communication, and travel up for workshops and launches when a project calls for it.

In Brisbane we can point at the work rather than describe it. For Fitstop we built the member app and the franchisee operations portal across 100+ gyms and 50,000+ active members, lifting user retention by more than 10 percent. Revia reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours of launch after a 4-month build. We took Train With Cass over from a previous developer and cut the crash rate 90 percent while reaching 99 percent uptime and halving maintenance costs. We are an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with 15+ AWS-accredited engineers, holding 99.99 percent uptime across 100+ shipped products.

With a fixed-scope Scoping and Design phase before any build, then discovery workshops, iterative prototyping, continuous stakeholder feedback and dedicated QA engineers testing every release. Our Brisbane rescues show what the audit-first approach produces: on Move With Us, a platform with 200,000+ users, crash rates came down 50 percent, performance improved 40 percent and user satisfaction rose 30 percent, with zero business interruption during the fix. We identify architectural flaws, security vulnerabilities and performance bottlenecks before proposing any work.

Everything from a first release to a multi-site platform, and the operations tooling that sits behind it. We deliver UX/UI app design, iOS app development and Android app development, cross-platform Flutter development, MVP and startup builds, enterprise app development, app rescue and modernisation, website design and development and progressive web apps, with managed cloud services and data analytics and insights underneath them. Brisbane clients most often engage us for franchise and multi-site systems, health and fitness products, and e-commerce operations automation. Our approach is technology-agnostic: we recommend the stack your product needs, not the one that suits our margin.

Every project starts with a fixed-scope Scoping and Design phase, typically $35,000 to $65,000 AUD, which produces the blueprint and a clear plan before any build begins. Development then typically ranges from $100,000 to $350,000 AUD, shaped by scope: web or mobile, the number of user types, and integration and compliance needs. A Brisbane franchise build usually sits higher in that range than a single-audience app, because the member app and the operator portal are two products sharing one system. We price with the 1-3-1 method: one clear problem, three costed options, one honest recommendation.

Timelines depend on scope and readiness. We deliver 3 to 4 month MVP launches for founders, 4 to 6 month builds for complex platforms, and 6 to 9 month enterprise solutions, each starting with a Scoping and Design phase of typically 6 to 8 weeks. Revia is the Brisbane benchmark for a fast, well-executed launch: a 4-month build that reached number 3 in Apple's Health and Fitness category within 48 hours. For rescues such as Train With Cass we stabilise first, usually 4 to 8 weeks, before touching features.

Yes, and in Brisbane it is most of what we do after launch. Security updates, operating-system compatibility maintenance, performance optimisation, feature evolution, and infrastructure monitoring and alerting all continue. Brisbane clients partner with us on product retainers across our Steady to Momentum tiers, from $10,000 to $50,000 AUD per four-week cycle depending on scope. Train With Cass came to us through a handover from a previous developer and now holds 99 percent uptime with maintenance costs cut 50 percent, which is what a working support arrangement looks like.

Build your app with Brisbane's most trusted team.

Book a free, no-obligation consultation. We will scope your app, walk through the 1-3-1 options - one problem, three costed paths, one honest recommendation - and tell you what it takes to build and launch. You own the IP and the code from day one.

  • Free, no-obligation consultation
  • You own your IP and code
  • Top Clutch App Development Company, Australia
  • 13+ years, 100+ products shipped