AI Mobile App Development in South Africa
AI mobile app development builds Android, iOS and cross-platform apps with built-in AI features. We are Imbilla Digital Agency — a South African team shipping AI-powered mobile apps for SA businesses.
What we build
- Conversational AI apps (chatbots, voice assistants, customer support)
- On-device ML (image recognition, document scanning, translation)
- Computer vision apps (OCR, AR, product recognition)
- Voice apps (speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice commands)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) apps for company knowledge
- AI agents (workflow automation, scheduling, research)
Tech stack
We ship cross-platform with React Native and Flutter so one codebase serves Android and iOS. AI models: OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude Sonnet and Opus, Google Gemini 1.5 and 2.0, plus open-source models (Llama, Mistral) when client privacy requires on-device inference. Backend: Supabase, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers. We pick the stack that fits the use case.
Our process
- Discovery — Workshop your business problem, users and AI use case. 1-2 weeks.
- Specification — Write the spec: features, AI model choice, data flows, edge cases. 1 week.
- Design — UI/UX in Figma, prototyped end-to-end. 2-3 weeks.
- Build — Sprint development with weekly demos. 8-16 weeks depending on scope.
- Test — Functional, performance, AI accuracy and edge-case testing. 2 weeks.
- Ship — App Store + Google Play submission, post-launch monitoring, iteration. 1-2 weeks.
Looking for plain (non-AI) mobile app development?
See our mobile app development page for Android, iOS and web app projects without AI features.
