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How to Transfer a Base44 or Lovable App Into Your Own Account: What Moves and What Stays Behind

Your developer built the app in Base44 or Lovable, in their workspace. How to move it into yours, what to check so its data comes too, and the accounts that stay behind.

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Who Owns Your App? How to Move It Into Your Own Apple and Google Play Accounts

Your app is live, but is it in your name? How Apple and Google Play app transfers work, what the current owner has to do, and the other accounts founders forget until something breaks.

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Lovable to the App Store: What the Wrapper Guides Don't Tell You

Lovable publishes to a web URL, and most App Store guides come from the people selling the wrapper. This one covers the parts they skip: Apple's 4.2.6 rule, payments, sign-in, your backend and staying listed.

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Is Flutter Still Worth Choosing in 2026?

Google says 1.5 million developers use Flutter every month. We look at where that figure comes from, what changed in 2026, and when we'd pick something else.

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Your Base44 App Is Finished. So Why Can't You Charge for It?

Base44 builders reach the App Store and find they can't charge for their app. Why Apple rejects Stripe for digital goods, where the US exception stops, and the three ways out.

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How to Read the Compliance Checklist Your Enterprise Buyer Just Sent

The checklist looks like ten things you can buy. Most of the items depend on each other, and two or three were settled the day you picked your build platform. Read it as a dependency order before you go out for quotes.

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AI Can Build Your App. It Can't Make It Safe to Sell

A vibe-coded app can reach a working demo in days. Then the first enterprise buyer sends a security questionnaire and the launch date slips. This post covers what UK business buyers check that the AI didn't build, and how to close the gap.

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How Much Does It Cost To Rebuild a Mobile App in 2026?

About four in ten projects we see need only partial migration, and about six in ten need a full rebuild. Updated September 2026: how to tell which yours is, and what we charge.

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How do AI-generated apps compare to apps made by humans?

AI can build a working prototype in a weekend. Getting it in front of paying users is a separate job. Updated September 2026 with what App Store review rejects and what the work costs.

Google Play Billing Library 8: what breaks before the deadline

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Google Play Billing Library 8: The Deadline Google Gave You Two Dates For

Google has deprecated Play Billing Library 7, and its messaging quotes two different deadlines. Version 8 holds all the breaking changes, version 9 is nearly free, and the removal that costs you money is the one that compiles cleanly.

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Android Developer Verification: What Changes on 30 September 2026

From 30 September 2026, participating app stores, Google Play included, only install apps from registered developers on certified Android devices in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. The UK is not in the first wave, which is exactly why most UK teams will miss it.

How AI recommends apps in 2026: an AI assistant recommending an app, discovery beyond the store

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How AI Recommends Apps in 2026: Getting Found When Users Ask ChatGPT, Not the App Store

More people now ask an AI which app to use than scroll the store. How those recommendations are actually made, and the levers that decide whether your app is one of them.

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How Much Does It Cost To Build An App in 2026?

What an app costs to build in the UK in 2026, from the bands we quote: simple, medium and complex builds, what it costs to hire a developer, why native costs more, and what upkeep runs to.

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Flutter vs React Native in 2026: Which Should You Build With?

How Flutter and React Native compare in 2026 on performance, team fit and hiring, and where Kotlin Multiplatform fits in.

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The Manchester Tech Scene in 2026: What It Means for Building Apps

A 2026 look at Greater Manchester's tech scene: £5bn GVA, the AI surge, Sister and MediaCityUK, and what it means for how mobile apps get built here.

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The Cost of App Development: 3 Things You Need to Know in 2026

App development cost in 2026 is more than the build quote. The three things that decide what you really pay: total cost of ownership, the AI cost curve, and scope clarity, with the numbers.

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What Can a Mobile App Do For Your Business in 2026?

What can a mobile app actually do for your business in 2026? The real outcomes: engagement, retention, mobile commerce, AI personalisation and owned first-party data, with current UK figures, and a low-risk way to find out if it's worth it.

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Our Approach to Developing an MVP (2026)

In 2026, anyone can vibe-code a prototype in a weekend, so why do 70% of app projects still fail? Foresight Mobile's approach to building an MVP: validate the right thing to build before you commit budget, with a board-ready answer in 4 weeks.