One good example of an app’s development cost is Instagram, which had an initial $500,000 seed budget. And this rather large budget didn’t even include the cost of Android development. Today, creating an Instagram clone app costs anywhere between $100,000 and $300,000. Another popular example is Uber, which had an initial $1,500,000 seed budget, which was followed up by another much higher round of funding. Both of these apps have very heavy backend aspects to them, which illustrates one extremely important point to remember: apps that require backend development cost significantly more than standalone apps. So with that said, we can deduce the fact that apps with more complex user interfaces and those that require any sort of significant backend development typically cost between $250,000 and $1,500,000.