Mobile Application Development
Mobile experiences worth opening.
Apps people actually use. We design intuitive experiences, build them to perform across platforms, and launch them to your audience. iOS and Android, made in-house. Since 2001, with offices in Melville, NY, Boca Raton, FL, and soon Miami.
Our Apps
Four apps, built and run in house.
Every one designed, built, shipped, and run by our own team, native on iPhone and Android, and each one still being improved long after launch day.
Long Island Wave
Long Island’s front page, read by 40,000+ people a month, with the watch app arriving this month.
See Long Island Wave →
Creations
A daily affirmation, the full magazine archive, events, and community circles.
See Creations →
Wave Wellness
An app we built and are a partner in: one daily score, a forty-second WellnessScan, and Wave Age. Launching October 2026.
See Wave Wellness →
Melville Chamber
Events and tickets, the member directory, the member feed, and a Chamber card on the wrist.
See Melville Chamber →Apps That Get Used
Downloaded is easy. Used is the point.
Plenty of apps get installed and forgotten. We design for the ones people open again.
Intuitive by design.
Clean, fast experiences that people understand and come back to.
- Interactive UX
- Fast and smooth
- Built to retain
One app, every device.
Built to run well on iOS and Android without doubling the work.
- iOS and Android
- Consistent quality
- Efficient build
We ship our own work, not just other people’s.
Wave Wellness, a consumer health app we are a partner in, was designed, built, and is run in house for iPhone and Android by the same team that would build yours.
Design, Build, Launch
Three phases, one team.
From the first idea to the last detail, one team owns the work. No briefs handed off, no finger pointing.
Design
Design the experience.
- User research
- Wireframes and flows
- UI design
- Interaction design
- Accessibility
- Prototyping
Build
Engineer the app.
- Cross-platform development
- Performance optimization
- APIs and integrations
- Data and sync
- Security
- Testing and QA
Launch
Ship and grow.
- App store launch
- Monitoring
- Analytics
- Updates and fixes
- User feedback
- Ratings and reviews
How It Connects
One build, every device.
Your goal sets the direction. We carry it through design, build, launch, and measurement, all the way to every user.
The same strategy and the same standard, from first step to every user.
Why Wave
Strategy first, made in-house, built to perform.
We start with the goal and build toward it, with one team accountable from the plan to the result.
Strategy First
Every initiative has a goal and a number, not just output.
In-House, End to End
One team owns the work, no handoffs or outsourcing.
Built to Retain
Made for the second open, not just the install.
Measured and Iterated
We track what works and improve what does not.
What We Deliver
What we build.
Native and Cross-Platform
iOS and Android.
Commerce Apps
Sell on mobile.
Booking Apps
Schedule and pay.
Customer Apps
Loyalty and accounts.
Internal Apps
Tools for your team.
Integrations
Connect your stack.
Where It Fits
When you need an app.
How We Work
Strategy first, then build.
Every piece is built with intention, tied to a goal and a number. The agents carry the volume; our people make the calls.
Design
We design an experience people use.
Build
We engineer it across platforms.
Launch
We ship, measure, and improve.
By Industry
Apps for every kind of business.
Beyond our own four, we build iPhone and Android apps for clients across industries, each shaped to how that business actually runs.
Fintech
Client portals, payment and fee reconciliation, reporting dashboards.
Insurance
Quoting and intake, agent portals, policy and claims tracking.
Construction
Crews and schedules on the phone, bids, change orders and site logs.
Distribution
Catalogs and ordering, inventory lookups, routes and deliveries.
Retail
Shopping and loyalty apps, order pickup, tools for the shop floor.
Technology
SaaS products, internal tools, APIs and the integrations between them.
Education
Enrollment, parent and student portals, schedules and messaging.
Environmental
Field data collection, compliance reporting, sensor dashboards.
Healthcare
Patient portals, intake and scheduling, health and wellness apps.
Compliance
Built to the rules you answer to.
We build to the standard your industry holds you to, from the first data model on, rather than selling you a certificate, and your compliance team signs off on what ships, in the app and in the systems behind it.
- HIPAAProtected health information encrypted, every access logged, and kept with hosts that sign a business associate agreement.
- SEC and FINRACommunications retained and supervised, and records kept in the form and for the time the rules require.
- GDPRConsent, access and deletion built in from the start, and personal data kept only as long as it is needed.
- GLBA and PCICustomer financial data safeguarded, and card payments handled by certified processors, never stored by us.
Wave Platforms
Around the clock, for an app once it is in the stores.
We do not license someone else's software and mark it up. Wave Workforce is ours, written in house and trained on how your business actually runs, and we run this agency on it.
Wave Workforce
Store rankings, reviews, and the apps competing with yours, watched continuously.
Explore Wave WorkforceWhat it handlesThe crew
Review triage, support queues, and store admin cleared overnight.
See the crewYou get your own dashboard. Sign in whenever you want and see exactly what moved, what changed, and why.
Wave Publisher All three of our titles run on it. See Wave Publisher →
Wave Community The Melville Chamber of Commerce runs on it. See Wave Community →
Wave Wellness A consumer app we are a partner in runs on it. See Wave Wellness →
Common Questions
Questions clients ask.
Do you build for iOS and Android?+
Can the app connect to our systems?+
Do you handle the app store launch?+
Do you support the app after launch?+
Do you work outside Long Island?+
Let's Talk
Let's build an app worth opening.
Book a call with a senior member of the team. We will share a relevant point of view for your business, no pressure and no jargon.