Empower Mobility

Since 2005, Empower Mobility has built custom mobile apps for clients who arrive with an idea and need someone to turn it into a working product. The company calls itself a highly experienced software development company with a strong focus on mobile, and it points to over three decades of design and engineering experience behind its team.

Six stages from discovery to support

The company lays its method out as six numbered steps, and each one is described in plain terms.

Discover. The first stage is usually short and fixed in scope. Together with the client, Empower Mobility defines what the app has to do and what it will honestly take to build, so that requirements, a development plan and a budget exist before any design starts.

Prototype. Once those exist, the team sketches the app and builds a working prototype ahead of the main build, so that the client can see the idea take shape early.

Develop. This is the building phase. The company tests as it builds and supplies interim builds whenever they are needed, which lets the client follow progress rather than wait for one big delivery.

Test. Alongside its own extensive testing, Empower Mobility likes to have a selected group of the client's users formally try the app. Bugs found at this stage are fixed before release.

Deploy. The finished app is released to its audience.

Support. Once the app is live, the company offers ongoing support if the client wants it, and it notes that needs differ from client to client.

Apps in the portfolio

The company shows a selection of its past work. Named projects include goCrop, PATH Companion, Garden GreenPrint and Brandmaster, as well as a GIS solution, and it keeps a gallery of screenshots covering the mobile apps it has produced over the years. It says its clients are businesses that have trusted it as their mobile app developer through those years.

How the company sees the craft

Empower Mobility describes software as a mix of artistry and engineering. It says it tries to design apps for the future while giving them a clear purpose for the present, and it pairs creativity and tenacity with attention to detail, coding skill and problem solving on each project. The company adds that its name states plainly what it does.