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Clients in the UAE

Software development for UAE businesses

Mobile apps, web platforms and AI products for companies in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and across the Emirates, built by a team whose day runs alongside yours.

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  • AED or USD, reverse-charge VAT
  • Arabic, English, bilingual RTL
  • UAE and Middle East regions

The UAE is the easiest place in the world for us to work with. Gulf Standard Time is only ninety minutes behind India, so our whole day overlaps yours: when a product owner in Dubai Internet City or ADGM has a question at 11am, our team is at its desk. Flights from Delhi land in Dubai in three and a half hours, so a kickoff in your office is a short trip rather than a project.

We build for real-estate developers and brokerages, fintech and payments companies, retail and e-commerce groups, logistics operators and the growing number of UAE startups that need a senior product team without the Dubai salary bill. Arabic and right-to-left interfaces, UAE payment gateways and local hosting are standard parts of the work.

Working hours against Gulf time

Ninety minutes apart and no daylight saving on either side, so this holds every day of the year.

Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah (GST)
8am–5pm · calls any time 9am–5pm

We keep Friday afternoon light for the UAE half-day, and our working week is Monday to Friday like yours.

The Eleven App Studios team at work
The team you would work with: senior engineers and designers in India, in your working hours.

What a UAE engagement includes

  • Arabic and bilingual products: right-to-left layouts designed properly, Arabic typography, bidirectional text handling and localisation for the Gulf rather than a mirrored English app.
  • UAE integrations: local payment gateways and cards, UAE PASS where a product needs it, Emirates ID-based onboarding flows through licensed providers, and delivery and mapping services that cover the Emirates.
  • Data protection awareness: the UAE Personal Data Protection Law and the separate DIFC and ADGM regimes, with hosting in UAE or Middle East cloud regions where residency is required.
  • AED or USD invoicing with no UAE VAT charged by us; a VAT-registered UAE business accounts for imported services under the reverse charge.
  • In-person when it matters: kickoffs, design reviews and launches in Dubai or Abu Dhabi are a short flight away.

What we build for UAE clients

Property portals and buyer apps for developers and brokerages, customer and merchant apps for fintech and payments companies, e-commerce and loyalty platforms for retail groups, dispatch and tracking systems for logistics companies, and the AI features now expected in all of them. Government-adjacent work follows the accessibility and bilingual standards UAE entities require.

Engagements run as fixed-scope projects after a discovery sprint, or as dedicated engineers who join your team on a monthly basis. Either way the code sits in your repository and deploys to your cloud account.

See how we work

1:42 on how a project runs with us: discovery, two-week sprints, a demo every Friday, your own repository, and what happens after launch.

What will your app cost? A 1:16 walkthrough

Our free App Cost Calculator in US dollars: six quick questions, every screen and feature priced, no GST for clients outside India, and a fixed-price proposal within 48 hours of a call in your time zone.

Questions UAE clients ask

Yes. RTL is a design decision from the first wireframe, not a flag flipped at the end, and we test with native Arabic speakers.

Yes, in the UAE regions of AWS, Azure or GCP, or in DIFC or ADGM-compliant setups where your licence requires it.

Yes, for kickoffs, milestone reviews and launches.

The UAE gateways and processors your bank and licence support, plus Apple Pay and Google Pay where the product needs them.

AED or USD invoices, by milestone for fixed-scope work and monthly for dedicated teams.