How much does a project cost?

Discovery Sprints start at £1,500. Conversion-focused websites run £3,000–£8,000. MVP web apps and portals run £10,000–£40,000. Health & Wellness MVP Launches (web + mobile + Stripe + analytics) typically land at £15,000–£35,000. Every quote is fixed at the end of the Discovery Sprint, before you commit to the build.

How long will my project take?

Websites: 3–5 weeks. Portals and web apps: 6–12 weeks. Health & Wellness MVP Launches: 8–10 weeks of build after a 1-week Discovery Sprint. We work in weekly milestones with live demos so you see progress and can steer in real time.

Why do you start with a paid Discovery Sprint?

Because clients who skip it typically waste 20–30% of their budget on rework. The 1-week sprint locks scope, success metrics, user flows and a tech plan. You leave with a fixed quote and a clickable prototype direction, and the work is yours to keep regardless of whether you continue with us.

Do you only work with health and wellness brands?

Health, wellness and fitness is our flagship vertical. It is where our case studies live and where our build playbook is sharpest. We also work with startups, service businesses, e-commerce and membership communities outside the vertical when there is a strong product fit.

What technology stack do you build on?

TypeScript, React (web) and React Native (mobile), Postgres, hosted on Vercel / Render / Fly. Stripe for payments. We pick boring, conventional technology so any competent team can pick it up after handover. We do not build on no-code platforms by default. Happy to discuss the trade-offs if that is what you need.

Who owns the code and the IP?

You do. Ownership of the custom code we write for you transfers to you once the project is paid in full, and we hand over the source repository, deployment access and any third-party accounts (Stripe, Firebase, etc.). There is no lock-in — take it in-house or to another team whenever you like. The only things we keep are our own pre-existing frameworks and internal tooling, which you get a perpetual licence to use within your project. Full detail is in our Terms of Service.

Do you support the product after launch?

Optional Growth Retainer from £2,000/month: roadmap planning, performance and SEO improvements, A/B tests, small feature drops. If you want to take maintenance fully in-house, we hand over a runbook and stay on email for 30 days at no extra cost.

How much does a wellness app MVP cost in the UK in 2026?

Most UK wellness app MVPs in 2026 cost between £15,000 and £35,000. The wide range is real and the difference is almost entirely driven by three things: how much native platform work you actually need, how complex your billing is, and how many third-party systems you have to integrate with. Here's the actual breakdown.

The honest cost ranges

Scope	Typical UK 2026 range	Timeline
Lean MVP: single platform, simple subs	£15,000–£20,000	8–10 weeks
Standard MVP: web + mobile, Stripe + analytics	£20,000–£28,000	10–12 weeks
Complex MVP: multiple plans, integrations, content tools	£28,000–£40,000	12–14 weeks

These are real numbers from real UK studios in 2026, not theoretical price-list bait. Anything advertised as "MVP from £5,000" is almost certainly either a templated build (which won't scale) or a discovery hook that bait-and-switches you on the build quote.

Where the money actually goes

Discovery (10–15%). Scope, user flows, success metrics, tech plan. The single highest-leverage spend in the project. It's what stops you from rebuilding the wrong thing.
Design + prototype (15–20%). The clickable core loop, brand direction, design system. Cheaper if you're bringing a designer; more if we're starting from a blank canvas.
Build (50–60%). Mobile app, web admin, backend, payments, integrations. The biggest line item by far.
Hardening + launch (10%). QA, performance work, App Store / Play Store submissions, observability.
Buffer (5–10%). A real wellness MVP needs scope flex. Trying to lock everything down to the pound usually means quality goes out the window when the inevitable surprise hits.

What pushes the price up vs. down

Pushes it up

HealthKit / Google Fit deep integration. Per-platform native work doubles the surface area.
Multi-tier subscriptions with trials, coupons, family plans. Stripe billing logic is where most projects bleed budget.
Content management for non-technical staff. Custom CMS work is real engineering, not a checkbox.
Multiple user roles (coach + member + admin). Each role roughly doubles QA surface area.

Pushes it down

Cross-platform with React Native or Flutter instead of two separate native codebases. For 90% of wellness MVPs the speed win outweighs the marginal native UX gain.
Stripe Checkout instead of a fully custom checkout: production-ready, hosted, and PCI-safe out of the box.
Strong existing brand assets. If you arrive with a brand system and copy direction, you save 1–2 weeks of design exploration.
One platform first, the other later. Mobile-first is fine. Web-first is fine. "Both equally on day one" is the expensive option.

What to ignore

Anyone quoting an MVP price without first running a Discovery Sprint is guessing. The MVP price question is genuinely unanswerable in the abstract. The answer depends on what's in scope, and what's in scope is the entire purpose of Discovery.

At GrandPoint we charge from £1,500 for a 1-week Discovery Sprint, which produces a fixed quote you can hold us to. That sprint is yours to keep regardless of whether you continue with us, so even if you take the deliverable to another studio, you've spent £1,500 to get the right plan instead of £25,000 to discover the wrong one.

Where to start

If you have an audience and a clear sense of what they would pay for, a Discovery Sprint is the highest-leverage £1,500 you can spend in 2026. Read more about our Health & Wellness MVP Launch package, or tell us about your project.