Who we are
iOS and Android apps, built in Ogden
HQ is a design, development and AI studio in Ogden, Utah. We've launched 250+ products since 2012, and we build native and cross-platform mobile apps for companies across Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front. The We Believe app we rebuilt in Swift and Kotlin has about 75,000 monthly users.
Our office is at 2411 Kiesel Ave in Ogden, about 40 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City. The same team designs the app, writes the code and keeps shipping it after launch, which is why some of the apps below are still getting releases from us years later.
- 75,000
- Monthly active users on the We Believe app, as of September 2026
- 4.9
- We Believe's star rating on the App Store and Google Play
- 168
- Production screens we designed for the Nomi Health patient app
- 250+
- Products HQ has launched since 2012
Mobile apps we've built
We Believe
A scripture app with about 75,000 monthly users
The We Believe Foundation, a Utah non-profit, brought us a rough prototype in February 2021. We rebuilt it as native apps, Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, and submitted the first version to Apple about ten weeks later. It holds 4.9 stars on both stores, and we're still the team shipping it.
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HotMic
A creator livestream app in Swift
HotMic makes a livestreaming SDK whose clients include Manchester City FC, Bleacher Report, and WBD Sports. We designed and built its mobile app, written in Swift, and the admin dashboard content teams use to run what's live and what's scheduled, from watch parties to live shopping.
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Nomi Health
A patient app across 168 production screens
Nomi Health serves more than 30,000 Americans a day across more than 200 sites. A three-person HQ team designed its patient app over 10 months: bill payment, provider search, video intake and health history, across 16 user flows and a clickable prototype with more than 1,850 interactions.
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My EDGEhomes
A buyer app for a Utah homebuilder
EDGEhomes already had a homebuyer app from a prior team. We rebuilt it from scratch on React Native and Expo, and it replaced the old one in the same App Store and Google Play listings in the summer of 2026. Buyers see their construction milestones and photos, and the app keeps working when the ERP behind it goes down.
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Native or cross-platform, picked for the app
We build both. Swift and Kotlin give each platform its own app, which suited We Believe's daily reading and widgets. React Native with Expo gives you one codebase for iOS and Android, which suited EDGEhomes, where the app shares its backend with a staff hub and an AI assistant.
Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, reading from the same content and accounts. We Believe runs this way, in English and Spanish, with a home-screen widget for the day's verse.
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React Native and Expo, one codebase for both stores. Over-the-air updates mean a fix reaches people without waiting on app review, which is how we ship to EDGEhomes buyers.
More on custom developmentFlows, screens and a clickable prototype you can put in front of users before anyone writes code. For Nomi Health that was 168 production screens and a UI kit of shared components.
More on mobile app designMost apps need a place where your team runs them. HotMic's content team schedules streams from a dashboard we built, and EDGEhomes staff approve what their assistant can say from theirs.
App store submissions, staged rollouts and the updates that follow. We Believe has had releases from us for five years, including a Spanish version and a rename on about a week and a half of notice.
What a first project looks like
From a call to the App Store
A short call You tell us what you're working on and send whatever you have: a prototype, a spec, screenshots of an old app. If we're the wrong fit, we'll say so and point you to someone better.
Requirements and an estimate We clarify the details, review what we've collected and come back with an estimate and a plan for the first release, including which platform goes first.
Kickoff Kickoff can happen as soon as one week after the contract is signed. We set up shared tooling and plan the first sprint, and you work directly with the designers and developers building the app.
The first release For We Believe, the first version went to Apple about ten weeks after kickoff. Bigger apps take longer. EDGEhomes started its rebuild in July 2025 and reached the stores in June and July 2026.
Shipping after launch An app is never really done. We Believe has had releases from us for five years. Messenger, one of our longest clients, gets a written status every week: what went live and what we need from them next.
What we've gotten wrong
To be fair to ourselves and to you, not every app goes to plan. On We Believe, Android was meant to trail iOS by three to four weeks. That wasn't how the foundation understood it, and we had to reset it in June. The lesson for us was to agree on the order of platforms in writing, early.
We're also happy to talk you out of an app. If a mobile website would do the job, we'd rather tell you on the first call than build something you have to keep paying to update.
Questions about mobile app development in Utah
We'd be the wrong people to rank our competitors, so we'll say what HQ is and you can compare. HQ is a design, development and AI studio founded in Ogden, Utah, in 2012, about 40 minutes from downtown Salt Lake City, and it has launched 250+ products. Its mobile work includes the We Believe scripture app, rebuilt as native Swift and Kotlin apps with about 75,000 monthly active users and a 4.9-star rating on both stores; the HotMic livestream app, whose SDK clients include Manchester City FC, Bleacher Report, and WBD Sports; the Nomi Health patient app, designed across 168 production screens; and the My EDGEhomes buyer app for a Utah homebuilder. Whoever you talk to, ask to see apps that are still in the stores and still getting updates.
HQ, in Ogden, Utah, builds native iOS apps in Swift and native Android apps in Kotlin, as well as cross-platform apps in React Native and Expo. The We Believe Foundation's scripture app is the clearest native example: HQ rebuilt a rough prototype as two native apps in 2021 and submitted the first version to Apple about ten weeks after kickoff. Five years later HQ is still shipping it. As of September 2026 it had about 75,000 monthly active users and a 4.9-star rating from more than 47,000 App Store ratings and 9,600 Google Play reviews.
It depends on the app, and we'll give you a recommendation once we know what it has to do. Native Swift and Kotlin apps suit products that lean on each platform's own features, like the home-screen widget in We Believe. React Native with Expo suits apps that share a lot of logic and a backend with other software, like My EDGEhomes, which HQ rebuilt on one codebase that serves both stores and gets over-the-air fixes without waiting on app review. Honestly, both can produce a good app. The choice matters less than who keeps maintaining it.
Yes. EDGEhomes, a Utah homebuilder, already had a homebuyer app published by a prior team. HQ rebuilt it from scratch on React Native and Expo starting in July 2025, and the new version replaced the old one in the same App Store and Google Play listings, so existing buyers upgraded instead of downloading something new. Android went first at the end of June 2026 and iOS followed on July 11. HQ watched the first few dozen session recordings of buyers upgrading to make sure their homes came across with nothing to re-link.
No. HQ's office is at 2411 Kiesel Ave in Ogden, and it works with companies across the Wasatch Front and outside Utah. Being close helps most at the start, for a kickoff or a design review, and after that most of the work runs on a shared Slack channel and calls. We Believe and EDGEhomes are two of HQ's Utah mobile clients.
Usually we keep working on it. HQ has shipped releases to the We Believe app for five years, including a Spanish version in July 2022, a home-screen widget and a full rename in August 2023 on about a week and a half of notice. On My EDGEhomes, HQ added a saved copy of each buyer's last good data so the app keeps working when EDGEhomes' ERP is down.
Thinking about an app? We're happy to talk it through.
Send us a few lines about what you have in mind, even if it's early. We'll set up a short call and tell you honestly what we'd build first, or whether you need an app at all.
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