How long does it take to build a Shopify mobile app?

About two weeks with a done-for-you studio like TicApp — roughly 14 days from a connected Shopify store to an app submitted to the App Store and Google Play. A custom build from scratch is three to six months.

The two weeks covers design, build and submission. It does not cover Apple deciding, which is usually a day or two but is theirs to decide.

A no-code app builder is faster to start and slower to finish: the first screen appears in an hour and the last ten per cent takes weeks, because that is the part a template cannot do.