Services · Mobile app development · Construction apps
Codeeo handles construction app development Riyadh contractors can put in the hands of site engineers, foremen and clients on day one. We build site diaries, inspection requests, subcontractor tracking and client progress portals in Arabic and English, so a fit-out firm in KAFD, a villa builder in north Riyadh or a specialist subcontractor on a giga-project works from one record instead of a dozen WhatsApp groups.
Part of our team of 80+ sits in Riyadh, alongside colleagues in Dubai and Karachi. That means workshops at your office, walks around your site and testing on the phones your crews actually carry, with the design and engineering work shared across all three locations.
200+ companies servedFrom a first store to an ADX listed developer
What the app can include
Riyadh has an unusual amount of construction running at once: Diriyah, King Salman Park, the Expo 2030 site, office towers in the King Abdullah Financial District and thousands of private villas in the northern districts. The work differs, but the pain is the same. Engineers chase consultant approvals by phone, foremen report manpower on paper, and the client asks for progress photos that live in someone's gallery.
We pick the modules below to match your role in the chain. A subcontractor on a large programme needs inspection requests and manpower returns that satisfy the main contractor. A villa builder needs a homeowner portal and stage payments. Construction management app development Riyadh firms commission from us usually starts with three or four of these and adds the rest once crews are using it.
Raise an inspection request from the site, attach drawings and photos, and route it to the consultant or main contractor. Status, comments and rejection reasons stay on the request, so a resubmission shows exactly what changed since the last visit. Overdue requests are flagged to the project manager automatically.
Fewer days lost waiting for a sign-off nobody can trace.
Foremen log weather, manpower by trade, equipment on site, deliveries and delays in a few minutes, with photos tagged to zones or floors. The diary becomes the evidence pack when a delay claim or a variation is disputed later. Diaries lock at midnight, so entries cannot be quietly edited afterwards.
A dated, photographed record of every working day.
Each package shows scope, progress against programme, open snags and pending payments. Main contractors see which specialist trade is behind before it holds up the next one, and subcontractors see what is blocking their own invoice. Payment applications reference the same progress figures, which shortens valuation arguments.
Interface problems between trades surface early.
QR or ID based check-in at the site gate, headcount by company and trade, and a live view of who is on which site. Useful on large Riyadh programmes where several hundred workers from many firms share one gate. Exports match the formats main contractors request.
Accurate manpower returns without a clerk counting heads.
Current drawing revisions pushed to every phone, older ones marked superseded, and method statements available offline. Site teams stop building from a printout that was replaced two weeks ago. Document controllers publish once and the app handles distribution. Downloads are logged per user for traceability.
Everyone works from the latest revision.
Site engineers raise material requests against the programme, the store confirms stock, and deliveries are booked into slots so trucks are not queuing on Riyadh ring roads outside a closed gate. Each delivery note is photographed on arrival and matched to the purchase order. Rejected deliveries record a reason and photo.
Fewer idle crews waiting for steel, blockwork or ducting.
For villa builders and renovation firms, a client app shows stage progress, weekly photos, selections waiting for approval and the payment schedule. Owners in Al Malqa or Hittin stop driving to site to see what happened this week.
Fewer anxious calls, faster approvals on finishes.
Pin a snag to the floor plan, photograph it, assign the trade and set a due date. Closing it needs a photo, and the handover report builds itself from the closed list. Repeat snags by trade show which subcontractor needs closer supervision. Snags can be filtered by trade, floor or due date.
Handover without a spreadsheet marathon.
Shift planning that respects the summer midday outdoor work ban, toolbox talk records, near miss reports and incident photos, all timestamped. Safety officers see open items across every Riyadh site in one list. Reports export for audits.
Compliance records ready when an inspector asks.
Directors see progress, open inspections, overdue snags and manpower across projects, filtered by site or client. Data exports to Power BI or your ERP where you already report. Weekly summaries can be emailed to clients without manual editing. Figures update as soon as site records sync.
One view of every site before the Sunday meeting.
Who this is for
Riyadh construction is not one market. A façade subcontractor at Diriyah, a family firm building villas in Al Narjis and a fit-out company working floor by floor through office towers all need different software. Each brings different paperwork and a different person approving their work. These are the four starting points we see most often, and the first version we would build for each. If your firm sits between two of them, we combine the relevant modules rather than forcing a choice.
Giga-project main contractors expect inspection requests, manpower returns and safety records in their own format and on their own deadlines. We build an app that produces those outputs from what your foremen already record, so your office team stops retyping site notes into the client's templates every evening. The first release usually covers inspection requests, manpower and the daily diary. Later releases add snag closure and payment applications tied to measured progress. Your office team also gets a simple screen to review each submission before it leaves the company, which avoids rejected returns.
Built to feed the main contractor's systems, not to replace them.
Private homeowners in north Riyadh want to see progress, approve tiles and pay stage invoices without visiting site every weekend. A branded client app with photos, selections and a payment schedule gives them confidence and gives your project managers their evenings back. We also set up reminders for owner decisions, because late tile or kitchen choices are a common cause of villa delays in Riyadh. Owners can also invite family members or an engineer friend to view the project, which is common for villa builds in Riyadh.
The client app is often what wins the next referral.
Fit-out in KAFD and along King Fahd Road means tight building management rules, night deliveries, work permits issued by the tower and many small packages running in parallel. We focus on permit tracking, snag lists by floor and handover packs that tower operators accept. Night shift supervisors get a simple handover screen so the morning team knows exactly which rooms were touched and which permits closed. Floor by floor dashboards show the client how close each level is to handover.
Developers and project management consultants overseeing several contractors need one view across all of them. We build a reporting layer that collects progress, inspections and photos from each contractor without forcing every firm onto the same internal tools. Each contractor keeps its own app or system, and the developer sees a consistent picture of progress, risk and open approvals across the whole Riyadh portfolio. The developer can also share a summary view with investors or lenders without exposing contractor detail.
How we work together
Most firms begin with a fixed scope first version built around one pilot site, then keep a retainer for new modules and support. Contractors with a larger digital programme, often those supplying several giga-project clients at once, take a dedicated team that works from our Riyadh office and alongside your own IT staff. Cost depends on the number of user roles, the integrations you need, offline requirements and whether you want a client facing app as well as the site app. We explain each of these drivers during discovery so you can trade features against timing before anything is signed.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Flutter or native code for the site and client apps, a web admin panel, and APIs into Primavera, Procore, SAP, Odoo or Dynamics where you already run them. Hosting can sit in Saudi data centres when your clients require it, and we test on mid range Android phones because that is what most crews use.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Both: we have people in Riyadh and the wider team in Dubai and Karachi.
Workshops, site visits and user testing happen in Riyadh with your engineers and foremen. Design, development and quality testing are shared across our Riyadh, Dubai and Karachi team of 80+. You get one project lead who is reachable in your working hours and who has seen your sites, rather than a remote team working from a written brief alone. During that phase we also confirm which roles need the app first, so the pilot site gets real attention instead of a general rollout.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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