Discovery to launch
Turn rough service ideas into scoped features, prototypes, app-store-ready builds, and release assets.
Vancouver mobile app development for local businesses
Custom apps for restaurants, shops, service businesses, and local teams.
604Apps turns focused business ideas into polished iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps: ordering and loyalty tools, booking flows, staff workflow apps, receipt capture, customer portals, private AI helpers, and App Store-ready products.
604Apps
Portfolio
iPhone and iPad
Read Aloud Book Reader
Turns EPUB and PDF books into a listen-and-read experience. For a cafe, book club, school, or community group, the same patterns can support guided reading programs, member content libraries, accessibility features, and audio-first customer experiences.
Book club and community content
Accessibility-friendly playback
Private notes and summaries
View on App Store
Built in the 604
A local app studio for Vancouver-area businesses.
604Apps is a Vancouver-based mobile product team focused on the kind of apps local businesses actually need: restaurant ordering and loyalty apps, customer booking tools, internal workflow apps, field-service utilities, private AI helpers, and polished customer-facing experiences.
Local context
We understand restaurants, food operators, service businesses, neighbourhood shops, and teams serving customers across Metro Vancouver.
Direct collaboration
Work with a focused product team that can move from idea to prototype to App Store release.
Practical scope
Start with the workflow that matters most, then expand once the app proves useful.
What we build
Focused mobile apps built for real business workflows.
604Apps helps local businesses turn customer-facing ideas and internal processes into polished mobile apps. We can help define the scope, design the core experience, build the app, prepare launch assets, and get it ready for the App Store.
AI where it helps
Use on-device AI, OCR, speech, and automation when they reduce real operational work.
Built for ownership
Prefer native platform capabilities, maintainable code, and practical handoff over disposable demos.
Useful for restaurants and small businesses
Your app does not need to be complicated to be valuable.
Many local businesses need one strong mobile workflow: make ordering easier, keep customers coming back, reduce admin work, or give staff a better tool than a spreadsheet and group chat.
Restaurants and food establishments
Mobile menus, pre-ordering, loyalty programs, pickup reminders, catering requests, staff checklists, and private tools for daily operations.
Retail and neighbourhood shops
Customer clubs, product lookups, appointment requests, inventory helpers, promotions, and simple apps that keep regular customers engaged.
Service and field teams
Booking flows, quote intake, job tracking, photo capture, offline checklists, document scanning, and internal workflow apps for teams on the move.
Small-business workflow example
Receiptopia shows how phone-based admin work can become a useful app.
Receipt scanning, OCR, categorization, and structured records are close to problems restaurants, cafes, contractors, and shops deal with every week: expense capture, invoice intake, warranty records, supply tracking, and cleaner bookkeeping handoff.
Proven app capabilities
The portfolio maps to real business app needs.
Receipt and document capture
Receiptopia shows OCR and structured data extraction that can support expense capture, invoice intake, warranty records, and back-office workflows.
Camera-based workflows
CJExplorer, Receiptopia, and Spanish or Vanish demonstrate real-time capture, recognition, and lookup patterns useful for staff tools and customer-facing scanners.
Content and audio experiences
Read Aloud, Filibuster, SpeechTrack, and Bookletto show text-to-speech, content generation, exports, timing, and playback for guided customer, staff training, cafe book club, or community experiences.
Private AI and automation
Several apps use local processing and Apple platform APIs, a strong fit for businesses that want AI features without sending sensitive customer or operating data everywhere.
Start with a scoped estimate
Tell us what your app needs to do.
Send a short note with your business type, the workflow you want to improve, any systems the app should connect to, and your ideal launch window.