Map and station pages
Every charger with live status, connector types, power and price. Filters for connector and availability, directions handed to the maps app.
App costs · 6–8 weeks, or 2–4 on Codeks Charge
How much does an EV charging app cost in 2026?
A charging app is a map, a live session and a payment, talking to chargers over OCPP. Built from scratch it is a Product Build at the top of the band, $18K–$25K, six to eight weeks. Deployed on Codeks Charge, the white-label platform built here, it is faster and lands lower.
Typical price
$18K–$25K
Tier
Time
6–8 weeks, or 2–4 on Codeks Charge
Platforms
iOS + Android, web for the operator
Where the number comes from
Most of the cost is below the screen. Chargers speak OCPP 1.6 or 2.0.1 over WebSockets, and the backend has to hold a connection to every unit, start and stop sessions, meter energy, survive reboots and firmware quirks, and stay correct when a charger drops offline mid-session. That central system is the hard part, and it is the same hard part every operator pays for.
The driver app on top is more ordinary: a map with live availability and prices, a station page, reservations so a charger is free on arrival, card payment, and a live session view showing power, time and cost. RapidCharge, built here for Kosovo, does all of that on iOS and Android and is generating revenue, with private chargers on the same network as public ones.
There are two ways to buy this. From scratch, the Product Build band covers the driver apps and an operator dashboard, with OCPP handled by a service rather than written again. Or on Codeks Charge, the multi-tenant platform behind RapidCharge: branded driver apps and an operator dashboard deployed in two to four weeks on your own cloud account, with an OCPP layer that took six months to build already in place.
What the price includes
The scope, as it would be written.
Sessions over OCPP
Start and stop from the app, remote start on the charger, live power and energy readings, and graceful handling when the charger goes offline.
Reservations
Hold a connector for a window, release it on a no-show, and show the hold on the map to everyone else.
Payments
Card on file, a hold at session start, the exact amount at the end, receipts by email. Wallet top-ups if the operator prefers prepay.
Operator dashboard
Chargers, sessions, revenue and faults on the web. Add a charger by its OCPP identity and it appears in the app.
What moves the price
Four things that change the number.
Writing the OCPP backend yourself
The central system is the expensive part and a product on its own. Codeks Charge exists so an operator does not pay for it twice.
Roaming
OCPI connections to other networks so drivers can charge on partner chargers. A standard, a certification and weeks of partner testing.
Hardware variety
OCPP is a standard; firmware is not. Each new charger brand is a day or two of testing against its quirks, which is why hardware-agnostic has to be proven in production, not only on paper.
Fleet features
Company accounts, driver cards, cost centres and monthly invoicing turn a consumer app into a fleet product and add an admin layer.
Built here
RapidCharge
EV charging network app · Live map, booking, payments · iOS + Android
Kosovo's public and private chargers in one app, on both stores and generating revenue.
Questions
What people ask about ev charging app costs.
- What does deploying on Codeks Charge cost instead?
- A deployment is scoped like a Product Build and typically lands lower in the band than a build from scratch, because the OCPP layer, the apps and the dashboard already exist and the work is branding, configuration, your chargers and your payment account. The Codeks Charge page has the details and the two-to-four-week deployment term.
- Which chargers work?
- Any charger that speaks OCPP 1.6 or 2.0.1, which is nearly everything sold in the last few years. New brands are tested before launch; the platform behind RapidCharge has run a mix of vendors in production.
- Can drivers pay without an account?
- Yes, through a guest flow with a card and an email receipt, which several countries now require for public chargers. Accounts remain for reservations, history and saved cards.
- Who owns the platform and the data?
- You do. The apps are published under your developer accounts, the backend runs in your cloud account and the database is yours. On Codeks Charge the platform is deployed to you; sessions and customers never leave your infrastructure.
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