10+
Years building iOS apps
1
Founder Exit
100,000+
Downloads from apps built
Mighty Apps is a San Diego-based mobile app development studio focused on building polished iOS apps, digital products, and startup ideas.
What We Build
Mighty Apps helps turn early ideas, startup concepts, and digital products into real mobile experiences.
The studio focuses on:
- iOS app development
- MVP development
- Mobile product strategy
- App redesigns and improvements
- App Store launch support
- Founder-led product guidance
Built from Real App Experience
Mighty Apps was built from years of hands-on experience launching real apps, testing ideas, growing communities, and learning what makes mobile products useful.
Projects connected to Mighty Apps include ShredSpots, a skateboarding discovery app that grew to over 100,000 downloads and was acquired in 2021, along with WhattaEat, ShredCam, Big Pixel Run, and End All Zombies.
Founder & Lead iOS Developer
Mighty Apps is led by Luis Calvillo, the founder of Mighty Apps and an experienced iOS developer based in San Diego.
Luis has spent over a decade designing, building, launching, and improving apps. His background includes product design, iOS development, startup building, community growth, and app strategy.
The studio was founded by Luis Calvillo, an iOS developer and founder with over a decade of experience designing, building, launching, and growing mobile apps.
Mighty Apps brings a founder’s mindset to app development: focusing not just on how an app looks, but how it works, why people use it, and how it can grow over time.
Our Approach
Mighty Apps believes great apps are not just built around features. They are built around clear problems, simple user experiences, and reasons for people to come back.
Every project is approached with product clarity, clean design, strong technical execution, and long-term usefulness in mind.
App Canvas
Luis is also the creator of the App Canvas, a practical framework that helps founders turn app ideas into clearer, more focused products people actually open and use.
The App Canvas reflects the way Mighty Apps thinks about mobile products: start with the user, clarify the problem, build for retention, and make the first experience matter.
Start Your App Project
Have an app idea or mobile product you want to build?