We build softwarethe worldactually uses.
ZTDEV Studios is a South African software studio. Web platforms, mobile apps, custom software and AI, designed and built in-house for products already serving more than 1.8 million people.
Trusted by teams across South Africa & beyond
Everything you need to ship, under one roof.
From the first sketch to the systems that run in production, one team owns the whole journey. No hand-offs, no finger-pointing.
19 sites we built, all still live.
No mockups and no concepts. Every one of these is in production right now, and you can open it in the next tab.
A process built on no surprises.
Five clear stages, a fixed price and weekly progress you can actually see. You always know where things stand.
Discovery
We pressure-test the idea before a line of code.
A focused workshop to map the problem, the users and the riskiest assumptions. You leave with a clear scope, a fixed price and a plan, no surprises later.
Design
Flows, prototypes and a system you can feel.
We move quickly from sketches to a clickable prototype, validate it with real users, and lock a design system that keeps everything consistent through build.
Build
Shipped in tight, reviewable increments.
You see working software every week, not at the end. Clean code, automated tests, and a staging link you can poke at any time. One team, one point of contact.
Launch
Deployment, hosting and a confident go-live.
We handle infrastructure, domains, analytics and the launch checklist. Performance and security are verified before we flip the switch, not after.
Grow
Support, monitoring and the next iteration.
Software is never “done”. We monitor, fix, and keep improving, with quarterly reviews that tie the roadmap back to your business goals.
We treat every client like family.
50+ partnerships, and most of our work comes back to us. Here’s what it’s like to build with ZTDEV.
ZTDEV didn’t just build what we asked for, they questioned it, improved it, and delivered something better. Two weeks ahead of schedule.Delivered 2 weeks early
Our enquiries went up 150% after launch. The site finally feels like the calibre of work we actually do.+150% qualified leads
They automated a process that used to eat our whole Monday. We’re saving more than 20 hours a week now.20+ hours saved weekly
One team, one point of contact, no finger-pointing. They owned it end to end and the infrastructure costs dropped 40%.−40% infrastructure cost
It felt less like hiring an agency and more like gaining a technical co-founder who happens to ship fast.3x faster delivery
One fixed price. No hourly surprises.
We do not publish a price list, because a real number depends on what you are actually building. Tell us the shape of it and you get a fixed scope, a fixed price and a date, usually within a day.
A short discovery call
Twenty minutes on what you are building, who it is for and what has to be true on launch day.
A fixed scope and price
Written down, itemised, with what is in and what is explicitly out. No hourly billing.
A date we hold to
Agreed up front, with progress you can see every week rather than a silence and a reveal.