15 Mobile Application Ideas for Startups in 2025

Waste removal calendar

The first idea reflects one of our successfully developed and launched mobile application projects. An app for municipal organization from Switzerland which main purpose is to manage household waste removal.

In doing so, waste removal calendar bases on several key features:

• Online waste registration. For different waste types registration and collection data selection.
• Automated reminders. Customizable notifications with flexible settings for reminder data selection.
• Address management. Possibility of inputting several addresses, allowing to manage waste collection of extended families or various commercial properties.

The solution was specially developed for both Android and iOS users with the usage of technologies like Firebase and TYPO3.

We suggest creating an analogue of the Waste Removal Calendar that would cover any other municipal needs and benefit the ecology of a particular region. For example, you can create a mobile recycling scanner that will provide information about the recycling perspectives of products and inform you of the local recycling capabilities.

AI-powered personal tutor

The sphere of education has been demonstrating the highest rates of AI adoption for the past years.

At the beginning of 2025, 92% of students are using AI in some form. In most cases AI tools are used for information research, text reviews, writing and editing.

Startups can benefit from AI’s popularity in education by developing a personalized tutor app, which leverages the capabilities of advanced AI agents.

AI agents, being one of the most up-to-date AI tools, obtain advanced capabilities of planning, reasoning and self-correction.

It means that mobile application empowered with AI agents can become a true digital tutor for both students and learning enthusiasts.

The user can get personalized learning plans on the subject or topic, solve tests or receive recommendations on books, lectures and other materials to study. Furthermore, the user can have a possibility to input their progress data, and the implemented AI agent would correct the studying program.

In other words, such an app may become a rather good replacement for professional but highly paid tutors, while the efficiency of self-learning won’t sufficiently decrease.

Mental health companion

Loneliness and depression have become real problems for the past years, and the situation is getting worse.

The recent research of March 2025 indicates that social changes, technological advancements, COVID-19 pandemic and global economic crisis have led to situation when 24% of individuals aged 15 and older report feeling lonely and depressed for most of the time.

In further perspective, it leads to poor control of emotions, social anxiety, and violation of social norms and laws.

One of the best app ideas would be to create a mobile application that will provide users with mental condition monitoring.

The system can track pulse, heart rate or even neural activity (most of the technologies have been successfully used for years already) and provide intelligent recommendations (proven by professional psychologists and physicians) on how to improve mental condition.

AI-powered legal documents explainer

One more task the mobile app can solve is providing primitive legal assistance.

According to Legal Services Corporation executive summary in 2022, low-income Americans couldn’t get enough legal help for 92% of their legal problems (consumer and healthcare issues, housing and income maintenance).The solution may be in an advanced screening tool with capabilities of data summarization and explanation.

Silk Data successfully developed a solution regarding intelligent news articles screening and analysis based on the usage of ML and NLP technologies.

The same technology can be used in mobile documents explainer, and the solution would obtain the following features:

• Information extraction. Text clustering. The app could cluster semantically similar documents, decreasing the time spent on analysis.
• Text clustering. The app could cluster semantically similar documents, decreasing the time spent on analysis.
• Advanced summarization. The implemented NLP technology can summarize documents of several thousand words, turning them into a few hundred-word papers.

In addition, the mobile application can give both small links to legal terms and long comprehensive explanations of documents’ main ideas.

AI travel planner

Next idea refers to tourism and the related application can provide a sufficient aid for tips planning. The usage of AI technologies can ensure the creation of personalized travel tours and guides.

For example, the application can analyze online resources with the best hotel and transfer offerings, or it can recommend professional guides searching through Internet reviews.

The app can also search through the Internet for information about nature, tourism attractions and infrastructure along with entertainment capabilities of particular areas.

The information found can be analyzed, summarized and compounded into an extended tourism guideline with a list of recommendations regarding the cuisine, accommodation and places to visit.

AI-powered resume optimizer

A good app idea for the customers who plan to change their job position, have troubles with job seeking or just want to keep their CV relevant and efficient.

Silk Data developed a solution that provided sufficient aid for recruiters. Our CV screening software cut resume screening time and hiring costs in 50% and increased the efficiency of recruiting by 40% through the following features:

• Resume conversion. The tool structures the unstructured candidate CVs, converting them in a format which is convenient for processing.
• CVs and descriptions comparison. The implemented AI engine compares the candidates' profiles with positions’ descriptions, highlighting the most relevant of them for recruiters.
• Interview questions generation. The AI system creates custom interview questions saving the time recruiters spend on candidate interviews preparations.

Startups can go further by adding smart recommendations. One of the implementation ways is to make the user input their CVs in a form of scan (made by an app itself) or document file along with additional info about their current professional status.

The system can analyze these inputs and provide recommendations on how to optimize their resumes.

Neighborhood security watch

This idea reflects the common practice of the United States urban local communities to self-organize for the security purposes.

For many years ‘neighbor watch’ has been a prominent example of the United States community's self-organization, and startups can benefit from this practice reinforcing it with technology.

For instance, they can create mobile applications that will leverage data encryption technology for sending security alerts.

Encryption will allow users to notify their neighbors of possible dangers without revealing their personal data. As a result, the community’s security can be taken to the next level.

App for wearables

One of the easiest and best app ideas for startups to create.

According to April 2025 Digital report by Data Reportal, 27% of people 16+ years old own smartwatch and 13% own smart wristbands.

Source: https://datareportal.com/

In most cases these wearables are used for owners’ physical condition tracking and for payment operations.

For example, Silk Data developed a mobile app solution aimed to optimize personal finances management in combination with digital wearables. SwatchPAY! – is a mobile application developed for Swiss watch producing company that launched their own line of smart watches.

The app allows to manage user’s bank cards, linking and relinking them, tracking their transaction history and providing comprehensive info about all the payments processed.

Online video streaming app

The ever-increasing popularity of TikTok makes more and more smaller and larger companies think about obtaining their own video services.

The Data Reportal April 2025 report indicates that 94% of Internet users watch any kind of online video at least once a week, while 28% of them watch video livestreams.

Source: https://datareportal.com/

Through that, startups certainly can get to development of online video streaming applications for mobile phones. However, they should keep in mind that now it’s hard to challenge Tik Tok and YouTube on video platforms market, so, it’s better to present special features that will make it stand out.

Streaming music app

From video we go to music, and the same report from Data Reportal highlights that 76% of Internet users aged 16+ listen to music streaming services each week.

Source: https://datareportal.com/

Through that, a startup can develop their own analogue of Spotify, but with sufficient improvements.

One of the best options would be to leverage the capabilities of AI avatars in your music mobile application. For example, you can implement AI-powered avatars that look like real music stars and producers to guide the user through the app or provide composition recommendation lists.

AR-based shopping app

Among all industries of the digital world, AR and VR are the best at challenging artificial intelligence on its road to absolute dominance.

At the beginning of 2025, the VR and AR market size reached 84 billion USD , while in five years only the number will be 360 billion USD with an annual growth rate of 34% ( Business Research Company ).

Source: Business Research Company

According to the same report, the industries with the widest usage of virtual and artificial reality technologies are education, gaming, healthcare and defense, while we offer to leverage their capabilities in retail and e-commerce.

A good example is IKEA and their IKEA Palace mobile application. It is an app that uses a combination of AI and AR that visualizes how the piece of furniture will look in a certain surrounding.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UudV1VdFtuQ

Startups can share the IKEA mobile app idea, adding AR technology into furniture, clothes and decoration spheres of the retail industry.

For example, users would be able to ‘try on’ certain pieces of clothes before ordering them online or they could see how the piece of decoration fits the room.

AI avatar for fitness

One more idea of using advanced capabilities of AI-based avatars is to create a fitness mobile app with a personal ‘coach’.

Comprehensive research indicates that at the end of 2024 more than 23% of adult Internet users apply to fitness and health websites.

Source: https://datareportal.com/

Through that, owning their own fitness app would be a good idea for startups in case of reinforcing it with AI technologies and AI avatars in particular.

The implementation of AI-based avatar can lead to the appearance of a personal digital coach able to provide sufficient aid for users. For example, advanced features of reasoning and self-correction will allow to create personalized fitness programs divided into days, weeks and months. These programs can be automatically edited by the AI avatar itself, according to user progress and current physical condition.

Personal chef

Speaking about health and AI-powered avatars, one more sphere of their application is people’s nutrition, which in many cases plays the same or even more crucial role in health compared to physical activity.

The mobile application aimed to help users control their eating habits should obtain a few fine-tuned features. It can be building a daily and weekly ratio according to user’s preferences, allergies and health recommendations or providing several options of dishes to cook for meals throughout the day.

The same reasoning capabilities of AI avatars can be used for explaining the necessity of eating or avoiding particular food or ways of cooking.

AI-powered writing assistant

One of the most popular tasks for generative AI tools to perform is working with texts. There are hundreds of tools aimed to help users with writing, rewriting, proof-reading editing, and summarizing texts.

However, as we discovered in one of our previous blogposts dedicated to overview of the most popular LLMs, most of the chatbots face difficulties dealing with complicated narration lines and versatile plot changes.

Being a startup, you still have an opportunity of creating an AI-powered writing assistant that will not only generate text, aligning it with the user’s prompts, but also provide smart recommendations and multiple variants of writing, basing on successful examples.

Additionally, the application can automatically provide traits on how to improve the text semantically , syntactically and stylistically or even translate them from one language to another.

Video editing app

The last mobile app idea we’d like to present is a video editor. Working with video has never been so easy thanks to the great variety of tools that can be used both in professional spheres (movies, advertisements, etc.) and amateur format (for example, for social media posting). This is a direct signal for the startups to create a convenient and efficient tool got the above-mentioned purposes.

These days more and more video editing apps and programs appear to leverage artificial intelligence to reinforce their functions.

For example, Wondershare Filmora boasts AI features for creating video artwork, generating music, and automatically slicing videos into a given musical rhythm, making this app desirable for Tik Tok, Instagram or other platforms professional content makers.

No matter the industry you work in, the business goals you have or the solution type you seek, mobile app development is a multi-stage sophisticated process. Through that, it is always better (and cheaper) to be delegated to a company of skillful and experienced professionals .

Silk Data has mastered the mobile development, leveraging years of experience in each project. From the point of business needs we offer various mobile development solutions.

Native mobile apps development

Using the most up-to-date technologies (like Kotlin and Swift) and vast expertise of our developers we provide functional, highly efficient and functional solutions for both Android and iOS.

Cross-platform mobile development

Our expertise in usage of cross-platform development frameworks (like Flutter) means that businesses easily reach wider customer audiences, obtaining mobile apps that run equally smoothly and efficiently on multiple devices and OSs without the necessity of writing code for particular platform.

Hybrid mobile apps development

Using well-known web technologies like HTML, CSS and JavaScript, we can provide solutions with the widest platform compatibility and ease of maintenance.

AI-based mobile applications development

Our AI development services provide a great variety of AI-based solutions available on mobile devices. Whether you’re looking for an NLP-based tool, application with advanced predictive analytics features or need integration of ChatGPT capabilities , we can bring it to life.

Mobile development consulting

In case you’re still unable to decide on the best technology or development approach, Silk Data can help you find the best option. Our developers and managers will do their best to find a solution aligning with your needs and resources.

In addition, we work on a full development cycle, from requirements analysis to production (and even further, if required), but you always can ask for assistance on any stage of the process from UX design to quality assurance.