Bliss Applications

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Bliss helps companies build digital products with strong design and technology.

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Company overview

150

employees

2009

founded

Bliss creates user-centered digital products, combining design and technology to deliver simple, useful, and impactful experiences.

Bliss started pretty much like the universe, with a BIG BANG… of curiosity. Sparked by the 2009 launch of the iPhone, our founders, André Gil and Tiago Janela, started a company focused on mobile apps. Born within the WYgroup – where it was founded and nurtured – Bliss grew from a bold, curious, and audacious idea into what we are today. Today, we build so much more than just mobile apps, and we’re global, as for clients and teams. From product managers to software engineers, designers, marketers, and creatives, our offices are in Lisbon, Porto, Copenhagen, and New York. We help our clients give their customers great experiences through high-end digital products worldwide. We’ve launched over 300 digital products in the last decade, with an experienced team of designers, engineers, and creatives who work alongside each client.

Contact details

Business info

Publicly traded: No
Majority shareholders: Institutional Investors

Locations

Bliss Applications HQ - Oeiras, Portugal

Sales Office

Founded2009

Employees170

Av. Marginal Edf. Parque Oceano 2, 4°H, 2780-322 Santo Amaro de Oeiras, Portugal

Bliss Applications - Porto, Portugal

Sales Office

Founded2016

Employees30

UPTEC Baixa Praça Coronel Pacheco 2 – Sala 139 4050-453 Porto

Bliss Applications - New York, United States

Sales Office

Founded2012

Employees1

885 Third Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Bliss Applications - Denmark, Denmark

Sales Office

Founded2024

Employees1

Mølholmvej 11, 7100 Vejle, Denmark

Engagement & delivery mix

Projects & services30%

Commercial modelBoth T&M and Fixed-price

Managed & dedicated teams40%

Staff augmentation30%

Buy-out optionYes, available

Build-Operate-Transfer0%

Projects End-to-end fixed-scope projects, with a specific period of time for the execution of the project. Dedicated Teams Managed directly by the Bliss leadership team, co-located or remote. Deployed Teams (Outsourcing) Embedded within the client's teams.

Language capabilities¹

English

Dedicated client-facing

Biz Dev: 0Mgmt: 6PMs: 15BAs: 5Tech Leads: 6Devs: 60

Service lines

Web Development25%

Mobile App Development25%

UX & UI Design25%

Industries

Technology100%

Technologies

Azure CDNClaudeFlutterKotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM)React NativeReact.jsSwiftVue.js

Vendor partnerships

No vendor partnerships data available.

Case studies

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moey!

We were proud to be involved from the inception with the coolest kid on the block - moey! A Portuguese fintech that is taking the market by storm and transforming the lives of thousands of clients. We helped develop the product strategy, all the UX design, UI and native mobile development, with a team of more than 20 people.

EDP re:dy

Our homes are getting smarter everyday and people want to have more visibility and control over their energy consumption to become smarter, more efficient and behave more responsibly. edp re:dy is an IoT system that allows users to connect to and control their home, their appliances, and other devices with a single app, whenever they want, wherever they are.

Pingo Doce

Pingo Doce is a supermarket chain with 400+ stores in Portugal. They challenged us to design and develop a new app capable of improving their customer experience. This app would work as a digital combination of features like the collaborative creation of shopping lists, access to promotional pamphlets, and the use of the brand’s loyalty card, among others.

Indicative rates

ISO/IEC certifications¹

ISO 27001

Information Security Management Systems

Since 2026

Leadership

André Gil

CEO

Pedro Varela

Head of Sales and Partnerships

António Cancela de Abreu

Head of Product Strategy & Des

António Soares

Head of Product Development C.

Nuno Pereira

Head of Growth and Engineering

Nuno Ribeiro

Head of Engineering & Excellence

Partner insights

How to Execute Effective Design-to-Development Handoffs

Ineffective design handoffs often create ambiguity, delays, and rework in delivery. This guide demonstrates how to structure handoffs using a Figma-based system that centralizes specifications, behaviors, accessibility, and review processes into a single source of truth. It outlines practical templates and documentation approaches that reduce interpretation gaps and improve collaboration between design and engineering teams. Technology leaders should focus on embedding structured knowledge directly into workflows to enable consistent execution and scalable delivery.

Designing Gamification as a Habit System

Gamification creates durable value only when mechanics are tied to a product’s core behavior rather than added as decorative rewards. The article shows how micro-rewards, progression paths, purchase-linked challenges, leaderboards, and social motivation can turn routine actions into repeatable engagement loops across retail and employee wellness. The decision implication is architectural and behavioral: incentives, user data, personalization, and measurement must operate as one system. Product leaders should test whether gamified interactions improve meaningful retention and task completion—not merely short-term activity.

Choosing Mobile Architecture Beyond Native vs Cross-Platform

Mobile architecture choices should be driven by product constraints rather than labels. The article explains how team expertise, existing code, delivery deadlines, budget, product lifespan, integrations, performance expectations, framework maturity, and ecosystem quality shape the choice between native, cross-platform, and hybrid approaches. Practical cases show why React Native can suit rapid delivery, native development can support complex long-term products, and Kotlin Multiplatform can share logic while preserving platform-specific interfaces. Technology leaders should evaluate the trade-off across speed, control, maintainability, and future scalability instead of treating one approach as universally superior.

Event presence

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Bliss Applications

Company overview

Locations

Engagement & delivery mix

Language capabilities1

Service lines

Industries

Technologies

Vendor partnerships

Case studies

Indicative rates

ISO/IEC certifications1

Leadership

Partner insights

Event presence

Social networks

Language capabilities¹

ISO/IEC certifications¹