Georgia · Agentic mobile development

Mobile App Development for Founders in Georgia

A consumer app for users in the US state of Georgia runs into two state laws that are easy to mix up. The 2024 children's social media act (SB 351) has been preliminarily enjoined since June 26, 2025, and the appeal docket, last updated May 19, 2026, shows no decision. SB 540, on AI companion chatbots, was signed on May 11, 2026 and takes effect on July 1, 2027. One is on hold, the other has a date.

Curiosive is a software studio in Ankara, Türkiye. We build iOS and Android apps with React Native, so one codebase reaches both stores, using AI coding agents for the volume of the work under senior engineer review. Agents draft screens and tests; engineers own token storage, entitlements, permission prompts and the privacy declarations the stores check. Below is what applies to shipping an app for users there.

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Curiosive LLC is our US-registered company. Engineering is led from Ankara, Türkiye, with collaboration across European and US time zones. Your engagement starts with a written scope, monthly capacity and a clear delivery plan.

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Agree scope, capacity and start date before checkout. Work through a prioritized queue, with senior engineers reviewing changes before they reach production.

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Georgia age verification and minors rules for mobile apps

Georgia has one age verification law that is blocked in court and one app age bill that stalled. SB 351 would require covered social media platforms to make commercially reasonable efforts to verify users' ages, get parental consent for minor account holders under 16 and stop showing minors ads based on personal data other than age and location. Judge Amy Totenberg (N.D. Ga.) preliminarily enjoined it on June 26, 2025, before its July 1 effective date, and the state's appeal was argued in the Eleventh Circuit on March 10, 2026. SB 467, which would have required procedures to validate the age of users of any app, never moved past its referral to the Children and Families Committee on February 6, 2026, according to the General Assembly's site. For a social app, keep age and consent logic in a separate module that can be switched on if the injunction is lifted.

Georgia's AI companion chatbot law for apps with a chat persona

SB 540 (Act 518) applies from July 1, 2027 to operators that make AI companion chatbots available to users in Georgia; an app built around an AI friend or character may qualify. The operator must clearly disclose that the user is talking to an AI companion chatbot at the start of each session and at least every three hours, or hourly when it knows or should know the user is a minor or the bot is directed at minors. It must keep a self-harm crisis protocol with 988 Lifeline referrals and publish a plain-language summary, offer control tools to minors and parents on accounts known to belong to minors, and use age assurance before any feature that may generate sexually explicit content. The Attorney General can seek civil penalties of up to $10,000 per knowing violation. The disclosure timer belongs in server-side session state, where a reinstall cannot reset it.

Accessibility rules for Georgia public sector mobile apps

The Georgia Technology Authority's Digital Accessibility Standard SM-19-002 requires digital properties managed by state entities, mobile applications included, to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and state solicitations and contracts for that work must impose the same requirement on vendors. Agencies must audit at least every 36 months, and the standard says errors found should be fixed within nine months. State and local government entities also fall under the federal ADA Title II rule, which requires WCAG 2.1 AA for their websites and mobile apps, including apps a private company runs for them. Under an interim final rule published April 20, 2026, compliance is due April 26, 2027 for public entities with a population of 50,000 or more. In React Native that means labelled controls, focus order and scalable text, checked with VoiceOver and TalkBack.

Georgia's game tax credit for companies shipping mobile games

The state's economic development department names gaming among its tech strengths, and the Entertainment Industry Investment Act (O.C.G.A. § 48-7-40.26) has a credit for it. A qualified interactive entertainment company can earn a 20% income tax credit on at least $250,000 of Georgia base investment, plus another 10% for a qualified Georgia promotion. It needs a business location in the state, at least $250,000 of in-state payroll and under $100 million of gross income. Credits need preapproval and are capped at $12.5 million per year statewide and $1.5 million per company per year. The tests turn on your own location and payroll in the state, so do not assume work bought from a studio abroad counts toward them.

How coding agents and engineers split a React Native app build

Each piece of work starts as a task an engineer scopes, with acceptance criteria and limits the agent stays inside. Claude Code or Cursor then builds screens, navigation, list rendering, form validation, tests and store metadata drafts, and a change is only proposed once type checks, lint and tests pass. Every diff is read by a senior engineer; agents never merge their own work. Engineers keep what can hurt users: token storage in the iOS Keychain and Android Keystore, auth refresh, server-side entitlement checks, offline and reconnection behaviour, permission prompts and the store privacy declarations. We have shipped React Native apps including TrendinChat (trendin.chat) and Coffict (coffict.com). Our Ankara working day ends at 10:00 or 11:00 Georgia time, depending on the season, so most of it is over before yours begins.

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Does Georgia have an age verification law for mobile apps?

Not one in force, as of October 2026. SB 467, which would have required age validation for users of any app, stalled at committee referral in February 2026, and SB 351, aimed at social media platforms, is preliminarily enjoined. Child-directed apps must already meet the amended federal COPPA Rule, whose compliance deadline was April 22, 2026.

Does SB 540 apply to an AI character in my app?

It can, from July 1, 2027, if your app makes an AI companion chatbot available to users in the state. The law then requires recurring disclosures that the user is talking to an AI, a self-harm crisis protocol with 988 Lifeline referrals and tools for minors and parents. Whether a given feature meets the statutory definition is worth confirming with a lawyer before launch.

Does Georgia have a consumer privacy law that covers app user data?

No comprehensive consumer privacy law was in force there as of October 2026, after the House replaced the text of SB 111, the 2025 privacy bill. The stores still require disclosure: an accurate Google Play Data safety form covering every SDK, and an iOS privacy manifest declaring approved reasons for required-reason APIs.

Can a US iPhone app send users to a web checkout instead of in-app purchase?

Yes, on the United States storefront. Apple's App Review Guidelines 3.1.1(a) and 3.1.3 allow buttons and external links to other purchasing methods there with no entitlement needed. Whether Apple may charge a commission on linked-out purchases is still being litigated, so the purchase path should stay configurable per storefront.

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