Rork
Rork is an AI mobile app builder: describe an app in plain English and it generates real native code — SwiftUI for Apple platforms, React Native or Kotlin elsewhere — then publishes it straight to the App Store.
What is Rork?
Rork is an AI app builder published by Rork, Inc., a San Francisco company that describes its product as a platform for building and publishing mobile apps without traditional development. The user types a description of the app in ordinary language and an AI agent produces a real, working application that can be tested on a phone or in a browser within minutes. Two engines sit behind that single chat box. Rork Pro generates cross-platform apps with Expo and React Native, native Android apps in Kotlin and Compose, and web apps. Rork Max generates native SwiftUI for the whole Apple range: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro and iMessage. Max is the more unusual half of the product. Rork keeps a fleet of Macs running around the clock, each loaded with Xcode and the full iOS SDK; when a message is sent, an agent writes SwiftUI, compiles it, reads the compiler errors, fixes them and builds again, and the preview shown in the browser is a genuine iOS Simulator streamed over a low-latency protocol. That architecture reaches capabilities most generators cannot: widgets, Live Activities, Dynamic Island, Siri intents, ARKit, SceneKit, HealthKit, HomeKit and 3D games running natively. Publishing is part of the product rather than an afterthought. App Store submission and TestFlight invitations are built in, Android projects export as an App Bundle for the Play Console, and two free satellite tools support the launch: Screenshot Studio, which generates App Store screenshot decks from a store listing or a GitHub repository, and the AI App Store Reviewer, which runs five reviewers mirroring Apple's five rule sections to catch rejection risks before submission. Around the core sit Rork Backend serverless functions, hosted AI for chat, voice and image generation inside generated apps on paid plans, two-way GitHub sync, collaboration by email or link, and a Restore feature that rolls a project back to any earlier version. An iPhone app, installed from a browser over USB rather than from the App Store, carries the same workflow onto the phone.
What it does
- Turn a plain-English description into a working mobile application
- Build native iOS apps in SwiftUI, compiled with Xcode on Macs in the cloud
- Build cross-platform apps with Expo and React Native, plus native Android in Kotlin and Compose
- Test the result on a real iPhone or in a streamed iOS Simulator
- Submit to the App Store and TestFlight, or export an Android App Bundle for Google Play
- Wire in backend, authentication, payments and AI features through Supabase, Firebase, RevenueCat and OpenAI
- Export the whole project to GitHub and carry on in any IDE
When to use Rork / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Rork is the right fit.
When to use Rork
- Solo founders who want an app on the App Store without hiring a development team
- Indie makers building an MVP or a prototype in days rather than months
- Mobile developers who want a working SwiftUI or React Native codebase to take over in Xcode or their own IDE
- Product and design teams turning Figma screens into a testable application
- Small businesses building internal tools that must run on web, iOS and Android from a single project
When not to use Rork
- Teams that need web hosting, since Rork exports the code but hosts no website
- Anyone on a tight budget who needs native iOS, which starts at 200 USD per month
- Organisations that require a signed data processing agreement, an EU Article 27 representative or a published security certification
- Developers who want to drive the tool through a public API, as Rork exposes none
- Users who expect the support team to debug their generated code, which it explicitly declines to do
How to use Rork
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the Rork home page and describe the app you want in the chat box
- Pick the engine and platform: Expo, native Android or web on Rork Pro, Swift or Web on Rork Max
- Refine by conversation — dictate, attach files, paste Figma frames, annotate a screenshot, or ask for a plan before any code is written
- Preview the build: scan the QR code into Expo Go for a Pro project, or use the streamed iOS Simulator for a Max project
- Install the app on a real iPhone from Chrome or Edge on a Mac, connected with a data USB cable
- Add a backend, authentication, payments or AI features by asking for Supabase, Firebase, RevenueCat or OpenAI
- Switch on Dev mode to edit the underlying code, or connect GitHub for two-way sync
- Run the AI App Store Reviewer, then generate a screenshot deck with Screenshot Studio
- Publish to the App Store and invite testers through TestFlight, using your Apple Developer account
- For Android, export the App Bundle and upload it yourself in the Play Console
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Produces real native code in standard stacks — SwiftUI with Xcode, React Native with Expo, Kotlin with Compose — rather than web wrappers
- Covers the whole chain from prompt to App Store submission, compliance review and screenshots included
- No development experience required: published case studies include teenagers and non-engineers shipping paid apps
- Generated code belongs to the user on paid plans and exports to GitHub in a two-way sync, which limits lock-in
- A permanent free plan exists alongside a free trial of Rork Max on the Free and Pro tiers
- AI mistakes are not charged as credits, and Restore rolls a project back to any earlier version
- Reaches Apple capabilities that generators rarely cover: widgets, Live Activities, Dynamic Island, ARKit, HealthKit and 3D games
Cons
- Native iOS is locked behind the Rork Max tier, which starts at 200 USD per month and climbs to 1,800 USD
- Credits cannot be bought separately: once the monthly allowance is gone, the only options are an upgrade or the reset
- The free plan is narrow and regionally unequal — 35 credits a month in major markets, 5 elsewhere — and keeps projects public
- The pricing page renders in JavaScript and shows no amounts; the site FAQ and the documentation quote different figures for Rork Pro
- No support at all on the free plan: email from 20 USD per month, chat from 100 USD
- The Rork Max iPhone app cannot be installed from the App Store; it needs a Mac, Chrome or Edge and a USB cable, and Windows is unsupported
- No public API, no published data processing agreement, no EU Article 27 representative and no security certification shown on the site
Pricing & Plans
Rork offers a permanent free plan at 0 USD per month, with no card required, limited to web apps, public projects and five credits per day. The cheapest paid entry point is Rork Pro at 20.00 USD per month for 100 credits. Native iOS generation requires Rork Max, from 200.00 USD per month. These amounts are published in the documentation: the pricing page itself renders its figures in JavaScript and displays none in plain HTML.
- web apps only
- public projects
- 5 credits per day capped at 35 credits per month in major markets and 5 elsewhere
- free trial of Rork Max
- no support
- native Android with Kotlin and Compose
- cross-platform Expo and React Native
- web apps
- private projects
- Dev mode
- free trial of Rork Max
- email support
- same scope as the 20 USD tier
- with chat support
- everything in Rork Pro plus native iOS in SwiftUI
- iPad
- Apple Watch and Vision Pro
- native games
- iOS widgets
- priority chat support and the Rork Max iPhone app
- Rork Max — 500 USD per month for 2
- 500 credits
- Rork Max — 900 USD per month for 5
- 000 credits
- Rork Max — 1
- 800 USD per month for 10
- 000 credits
- Custom and Scale plans — on request beyond 10
- 000 credits per month or for enterprise terms
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Rork handles your data.
GDPR overview
The word GDPR appears nowhere on Rork's website — not in the privacy policy of 19 August 2026, not in the terms, not on any other page collected. There is therefore no explicit claim of compliance, and none of non-compliance. The policy nevertheless uses the regulation's own machinery: it names legal bases (contract performance, legitimate interests, consent, legal obligations), lists rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability and consent withdrawal, mentions the right to complain to a data protection authority, and cites adequacy decisions and Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers. Consent runs opt-in where required, is asked again after a year, and Global Privacy Control is honoured. No Article 27 EU representative and no Data Protection Officer are designated, and no data processing agreement is published. Rights requests go to team@rorkai.com. The only region-specific section is devoted to California, not to the European Union.
Who owns the data?
Rork's Terms of Service, last updated on 21 July 2026, state that the user retains all rights to any content, applications or data created or processed with the service, and is solely responsible for holding the rights needed to share it. Rork, Inc. keeps ownership of everything on its own side — AI models, software, interfaces, graphics, designs and code, grouped under the label Rork Content — and grants only a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable licence to use the platform. Generated code can be exported and owned outright on paid plans through the two-way GitHub sync. For personal data, the privacy policy names Rork, Inc. as the controller.
Reuse rights
Users may reuse what they create without asking Rork for permission: the Terms grant the company no licence back over user content, and paid plans allow a whole project to be exported to GitHub and continued in Xcode, Cursor or any other IDE, including commercially — the FAQ confirms professional and business use on every plan. What cannot be reused is Rork itself: modifying, reproducing, distributing, reverse-engineering or creating derivative works from the platform requires written permission. On the personal-data side, projects and prompts are declared not sold and not shared, and are used to generate, host, preview and publish projects. The site never states whether they also feed model training, and offers no exclusion option.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Rork, Inc. is based in the United States and states that it uses providers in the United States and other countries; no more precise hosting location is given, and no data-residency choice is offered. Where a transfer requires it, the company says it relies on recognised safeguards such as adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful mechanism, and invites requests for details. The privacy policy compensates for that vagueness with an unusually complete inventory of named third parties: Supabase for authentication, Stripe for payments, Sentry for error monitoring, Intercom for support, PostHog and Amplitude for analytics, Plausible and Vercel Speed Insights for audience measurement, Cloudflare Stream and YouTube for video, and Google, Meta, Snap, TikTok and Tolt for advertising and affiliate measurement. The security measures listed are access controls, encryption in transit, monitoring and service-provider review, with the usual caveat that no system is completely secure. Note that the domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast address, which says nothing about where the application servers actually run.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Rork.
- The site never says whether prompts and projects are used to train AI models, and offers no exclusion option — a blind spot for anyone typing a proprietary product idea into the chat box
- Apple Developer credentials travel a long way into Rork's systems: the password stays in browser memory, but the Apple email, the authenticated session and a generated App Store Connect key, private key included, are stored encrypted on Rork servers until the account is deleted
- Project data may persist after account closure, according to the privacy policy; deleting it has to be requested explicitly
- Once Marketing consent is given, identifiers and commercial information are shared with Google, Meta, Snap, TikTok and Tolt for advertising measurement
- Building an app without coding knowledge does not remove the duties that come with publishing one: privacy policy, terms, age rating and store compliance stay the publisher's responsibility
- Leaning entirely on an agent to write, compile and fix the code can leave a founder unable to diagnose or maintain the product when the tool gets stuck in an error loop
- The legal and privacy contact address sits on a neighbouring domain, and both addresses published by the site are obfuscated, which makes them harder to verify by eye
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Getting started is trivial: open the site, type a prompt, no installation and no card for the free plan. Testing is slightly more involved — a QR code and Expo Go for a Pro project, a browser installer in Chrome or Edge on a Mac for a Max project, or the free Rork Companion app elsewhere. Installing the Rork Max iPhone app takes about five minutes and needs iOS 18, a Mac, a data USB cable and an Apple Developer account. The real friction is not Rork itself but Apple's and Google's publishing procedures.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind Rork
Fundraising
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Rork.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to know how to code to use Rork?
Are the apps really native, or web pages in a wrapper?
What is the difference between Rork Pro and Rork Max?
Can I publish to the App Store and to Google Play?
Can I get the source code out?
What happens when I run out of credits?
Is there a free plan?
Is the Rork Max iPhone app available on the App Store?
What support is available?
Is there a minimum age?
Should you pick Rork?
Rork occupies an unusual position in the AI app-building market. Most generators stop at a prototype, or at a web app dressed up as a mobile one; Rork goes as far as compiling SwiftUI with Xcode on Macs it runs in the cloud, then submitting the result to the App Store. That end-to-end chain — prompt, generation, on-device testing, compliance review, screenshot deck, submission — is the real differentiator, more than the code generation itself. The evidence on the site is concrete rather than aspirational: named builders with published apps, revenue figures, a Product Hunt Product of the Month for Rork Max, and a Discord community of several thousand founders. Code ownership and two-way GitHub sync mean a project can leave the platform, which limits lock-in. The reservations are mostly commercial. Native iOS sits behind the Rork Max tier at 200 USD a month, and the credit model has no separate top-up, so an intensive month means an upgrade or a wait. The free plan is deliberately narrow and unequal by region. The pricing page itself renders in JavaScript and shows no figures, while the site FAQ and the documentation quote different ranges for Rork Pro — a small but telling inconsistency for a buyer. On governance, the privacy policy is unusually detailed about trackers, retention and California rights, yet the word GDPR never appears, no data processing agreement is offered, no EU Article 27 representative is named, and the site says nothing at all about whether prompts and projects feed model training. For an individual founder that may not matter; for a company putting a product roadmap into a chat box, those silences deserve a direct question to the vendor before committing.
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.
- Opens in a new window.