Thunkable builds native iOS and Android apps through conversational prompting: an AI Builder generates a functional starting app from a description, a Discuss Mode helps plan features and troubleshoot issues while guiding a user through resulting code changes, and a hybrid code editor lets users combine AI generation with direct manual edits. Built-in image generation (with Unsplash integration), version history with instant reversion, and direct publishing to the Apple App Store and Google Play round out the platform.
Genuine no-code-to-real-app publishing – not just a prototype or a web-based demo, but actual submission to the Apple App Store and Google Play – is the real bar this clears for non-developers: a lot of “build an app with AI” tools stop at something that runs in a sandbox, and getting all the way to a published, installable app is a meaningfully higher and more useful standard. Discuss Mode guiding a user through the reasoning behind code changes, rather than just applying them silently, also supports actually learning from the process, not just getting an opaque result.
AI-generated app logic, like AI-generated code in any context, benefits from real testing before publishing to production app stores where real users will download it – version history and instant reversion help manage that iteration safely. Specific pricing wasn’t clearly shown on the homepage checked beyond promotional discount references.
