About
Building an app with AI: the tools, the rules, what actually works.
When we started, building an app without a developer was a gamble. For more than ten years, our job has been helping people with no technical background publish native apps on the App Store and Google Play. We've watched a lot of them launch, get through Apple's review or bounce off it, and then either thrive or quietly fade.
Then AI arrived. Today you describe an idea in one sentence and a prototype appears within minutes. It's a real shift. Yet the questions we hear haven't gone away, they've just moved further down the road: is my app really native? Why did Apple reject it? Who updates it when iOS changes? What will it cost me after a year?
App generators rarely answer those questions, and neither do most comparisons online, because they stop at the prototype. We built createappai.com to cover what comes next: choosing a tool knowing what it actually produces, publishing, then keeping the app alive.
We're not neutral, and we'd rather say so up front: we work at GoodBarber, one of the tools we compare. So we set ourselves rules that apply to it like to every other tool.
How we work
Every comparison starts with its criteria, before any ranking, and every tool goes through the same ones. When a need is better served by Lovable, FlutterFlow or an agency, we say so.
Every figure links to its source, the most direct one we can find: Apple's and Google's rules, the tools' own documentation and pricing. Every table carries the date we checked it, because in this market a three-month-old fact is often already wrong.
And sometimes we get it wrong. When a reader or a vendor flags a mistake, we fix it and date the fix.
Authors
- Muriel Santoni, Marketing Manager at GoodBarber
- Jérôme Granados, CMO and partner at GoodBarber