The best AI tools to create a mobile app in 2026

The best AI tool to create a mobile app depends first on what you want to end up with. To test an idea, a web generator like Lovable or Bolt is enough. For an app published on the stores, you need a tool that produces a real mobile app and helps you ship it; not all of them do.

How we compared

We picked fifteen tools and looked at, in this order:

1. What the tool produces: web app, web view, React Native, Flutter or native.
2. Publishing: the tool builds and uploads to the stores, guides you, or you do everything.
3. The code: can you export it and sync it with GitHub.
4. The entry price to publish, billed yearly when the vendor offers it, keeping in mind that most AI tools also bill by usage, in credits.

Everything was checked on November 12, 2026, against the vendors’ documentation and pricing pages.

The table

Tool	What it produces	Publishes to the stores	Exportable code	Entry price	Best for
Lovable	Web app	No	Yes (ZIP, GitHub)	$21/month ($252/year), 100 credits	Testing an idea on the web
Bolt	Web app, or React Native with Expo	By yourself, with Expo	Yes (GitHub)	$18/month ($216/year)	Developers ready to publish themselves
Base44	Web app in a web view	Files prepared, you submit	Yes (GitHub)	$40/month ($480/year)	Internal tools and simple apps
Replit	React Native with Expo	iOS only	Yes (GitHub)	$18/month	Developers, iPhone first
Rork	Native (SwiftUI, Kotlin)	iOS up to submission; Android: .aab file you upload yourself	Yes (GitHub)	$20/month, no yearly price shown	A native iPhone app generated by AI
Vibecode	Swift, or React Native	iOS up to submission (Swift)	Pro plan only	$16.67/month ($200/year)	A native iPhone app generated by AI
Anything	React Native with Expo	iOS; Google Play in beta	Yes (Pro)	$19/month	Fast mobile prototypes
Newly (formerly Natively)	React Native with Expo	iOS (TestFlight) and Google Play	Yes (ZIP, GitHub)	$20/month ($240/year)	Both stores from an AI generator
a0.dev	React Native	iOS	Yes (Pro)	$20/month, no yearly price shown	iPhone prototypes
Draftbit	React Native with Expo	Builds and uploads iOS and Android	Yes (ZIP, GitHub)	$12/month ($144/year)	Both stores on a small budget
FlutterFlow	Flutter	One-click deployment	Yes from the Basic plan	$29/month ($351/year)	Teams that want Flutter code
Adalo	Native	Builds and guided submission	Full code on Business only	$52/month ($624/year), 2 apps	Simple no-code apps
Thunkable	Native	One-click publishing	No	$37/month, 1 published app	Beginners, simple apps
Glide	PWA	No	No	$25/month, no yearly plan yet	Data-driven web apps
GoodBarber	Native (Apple’s and Google’s technologies) and PWA	Supported publishing, or handled by the GoodBarber Takes Care service	No	$30/month ($360/year) for the web version; $55/month ($660/year) with the iOS and Android apps	Content and commerce apps built to last

All prices are in US dollars. They are monthly, billed yearly when the vendor offers it; the yearly total is in brackets when shown. Entry plans include a limited number of credits or published apps: check before you choose.

Our picks by project

To test an idea quickly

Lovable or Bolt. You get a usable version in minutes. Keep in mind that Lovable doesn’t go to the stores, and Bolt leaves publishing to you.

For an AI-generated iPhone app, all the way to the App Store

Rork or Vibecode. They produce native Swift and go as far as submitting to Apple. Check the included credits: Rork’s entry plan is presented as suited to simple apps and prototypes.

For both stores, with a tool that builds and uploads for you

Newly if you want to stay in an AI generator, Draftbit if you’re fine building screen by screen. Both cover iOS and Android.

For an app that must last without a developer

A native no-code tool that handles builds and updates: FlutterFlow, Adalo, Thunkable or GoodBarber. At GoodBarber, the publishing team can also, as an option, submit the app on your developer accounts and handle the fixes if Apple or Google rejects it (GoodBarber Takes Care service). On the other hand, the source code can’t be exported: if that matters to you, look at FlutterFlow.

What AI doesn’t do for you yet

Whatever the tool, three things remain yours: opening your developer accounts, writing an honest store listing, and passing Apple’s review. Our guides on how to publish an AI-built app and why Apple rejects some apps walk through those steps.

AI also won’t give your app a look of its own. Mathieu Poli, Head of Frontend at GoodBarber, measured it on the AI models themselves, not on the tools in this comparison: across 12 app briefs and 7 models, a “hero image then cards” home won in 65 to 69% of designs. Asking the models to avoid clichés only led them to new ones. Whatever the tool, the design choices that set your app apart are yours to make.