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Bilt builds a mobile app from a text description, with a live preview on your own phone.
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Seeing a mockup in a browser window only tells you so much about how an app actually feels on a phone. Bilt is an AI mobile app builder with live phone preview specifically, so the app takes shape on the user's actual device as the AI builds it, not a simulated screen.
The process starts with a description, not a blank canvas: text, screenshots, or existing documentation feed into the AI, which then constructs the app while the live preview updates on the user's phone in real time. From there, a developer reviews the result, gives feedback, customizes specific features, and publishes directly to the App Store or Play Store. Templates for common app categories — dashboard, social feed, e-commerce, fitness tracking, messaging, and music player — give a faster starting point than building every screen from a blank description.
Code generation runs on a monthly AI-credit system rather than unlimited generation at every tier: the Free tier includes unlimited app ideation and building, a live phone preview, community support, and a monthly allotment of 3 million AI credits, while paid plans expand that credit allotment and add priority support and additional features on top.
The site frames the opportunity behind building an app with specific market figures — subscription apps earned a large sum industry-wide last year, and about 12% of downloads are stated to convert into paying customers — positioning a realistic goal as reaching a first paying customer within a week of starting. Worth noting directly: those are industry-wide figures, with no guarantee attached for any specific app, and how far 3 million monthly AI credits actually stretches depends heavily on how complex the app being built is, so it's worth tracking credit usage early rather than assuming the free allotment covers an entire project.
No — the entire workflow is designed around describing an app in plain language, screenshots, or documentation, with the AI handling construction rather than requiring the user to write code directly.
Yes — a live preview runs on the user's own phone as the AI constructs the app, rather than only showing a finished result at the end of the process.
The site doesn't detail exactly what happens once the 3 million monthly credit allotment runs out — upgrading to a paid plan expands the credit pool, so anyone building a larger app should track usage and confirm the specifics directly before relying on the free allotment alone.
Yes — publishing integration covers both the App Store and Play Store as part of the standard workflow, rather than requiring a separate manual submission process.
Not necessarily — those cited numbers are industry-wide statistics used to frame the opportunity, not a specific outcome promised for any individual app built on the platform.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 Every designer knows the heartbreak: you sweat every pixel in Figma, hand it off, and what ships back is… a vibe. The spacing drifted. The font's wrong. "We'll fix it later" (you won't). We got tired of it, so we built the Figma import for Bilt. Here's the whole thing: - Open your design in Figma, run the Bilt plugin, hit "Add this file to Bilt." Your frames show up in seconds, thumbnails and all. - Pick the exact screens you want. Anyone on the project can grab them. no Figma account required. - Bilt builds the real app. Not a screenshot, not a guess. Built from your actual design. You open it on your phone and send it straight to the App Store. A few things we're proud of: 1. What you design is what ships. Your spacing, fonts, and colors carry over exactly. No "close enough." 2. It's built from your real file, your layout and your intent — never a blurry screenshot. 3. You own the code. Bilt drops it on GitHub. Change it, build on it, or take it and go. It's yours. 4. Want to change something? Just ask. No re-export, no redlines, no handoff doc nobody reads. Free to start, no credit card. Your design could be running on your phone before this launch wraps up today. We'll be hanging out in the comments all day. Roast us, grill us, throw your gnarliest Figma file at us. What do you want to see Bilt build? 🛠️ Show more
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