Bilt.me - Figma - Get a real mobile app from your Figma design
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You designed the whole thing in Figma. Then you had to hire someone to rebuild it by hand, pixel by pixel, and it came out "close enough." Not anymore. Drop your Figma frames into Bilt and they become a real app for iPhone. Your spacing, your fonts, your colors, exactly. You even own the code.
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The "you own the code + ship straight to the App Store" part is the real hook for me. Having just been through Apple's review a couple times, I'm curious how the generated apps hold up against it — do they clear the 4.3 spam/template checks out of the box, or do you still need to add enough real native substance yourself before submitting?
Not to be a buzzkill, but how many designers are still building full apps in Figma anymore? I can see it being more common on design teams working on established products, but they would have a dev team building the real app, so only prototyping would be valuable. Does this make dev handoffs easier if I have a pixel-perfect prototype so devs can actually transfer the exact styles and components into their code?
When I give LLMs my designs, I attach screenshots but also directly link to the Figma artboard, ideally with an MCP server. I don't design every screen though - just the base designs and AI can usually handle the rest, which is an essential part of the process of actually testing what I've designed so far and getting feedback before designing more screens. I definitely see the value in this for getting pixel-perfect designs the first time with LLMs, but maybe I'm hung up on it being framed as a tool that takes your end-to-end Figma design and publishes it fully rather than it just being a really good design-to-code prototyping tool.
I'll give it a shot though in case I'm missing something!