Rork App earns praise for rapid MVP building, elegant UX, and time‑saving asset/icon generation. Users highlight a surprisingly smooth creation flow, self‑healing error prompts, and a productive iPad experience for tweaking and testing. However, several reviewers report app crashes, black screens, slower load times than Expo, and persistent errors that stall progress. The most common friction is publishing to the App Store and slow or absent support responses. Overall sentiment: powerful and promising for fast prototyping, but reliability, advanced feature coverage, and deployment support need tightening.
Rork
Hey Product Hunters 🫶
I'm excited to introduce Rork Max, the best AI agent that builds and publishes real Swift iOS apps right from your browser. No Xcode required.
Every app you love on your iPhone was built with Swift. It's faster, smoother, and unlocks everything iOS has to offer: Widgets, Siri, HealthKit, AR, 3D games, Vision, and on-device AI. Until now, building with Swift meant installing 30GB of Xcode, wrestling with certificates, TestFlight, and paying $120 just to test on your phone.
Rork Max just solved all of that.
Powered by Claude Code and Opus 4.6, it's the most powerful AI agent for IOS mobile apps. Watch it build a Pokémon Go AR game that can be published to the App Store in hours!
What you get:
• Truly native Swift apps that feel premium, not vibecoded
• Test on your iPhone with the Rork Companion app, no Xcode or Apple Dev account needed
• Share with friends and testers by email, no TestFlight setup
• Publish to App Store in 2 clicks
• Build for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and more
We started Rork because we were building mobile apps since 17yo, but had to spend months and years to learn how to develop them. We built successful apps that reached 2M users and #2 on the App Store, which helped us to immigrate from Eastern Europe and start living the American dream, so now we want to help you do the same.
We built the tool we wish we had 10 years ago. Rork Max is the app we dreamed about as kids.
Try Rork Max at rork.com with 50% off promo RORKMAX (only for Hunters!)
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@daniel_dhawan Cool stuff! 👀
@daniel_dhawan hey the promotion for the max is not working.
@daniel_dhawan I love the original Rork app builder and I have built many apps over the last 10 months (early user) and I just tried Rork Max last night and WOW! You keep pushing the envelope to allow for quick creation of fully functioning, complex apps without the full stack programming background. This has opened the door for creators and serial entrepreneurs like me to be able to solve gaps in current app libraries. My problem is that I am addicted and every app solution I think of, I end up dropping a prompt into Rork and I have 100 irons in the fire - it would be nice to have a partner plan or one-time unlimited plan for us early adopters - maybe add a revenue share with Rork for all apps uploaded to the App Store so that Rork and the creator have goal congruence.
Product Hunt
@curiouskitty Great question! Rork handles code signing, certificates, provisioning profiles, entitlements, and capabilities syncing automatically so no Xcode needed at all.
What still requires Apple: you need a $99/year Apple Developer Account to publish (this is Apple's requirement, no one can bypass it), you'll need to approve a 2FA code on first publish and when sessions expire, and for the final App Store listing (screenshots, description, submitting for review) you still use App Store Connect. Apple's review process takes 1-3 business days.
For testing on your physical device, you don't even need the $99 account. A free Apple ID works via our Companion app.
So essentially: Apple Developer Account + App Store Connect for the final listing. Everything else is handled by Rork 🫶
Emma: AI Food Scanner
I first started using Rork about 6 months ago for an internal app for my small business and in about 2 days we had a working one that we still use to this day. Tried Rork Max today and the jump in quality is unbelievable. The native Swift apps feel so much better than the React Native ones. The publish flow actually works now. You guys have come so far. Congrats on this milestone.
@xanderiang Wow this is amazing to hear Alexander, thank you!
The fact that you built a working internal app in 2 days and are still using it 6 months later is exactly what we're building for. And yes the jump from React Native to native Swift is massive..the apps just feel right. Thanks for being an early believer and congrats on your app too! 🫶 Happy to connect :))
Lovon AI therapy
We built an AI therapy app so we know the iOS pain — what you guys did is legendary, congrats on the launch! Quick question does Max handle HealthKit permissions and sensitive data properly out of the box?
@thxgrey Yes! HealthKit works out of the box with Rork Max. It handles the entitlement (com.apple.developer.healthkit) and the required Info.plist permission strings (NSHealthShareUsageDescription, NSHealthUpdateUsageDescription) automatically. All health data stays on-device through Apple’s native HealthKit APIs exactly as Apple intended. Building an AI therapy app sounds like the perfect use case for this. Would love to see what you’d create with Max 🙌
Emma: AI Food Scanner
Congrats on the launch! I noticed the apps coming out of Rork look way more polished than what I’ve seen from other AI builders. Is that a SwiftUI thing or do you have some secret sauce for the design quality?
@valeriiavramenko Thank you Valeriia! The reason why Rork apps look more polish than from other AI builders is both — SwiftUI gives you native Apple components that automatically look premium (spacing, typography, animations), plus our AI follows Apple Human Interface Guidelines by default. Coming from an AI food scanner you probably know how much native camera performance matters too. Are you using on-device Vision for the food recognition?
Lovon AI therapy
@ponikarovskii Thank you Anton! Haha no, we actually think the opposite will happen. Right now most people with app ideas never build them because the barrier is too high. Rork lowers that barrier so MORE apps get built, which means more opportunities for designers, marketers, and developers who can take those apps further. It's not about replacing jobs, it's about unlocking ideas that were stuck in people's heads 🫶
Agnes AI
Most vibe coding tools create more toys while Rork provides ways from concept to a real app business! Has it been connected to any payment getway yet?
@cruise_chen love that framing! <3 For payments, since Rork Max builds native Swift apps, you get full access to StoreKit for in-app purchases and subscriptions, which is Apple's native payment system and the standard for monetizing iOS apps. You can also integrate RevenueCat for easier subscription management. So yes, monetization is fully supported out of the box