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Lovable for iPhone apps. From idea to App Store
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Lovable for iPhone apps. From idea to App Store
386 followers
X1 is an AI app builder that takes you from an idea to an iPhone app you can publish on the App Store. Instead of trying to generate the entire app from one prompt, X1 guides you step by step. It asks focused questions, designs each screen for you to review and edit, then builds the app in stages. Preview and test it on your iPhone as you go. When it’s ready, X1 prepares your App Store listing, screenshots, and submission. No coding required.
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Been burned before by builders that forget context after a few edits. If X1 actually solves that, it's a real differentiator.
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@ristan_nakko Yeah, I had the exact same experience and it was infuriating because you could taste how close you were.
The app would be 80% there, then a few edits later the model would forget why something was built a certain way and start breaking other parts.
We’re definitely not perfect yet, but that’s really the mission with X1: keep enough context and structure around the product that every new change builds on what came before instead of slowly undoing it.
Congrats @manil_lakabi1 How's it different from Rork in practice? Both promise real iOS apps without code.
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@boyuan_deng1 Yeah, surface level the promise is similar. The biggest difference is how X1 thinks about building the app.
We try to emulate how a strong product team actually works: figure out what should happen, make the product decisions, design the screens, build that piece, test it, then move on.
AI accelerates each of those steps instead of pretending they can disappear.
So rather than “describe your whole app and hope the model gets it right,” X1 works through it with you piece by piece and keeps those decisions connected as the product evolves.
That’s really the bet: AI should compress the product development process, not remove it.
I like that you are asking for brutal feedback! what kind of feedback has surprised you most during development?
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@james_carter35 Well there hasn't been much pushback on this new way of building an AI builder, most people are genuinely intrigued by the more controlled approach.
But honestly, during early development the thing that surprised me most was how much people pivot mid build. I kind of assumed folks would come in with a fixed idea and follow it through, but what actually happens is they get a few milestones in, see it running on their phone, and go "actually, no, let me change this core thing." and at one point it was frustrating to see people start with building an e-commerce system and pivot to a live streaming app for some reason (it still triggers a form of PTSD when I remember dealing with that lol) At first that felt like worst case.
But it's really a byproduct of the thing X1 is actually built around, which is keeping all the context of your app present without it eating up or plaguing your future decisions. Once that context holds, a pivot stops being scary, because changing one core thing updates what depends on it instead of quietly breaking the rest of the app. So it reframed how much that foundation matters.
could X1 take an existing app idea and help redesign the entire user experience from scratch?
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@croft_benjamin
yep for sure, X1 actually starts with an idea phase built specifically for this. It's made to talk through the core workflows and the important decisions behind your idea before anything gets designed. It asks you questions and you can have a real back and forth on any of the requirements, so you're mapping out the user experience together instead of X1 just guessing or taking the idea at face value.
By the time it moves into designing screens, the whole flow is already thought through with you. also since it keeps the decisions behind your app connected, reworking one part updates the stuff that depends on it instead of leaving you with a half redesigned app. All of it actually holds together as you change things.
Could i describe an app in plain English and have X1 turn that into a complete screen by screen product plan?
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@carter_garcia yep, that's basically the starting point. You describe the app in plain English and X1 turns it into a full plan for the whole product. Rather than a screen by screen plan, a better way to describe it would be a milestone by milestone plan.
It'll ask you a few focused questions along the way to catch anything ambiguous, then you get a plan you can actually review and tweak before a single screen gets built, so you're never guessing what it's about to make. Once you're happy with what your breakdown looks like, then you can start building out each screen or milestone.
And if you want to pivot, you can update the plan anytime and X1 regenerates the breakdown for you, keeping what's still needed and reordering things around your change instead of starting over.
Congrats! Can users export the generated app and continue development outside X1?
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@indigo_carpiniello Not yet, but it's coming and not too far out. The flow today is idea to App Store fully inside X1, building, testing on your iPhone and publishing through your own Apple Developer account. Export is a feature we're actively working towards. The tricky part is doing it properly, since a real app is more than the code, it's your schemas and data too, any designs or PRDs as well, and we want an export that actually hands you something complete rather than half the picture. More on that soon.
Does X1 support native iOS features like notifications, camera access, location, or Apple Sign In?
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@avery_thompson2 Push notifications, camera, location and Apple Sign In are all supported. X1 sets up the permissions and wiring as part of building the feature, so you don't deal with any of the plumbing, and Apple Sign In especially is baked in since it's core to most apps.
The main things we don't do yet are home screen widgets and standalone Apple Watch / watchOS apps, so if your idea leans hard on those it's worth knowing up front. For the core native stuff though you're covered.