— The difference

When “AI app builder” quietly became “AI website builder.”

Most tools in this category produce a React app behind a public URL and let you call it an “app.” That works until you try to put it on a phone.

— What others build

A website with a logo.

my-cool-app.vercel.app

import { useState } from 'react'
// The "iOS app" output
export default function App() {
return <div className="min-h-screen">...</div>
}

✕Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin
✕Xcode / Android Studio projects
✕TestFlight & Play Console
✕App Store submission
✕On the home screen

— What LingCode builds

An app you can ship.

MyApp.xcodeproj — LingCode

import SwiftUI
// LingCode output — real Swift
struct ContentView: View {
  var body: some View {
    NavigationStack { ... }
  }
}

✓Swift, SwiftUI & Kotlin — hand-written-quality
✓Xcode & Android Studio projects, ready to open
✓One-click TestFlight & Play Store deploy
✓App Store submission, no rework
✓An actual icon on your home screen

— Three surfaces, one engine

Build where you already work.

Web for vibes, terminal for power, IDE for control. Same LingCode engine. Same native output. Switch any time.

Prompt to App Store, from a browser.

For founders, designers, and product folks who don't want to install anything. Type a prompt, watch your app build in real time, share a link, scan a QR code to install it on your phone.

→No install. Open lingcode.dev/try and start prompting.
→Live preview. Pair-program with multiple agents on the same prompt.
→Real-time collab — invite teammates, comment on elements, edit together.
→One-click TestFlight & Play Store push from the browser.

Open lingcode.dev/try →

lingcode.dev/try/run-tracker

› new project · 14:23:07
build me a running app that tracks pace
and shows a route map. social feed too.

⚡ LingCode is thinking...
✓ Created RunTracker.xcodeproj
✓ Wrote MapView.swift
✓ Wrote PaceTracker.swift
✓ Wrote SocialFeedView.swift
✓ Added CoreLocation entitlement
✓ Simulator running on iPhone 15 Pro

Ready in 47 seconds.
add a friends leaderboard

The terminal-native AI agent.

For engineers who live in zsh and want LingCode to behave like a senior iOS or Android dev on Slack. Pair-program from your terminal, against your real Xcode or Gradle project.

→One-line install. Authenticates with your GitHub.
→Reads your existing project — no migration, no lock-in.
→Edits files in place. Shows diffs. You approve.
→Runs tests, fixes build errors, opens PRs.

curl -fsSL lingcode.dev/install | sh

~/projects/runtracker — zsh

$ lingcode
LingCode v0.8 · connected to project RunTracker

› add haptic feedback when a user beats their pace record

Reading PaceTracker.swift...
Reading HapticManager.swift... (not found, will create)

┌─ Edit ──────────────────
│ + import CoreHaptics
│ + if currentPace < bestPace {
│ + HapticManager.success()
│ + }
└──────────────────────────

Apply? [Y/n]

An IDE built for shipping, not vibing.

If you've outgrown Cursor for iOS or Android work, the LingCode Mac IDE has the same chat-driven flow — but understands Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Storyboard, .xcassets, and Gradle the way they actually work.

→Built-in iPhone Simulator & Android Emulator. Live reload on save.
→One app for iOS + macOS + Android + databases + deploy.
→Inline chat that reads your whole project. Diffs you approve.
→Push to TestFlight or Play Store from the menu bar.

Download for Mac — free →

LingCode — RunTracker

import SwiftUI
import MapKit

struct ContentView: View {
  @StateObject var tracker = PaceTracker()
  @State var isRunning = false

  var body: some View {
    NavigationStack {
      VStack(spacing: 24) {
        MapView(route: tracker.route)
        PaceView(pace: tracker.pace)
      }
    }
  }
}

add a start/stop button at the bottom

I'll add a Button below the PaceView, wired to toggle isRunning and start the tracker. Applying now…

make it bigger and red when running

Done — .frame(height: 64) and a conditional .background.

— How it works

Prompt to App Store in three steps.

Describe the app.

In plain English. “A meditation app with a streak system and a daily push at 7am.” LingCode asks clarifying questions if it needs to.

LingCode writes the code.

A real Xcode or Android project. Real .swift and .kt files. Real entitlements. Open it, read it, run it, change it by hand.

Ship to TestFlight.

One click pushes a build to TestFlight or the Play Store. Share with beta users. Submit for review when you're ready.

— See it move

Workflows, not feature lists.

A daily flow end-to-end. Open a project, edit with AI, ship a build.

LingCode in 30 seconds

The whole flow — prompt, native code, simulator, ship.

Try it in your browser

Pair multiple agents on the same prompt at /try.

The agent reads your whole IDE

Build status, console, file, git, credentials — and acts.

Quick overview

Two minutes to see what native AI coding looks like.

Magic Deploy

Paste a token; LingCode handles TestFlight, Play Store, and the web.

Magic Install

Detects npm, pip, Cargo, CocoaPods, and 20+ other package managers. One click installs.

Magic Push

Stage, AI-written commit message, push — straight from the git panel.

— Under the hood

An inference layer that
actually saves you money.

Most AI builders pipe every token through GPT-4 or Claude and pass the bill to you. LingCode routes through an inference layer that fans out across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and open-weight models — DeepSeek, Kimi, Gemma — and picks the cheapest one that meets quality.

The result: up to 10× lower cost per build, with quality benchmarked against Claude Sonnet on every release.

10×

Lower cost vs. closed-model competitors

Median time from prompt to first running build

Models routed in production

Your prompt

"Add a leaderboard"

↓

LingCode inference router

Task type · context size · quality target

↓

Claude 4.7

hardest tasks

Codex

refactor passes

Gemini CLI

long context

DeepSeek-V3

codegen · cheap

↓

Swift / Kotlin output

+ Xcode / Gradle project + build

— AI safety, the practical kind

AI edits that can't wreck your project.

The IDE keeps the receipts. Every edit is captured, diffed, and rewindable — so the agent can be aggressive without you losing sleep.

◰

Pre-edit snapshots.

Before the agent touches project.pbxproj, Info.plist, Gradle files, or entitlements, LingCode snapshots them. Bad edit? One key restores.

⇄

Per-hunk review.

Diffs are shown hunk by hunk. Accept the good ones, reject the suspicious. The agent never silently rewrites a file you didn't open.

⟲

Semantic time-travel undo.

Undo isn't keystroke-by-keystroke — it's prompt-by-prompt. Rewind the whole "I asked the agent to add notifications and it went sideways" episode in one shot.

⌘

Native, not Electron.

Real AppKit + SwiftUI. Handoff, widgets, Shortcuts, Finder integration. 120 fps on ProMotion. The IDE behaves like a Mac app because it is one.

⚙

Your keys, your compute.

BYOK for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Apple Intelligence on-device when available. No proxy, no relay, no surcharge.

∅

Zero telemetry.

No analytics, no anonymous-product-improvement pings, no opt-out toggles to forget. Your prompts and your code never leave your machine without your call.

Real native apps.
Not vibe-coded React.

I want to ship an app.

I want a real dev tool.

When “AI app builder” quietly became “AI website builder.”

A website with a logo.

An app you can ship.

Build where you already work.

Prompt to App Store, from a browser.

The terminal-native AI agent.

An IDE built for shipping, not vibing.

Prompt to App Store in three steps.

Describe the app.

LingCode writes the code.

Ship to TestFlight.

Workflows, not feature lists.

LingCode in 30 seconds

Try it in your browser

The agent reads your whole IDE

Quick overview

Magic Deploy

Magic Install

Magic Push

An inference layer that
actually saves you money.

AI edits that can't wreck your project.

Pre-edit snapshots.

Per-hunk review.

Semantic time-travel undo.

Native, not Electron.

Your keys, your compute.

Zero telemetry.

What we say. What they can't.

Stop building
fake apps.

When “AI app builder” quietly became “AI website builder.”

A website with a logo.

An app you can ship.

Build where you already work.

Prompt to App Store, from a browser.

The terminal-native AI agent.

An IDE built for shipping, not vibing.

Prompt to App Store in three steps.

Describe the app.

LingCode writes the code.

Ship to TestFlight.

Workflows, not feature lists.

LingCode in 30 seconds

Try it in your browser

The agent reads your whole IDE

Quick overview

Magic Deploy

Magic Install

Magic Push

An inference layer thatactually saves you money.

AI edits that can't wreck your project.

Pre-edit snapshots.

Per-hunk review.

Semantic time-travel undo.

Native, not Electron.

Your keys, your compute.

Zero telemetry.

What we say. What they can't.

Stop buildingfake apps.

An inference layer that
actually saves you money.

Stop building
fake apps.