Rork

Rork is an AI app-building platform focused on mobile software. Users describe an app in plain English and the platform generates a working application, handles design, runs builds, and publishes to the App Store, Google Play, or the web, without requiring Xcode, Android tooling, or local build pipelines. The company positions itself around mobile rather than web app generation, describing mobile as a more technically demanding surface.

The product is split into two tiers. Rork Pro builds cross-platform apps using React Native and Expo that run on iOS and Android and can be exported to run on the web. Rork Max builds native SwiftUI apps for Apple platforms including iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessage, and supports capabilities such as widgets, Live Activities, Dynamic Island, Siri intents, ARKit and LiDAR, HealthKit, HomeKit, NFC, Screen Time, background tasks, and 3D games built with SceneKit and Metal. Rork Max also offers one-click installation of a generated app onto a connected iPhone from the browser and two-click submission to the App Store and TestFlight, with build-status tracking and tester invitations. A companion Rork Max mobile app allows users to build, install, and publish iOS apps from a phone.

Adjacent capabilities include Rork Backend, a hosted serverless-function layer that can call third-party APIs or connect to external databases while keeping API keys off the client; hosted AI features (chat, voice transcription, image generation) via OpenAI and other providers on paid plans; built-in RevenueCat integration for in-app purchases and subscriptions; Supabase and Firebase database integrations; Supabase Auth and native Apple Sign In; push notifications; Figma image import as design reference; and GitHub sync for continuing development locally.

Founding story

Rork was founded by Daniel Dhawan and Levan Kvirkvelia, both described as serial mobile app entrepreneurs who had each bootstrapped three startups previously. Dhawan, a former math and physics Olympiad winner, had reached number two in the App Store in three countries; Kvirkvelia built what is described as Russia's largest educational timetable and Q&A app at age 17, scaling it past two million users. The pair initially built Rork as an AI coding tool for web development, but pivoted back to mobile after Lovable came to dominate the web-focused AI coding category, reasoning that mobile was roughly ten times more complex and largely unsolved by AI. [5][6]

Business model

Rork sells subscription access to its AI app-building platform on a credit-based plan structure. Rork Pro is priced at approximately $25-$100 per month for cross-platform React Native/Expo app generation, and Rork Max at $200+ per month for native SwiftUI generation on Apple platforms, with Max adding advanced device capabilities, one-click iPhone install, two-click App Store publishing, and priority chat support. Backend hosting and hosted AI inference are included for paid users. Use for professional and business purposes is permitted on all plans. [3][4][7]

Recurring monthly software subscriptions with tiered pricing and a credit system; a free entry point is referenced alongside paid tiers. [3][4][7]

Traction

Rork reports ranking in the top two worldwide in the App Store's Developer Tools category and being the number one referring website to RevenueCat, and describes itself as the largest AI platform for building mobile apps by web traffic within less than a year of launch. Thousands of apps have reportedly been published to the App Store and Google Play by users with no development experience. The Rork Max announcement is said to have doubled the company's annual revenue within two weeks. Cited customer outcomes include an app reaching $240K ARR in six months and WrestleAI surpassing $30,000 in monthly revenue. [0][4][5]

Latest developments

In April 2026 Rork announced a $15 million Seed round led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Peak XV, True Ventures, Goodwater, and existing investor a16z Speedrun, to be used to accelerate platform development, expand native app development and monetization capabilities, grow the team, and improve infrastructure stability. Shortly after the round the company acquired Paperline, a macOS AI app for building native Swift applications founded by engineers Evgenii Mozharovskii and Maksim Konstantinov, to support its shift toward native Swift development. The company also launched Rork Max, powered by Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.6, and a Rork Max mobile app for building, installing, and publishing iOS apps from a phone. [0][2][5][6][7]