AI app builder code export: which of 19 tools let you take your project with you — and what it costs

Native Swift/SwiftUI for iPhone and Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android, generated as a standard Xcode project and Android Studio project on your own disk. There is no export step because there is nothing to export from: the free plan (one project, unlimited prompts) writes to your machine from the first feature, and any of 13 AI agents you already pay for does the writing — the bring-your-own-agent model. Entry price for the code: €0.

Swift, delivered as "full Xcode projects". Its pricing page lists "Export your code at any time" on the Free plan; Pro ($25/mo) adds no export capability beyond that. The other on-disk native tool in this list.

Its docs describe export on any plan without a gate: "Select the three-dot menu at the top of the file tree and choose Download as zip", or connect GitHub and enable two-way auto-sync. What you get depends on what you built — for mobile, an Expo/React Native project.

Android apps as Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Google’s docs: "you can download the project as a ZIP file" to continue in Android Studio; "GitHub export is not yet available for Android projects." Free, with Gemini API billing beyond the free quota. Android only.

Its Git integration docs list "github.com (available on all plans)" — free tier included — with GitHub Enterprise variants on the Enterprise plan. Direct code download (no GitHub) is described as available on paid plans. What you export is a React and Vite web app; native iOS or Android is not an output.

FAQ: "Yes. Export the code to work locally or edit directly in v0." No plan restriction is stated for export or for connecting GitHub ("Git integration is optional"); team collaboration is what the paid tiers add. Output: React and Tailwind web interfaces.

GitHub integration is documented ("Integrating your project with GitHub keeps you flexible") with no plan gate named anywhere in the docs — a documented capability with an undocumented tier, which is why the table says "no plan gate stated" rather than "free". Output: web first; Expo for mobile.

Docs: open the project in the web app, click "Download Code"; export and SSH to Cursor are documented as features with no plan requirement mentioned. Output: React Native and Expo. One quirk from their own page: downloading is web-app only, because Apple’s rules prevent it inside their iOS app.

The most explicit ownership statement in the list: "Yes — 100% ownership. There are no licensing fees, no revenue sharing, and no restrictions on how you use, modify, or distribute your code." Export via a GitHub repository with two-way sync, or a ZIP. There is no free tier — plans start at $25/mo — so "every plan" means every paid plan. Output: React Native with TypeScript, Expo SDK.

Its features page: "you can export the full Xcode project on any plan and take it with you" and "the export is the same real Xcode project whether you leave on day one or year three." Free tier is 5 credits a day; the Mac version keeps code on disk, the web version in the cloud. Output: native Swift, iOS/macOS/watchOS; their Product Hunt listing also mentions a React Native Expo path. Credit them: this is more generous than several better-funded tools.

Docs, verbatim: "Paid users own all generated code." Export is via GitHub after subscribing to a paid plan; free users cannot export. Paid plans start at $25/mo (Junior); the native Swift output is a Rork Max feature at $200/mo, and whether Max projects export the same way is not stated on the export page. Two-way GitHub sync once you are paid. Output: React Native/Expo on standard plans, SwiftUI on Max.

Pricing page: "React Native code export functionality is available starting with the Starter plan ($20/month)." The free tier does not export; "Git integration" is listed as Coming Soon on every tier. Ownership line: "You own 100% of the code you generate." Output: React Native and Expo.

"Code Download" and "APK Download" first appear on Basic, $39/mo; the Free tier has no code export. GitHub integration is a Growth feature ($80 first seat) — and it pushes to a FlutterFlow-owned branch. Output: Flutter and Dart.

The pricing comparison shows code export as "Included" on Pro, $168/mo, "Not included" on Starter ($42), and "Doesn’t Support" on Free. Core ($17), Plus ($84) and Max ($399) are not in the comparison table, so their export status is unstated on the page. Two-way GitHub sync is also Pro. Output: Expo React Native.

Its documentation index covers prompting, testing, push notifications, payments, OTA updates and App Store publishing — and has no page about exporting code, GitHub, or downloading the project. That is not an accusation; it is what the docs contain as of 6 September 2026. Ask before you build.

A Mac app producing SwiftUI. Its pricing page says "You own your code forever" on the Builder plan ($25/mo) and lists a "Full code editor" from Pro ($50/mo); the site advertises a free trial with no card. What the page does not state is whether the free tier lets you take the project out. Given it is a Mac app, the answer may well be yes — but "may well be" is not a source.

Bubble’s own documentation: "there's no way of exporting your application as code." Mobile is a React Native add-on in public beta; the web app is hosted by Bubble and stays there. This is a deliberate architecture, not an omission, and Bubble is candid about it.

The pricing page (Free, Starter $36, Professional $52, Team $160) lists publishing to both stores from $36/mo and no code export at any tier. Marketing describes "True IPA output"; developer docs say custom components require writing React Native. No export is documented.

Progressive web apps, hosted by Glide; the docs state Glide does not support App Store or Google Play publishing. The pricing page lists "View code and project files" only under project-level roles and permissions, and no export or download. Free, Basic $25, Plus $50, Pro $125.