Best Anything alternatives in 2026: 11 app builders compared by what they actually ship

Anything describes itself as “an AI agent that builds mobile apps and web apps from a conversation.” On the web side it produces “React and Next.js (JavaScript)”; on the mobile side, “under the hood, Anything generates Expo (React Native) code” — you preview by scanning a QR code into Expo Go on your phone, and you can read the code in a Code tab.

Publishing is guided but yours: the docs are clear that “you’ll need an Apple Developer Account ($99/year)”, after which an App Store review check runs, you fix what it flags, and you submit through TestFlight from the Publish menu. For Android, “Google Play publishing is in beta. It uploads your Android app to the internal testing track as a draft.”

Billing is credits: “Credits power AI generations and integrations in Anything.” Pro is 20,000 credits for $19 a month on annual billing or $24 monthly; the Max tiers start at $199 a month (annual). Two sentences from the credits page matter more than the prices: “Unused monthly credits expire at the end of your billing cycle” and “Building requires a paid plan.” Top-off credits, bought separately, don’t expire.

Code: “Download your project’s source code anytime” — a zip from the Code tab — and “you own all the code and content generated in your projects.” GitHub sync is described as forthcoming. Nothing on this page argues with any of that; the question is only whether it is the shape you want.

1. The credit meter, and the fact that it resets to zero. Building an app goes in bursts: quiet weeks, then a stubborn bug that eats forty attempts in an afternoon. Monthly credits that expire punish exactly those afternoons, and a free tier that can’t build means you can’t learn the tool before paying. This is the most common reason, and it is a billing preference, not a product flaw — several alternatives below are Expo builders with rollover credits, and one has no meter at all.

2. The output is Expo, full stop. An Expo project is a real, publishable app, and for many products it is the right one. But it is one JavaScript codebase with the same screens on both phones, reaching the platform through a bridge. If you want SwiftUI on iPhone and Jetpack Compose on Android — platform conventions, first-party frameworks the day they ship, a codebase an iOS or Android developer opens without learning React — Anything doesn’t offer that route, and three tools below do.

3. Code leaves as a zip. Export exists and ownership is stated plainly, which is more than some builders manage. What’s missing is a two-way repository: no GitHub sync yet, so working on the code outside Anything and bringing changes back isn’t a flow the docs describe. If you expect a developer to join the project later, that matters.

4. Android is a beta draft. Google Play publishing “uploads your Android app to the internal testing track as a draft” — a reasonable beta, and an honest sentence, but not yet a release path. If Android is your first market, look at the tools that treat it as one.

And one reason not to leave, which the alternatives lists skip: Anything runs in the browser, previews on your own phone through Expo Go, and needs no Mac. Three of the native tools below need one. If you don’t have a Mac and won’t get one, skip the native group and read the Expo group closely.

By output first — what physically comes out when you describe an app — because it is the property you can’t change later. Within each group, by billing model in the vendor’s own words, since that is what most people are actually leaving Anything over. Then code export — on which plan, in what form — and the Mac question. The full output taxonomy, with ten cross-platform builders on one screen, is in our cross-platform builder guide; the plan-by-plan export detail for nineteen tools is in the code-export guide. This page keeps only what you need to leave Anything well.

1. Modaal (ours). A Mac app: you describe the feature, your own AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or others, on the subscription you already pay — writes a plan you approve, then real Swift and SwiftUI for iPhone and Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for Android, compiles through Xcode and Gradle, fixes its own errors and runs the result. The Duet architecture shares the logic, not the screens: each feature’s state, actions and effects are written once, each platform gets its own native screen, and the build replays recorded scenarios on both platforms and fails if they diverge. The project is an ordinary Xcode project and an ordinary Android Studio project on your disk from the first build — no export step, no runtime. Billing is the opposite of Anything’s: no credits, no meter, unlimited prompts even on the free plan (one project, one platform). Pro is €9 per user per month billed annually or €15 monthly and unlocks both platforms — pricing. Honest limits: you need a Mac, and Android is built on that Mac too; you write the screens twice (that is the point); and Duet is pre-release — open on GitHub, no packaged artifacts yet. Choose it over Anything when you want two native apps from one project, you already pay for an AI subscription, and the credit meter is the thing you’re leaving.

2. Superapp. “Superapp generates production-ready native Swift code from your descriptions” — real SwiftUI for iPhone, in a browser version or a Mac version, with “you fully own the code and can export it anytime.” Credits are metered but on the friendliest terms in the metered group: “valid for 12 months” and “carry over across billing cycles.” There is no Android on the site — it is an iPhone tool. Choose it over Anything when your product is iPhone-only, you want Swift rather than Expo, and you don’t want to depend on a Mac. Our one-to-one comparison is at /alternatives/superapp.

3. Rork. The interesting mover of 2026: its docs now say “React Native is a cross-platform approach … Rork used to build apps this way and no longer does for new projects” and “Rork writes a real Android Studio project in Kotlin.” One project can hold an iPhone app, an Android app and a web app, and “each app has its own code” — two native apps kept alike by your testing, not by the build. Export: “Paid users own all generated code. Download it via GitHub!” Billing is credits per month; the free plan is design mode only. Choose it over Anything when you want native on both stores, your app is simple enough that two implementations are cheaper than a shared core, and you’re fine with a credit meter. Details and the price history at /alternatives/rork and cheap Rork alternatives.

If the product shape is right and only the meter is wrong, these are the lateral moves. The output is the same category as Anything’s — one React Native/Expo codebase, both phones, Expo Go preview — so what changes is how you pay and how the code leaves.

4. Vibecode. “Your apps are built using React Native and Expo.” Mobile-first, phone-native workflow, and the clearest credit policy in the category: “Credits roll over each billing cycle and never expire.” Export: long-press a project and choose Download Code for “a complete React Native/Expo project.” The pricing page also says the tiers “are experimental and may evolve” — read it before you commit. Choose it over Anything when you want to stay in Expo and never lose a credit again.

5. Bolt (with Expo). Bolt’s Expo integration makes “mobile apps for both iPhone and Android using the same code” — say “mobile app” in the first prompt, because “projects created for web do not easily switch over to mobile.” Tokens rather than credits, and they roll over: “any unused tokens from your monthly allocation roll over and stay valid for two months.” You “download the code and open it in a code editor” and build store binaries through Expo’s tooling yourself. Choose it over Anything when you also build web things and want one tool with a forgiving meter.

6. Newly. “Built with React Native and Expo, your apps compile to real iOS and Android native code — not webviews,” with “full access to your app’s source code. Export, modify, and deploy anywhere.” The pricing page didn’t render for us on 12 September, so we can’t quote its billing model — ask before you sign. Choose it over Anything when export terms are your first question and Expo is fine.

7. Replit. Replit’s mobile route is Expo: “Expo uses React Native to help you build apps for iOS, Android, and the web from a single codebase.” You need your own Apple and Google developer accounts, and store builds go through Expo’s services. Billing is usage-based — the Core plan includes a monthly amount “towards most powerful models”, so it’s a budget you spend rather than credits you count. Replit is a general development environment first and a mobile builder second; that is a strength if you also run a backend there. Choose it over Anything when you want the whole stack in one workspace. We compared its agent to a coding agent in Replit vs Claude Code.

8. FlutterFlow. A visual builder whose output is a standard Flutter project — “the lib/ directory contains all the Dart code that drives your Flutter app” — drawing its own interface on both platforms. Seat subscription rather than credits; “Code Download” is listed from the Basic plan, not Free, and GitHub integration from Growth. Choose it over Anything when Flutter is your team’s stack or you want a visual editor over a chat. It is the furthest from Anything’s way of working, which is the reason to pick it or not. One-to-one at /alternatives/flutterflow.

A surprising share of people searching for Anything alternatives don’t need a phone app at all; they need a web product their users open from a link. If that’s you, these are better than Anything was — and if it isn’t, none of them is a mobile alternative, whatever the marketing says. Native app vs web app is the two-minute test.

9. Lovable. The best-known web builder; its FAQ is refreshingly direct: “Lovable does not generate React Native projects,” and for the stores it points to a PWA or a Capacitor wrapper. Export is a ZIP or Git sync; “plans are priced by credits, not seats.” Choose it over Anything when the product is web. And if you validated something on Lovable that turned out to be a phone app, the migration guide is the honest path across.

10. Bubble. Mature visual programming for web, with native mobile in “public beta” on React Native. The sentence that decides it for most people: “Bubble apps can only be run on the Bubble platform; there’s no way of exporting your application as code.” Subscription billing. Choose it over Anything when you want a long-lived visual web app and accept that it lives in Bubble. One-to-one at /alternatives/bubble.

11. Adalo. Drag-and-drop mobile and web from one project; “our mobile builds use React Native.” Code export is not offered as of September 2026 — it has been an open feature request on Adalo’s own forum since 2022 without a staff answer. Subscription billing. Choose it over Anything when a template-shaped app is enough and you never expect to leave. One-to-one at /alternatives/adalo.

“The credits expire.” Stay in Expo and move to Vibecode (never expire) or Bolt (two-month rollover); or leave metering entirely with Modaal (no credits — your own AI subscription, unlimited prompts, free for one project).

“I want a real native app.” iPhone only → Superapp, or Modaal’s iPhone-first template. Both stores → Rork (two native apps, your testing keeps them alike) or Modaal (one shared core, native screens, parity proven by the build). React Native vs native argues the underlying decision properly.

“I want a developer to be able to join later.” Any tool whose output is an ordinary project in a mainstream stack: an Expo project (Vibecode, Newly, Bolt, Replit, Anything itself once you export), a Flutter project (FlutterFlow), or Xcode and Android Studio projects (Modaal, Rork, Superapp). Not Bubble; not Adalo.

“I don’t have a Mac.” Anything, Vibecode, Newly, Bolt, Replit, FlutterFlow, Superapp’s browser version, Lovable, Bubble and Adalo all work without one. Modaal doesn’t; Rork’s native builds — check its current requirements page.

“Android first.” Modaal and Rork treat Android as a first-class native target; the Expo group ships it as the same code; Anything’s Play publishing is, in its own words, a beta that uploads a draft.

“It’s actually a website.” Lovable. You were never in the mobile market.

If the criteria matter more than the names, how to choose an AI mobile app builder is the criteria page, and the alternatives hub has the one-to-one comparisons.

The code. Export the zip from the Code tab before you cancel — Anything says you can “download your project’s source code anytime” and that you own it. Because it is an Expo project, any tool in group 2 — or any React Native developer — can open and continue it; a native tool (group 1) can’t import it, but the product description you wrote for Anything is exactly the input a native builder wants, and the screens you already designed are your spec.

The accounts. Your Apple Developer account and Google Play Console account are yours, not Anything’s. The app identity, listing and reviews follow the account, so a published app can be updated from a new tool once the new build carries the same bundle identifier and is signed by you — check the new tool’s publishing docs for how it handles that.

The backend. Anything hosts things for your published app — auth, data, integrations, whatever you used. The export page describes the source code, not the hosted services; before you cancel, confirm what data you can take and where the new tool expects a backend to live. This is the step people skip and regret.

The habit. Every tool on this page consumes the same input: a clear description of what the app does, scenario by scenario. That transfers perfectly. The tool changes; the discipline doesn’t.