12 answers, each one already published on a comparison page and linked underneath. Nothing on this page is written for it.
How much does Rork cost to publish an iOS app?
$200/mo, on Rork's own pricing page — not the $20 the plan grid leads with. The Rork Pro tier at $20/mo covers "Expo, Android, and web apps"; "iOS apps with SwiftUI", iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro are all listed only under Rork Max at $200/mo. The free tier does not build at all: its single platform line is "Design mode: explore app designs", with 35 design credits a month and a five-a-day cap, and "Build mode: turn designs into working apps" starts at Pro. Read on 2026-08-15 in a real browser, because the page renders its plan grid client-side and a plain fetch returns almost nothing.
Can I download the source code from Rork or Vibecode?
Vibecode says so on its pricing page: every published tier — Plus at $20 /month, Pro at $50, Max at $200 — lists "Download source code" and "SSH to Cursor". Rork's pricing page says nothing either way; its plan cards list platforms and credits, so on the evidence of that page alone the answer for Rork is unpublished rather than no. This matters more than it sounds: source you can take away is the difference between a product and a tenancy.
Is Rork or Vibecode cheaper?
At the tier that ships to the App Store, Vibecode by a factor of ten: $20 /month against $200/mo. At the tier each one leads with, they are level at $20. Rork has a free plan and Vibecode does not — Vibecode's grid starts at Plus. Both meter in credits rather than seats, so neither figure is the whole bill; Vibecode's are priced at what it pays the model providers and roll over indefinitely, and Rork's reset monthly from the date of first purchase.
Which one gets an app through App Store review?
Neither vendor can promise that and this page does not pretend otherwise — review is Apple's decision about your app, not about the tool that generated it. What the pricing pages do tell you is whether submission is even on your plan: Vibecode lists "App store submission" from $20 /month, and Rork puts iOS behind the $200/mo tier. StoreReady's own verdicts, sourced and dated on each builder's page, are the separate question of whether what the tool hands you has survived review before.
What is the cheapest way to get an AI-built app into the App Store?
Expo + EAS at $0, if you can write the app: its free tier lists "15 Android and 15 iOS builds" and "Submit to app stores". If you want the app generated for you, Vibecode at $20 /month is the cheapest — "App store submission" is on its entry tier. FlutterFlow at $39/month is the cheapest that gives you the store deployment and the source code together. Rork, the product most people arrive here from, is $200/mo for iOS. Every figure read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-08-15.
Which AI app builders let you export the source code?
On the evidence of their own pricing pages: Vibecode ("Download source code" on every published tier) and FlutterFlow ("Download project source code or APK", from Basic at $39/month). Expo + EAS is not a builder — the source is yours because you wrote it. Rork, Replit, Bolt.new and Lovable do not state an export position on their pricing pages, which is not the same as refusing one; StoreReady's per-builder pages carry the sourced answer where one exists.
Why do Replit, Bolt.new and Lovable show nothing in the iOS row?
Because their pricing pages name no iOS tier. Replit prices projects, credits, collaborators and agents; Bolt prices tokens, hosting and web requests; Lovable prices lovable.app domains, custom domains and publishing. None of the three mentions the App Store or a mobile build anywhere on the page. That is a real answer rather than missing data — if a builder is going to take you to the store, the pricing page is where it says so, because it is the thing it is selling.
Is a free AI app builder enough to ship?
Only in one direction, and one of these free tiers does not even build. Rork's free plan is design mode — 35 design credits a month, five a day, with "Build mode: turn designs into working apps" held back for Pro at $20/mo; FlutterFlow's is "Build & test your app" with web publishing only; Bolt's and Lovable's are web products with no mobile path published at all. The exception is Expo, whose free tier includes 15 iOS builds and store submission — because Expo is the pipeline rather than the builder, and the part it gives away is the part everyone else charges for.
Can an AI-built app get through App Store review?
Yes, and several have — but the tool is not what review examines. Apple reviews your app against its guidelines, so the questions that decide it are whether the output is a real native binary rather than a repackaged website, whether it does something a website could not, and whether the account submitting it is yours. That is what StoreReady scores per builder, sourced and dated. What this page adds is the prior question nobody prints: whether the plan you are on produces an iOS build in the first place.
What is the best AI app builder for iOS?
Three answers, depending on what you bring. If you can write code, Expo + EAS — the free tier builds for iOS 15 times a month and submits to the store, and the paid tiers buy queue priority and build credit rather than features. If you want the app generated and the source handed over, FlutterFlow at $39/month for "One-Click App Store Deployment" and "Download project source code or APK". If you want the cheapest generated route to submission, Vibecode at $20 /month. Rork is the one to pick when native SwiftUI from a prompt is specifically the point, at $200/mo.
How much does it cost to publish an AI-built app to the App Store?
On the builders' own pages, between $0 and $200/mo — and that is before Apple. The Apple Developer Program is $99 a year and is unavoidable whichever tool you use. Then: Expo + EAS $0 (15 iOS builds and submission on the free tier), Vibecode $20 /month, FlutterFlow $39/month, Rork $200/mo. Every one of those is also metered on top — credits at Rork, Vibecode and FlutterFlow, build credit at Expo — so the plan fee is a floor rather than a bill.
Do any of these builders submit to the App Store for me?
Vibecode lists "App store submission" on every published tier, and Expo's free tier lists "Submit to app stores" — those are the two that say so on the pricing page itself. FlutterFlow's Basic tier lists "One-Click App Store Deployment". In every case the app is still published under your own Apple developer account, which is a condition rather than a detail: an app submitted under someone else's account is not one you can move, sell or keep.
The answers are gathered from this product’s own comparison data by a script, and a build gate re-runs that script and fails the deploy if a word here has drifted. Every figure in that data has been re-checked against its source on or since 10 September 2026.