●MAX — Rork Max generates pure Swift apps instead of React Native, covering iPhone through Vision Pro and reaching native features like HealthKit and Core ML●TRIAL — Rork Max has a limited-time free trial, a chance to try the $200/month tier without paying upfront — best used with a concrete project in mind●STYLE — Long-term reviews describe a split that works: let the AI generate scaffolding while you own state management and the data layer as features pile up●PLAN — A useful lens for pricing: does this plan get you to a shipped release? If it does, even paid tiers are cheap; if not, even the free tier is expensive●REPO — Rork's developer tooling repos keep moving, with rork-xcode and rork-device seeing recent updates around submission and device workflows●MARKET — Gartner projects 75% of new apps will be built with low-code or no-code by the end of 2026, up from under 25% in 2020●MAX — Rork Max generates pure Swift apps instead of React Native, covering iPhone through Vision Pro and reaching native features like HealthKit and Core ML●TRIAL — Rork Max has a limited-time free trial, a chance to try the $200/month tier without paying upfront — best used with a concrete project in mind●STYLE — Long-term reviews describe a split that works: let the AI generate scaffolding while you own state management and the data layer as features pile up●PLAN — A useful lens for pricing: does this plan get you to a shipped release? If it does, even paid tiers are cheap; if not, even the free tier is expensive●REPO — Rork's developer tooling repos keep moving, with rork-xcode and rork-device seeing recent updates around submission and device workflows●MARKET — Gartner projects 75% of new apps will be built with low-code or no-code by the end of 2026, up from under 25% in 2020

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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-07-06Intermediate

Cloud-Synced Folders Break App Builds — Excluding Build Artifacts From Sync to Fix It for Good

A project living in Dropbox or iCloud Drive stopped building one morning. The cause was sync creating conflicted copies inside build artifacts. Here is how I excluded node_modules and Pods from sync to stop the recurrence, told as an indie developer's field notes.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-06Intermediate

Adding Expo Dev Client to Your Rork App — The First Move When Native Modules Stop Working in Expo Go

The moment you add react-native-mmkv or RevenueCat to a Rork app, Expo Go stops launching it. Here's how to set up Expo Dev Client (a custom development build) and the three pitfalls I've actually walked into.