Why Your Rork App Gets Rejected for Broken Restore Purchases — Fixing App Store Guideline 3.1.1
If your Rork-built subscription app is getting rejected for Guideline 3.1.1, the Restore Purchases button is almost always the cause. Learn how to wire it up correctly with expo-in-app-purchases or react-native-iap and pass review on the next try.
Designing Multimodal Rork Apps in the Era of Gemma 4 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
With open multimodal models like Gemma 4 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni now realistic at the edge, Rork apps are being asked to integrate image, audio, and text experiences. Here are seven design patterns, an API selection framework, cost optimization, and the UX traps to avoid.
Monetizing Healing Apps Built with Rork — A Creator's Strategy Guide
How artists and individual creators can build and monetize healing apps — wallpapers, meditation, breathing, sleep — using Rork. Covers AdMob, subscriptions, hybrid models, and long-term content strategy.
What Indie Developers Can Learn From Rork's Funding History: A Strategy Playbook
Re-reading Rork's funding history through the lens of 'what did investors value' surfaces concrete strategy lessons indie developers can apply to product judgment, growth, and positioning. A practical playbook drawn from a decade of indie iOS development.
Designing Rork Apps Mathematically — Requirement Decomposition That Plays Well With AI Coding
Most Rork frustrations don't come from Rork — they come from fuzzy requirements. Here is a practical guide to applying the mathematical structure of search engines and classifiers to your Rork prompts.
From Rork Max SwiftUI to App Store Launch: A Complete Playbook
Rork Max generates SwiftUI code in minutes, but there are eight overlooked stages between that code and a shippable App Store release. Drawing on a decade of indie iOS development, here's a complete playbook for taking generated code to commercial quality.
Build a Plant Care Diary App with Rork — Photos, Watering Logs, and Reminders in One Tutorial
Learn how to build a plant care diary app with Rork — covering photo capture, local data storage, and push notification reminders. A hands-on tutorial for the three core features every app needs.
Designing Subscription Apps with Rork — From Revenue Model to App Store Approval
How to add a subscription revenue model to apps built with Rork — covering pricing design, StoreKit integration, and the specific issues that cause App Store rejections.
Telling Rork to Make It Feel Like a Quiet Museum — Translating a Creator's Vocabulary Into Implementation
What happens when you hand Rork the mood of your work instead of a spec? A record of prompting from emotion, pinning the returned spacing and timing into design tokens, and the places where fonts and regeneration stopped me.
Building a Production-Grade Handwriting Note App with Rork × PencilKit
How to ship a real PencilKit-based note app with Rork — covering Apple Pencil Pro Squeeze and Hover, PKDrawing persistence, CloudKit sync, and Vision-based handwriting OCR with production patterns.
When 'pod install' Fails on Rork-Exported iOS Projects — A Practical Guide for the Apple Silicon Era
Most pod install failures on Rork-generated iOS projects come from the same handful of root causes — Apple Silicon ffi mismatches, Ruby version conflicts, CocoaPods version drift, Xcode path issues, and Hermes/Folly compile errors. Here is the order I work through them.
Making a Rork App Sell on the App Store — ASO, Pricing, and IAP Strategy
How to take a Rork-built app from invisible to ranked, priced right, and earning real money on the App Store. ASO, price psychology, IAP design, and subscription tactics from twelve years of indie app revenue.