Designing a Rork App That Doesn't Get Deleted — A Solo Developer's Playbook for the First Week
Most Rork apps die in the first three days. Starting with where deletion data actually comes from (not Firebase, on iOS), here is a first-week design for D0, D1, D3 and D7 — with the code that makes each stage measurable.
Building a Talking AI Companion App with Rork and ElevenLabs
Text-only companion apps tend to lose half their users within the first three days. Adding a real voice through ElevenLabs changes the experience entirely. Here's a hands-on guide to wiring it up in a Rork app, with caching tactics and paywall design that actually work.
Building a Real-Time Collaborative App Backend with Rork and Cloudflare Durable Objects — Full Implementation Guide
A production-grade walkthrough for adding a self-hosted real-time collaboration backend to your Rork app using Cloudflare Durable Objects. Covers WebSocket lifecycle, hibernation-aware sessions, optimistic updates from React Native, and cost-aware design patterns — without depending on Liveblocks or Yjs hosting.
Choosing a Revenue Model for Your Rork App — Ads, Subscriptions, or One-Time Purchase, Backed by Real Operating Numbers
Drawing on the years I spent running ads in my own wallpaper apps, I rebuilt the comparison of ads, subscriptions, and one-time purchases under identical conditions — with genre-by-genre guidance and implementation notes for Rork.
Why In-App Purchases Disappear with Family Sharing — Building Bulletproof IAP for Family Apps with Rork
Subscription revenue from Family Sharing purchases can vanish days after the sale settles. This guide shows the four refund triggers, a complete StoreKit 2 + Server Notifications V2 implementation in Rork, and a sandbox testing matrix that catches family edge cases before launch.
Rork × OpenAI Apps SDK: Ship a ChatGPT-Embedded App From Your Rork Codebase
A complete implementation guide for distributing your Rork app's business logic as a ChatGPT-embedded mini app. Covers MCP server design, UI Resources, shared OAuth, Universal Link conversation handoffs, and pricing parity from a real production lens.
Use Apple FoundationModels in Rork — A Practical Guide to On-Device LLM Apps That Keep Working Offline
Call Apple's FoundationModels framework from a Rork-generated SwiftUI app to add AI features that keep working offline. Covers text generation, streaming, structured output via @Generable, and tool calling — all with full Swift code and production-ready error handling.
Native iOS Apps with Rork: SwiftUI to TestFlight
New iPhone projects in Rork are generated in Swift and SwiftUI, and Rork Pro carries them all the way to the App Store. How to tell an old Expo project from a new one, costs in credits, the skeleton prompt, device testing, when to drop into Xcode, and TestFlight submission.
Taking a Rork Max Native App Up the App Store Charts — The Order I Build Ads, StoreKit 2, and Subscriptions
The order I follow to grow a Rork Max SwiftUI app into one that stays near the top of its App Store category: a single AdGate that decides when ads may show, StoreKit 2 Transaction.updates monitoring, and where I draw the lines on ASO and retention — with working code.
App Store Rejection Playbook for Rork Apps
Rork-generated apps tend to bump into specific App Store review patterns. Here is a guideline-by-guideline playbook of the rejections I actually hit, a quick-reference table, the age rating answers that became mandatory in September 2026, review-note pitfalls, and a pre-resubmission checklist.
Rork's Free Plan and Free Trial — What You Actually Keep When the Credits Run Out
What ends a Rork free trial is messages, not days. Export while it is still free, verify it builds outside Rork with a small script, then decide about paying.
Mobile Attribution for Rork Apps — A Production Guide to AppsFlyer, Adjust, SKAdNetwork 4.0, and ATT
A complete walkthrough of wiring AppsFlyer or Adjust into a Rork (Expo + React Native) app, designing SKAdNetwork 4.0 conversion values, building a high-opt-in ATT prompt, and integrating deep links — with copy-paste code and the pitfalls I hit in production.