Tools like FlutterFlow and Adalo promised to remove code. But they replaced it with complex visual logic and vendor lock-in. Newly uses AI to write the code for you—giving you the speed of no-code with the power of real engineering.
Great for simple apps, but becomes a "spaghetti mess" of wires and nodes as you scale. You are limited by the builder's features.
AI writes standard React Native code for you. It's as fast as a visual builder, but you get a professional, scalable codebase you own.
Customer stories
Alongside feature comparisons, look at the work customers did to reach publication: testing, feedback, code access and store preparation.
Tina · Linen
Tina describes doing so with Newly while raising three children. She built around naps, bedtime and family activities, sought support for technical problems, and reports about four months to publish Linen on the App Store.
Read Linen's storyParth Patel · LokaLinc
Parth Patel used Newly to build LokaLinc, a community app for Indian expats in Germany. He reports an initial prototype in about three hours, roughly two and a half months to publication on iOS and Android, and more than 500 users within the first three weeks.
Read LokaLinc's storyHatton Humphrey · Say it Anyway
Hatton Humphrey describes using Newly after 30 years in technology, application development and architecture. He valued AI-assisted iteration alongside GitHub integration and access to the generated source code.
Read Say it Anyway's storyTimelines and results reflect the interviews. Each story includes its sources and context.
Explore all customer storiesWhy developers are switching from visual drag-and-drop to AI-powered generation.
See exactly how Newly stacks up against specific visual builders.
Powerful visual builder, but requires complex manual logic wiring and proprietary knowledge.
Great for prototypes, but suffers from vendor lock-in, high costs, and no code export.
Visual builder for React Native, but the visual abstraction can become a maintenance bottleneck.
Perfect for internal tools from spreadsheets, but lacks true native consumer app capabilities.
Turns Figma to apps, but requires strict design rules and lacks built-in logic/backend tools.
Block-based coding is great for learning, but inefficient for complex production apps.
Template-driven builder good for basic content apps, but rigid for custom ideas.
Visual builders are fantastic for the first 80% of your app. But when you need that one custom feature, you hit a wall.
Creating complex loops and conditions visually results in an unmanageable web of lines and nodes that is hard to debug.
Many visual builders rely on heavy interpretation layers that slow down your app compared to clean, compiled code.
If the platform raises prices or shuts down, you lose your app. With Newly, you own the code and can host it anywhere.
Newly gives you the best of both worlds. Prompt your way to a fully functional, App Store-ready mobile application today.
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