Platform Concepts
Anything App is an all-in-one web platform for creating, publishing, and sharing custom apps with natural language. Apps live on the platform and are available from shareable links that work in any modern web browser.
What Anything App is
Anything apps are web apps generated from plain-language prompts. You describe the app you want, the platform creates a working version, and you can keep iterating until it behaves the way you expect.
Apps can be opened on any device with a browser. They are also built as Progressive Web Apps, so users can install them from the browser for a more native-like experience without going through an app store.
What the platform handles
Anything App takes care of the technical infrastructure around every app:
- One-click publishing with a unique shareable URL.
- Authentication, secure sessions, email verification, and account recovery for users.
- Private data storage that syncs across a user's devices.
- Built-in AI provider integration, including API keys, rate limits, and cost management.
- Built-in push notifications for timely reminders and alerts.
- Secure sandboxing so apps cannot interfere with each other or access unauthorized data.
- Automatic AI-powered data migrations between app versions.
- Built-in monetization, including usage rewards for AI interactions and referral rewards for new users you bring to the platform.
AI usage in published apps counts toward the user's monthly usage limit, not the creator's.
How generated apps fit
A generated app is the client-side experience that runs inside Anything App and uses the platform's managed capabilities. It does not own a separate backend, authentication system, customer database, or billing system.
Users should open directly into the useful app experience. They do not create a second account for each app, and every user automatically sees only their own private, cloud-synced app data.
Account-level flows such as sign-in, email verification, password recovery, subscriptions, and billing belong to Anything App itself. Generated apps cannot replace or customize those flows.
What you can build
Apps can combine platform features such as AI chat, text generation, structured list generation, image generation, speech generation, video generation, web search, website extraction, private databases, uploaded files, app assets, and push notifications.
For building guidance, start with Build overview. For a deeper list of supported components, see Available components.
Platform boundaries
Anything App is designed as a managed web platform. Apps are published and shared through the platform, not exported as standalone products or submitted to app stores.
Some capabilities are intentionally constrained for reliability and security. Generated apps cannot add custom authentication, shared multi-user databases, app-owned backends, outbound email, creator-defined subscriptions or checkout, custom third-party APIs, arbitrary external packages, real-time collaboration, interactive mapping libraries, or QR code generation and scanning.
For reminders, apps can use built-in push notifications. They can generate email drafts for a user to copy, but they cannot send verification, password-reset, invitation, billing, contact-form, or marketing emails.
For the full list, see Platform limitations.