Platform Concepts
Anything App is a managed platform for creating, using, and sharing apps. AI builds the app. The platform provides the runtime, data, hosting, sharing, and built-in capabilities that make it work.
What Anything App is
Apps on Anything are focused experiences that work immediately in the browser, can be installed on a phone, and can be shared with a link.
They can be useful or fun: personal tools, AI-powered tools, trackers, generators, games, interactive experiences, apps for groups, and apps made for a particular event or moment.
You describe the app you want in plain language. The platform creates a working version, and you can keep iterating until it behaves the way you expect.
You are creating an experience on Anything, not starting a standalone software project.
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, uploads inside apps, reference material and files added in the editor, 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 app 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.