Thunkable

A drag-and-drop builder for mobile apps that publishes to both the iOS App Store and Google Play, with an AI assistant helping construct the app's logic.

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Checked 25 Sep 2026

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What you'd use it for

Publishing a real, installable iOS and Android app without hiring a mobile developer.

Describe an app idea in a prompt and get a generated set of screens and UI to start from
Drag and drop components onto a phone-shaped canvas to build screens without writing Swift or Kotlin
Ask the AI assistant to build or modify a piece of app logic instead of wiring every condition by hand
Test the app instantly in a browser or on a real device before publishing
Publish the finished build to both the Apple App Store and Google Play from the same project

The verdict

Thunkable earns its place here by shipping an actual installable app rather than a web page, which makes it the right tool for a loyalty app, a booking app, or an internal field-service tool nobody wants to hire a mobile developer for. The AI assistant speeds up the block-wiring, but it still works inside the limits of the block system, so anything needing custom native code or a highly polished app-store presence will find a ceiling. Budget separately for a paid Thunkable plan and for the Apple and Google developer accounts publishing requires, since none of that is covered by the free tier. It suits a solo builder or small studio shipping one or two real apps, not a startup building its core product on it.

What it costs

Tier	Price	For	Includes
Free	$0	Learning the tool or prototyping a first app idea.	2,000 AI tokens, 3 public projects, 5 screens per project.
Accelerator	$18/month billed monthly, or $19/month billed yearly	A solo builder taking one app past the prototype stage.	20,000 AI tokens, 5 public projects, 1 private project, 10 screens per project, Intercom support.
Builder	$37/month billed yearly, or $59/month billed monthly	Someone publishing a real app to the app stores.	50,000 AI tokens, unlimited public and up to 10 private projects, unlimited screens, 1 live published app, chat support, custom branding.
Advanced	$99/month billed yearly, or $189/month billed monthly	A small studio publishing and maintaining several apps.	100,000 AI tokens, unlimited projects and published apps, priority support, custom branding.
Enterprise	Custom pricing, arranged with sales	Larger teams needing a negotiated contract.	Custom terms via sales conversation.
Education	Custom pricing, arranged with sales	Students, teachers and school districts.	Special education plans via sales conversation.

Read from Thunkable's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.

What you need to start

A Thunkable account, free to create
An Apple Developer Program membership, about $99/year, to publish to the App Store
A Google Play Developer account, a one-time fee of about $25, to publish to Google Play
A paid Builder-tier plan or higher for a live published app slot

Minutes to a working account and a first AI-generated draft; publishing to either app store adds review time on Apple's or Google's side, separate from anything Thunkable controls.

Your first run Describing an app idea produces a working set of screens you can preview in the browser or on your phone within minutes, but that AI-generated first pass still needs work in the block editor before it is worth publishing.

Where it breaks

Browser-based builder; apps compile to native iOS and Android, which is the main thing separating it from a web-app-only no-code tool.

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When not to use it

A startup building its core product, or anyone who needs functionality the block system does not cover, since hitting that ceiling means starting over in native code. Also a poor fit for anyone expecting the free tier to carry a real app past prototype, since 2,000 AI tokens is a trial allowance, not a working budget.

Most no-code builders in this directory produce a web app or an internal tool. Thunkable produces an actual mobile app — something that ships to the App Store and Google Play with your icon on a user’s home screen, built by dragging components onto a phone-shaped canvas rather than writing Swift or Kotlin.

The AI layer sits on top of that drag-and-drop foundation: describe what a screen or a piece of logic should do, and it assembles the blocks rather than you wiring every condition by hand. It’s assistance inside a structured builder, not a from-scratch app generator the way Bolt.new or Lovable are for web apps — Thunkable’s ceiling is what the block system supports, which covers most small-business app needs (a loyalty app, a booking app, an internal field-service tool) without covering everything a custom-coded app could do.

AI tokens are the resource to watch across every tier — they’re consumed by the assistant’s help building and modifying the app, and the free tier’s 2,000 tokens will not get a real app very far, which makes this closer to a legitimate trial than an ongoing free option. Builder is the natural landing tier for anyone actually shipping to the stores, since it’s the first level with a live published app included.

Reported adoption (5M+ registered creators) skews toward education and small business rather than professional app studios, which tracks with the tool’s ceiling — it’s the right choice for someone who needs a real, installable app without hiring a mobile developer, not for a startup building its core product.

Alternatives

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Adalo

Builds and publishes native mobile apps by dragging components onto a screen, with an AI assistant generating the first working build from a description.

Checked 25 Sep 2026