Rork Max Ships a One-Shot App Builder That Replaces Xcode Across Apple's Entire Ecosystem
A new AI tool claims to generate production-ready native apps for iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Apple TV, and Vision Pro from a single prompt — no Xcode required. If it works as demonstrated, it represents the most aggressive no-code assault on Apple's developer toolchain to date.
Rork Max launched Thursday with a demo video that stopped the iOS developer community mid-scroll: a fully autonomous app builder that takes a natural language prompt and produces native Swift apps across Apple's entire hardware lineup — iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro — in a single generation pass. As @rork_app announced, the tool is "AI that one-shots almost any app," powered by Claude Code and Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model, with Swift as the compilation target.
The demo reel is ambitious to the point of provocation. One clip appears to show the system generating a Pokémon Go-style app with AR overlays and 3D rendering, the kind of project that would typically require a team of engineers working across ARKit, SceneKit, and MapKit for weeks. Other demos show utility apps, watchOS complications, and tvOS interfaces generated from brief text descriptions. The system apparently handles project scaffolding, asset generation, and build configuration without requiring the developer to open Xcode at all.
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