Borel vs GoodBarber
Both make native iPhone apps. Borel builds yours from a chat, with your code to keep.
GoodBarber and Borel both make native iPhone apps. GoodBarber is a no-code platform for content and shop apps, with no code export. Borel builds any app from a chat in Swift and SwiftUI, lets you download the code on any plan, and publishes without a Mac on Pro, from $20 a month.
Borel
GoodBarber
Native iPhone app
Download your code
Publish it yourself without a Mac
Free plan
Hosting and database built in
Why Borel
Describe any app in a chat, not only content and shop apps.
Download the SwiftUI project on any plan and open it in Xcode.
Borel's Mac builds, signs and uploads the app for you. No Mac of your own.
Native iPhone features, built in
- SwiftUI, with Liquid Glass
- Face ID
- Reminders and notifications
- Camera and scanning
- Location and Apple Maps
- AI chat
- Accounts, data and files
- Photo library
- Pictures from words
- Haptics
- Steps and motion
- Subscriptions and purchases
- Voice and speech
- Calendar
- Contacts
Choose Borel if
- You want to describe the app rather than assemble it.
- You want to own and download the code.
- You don't have a Mac.
What Borel costs
Free
5 credits a day, up to 30 a month
Pro
From $20 a month, or $16 a month, billed yearly
iOS Simulator
Free for everyone
Borel and GoodBarber: questions
Yes. GoodBarber says its apps are built in Swift and Kotlin, and Borel writes Swift with SwiftUI, compiled with Xcode on its own Mac. The difference is how you make the app and what you keep: Borel builds it from a chat, and the code is yours.
Not with Borel. Its Mac builds, signs and uploads the app to App Store Connect under your account. Apple asks for its Developer Program, $99 a year, for the App Store.
With Borel, yes, on any plan: the SwiftUI project, with an XcodeGen project.yml that opens in Xcode. GoodBarber is a managed platform that delivers the finished app rather than its code.
Anything you can describe that a Borel app can do: trackers, bookings, catalogues, small business tools and personal apps, with sign-in, a cloud database, storage, AI and in-app purchases built in.
Yes, on Pro. Borel Companion installs the real app on your iPhone from Windows or a Mac: a cable once, then Wi-Fi. A free Apple ID is enough for your own apps, up to three at a time, and Companion renews Apple's seven-day signature for you.
Yes. Borel's free plan gives 5 credits every day, up to 30 a month, and the iOS Simulator is free for everyone. Describe an app, watch Borel write it in Swift and run it in the simulator before you pay. Pro starts at $20 a month.
Try it with your own idea
Describe the app you want and see its first screens before you pay anything.
See your app free