Borel vs Newly

Native SwiftUI, a free plan, and your iPhone with a free Apple ID.

Newly builds React Native apps, has no free plan and starts at $25 a month. Borel writes native SwiftUI, starts free with 5 credits every day, up to 30 a month and costs $20 a month for Pro, and it installs the real app on your iPhone with a free Apple ID.

Feature

Borel

Newly

Code

BorelSwiftUI
NewlyReact Native

Free plan

BorelYes
NewlyNo

Paid plans from

Borel$20 a month
Newly$25 a month

On your iPhone with a free Apple ID

BorelYes
NewlyNo

Submits your app to Apple

BorelYes
NewlyNo

iOS Simulator in the browser

BorelYes
NewlyYes

Backend built in

BorelYes
NewlyYes

Why Borel

  • Start free: 5 credits every day, up to 30 a month.

  • Native SwiftUI, from $20 a month.

  • Install the real app on your iPhone with Borel Companion and a free Apple ID.

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
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Choose Borel if

  • You want to start for free.
  • You want native SwiftUI, not React Native.
  • You want your app on your iPhone without TestFlight or a paid Apple account.

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

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Borel and Newly: questions

natively.dev now leads to newly.app. Newly builds apps with React Native and Expo. Borel writes native Swift and SwiftUI, Apple's own language and framework, and builds every app with Xcode on Borel's Mac.

Borel has one: 5 credits every day, up to 30 a month, and the iOS Simulator is free for everyone. Newly has no free plan, and a new account starts with no credits.

Borel Pro starts at $20 a month, or $16 a month billed yearly, and includes App Store publishing. Newly's smallest plan is $25 a month. Apple's paid Developer Program is needed to publish with either.

On Borel, yes. Borel Companion installs your app with a free Apple ID, up to three apps at a time, and renews Apple's seven-day signature for you. On Newly, testing on an iPhone goes through TestFlight and the paid Apple Developer Program.

Yes. Borel builds your app, uploads it and submits it to Apple for you from the browser. Newly uploads the build and leaves submitting for review to you in App Store Connect.

No. Borel runs Xcode on its own Mac and streams the iOS Simulator to your browser, so you can build, test and publish a native iPhone app from a Windows PC or a Mac. Borel Companion, for Windows and Mac, puts the app on your iPhone.

Yes. AI, data, sign-in and storage are built into every Borel app, with no keys to paste or services to set up. Describe a feature, such as accounts or saved notes, and Borel wires it into your SwiftUI app.

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