Borel lets families make their own iPhone apps for the way their household really runs, by describing them. A chore chart with your children's names, the week's meal plan or the shopping list everyone adds to can be on your iPhone without the App Store.
Parents who want a chore chart or routine that matches their own house rules.
Households who share shopping, meals and plans between several phones.
Anyone who wants an app just for their own family, not for the App Store.
App ideas
Apps to make, with a prompt for each
Paste a prompt into Borel as it is, or change it to fit. Borel builds it while you watch.
A chore chart
Each child's jobs for the day, with stars that add up to a treat.
Prompt
Make a chore chart for my family. I add each child with a colour and their daily chores. They tick chores off and earn a star for each, and ten stars unlock a treat I choose. Show today's chores big and friendly, with each child's stars at the top.
Make a shared shopping list for our household. Each of us signs in, and we all see the same list. Items are grouped by aisle, like fruit, dairy and frozen, and ticked items move to the bottom. Show who added each item.
Seven dinners, the recipes behind them and what to buy.
Prompt
Make a weekly meal planner. I pick a dinner for each day from our saved recipes, and it builds the shopping list from their ingredients. AI suggests a recipe when I tell it what is in the fridge. Use warm colours and big photos of the food.
Photos and short notes by date, a scrolling year of moments.
Prompt
Make a family memory book. I add a photo and a short note to a day, and the app shows a scrolling timeline by month, with a one-year-ago memory at the top. Keep everything private to our family's accounts.
Every app is native Swift, written and built for you. These parts come with it, with nothing to set up.
Accounts
Sign-in with email and password, so everyone in the family sees the same list on their own phone.
A database
A cloud database Borel runs, so a tick on one phone shows on the others, and storage for your photos.
AI
Borel AI with no API key: a recipe from what is in the fridge, a bedtime story, a gentle reminder written for a child.
A live iPhone preview
A live iPhone in your browser, free on every plan, to try it with the family before it goes on a phone.
Install on your iPhone
Borel Companion puts the app on your iPhone with your Apple ID, with Pro: no App Store and no developer account.
Publish to the App Store
If other families would like it too, Borel can publish it to the App Store, with Pro.
With a free Apple ID, your iPhone holds 3 of your apps at a time, and Borel Companion renews each one every 7 days while it runs on your computer. Installing needs Pro.
Frequently asked questions
No. Borel Companion, with Pro, installs the app on your own iPhone with your Apple ID: a cable the first time, then Wi-Fi. The App Store is only for sharing it with the public.
Yes. Ask for sign-in and a shared list, and Borel gives the app accounts and a cloud database it runs, so everyone sees the same items on their own phone.
The app shows what you ask it to show. Tell Borel who should see what, for example that a memory book is only for your family's accounts, and it builds the app that way.
Describe your app
Start from one of the prompts above, or say it in your own words. Trying it on the live iPhone is free.