Borel lets students make real iPhone apps by describing them in plain words, with no code and no Mac. Build the study tool your course needs, try it on a live iPhone in your browser for free, and keep it on your own phone.
Students who want a study tool that fits their own courses, not a generic one.
Anyone with a laptop, Windows or Mac, and an idea, but no time to learn Swift first.
Computer science and design students who want a working app for a portfolio or a project.
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 study planner
Every course, exam and deadline in one place, sorted by what is due first.
Prompt
Make a study planner. I add my courses, each with its exams and assignments and their due dates. The home screen shows what is due this week, soonest first, and I tick things off when they are done. Use a calm blue look with big, readable dates.
Paste lecture notes and let the app's AI turn them into cards that quiz you.
Prompt
Make a flashcard app. I paste my lecture notes and AI turns them into question and answer cards, grouped by subject. Quiz me one card at a time, bring back the cards I got wrong more often, and show how many days in a row I have studied.
One shared list of tasks for the whole group, with who does what.
Prompt
Make an app for my group project. Each of us signs in with email. We share one list of tasks with a name, who is doing it and a due date, and anyone can add a note or a photo to a task. Show my own tasks at the top.
Who paid for what, and who owes whom, without a spreadsheet.
Prompt
Make an app for me and my roommates to split shared costs. We each sign in, add what we paid for, like groceries or rent, and choose who it was for. The home screen shows who owes whom and how much, and we can mark a debt as settled.
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 each person in a group project or flat sees their own things.
A database
A cloud database Borel runs, so your planner or shared list is the same on every phone that signs in.
AI
Borel AI inside your app with no API key: turning notes into flashcards, summing up a reading, explaining a step.
A live iPhone preview
A live iPhone in your browser, free on every plan, so you can tap through the app before it goes anywhere.
Install on your iPhone
Borel Companion puts the app on your own iPhone with your Apple ID, with Pro, to revise on the way to class.
Publish to the App Store
When classmates want it too, Borel builds, signs and sends it to the App Store for you, with Pro.
Borel makes iPhone apps (they also run on iPad), not Android apps. Your own phone needs Pro and Borel Companion, and other people's phones need the App Store.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Borel runs in your browser on any computer, Windows and Chromebook included. The app is built on Borel's own Mac, and you try it on a live iPhone streamed into the page.
The free plan gives everyone 5 credits a day, up to 30 a month, and the live iPhone in your browser is free on every plan. Installing on your own iPhone and publishing to the App Store come with Pro.
That is up to your course's rules. The app is yours: you can download its SwiftUI code at any time, read it, and open it in Xcode on a Mac.
No. You describe what the app should do, Borel writes the Swift, and you change it by saying what to change. If you are learning Swift, reading the code Borel wrote is a way to see how a real app is put together.
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.