Changelog

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New

• Full size preview. A Full size button next to the device sizes drops the window frame and shows your page at its real size, filling the whole preview area. It works in every studio.
• About tab in Settings. Settings → About shows the AppBlips version you’re running (desktop app or browser version), links to the website and source code, and a Report a bug link that opens a new issue on GitHub.

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Improved

• Preview toolbar: Rotate, Full size and a new Reload button are always in the same place, so the toolbar no longer shifts when you switch devices. Buttons that don’t apply to the current view are greyed out.
• Phone and tablet previews: no desktop-style browser bar, just like a real phone or tablet. While the AI is testing your page, its status and Stop button appear in the preview toolbar instead.
• Images in games: the Game Studio can use Pollinations to make title art, backgrounds and sprites.
• Questions about connectors: in Ask mode, the AI knows which services you’ve connected, instead of wrongly saying it can’t use them.
• Guided tour: updated for Publish, Full size, Reload, importing a site and Settings → Connectors. Imported sites get their own steps.

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Look and feel

• In the dark theme, the live code card on the building screen has a soft white border instead of a red one.
• The guided tour’s cards stand out clearly against the dark theme.

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New

• Pollinations connector for AI images and AI features. Connect your Pollinations account in Settings → Connectors → Pollinations, then ask the AI for:
  • Generated images: custom pictures instead of stock photos. When you publish or export, the images are copied into your site, so they stay online with it.
  • AI features: chatbots, writing helpers, image generators and more, inside the websites and apps you build. You choose who pays when visitors use them: Visitors use their own Pollen (the default) or My key pays.
  The AI only uses Pollinations when you ask for images or AI features. Your sign-in stays inside AppBlips and is never written into your projects. Using Pollinations through AppBlips costs 25% more than using it directly, and the extra supports AppBlips. See Connectors.
• Token usage in the chat. Each reply shows how many tokens it used, and a live counter counts up while the AI works. Both are marked “(estimate)”, because AI providers count tokens differently.

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Improved

• Surge in Connectors: a Surge tile in Settings → Connectors lets you sign in, create an account or sign out without publishing anything.
• Sharing a published site: the share buttons in the Publish window show each service’s logo.
• Onboarding: setup is split into three short steps: your name, your chat avatar, then your AI provider.
• Code tab: shown by default.
• Chat bubbles: the rewind button sits inside your message, next to copy. The copy button is easier to see in the dark theme.
• Renamed button: “Browser view” is now Preview.

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Look and feel

• New wave-and-blip app icon, shown next to the AppBlips name throughout the app.
• Refreshed preview background in dark mode.
• The building screen is easier to read in the light theme.
• Connector icons no longer sit on a coloured square.

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For developers

• npm run dev only answers on your own computer (localhost). Use npm run dev -- --host to open it to your network.

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Improved

• Updates for the Microsoft Store version: AppBlips now tells you when a new version is out and links to its Store page, since the Store can take a few days to install it on its own.

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Look and feel

• The build pane uses neutral greys in the dark theme. Your messages and the AI’s replies are easier to tell apart.
• The message box has more contrast in the dark theme, and Send lights up when there is text to send.

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New

• Publish to the web with Surge. One click puts an app, website or game online at a free <name>.surge.sh address with HTTPS. Sign in to (or create) your own Surge account in the Publish window. A project that’s already online shows Update site and Unpublish. See Publishing.
• More connectors: Square (payment links for buy, pay and donate buttons), tawk.to (live chat), and Umami and Plausible (visitor analytics).
• Prompts to try: every connector page has ready-made requests with Copy buttons.
• Request a connector: a form at the end of Settings → Connectors sends your suggestion to the AppBlips team.

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Improved

• Starter ideas: each studio has dozens of ideas, shuffled every launch. Browse them with the arrow keys or by swiping.
• Copy buttons in every chat bubble.
• Onboarding asks for your name and a chat avatar.
• Factory reset now replays first-run setup.
• Theme toggle (sun and moon) on the studio picker.

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Look and feel

• Restyled preview toolbar, with readable buttons in the light theme.
• Connector cards show each service’s logo and link to its website.
• Brand-red accents on the studio picker and the selected preview device.

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New

• Connectors. A new Settings → Connectors tab lists services the AI can wire into your projects, starting with Web3Forms: with it turned on, forms in your sites send their entries to you. Each connector has a How it works dialog.
• Licenses tab in Settings, listing the open source software AppBlips includes.
• Setup steps after a build. When a project needs something only you can supply, such as an API key, the AI’s last message ends with numbered steps.

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Improved

• Code Review asks Fix problems or Not now before fixing anything. Its screenshots cover whole pages, and every problem it reports must point to a screenshot that shows it.
• Settings asks you to confirm before clearing your saved AI provider.
• The first-visit tour invitation goes away on its own.
• The project name is treated as a name, not as instructions for the AI.
• Fixed: the Linux .deb package showed a generic icon in the launcher.
• A security issue was fixed.

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Look and feel

• Light themes for the studio picker, the first-build screen and the building phone.
• New AppBlips wordmark on the studio picker, setup and empty preview screens.
• The setup screen has a monochrome look and works properly on phones.
• Interface text can no longer be highlighted by accident. Chat messages and fields can still be selected and copied.

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Improved

• Windows: AppBlips for Windows now comes only from the Microsoft Store, which is signed and updates itself. GitHub releases no longer include a Windows installer.
• Projects folder: new installs save projects in AppData instead of Documents. Existing installs keep their folder.
• Code Review is marked beta and is off by default for new installs.
• The preview’s address bar shows your project name.
• A Discord link was added to the studio picker.
• Fixed: the preview lost its scroll bar after applying a click-to-edit change.
• Docker: the voice input model is no longer downloaded again on every rebuild.

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New

• Microsoft Store version for Windows 10 (version 1809) and later.
• Voice input. Speak your prompt into the microphone. Speech is turned into text on your own computer, so no audio leaves it.
• Paste screenshots straight into the message box.

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Improved

• Anthropic is the default AI provider, and prompt caching makes repeat requests to it cheaper.
• Build mode answers questions instead of changing your project when you only ask something.
• Drag to move is smoother, and the preview no longer flashes when it updates.
• The live code window stays visible for the whole build.
• Updates install quietly and restart AppBlips.
• New app icon.

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Improved

• The Reasoning setting (previously “Reasoning: building”) also applies to edits and automatic repairs.
• More safety checks when importing a site from a .zip.
• A legal footer was added to the studio picker.

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New

• Browser version. Run AppBlips from source or with Docker and use it in your browser. See Run from source and Docker.

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Improved

• Review checks your app at mobile, tablet and desktop sizes and reports layout problems such as sideways scrolling, broken images and missing labels.
• Reasoning for builds defaults to Low.
• Fixed: click-to-edit failed on text that contained styled words.
• Security fixes found by code scanning.

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New

• Import a site. Open your own React + Vite project from a .zip, edit it with the AI and export it again. A Files tab lets you browse and preview its files. See Importing sites.
• Anthropic as an AI provider.
• Output tokens setting under Settings → AI.

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Improved

• Long builds no longer get cut off halfway: AppBlips asks for more room and continues replies that stop early.
• Clearer messages when error checking finds a problem.
• Fixed: a false “unsaved changes” warning.

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For developers

• Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I opens the developer tools in the desktop app.

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New

• React apps. The App studio builds apps with React.

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Improved

• Better review after each build.

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New

• More AI providers: connect directly to OpenAI, Gemini or DeepSeek, alongside OpenRouter, or use a model on your own computer with LM Studio or Ollama.
• Model lists: load and refresh the models your provider offers, or type a model ID yourself.

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Improved

• Device previews show your computer’s current time.
• Each release includes a SHA256SUMS.txt file so you can check your download. See Code signing policy.

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Improved

• Desktop only. AppBlips became a single-user desktop app. The online studio, with its accounts and paid plans, was removed, and Export became the way to take your app out of AppBlips.
• A first-run setup screen helps you connect your own AI key.
• Fixed: some generated apps crashed because two copies of Preact loaded.

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New

• First tagged release. It included the App, Website and Game studios, a live preview with phone, tablet and desktop frames, click-to-edit and drag to move, Build and Ask modes, version history, and export to HTML or ZIP.