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AppBlips turns a plain-English description into a working, interactive app in one step. Type what you want in the prompt box, press build, and watch your app appear in the live preview alongside it — no project setup, no files to juggle, no build step to run. Once it’s built, you can keep refining it with follow-up prompts until it’s exactly what you had in mind.

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Writing Your First Prompt

Start by describing what you want in ordinary language. You don’t need to mention React, HTML, or any technical details — just describe the app as you would to a friend. A few examples to get you started:
The more specific you are, the better the result. Name the features you want, describe how they should behave, and mention any constraints (like “keep it to a single screen” or “use a dark background”). Vague prompts produce generic apps; detailed prompts produce apps that match your vision.

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Prompt Techniques

List the individual things your app needs to do rather than describing it at a high level. Instead of “a budget app,” try “a monthly budget tracker where I can add income and expense items with a category and amount, and see a running total at the bottom.” The AI builds exactly what you describe, so covering the details up front saves revision rounds.
If you have a look in mind, say so. Mention colors (“a dark navy background with white text”), layout (“two columns side by side”), or a general aesthetic (“minimal and clean, like a notes app”). You can also reference familiar design patterns: “a card-based layout” or “a sidebar navigation.”
If your app works with a list, a table, or structured data, describe that structure in your prompt. For example: “a task list where each item has a title, a due date, a priority (low / medium / high), and a done checkbox.” The more you define the shape of the data, the more accurate the generated forms and displays will be.
Don’t assume AppBlips will add interactive behavior unless you ask for it. Be explicit: “clicking a card should expand it to show the full description,” or “the list should be sortable by clicking the column headers.” Describing the user actions you expect produces apps that actually behave the way you want.

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Attaching Images

You can drop a screenshot, mockup, or reference image directly into the prompt area alongside your description. AppBlips will use the image as a visual reference when generating your app — useful when you want to recreate an existing layout, match a design you’ve sketched, or base your app on something you’ve seen elsewhere. To attach an image, drag and drop it onto the build pane or use the image attachment button next to the prompt input. You can combine an image with a written prompt: for example, attach a screenshot of a form and write “build this, but replace the file upload field with a text area.”

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Refining with Follow-up Prompts

After your app is built, you don’t need to start over to make changes. Type a follow-up prompt describing what you want to adjust and AppBlips will update the app accordingly. Each refinement creates a new version in your history, so you can always go back if a change doesn’t land the way you expected. Follow-up prompts work the same way as your first prompt — plain English, no code required:
You can chain as many refinements as you like. Each one picks up from the current version of the app.

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Reasoning Effort

The Reasoning Effort setting controls how much time the AI spends thinking before it writes your app. You can set it to Off, Low, Medium, or High from Settings → AI. Higher reasoning effort produces better results for tricky prompts, but takes longer and uses more tokens. Start with Low or Medium and increase it only if the output isn’t meeting your expectations.

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Clarifying Questions

AppBlips can ask you a short round of clarifying questions before generating your app, helping it nail the details that matter most to you. Toggle this on or off in Settings → AI with the Clarifying questions switch. When the toggle is on and your prompt leaves room for interpretation, AppBlips will pause before building and ask a few targeted questions — things like what data the app should work with, how a particular interaction should behave, or what the layout should prioritize. Answer them and AppBlips will use your answers to produce a more accurate first build. If you prefer to just hit go and refine afterward, turn the toggle off.
Once your app is built, you can also edit it visually by pointing and clicking on any element. See Editing Apps to learn how.