AI app builder for macOS

Build the app you want, not just what you need.

The Forge handles the hard parts of vibecoding — writing the spec, tracking the features, and building the code with AI — all in one window, all on your Mac.

The Forge

macOS 12+ · Apple Silicon · bring your own AI key

How it works

From an idea to a running app without leaving one window — and without you writing the boilerplate.

01

Interview

Answer questions about what you're building. The Forge locks a clear, versioned spec.

02

Build with AI

An in-app agent implements each feature against your repo, feature by feature.

03

Run & Preview

Launch it on a simulator or emulator and watch it live, with hot reload.

04

Ship

It updates your docs, commits, and pushes — then tracks what's next.

What it does

A project manager and a builder, in one.

Talk it through, get a spec

A guided interview turns a rough idea into a locked, versioned spec — with the LLM judging when each answer is actually clear enough to build from.

Build with AI

An in-app implementation agent writes real code into your repo — targeted edits, not full rewrites — gated on a clean analyze pass, streaming its work so you can watch.

A tracker that thinks

A feature board with AI tools built in: scan your repo for what exists, recommend what to build next, plan the build order into versions, and dedupe.

Run & Preview

Run your app on a simulator or emulator and watch it live inside The Forge — it even boots the simulator for you — with hot reload and the build console right there.

Architect the hard parts

It spots the features too big to one-shot, breaks them into properly sized sub-tasks, and refuses to fake work it can't do — like an ML model that needs a real dataset.

Yours, and private

Bring your own key — Ollama Cloud, Claude, or OpenAI. Your keys are stored encrypted in the macOS Keychain, the app is signed & notarized, and there's a built-in security check.

What you build with it

Runs on

macOS

A native Mac app. Signed and notarized by Apple — no scary "unidentified developer" warning.

Builds

Flutter apps

Target iOS, Android, macOS, and web from one codebase — The Forge scaffolds, builds, and runs them for you.

Bring your own

AI key

Point it at Ollama Cloud, Claude, or OpenAI. You choose the models; you own the usage.

Made for people building their first real app — and their tenth.

Get it

Download The Forge.

macOS

Signed & notarized by Apple. Ready today.

Download for macOS

Apple Silicon · macOS 12+ · ~12 MB

What you need

  • A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 12 or newer.
  • An API key from Ollama Cloud, Anthropic (Claude), or OpenAI.
  • To build & run apps: the Flutter SDK (and Xcode for iOS).

Open the DMG, drag The Forge to Applications, launch. Your API keys stay in your Keychain.