Built by a group of ex-Apple employees who co-created SwiftUI, Bitrig now lets you build iPhone apps right from your Mac through prompts. Here are the details.
Another vibe coding option lands on the Mac
Last October, Bitrig launched on the App Store, letting users build SwiftUI apps directly from their iPhones.
Now the team behind the app has released a Mac version of the platform, which they tell 9to5Mac was one of the most commonly requested additions since the iOS launch.
As Bitrig explains it, the new Mac app generates actual Swift and SwiftUI code and builds apps that users can ship to TestFlight or even the App Store, if they so desire.
In addition, users may find it more comfortable to use the app on a larger screen, with a full keyboard and the full Xcode toolchain, giving them access to every framework in the iOS SDK.
Bitrig for Mac supports image and screenshot uploads and offers an integrated iPhone simulator, allowing users to preview and interact with the app to get a better idea of how the project is progressing. Users can also send the app to a connected iPhone with one click, making on-device testing even easier.
Users can read and edit code by hand, which is also a nice way to get acquainted with Apple’s development language’s syntax and general structure. Bitrig for Mac also lets users export their code as a standalone Xcode project, and go from there.
Bitrig works on a message credit system: free accounts get 5 daily credits (up to 30 per month), while Plus accounts receive between 200 and 1,600 monthly credits, depending on the tier they subscribe to.
Subscribers can share their credits between Mac and iOS, and unused credits roll over to the next month, as long as the subscription remains active.
Bitrig for Mac requires macOS Sequoia 15 or later, and you can learn more about it here.
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