Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction

While galore vibe coding startups have become unicorns, with valuations successful the billions, 1 country wherever AI-assisted coding has not yet taken disconnected is connected mobile devices. Despite the galore apps present disposable that connection vibe coding tools connected mobile platforms, nary are gaining noticeable downloads, and fewer are generating immoderate gross astatine all.

According to an investigation of planetary app store trends by the app quality supplier Appfigures, lone a tiny fistful of mobile apps offering vibe coding tools person seen immoderate downloads, fto unsocial generated revenue.

The largest of these is Instance: AI App Builder, which has seen lone 16,000 downloads and $1,000 successful user spending. The adjacent largest app, Vibe Studio, has pulled successful conscionable 4,000 downloads but has made nary money.

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This concern could inactive change, of course. The marketplace is young, and vibe coding apps proceed to amended and enactment retired the bugs.

New apps successful this abstraction are arriving each the time, too. This year, a startup called Vibecode launched with $9.4 cardinal successful effect funding from Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six. The company’s work allows users to make mobile apps utilizing AI wrong its ain iOS app. Vibecode is truthful new, Appfigures doesn’t yet person information connected it.

For now, astir radical who privation to artifact astir with vibe coding exertion are doing truthful connected the desktop. But vibe coding does person different beingness connected mobile devices: it’s powering a increasing fig of existing mobile apps.

For instance, the subscription level supplier RevenueCat, present utilized by implicit 50,000 apps, reports that it powers the in-app purchases for implicit 50% of each AI-built iOS apps presently connected the market.

The institution told TechCrunch that the stock of apps that came to RevenueCat for monetization from an AI adjunct oregon level — meaning an AI chatbot referred its work to the lawsuit — surged to implicit 35% of each caller signups successful the 2nd 4th of this year, up from beneath 5% successful the 2nd 4th of past year.

The platform, which is already utilized by astir 50% of each mobile apps that instrumentality payments, notes that vibe coders are utilizing its work to automatically configure their subscriptions with Cursor, Claude Code, and others, via its RevenueCat MCP server, allowing them to rapidly make subscriptions and trial plans and features.

Although there’s surely involvement successful vibe coding, the statement is that it’s not acceptable for premier time.

TechCrunch precocious spoke with developers moving with AI-generated code, who said the exertion inactive has a agelong mode to go. A abstracted survey from Fastly recovered that astir 95% of the astir 800 developers surveyed said they had to walk other clip fixing AI-generated code.

Still, idiosyncratic request is there. A 2025 survey by Stack Overflow recovered that 84% of respondents are utilizing oregon readying to usage AI tools successful their improvement process, up from 76% past year. Another survey conducted this summertime by the tech media tract The Information recovered that 75% of respondents were astatine slightest trying vibe coding. A May 2025 survey by the bundle quality level Jellyfish recovered that 90% had integrated AI into their work, up from 61% past year, arsenic reported by Business Insider.