Proof
Everything below is already running.
Most AI app builders finish by handing you a codebase. That is the moment the real work starts — hosting, a database, a developer account, a review queue. Able2 finishes by handing you software your members can open.
The app is on both stores. The organisations using it are named. Go and check.
The app your app lives in — already published
One build. Six surfaces.
These are not things you can add later. They exist the moment your app does, because they already existed before you arrived.
iPhone app
Published on the App Store
Your app runs inside Able2, which is already on the App Store. You do not submit anything, hold a developer account, or wait on a review queue.
Open the App Store listingAndroid app
Published on Google Play
The same app, already live on Google Play. Updates to the platform reach your members without you shipping a build.
Open the Google Play listingPublic web pages
Open in any browser, no app, no account
Your storefront, event tickets, forms and bookings each get a public web page anyone can open and use — including people who never install the app.
Admin portal
A real web back office
Members, content, events, orders, forms and payouts — managed from a browser. Not a database viewer with a login on top.
Log inThe API
The same API the apps run on
The phone app, the admin portal and the public web pages are all clients of one documented API. There is no separate "real" backend you are kept away from.
The database
Multi-tenant, backed up, exportable
Members, content and orders live in a managed production database with your data separated from every other tenant. You can export it.
Try it right now, without an account
Not a sandbox, not a video, not a screenshot of a demo tenant. These are the production surfaces real organisations are running on today.
On your phone
Install Able2 and browse the public apps inside it. Every one you can open was built by somebody else on this platform — which is the point. You are not looking at our demo, you are looking at their app, on the same install you would be using tomorrow.
In this browser
Not everything your community sells should require an app install. Every storefront, event, booking and form on Able2 also gets a web page that works with no app and no account — your storefront at a public address you can put on a poster, and each event, booking or form at a private link you send to whoever should have it. Same backend, different front door.
Public pages are created by each organisation for their own events, products, forms and bookings — so the live examples worth linking change over time. Build a free app and you will have your own within minutes.
Where the two roads diverge
Prompt-to-app tools are genuinely good at reaching a working prototype quickly. The difference is what each of you does the day after that.
What you get at the end
AI app builders
A codebase — a web app, or React Native source
Able2
Running software your members can open
Getting onto the App Store
AI app builders
Your developer account, your certificates, your review queue
Able2
Already there. Nothing to submit.
The backend
AI app builders
You provision a database and wire up auth yourself
Able2
Accounts, permissions, push, payments — already running
Admin tools
AI app builders
Build one, or hand out database access
Able2
Admin portal included
What your users cost you
AI app builders
Features that call an AI cost tokens every single time someone uses them
Able2
Generated features never call an AI at runtime. Using them costs nothing.
Accounts and keys you hold
AI app builders
Hosting, database, AI provider, and both app stores
Able2
None
Taking payments
AI app builders
Wire up a payment provider yourself
Able2
Built in — money lands in your own Stripe account
Time until a stranger can use it
AI app builders
Export, build, sign, submit, wait for review
Able2
Day one
| Compared on | AI app builders | Able2 |
|---|---|---|
| What you get at the end | A codebase — a web app, or React Native source | Running software your members can open |
| Getting onto the App Store | Your developer account, your certificates, your review queue | Already there. Nothing to submit. |
| The backend | You provision a database and wire up auth yourself | Accounts, permissions, push, payments — already running |
| Admin tools | Build one, or hand out database access | Admin portal included |
| What your users cost you | Features that call an AI cost tokens every single time someone uses them | Generated features never call an AI at runtime. Using them costs nothing. |
| Accounts and keys you hold | Hosting, database, AI provider, and both app stores | None |
| Taking payments | Wire up a payment provider yourself | Built in — money lands in your own Stripe account |
| Time until a stranger can use it | Export, build, sign, submit, wait for review | Day one |
The bill that arrives later
None of these appear on a builder's pricing page, because none of them are charged by the builder. They are still yours to pay.
- Apple Developer ProgramUS$99 / yearRequired to put anything on the App Store.
- Google Play DeveloperUS$25 one-offRequired to publish on Google Play.
- HostingMonthly, scales with trafficSomeone has to run the thing you generated.
- DatabaseMonthly, scales with dataPlus backups, and someone to own them.
- AI usage at runtimePer use, foreverIf a generated feature calls a model, every member who touches it spends your money.
- Store review timeDays, and again on every updateA rejected build restarts the clock.
Third-party prices are the publicly listed rates at time of writing and are set by Apple and Google, not by Able2.
The one that compounds
Everything else on that list is a fixed cost. The last one is not. If a generated feature calls an AI model, it calls it again for every member, every time — so the more your community uses the thing you built, the more it costs you to keep it running.
Features built on Able2 don't call a model when they run. Building with AI spends your monthly allowance; being used by ten thousand people spends nothing.
19 of these are not demos
Real organisations, running on the platform today. Install Able2 from either store and you can browse the public ones yourself.
Boxing IQ
Sports
SheHoops
Sports
Wave Wellness
Health & Wellness
Memory Vine
Family
Kitchen Remedy
Health & Wellness
EventBetter
Events
MyBiz Network
Business
Transformed Brisbane
Community
ReHuman
Support
Runway 2025
Venture Capital
Maggie's Legacy
Wellbeing
Alyra
Health & Medical
Something Tech Brisbane
Tech
Queensland AI Summit
Conference
Tech Verge
Conference
TEDxUQ
TEDx
TEDxAthens
TEDx
TEDxMelbourne
TEDx
Creative Brain Week Australia
ConferenceThe questions people actually ask
Is "no credits" really true?
For running your app, yes — features built on Able2 do not call an AI model when your members use them, so no amount of usage burns tokens. Building with the AI tools does spend your monthly AbleCoin allowance. The distinction matters: your costs are tied to how much you create, never to how many people use what you made.
Is my app really on the App Store, or is it a web page pretending?
It genuinely runs inside the Able2 app, which is a native app published on the App Store and Google Play. Your members install Able2 and open your app inside it. On Pro there is a path to your own separately-listed white-label app as an add-on.
What does "live on day one" actually mean?
That your members can open and use it the day you build it, because the app, the backend and the web pages are already deployed. You switch each capability on yourself in the admin portal — nothing waits on us, on a build, or on a store review. One thing does change with your plan: a Free app is unlisted, so members join through a link you share with them. Having your app discoverable inside Able2, so strangers can find it without a link, starts on Community.
Can I see it working without signing up?
Yes. Install Able2 from either store and browse the public apps, or open one of the public web pages above — storefronts, event pages, forms and booking pages all work in a browser with no account at all.
What happens to my data if I leave?
It is yours and it is exportable. Members, content and orders can be exported from the admin portal.
The fastest way to check any of this is to build one.
The free plan needs no card, has no member limit, and puts a real app on a real phone.
Or read the guides first — they are written to be useful whether or not you ever buy Able2.