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.
A working app is not one thing, it is six: an app on each store, public web pages, an admin portal, an API and a database. Most builders give you some of them and leave the rest for you to stand up, host and publish yourself.
Able2 does not charge more for the others, or add them 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 listing
Android 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.
Screens above are from a demo studio on Able2. The live, real-customer versions are linked below.
Go and look at it running
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, make a free account and open Discover. Every app you can browse there 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. Everyone inside an Able2 app has an account, so you will have one too — the app and the account are free, and being a member of an app never costs anything.
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.
Able2 itself runs in a browser too, if you would rather not install anything. Register at app.able2.now to use it on the web, or create your own app in the admin portal.
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 |
What it costs to keep it running
None of this is charged by Able2, and none of it is charged by an AI builder either. It is simply what an app costs once the code is finished — and who it falls on depends entirely on whose app store account it is published under.
Apple Developer Program
Publishing an app of your own
US$99 a year, for as long as you want the app to stay listed. Apple’s published fee, checked 18 September 2026.
On Able2
Not needed. Your app runs inside Able2, which is already on the App Store under our account. You only hold your own if you take the white-label path later.
Google Play Developer
Publishing an app of your own
US$25, once, before you can publish anything at all. Google’s published fee, checked 18 September 2026.
On Able2
Not needed, for the same reason — Able2 is already published on Google Play.
Hosting
Publishing an app of your own
Monthly, and it grows with your traffic. Somebody has to run the thing that was generated for you.
On Able2
Part of your plan. Your members are using our infrastructure, so a busy month is our problem rather than a bigger invoice.
Database
Publishing an app of your own
Monthly, and it grows with your data — plus backups, and somebody whose job it is to own them.
On Able2
Part of your plan, backed up, and not something you administer.
AI usage at runtime
Publishing an app of your own
Per use, forever. If a generated feature calls a model, it calls it again for every member, every time they touch it.
On Able2
Nothing. Features on Able2 do not call a model when your members use them, so usage costs you nothing at any volume.
Store review
Publishing an app of your own
Days, and again on every update. A rejected build restarts the clock.
On Able2
None. Your app is live the day you build it, and a change takes effect when you save it.
| Compared on | Publishing an app of your own | On Able2 |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Developer Program | US$99 a year, for as long as you want the app to stay listed. Apple’s published fee, checked 18 September 2026. | Not needed. Your app runs inside Able2, which is already on the App Store under our account. You only hold your own if you take the white-label path later. |
| Google Play Developer | US$25, once, before you can publish anything at all. Google’s published fee, checked 18 September 2026. | Not needed, for the same reason — Able2 is already published on Google Play. |
| Hosting | Monthly, and it grows with your traffic. Somebody has to run the thing that was generated for you. | Part of your plan. Your members are using our infrastructure, so a busy month is our problem rather than a bigger invoice. |
| Database | Monthly, and it grows with your data — plus backups, and somebody whose job it is to own them. | Part of your plan, backed up, and not something you administer. |
| AI usage at runtime | Per use, forever. If a generated feature calls a model, it calls it again for every member, every time they touch it. | Nothing. Features on Able2 do not call a model when your members use them, so usage costs you nothing at any volume. |
| Store review | Days, and again on every update. A rejected build restarts the clock. | None. Your app is live the day you build it, and a change takes effect when you save it. |
One column the table does not need: what your members pay is nothing. Able2 is free to install, joining an app is free, and we never charge the people who use one — only the organisation running it, on a plan that does not rise as more people join.
Apple's and Google's fees are their own publicly listed rates, checked on 18 September 2026. They are set by Apple and Google, not by Able2.
The one that compounds
Every other row is a fixed cost. That 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 from the feature library spends nothing at all, and the AI builder spends your allowance only while you are creating — 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
Wave Wellness
Health & Wellness
Memory Vine
Family
EventBetter
Events
Transformed Brisbane
Community
ReHuman
Support
Runway 2025
Venture Capital
Alyra
Health & Medical
Something Tech Brisbane
Tech
Queensland AI Summit
Conference
Tech Verge
Conference
TEDxUQ
TEDx
TEDxAthens
TEDx
TEDxMelbourne
TEDx
Creative Brain Week Australia
Conference
Australian Fashion
Retail
Tropical Innovation Festival
Events
AISIS 2024
Conference
TEDxBrisbane
TEDxThe questions people actually ask
Is "no credits" really true?
Yes for running it, and mostly yes for building it. Nothing your members do costs you anything: features built on Able2 do not call an AI model when they are used, so a thousand people opening your app spends what one person spends — nothing. Building from the existing library is free as well. Able2 ships a large set of configurable features, and switching them on and setting them up never touches your AbleCoin allowance; most apps go live on that alone. Coins are for the AI builder, which you need only for the one thing that is specific to you and is not in the library already. The single flat charge is 500 coins to create an additional app from inside the admin.
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.
Does it cost anything to be a member of an app?
No. Able2 is free to install from either store, making an account is free, and joining an organisation’s app is free. We never charge the people who use an app — only the organisation that runs it, and their plan does not go up as more people join, because there is no per-member pricing at any tier. Plenty of the apps you can browse cost nothing to use at all. The only time money changes hands is when an organisation has chosen to sell something inside their own app — a ticket, a product, a booking — and that payment goes to them through their own Stripe account, not to us.
Can I look around before I build anything?
Yes, in two different ways. Browsing what other organisations have built happens inside Able2 itself — on iOS, on Android, or in a browser at app.able2.now — and that needs an account, because everybody inside an Able2 app has one. It is free and takes a moment. Separately, the public pages those apps produce need nothing at all: a storefront, an event, a booking page or a form opens in any browser for anyone with the link, with no app and no sign-in.
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.