Yes. Ruby Native apps include native components that satisfy Apple's guideline 4.2 (Minimum Functionality): a native tab bar, push notifications, and proper app assets. These are what separate a real app from a wrapped website in Apple's eyes. Built by a developer who has shipped 30+ apps with the underlying technology. The Turnkey option includes review handling if you want a hands-off experience. Learn more about App Store review.

Yes. Ruby Native builds your Android app for Google Play the same way it builds your iOS app, and apps built with Ruby Native are already live there. Your Rails backend doesn't need to change. Read the Android docs.

PWAs don't get a real presence in the app stores. Ruby Native gives you a real native app with a native tab bar, push notifications, and an actual store listing. Users find you in the store, not via a browser prompt.

Hotwire Native gives you more control but requires writing Swift and Kotlin code. Ruby Native is for teams who want to be in the app stores without touching native code.

You can, and it will hand you a working shell in an afternoon. Then you own it: two codebases in languages nobody on your team reads, certificates and profiles, App Store review, and whatever September's iOS release breaks. Since spring the changelog has fixed dozens of platform edge cases, from keyboards covering inputs on older Android WebViews to an OAuth cookie that could route sign-in to the wrong app, and an agent-written shell ships with every one of them until your users find them. AI moved the cost of the first build to nearly nothing and left the cost of the fifth year where it was. Ruby Native is priced against the fifth year. If you would rather own the native layer, Hotwire Native is the right call, and the source you download from us is a normal Xcode and Android Studio project if you change your mind later.

Capacitor requires you to maintain a full Xcode project. Ruby Native is config-driven. You never open an IDE, never write Swift, and never manage native dependencies. Just YAML and Ruby.

Yes. Ruby Native works with any Rails app regardless of frontend framework. Hotwire, Inertia, HTMX, React, Vue, Stimulus, or plain ERB all work as-is. The Rails libraries you already use keep working too, including Devise, OAuth, Active Storage, Action Cable, and Trix. Add the gem, run the generator, and you're up and running.

No. Cloud builds handle everything. You push your config, we compile the app, sign it, and deliver it to TestFlight. All from your Rails project, on any operating system.

Yes. Apple requires a $99/year membership to publish apps. You don't need it to preview your app, but you'll need it before your first cloud build.

Apple ties cloud signing and bundle ID registration to the Admin role and offers no way to grant either to an App Manager or Developer key, so a lesser role could upload builds but not sign them. The key is encrypted at rest, handed to a fresh build runner for the length of one build, and you can revoke it in App Store Connect at any time without affecting apps already in the store. The security page lists everything Ruby Native holds and how to take it back.

The full native shell source code for both platforms. Real Xcode and Android Studio projects you can open, build, and modify. Cloud builds are a convenience layer on top. You're never locked into our infrastructure to ship your app.

Your app stays live in the App Store and on Google Play. Your users are completely unaffected. You keep the source code at the version you had. You lose cloud builds, future updates, and in-app subscription management (Business). When a new OS version ships, you can resubscribe to get the latest native shell and cloud builds again.

Your app keeps working. It loads its config and every page from your Rails app, not from us, and Apple and Google host the binary. The only thing that stops is a launch ping the app already ignores when it fails. Download the native source from your dashboard whenever you like: it's a real Xcode and Android Studio project you can build and ship yourself or hand to any iOS developer, and Advanced Mode runs on Hotwire Native, the open-source library 37signals maintains, so most of what you inherit is a stack the Rails community already knows. More on what we hold and how to take it back.

Yes. Accounts have unlimited members and no per-seat pricing. Invite teammates from Settings.

Yes, for free. Every app builds to TestFlight and Google Play's internal testing without a subscription. Point a second app at your staging URL and subscribe only for the one you ship.

Ruby Native is the starting point, not a dead end. If you outgrow YAML configuration, graduate to Hotwire Native for deeper native control. Your Rails backend stays mostly the same at every step. There's no lock-in and no rewrite. Book a mobile playbook if you want help planning the next step.