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iOS vibe-coding app · 2025
An iPhone app that builds apps raised a $9M seed within weeks of launch
Riley Brown, Ansh Nanda and Kehan Zhang's Vibecode lets users build apps by describing them on their phones, and reached #12 in Apple's Developer Tools category.
Evidence: LowTwo secondary pages, one a funding database and one a rewrite of a Business Insider piece. Funding is consistent; traction is thin.
$9–9.4Mseed round, Aug 2025Reported; amount differs by source
#12in Developer Tools, undatedVia Business Insider rewrite
40,000+apps createdCEO quote, undated
$20–200monthly plansVia Business Insider rewrite
At a glance
- Founders
- Ansh Nanda (CEO), Riley Brown and Kehan Zhang (co-founders).
- Product
- An iOS app that turns descriptions into working apps, such as a note-taking tool or a Wordle-style game.
- Models
- Relied on Anthropic's Claude and has expanded to OpenAI's GPT-5 and others.
- Lead investor
- Seven Seven Six, Alexis Ohanian's fund.
- Pricing
- Free to start, with paid plans from $20 to $200 a month.
Timeline
- June 2025Launches the iOS app after an earlier beta (month per secondary sources).
- 1 Aug 2025Seed round announced.
- 13 Aug 2025Rewrite of a Business Insider report published.
How it was built
- 1Mobile-first prompt-to-app flow on iPhone.
- 2Multiple model providers behind the scenes.
Why it took off
- 1Mobile-first approach differs from desktop tools.
- 2Riley Brown is a well-known creator of vibe-coding tutorials, which likely helped awareness. The sources read do not say so.
- 3Backing from a high-profile investor.
Be careful with
Read the numbers with these caveats.
- No revenue, ARR or user count appears in the pages read.
- Funding is not the same as taking off.
- The investor list differs between the two sources.
- Both pages look database-generated or rewritten.
§ EvidenceWhat the sources say
Confirmed by a source we read
- Two independent listings agree on name, founders, lead investor and a roughly $9M seed.
Reported figures
- #12 in Developer Tools and 40,000 apps created.
- Plan pricing from $20 to $200.
Sources disagree
- $9M versus $9.4M, and non-overlapping lists of other investors.
- Titles: one source names Riley Brown co-founder, another (Latka) lists him as CEO.
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The parts that do not depend on a famous founder.
- 1Pick a surface competitors ignore, such as mobile-first.
- 2Let creators demo the product in public.
- 3Support several model providers to control cost.
- 4Show real usage numbers rather than funding alone.
Sources
- Startup Intros funding recordstartupintros.com
- Benzatine rewrite of Business Insiderbenzatine.com