YouWare
Verified Oct 25, 2026 ActivePrompt-to-app builder with a public gallery of remixable projects
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $20/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Credit-metered per the official docs (the marketing site returns 403 to automated fetches, so figures come from docs.youware.com): Free has trial credits only and 5 projects with no code download, badge removal or YouBase; Pro is $20/month for 2,000 base plus 1,000 bonus credits (3,000) and 100 projects; Ultra is $200/month for 20,000 plus 16,000 credits (36,000) and unlimited projects; yearly billing is shown as 17% off without totals.
Use tool ↗About YouWare
YouWare turns natural-language prompts into deployable web apps and sites, bundling a hosted backend it calls YouBase so projects can store data without separate infrastructure. Finished projects publish into a community feed where other users can open and rebuild them, which is the main thing separating it from other prompt-to-app tools. Companion iOS and Android apps let the same build loop run from a phone.
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 25, 2026
Verified sources
- Official docs plans page: Free with trial credits only and 5 projects, Pro $20/month with 2,000 + 1,000 bonus credits and 100 projects, Ultra $200/month with 20,000 + 16,000 credits and unlimited projects; code download, badge removal and YouBase on paid plans only; yearly billing 17% off (15 October 2026)docs.youware.com ↗
- Docs home: describe an app and the AI builds it, AI chat, visual and code editors, Remix of community projects (remixed projects cannot be downloaded as source), publish to a youware.app URL (15 October 2026)docs.youware.com ↗
- PR Newswire release of 13 November 2025: founder and CEO Leon Ming, web launch March 2025, headquartered in Shenzhen with teams in the US and Japan, $50M pre-seed from IDG Capital and 5Y Capital at a $200M valuation, 500,000+ MAU, 1M+ projects, iOS and Android app launch (re-read 15 October 2026)prnewswire.com ↗
Is YouWare legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jan 11, 2000 (26 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Jan 6, 2027Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 25, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 25, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2025The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- YouWare, ChinaOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of YouWare
Pick it if the community gallery matters to you, because opening and reworking someone else's finished build is genuinely faster than starting from an empty prompt. For work an engineering team will inherit, the export and ecosystem story lags Lovable and Bolt.
Pros
- YouBase gives generated projects a backend without wiring a separate database
- Public gallery of over a million projects is a real head start compared with a blank editor
- Native iOS and Android apps, which most rivals in this category do not ship
- Pro at $20/month matches the going rate and includes code download
Cons
- Free plan is trial credits and 5 projects, enough to look around but not to build
- Credits rather than time are the true limit, and complex prompts consume them quickly
- No published developer API
- Pro to Ultra is a tenfold jump ($20 to $200) with no tier in between
Best for
- Non-developers shipping a landing page, internal tool or small app from a description
- Learning by opening and modifying a working project someone else published
- Quick builds started on a phone rather than at a desk
Not for
- Codebases you intend to hand to an engineering team and maintain for years
- Regulated or sensitive data, given a Shenzhen operator with limited public compliance detail
- Anyone expecting a free tier they can actually build on rather than sample
Watch out: Code download and branding removal are Pro-only, so anything built on the free tier stays locked inside the platform.
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