The new BDK: any web app, a new dedicated Preview app, 2x powerful, 70% cheaper

What's new at BDK

Any web app.
New dedicated Preview app.
2x powerful. 70% cheaper.

NEW APP

Any web app can now be your app.
Lovable, Base44, Replit, ChatGPT sites, Claude Code, Vercel, Next.js or anything else. If it opens in a browser, BDK makes it an iPhone and Android app.

New: a dedicated BDK Preview app.
A second free app, separate from the BDK Native app you know. It opens your app on your phone, today.

2x powerful. 70% cheaper.
$99 for iOS + Android, or $69 for iOS only or Android only. One-time, no monthly subscription. Every purchase includes 4 rebuilds, free. Introductory offer, valid until Thanksgiving.

Extra rebuilds: 50% cheaper.
$19 per project, covering both iOS and Android on combined projects. Changes to your web app never need a rebuild.

Preview on my phone

Free. See your app before you buy a build.

Built an app with us before? Rebuild it on the new BDK → Open my projects

See it in two minutes.

A short film on the new BDK: from the question your users keep asking to your own app on your phone.

Watch the film →

New website

The new thebdk.com, in 10 languages.

See how it works, every feature, pricing and real apps in the gallery. Your projects and the demos speak the same 10 languages.

English · 日本語 · Español · Português · Français · Deutsch · Italiano · Nederlands · 한국어 · Русский

01 · New app

Meet BDK Preview. It's a second app.

This is not the BDK Native app you may already have. BDK Preview is a new, separate app, and it has one job: it opens previews of your app on your phone, with real phone features.

NEW APP

BDK Preview

See it.

Opens your app on your phone with real phone features. Test it on a real phone before you buy a build. Shake your phone to come back to BDK Preview.

THE APP YOU KNOW

BDK Native

Manage it.

Create and edit projects and previews, and buy and follow builds. All of it also works in a browser at thebdk.com.

Install

Get the apps.

BDK Preview

See it. Opens your app on your phone.

Android

iPhone

BDK Native

Manage it. Projects, previews and builds.

Android

iPhone

On iPhone, both apps install through TestFlight. Two short steps, explained at thebdk.com/apps.

Your previews

Your previews, your way.

Previews launch straight into your URL with your own loading screen. No BDK screens in between, so you can show it to your clients and customers.

Keep up to 20 previews per account at any time. They stand on their own, apart from your projects.

Give each one its own name, URL, status-bar colour and loading screen.

Open a preview with a short code from your dashboard. Scan it or type it, and you're signed in.

Change a preview's settings with no rebuild. It applies the next time it opens.

Feature demos are built in to BDK Preview, so you can try native features first-hand.

02 · Features

71 native features.
One line of code each.

Start with the three that people feel first. Turn on the ones you need in Build Settings, then rebuild.

Modal sheets
Pull up to half or full height, like the apps already on your phone.

Native transitions
Screens push in and pull back with a swipe.

Health data
Read steps and more, with the user's permission, in your own build.

Two phones: a product page opening in a native sheet over a store, and a store page pushing in mid-transition

Real native sheets and screen transitions, not pages reloading inside the same web view.

Also new

In-app purchases with several plans and entitlements

Receive files and text from other apps, and share files out

Pick up to 30 photos, or shoot with the front or back camera

Pick a contact, with no permission prompt

Deep links that open straight into your app

Read and write NFC tags. Try it in BDK Preview.

Your choice of status bar: solid, blur with a tint, or edge-to-edge

Animated loading screens: .lottie, .svg, APNG, WebP and more

See each permission's status, and a number badge on your app icon

Try most of them live
demo.thebdk.com →

Every feature is documented
docs.thebdk.com →

03 · Any web app

Built anywhere.
Paste the URL.

Made it in Lovable last weekend? Had Claude Code or Cursor write it? Still on Bubble? It all works the same way: paste the link, see the app.

Claude Code Codex Cursor Windsurf Lovable Bolt v0 Base44 Replit Emergent Bubble ChatGPT sites Anything else

Writing code yourself? The free JavaScript SDK, @thebdk/native, is documented at docs.thebdk.com.

On Bubble? Nothing changes for you. The plugin carries on as it is, and your credits and purchases are untouched. And the plugin is now almost free: $3, once, with no monthly fee. Plugin docs: thebdk.com/nativeplugin.

04 · Your AI

Or let your AI set it up.

Paste one prompt into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Your AI reads BDK's guide, sets up your project, prices it and requests the build. It asks you before it spends anything.

Paste this into your AI:

Help me turn my web app into iPhone and Android apps with BDK Native. Fetch https://thebdk.com/agent/skill.md and follow it.

More at thebdk.com/agent → including the MCP server.

05 · Yours

Everything stays yours.

Your store listing, your keys, your users, your reviews and your ranking. BDK never touches your code, and there is no kill switch.

If BDK vanished tomorrow, your app keeps running.

Changes to your web app never need a rebuild. And when native starts paying off, your team can take the app fully native as an update to the same listing.

Proof

Since 2018.

Thousands

of apps shipped to the stores

Millions

of devices

100+

countries

Never

rejected for lack of a native capability

The BDK gallery lists real apps in the Apple and Google stores, built from web apps their founders already had.
Search the gallery for apps like yours →

Introductory pricing

70% cheaper.

iOS + Android
one-time

$99

Extra rebuilds
per project, iOS + Android together

$19

Every purchase includes 4 rebuilds, free, for 12 months.

Introductory offer, valid until Thanksgiving.

iOS only $69 · Android only $69

No subscription · BDK payments are final

Faster delivery. Builds are now processed automatically with your App Store Connect API key. Build and rebuild delivery times are down by 50%.

Already bought from BDK? Your credits and purchases stay exactly as they are.
See pricing →

See yours first.

Open your app on your phone before you spend anything.

Preview on my phone

BDK Preview

Opens your app on your phone.

Install →

BDK Native

Projects, previews and builds.

Install →

A note from Gaurav

I started BDK in 2018 to turn Bubble apps into real iPhone and Android apps. This month it becomes what I always wanted it to be: one place that turns any web app, not just Bubble apps, into an iOS and Android app you own. Best-quality features, hassle-free implementation, and a price no one else offers.

AI made this possible. Recent advances let us automate most of the work behind every build, and we chose to pass every bit of that saving on to you. The same advances let us ship new native capabilities at breakneck speed.

They also mean you are never locked in. The tools people build web apps with are changing fast, and BDK now works with pretty much all of them. Wherever you build next, your app comes with you.

The best way to trust something is to experience it. We have built working demos for nearly every feature, ready for you to use and test. And in preview mode you can build those features into your own app and try them on your phone, without paying anything.

Need a hand? Drop a message on our chat support. We're here.

Gaurav

Founder, BDK

thebdk.com · See it work · Gallery · Pricing · Demos · Docs · Get the apps

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