How Yorki works

Yorki is an AI app builder. You describe an app in your own words, Yorki writes the code, runs it in a live preview and publishes it at its own address. This page explains the main ideas so the rest of the docs make sense.

Projects

A project is one app. Your projects are on the dashboard under My projects and on the Projects page. Each card shows a picture of the app, taken after each delivered build.

Yorki names a new project from your first request. You can rename it any time under Settings, General, Rename. The name only appears in Yorki: it does not change your app.

The builder

Opening a project opens the builder:

• On the left, the chat. Your requests, Yorki's progress and its replies. The box at the bottom is the composer, where you type.
• On the right, four views. Preview shows your app running. Code shows its files. Project holds your specification and the project notes. Settings has everything else: cloud, publishing, errors and export.

You can drag the line between the two sides to make the chat wider or narrower, or hide the chat to give the preview the whole screen. On a phone, a switch at the top moves between the chat and the preview.

The composer and its modes

The composer has three modes. Build changes your app. Chat talks an idea through without changing anything. Plan writes a complete plan you can review before anything is built. See Build, Chat and Plan.

The preview

The preview is a live copy of your app that runs on a private cloud computer. It updates after every change. When you leave a project for a while, the preview goes to sleep to save resources, and Resume preview wakes it up again in a few seconds.

Versions

Every request that changes your app creates a version. You can look at an earlier version and restore it for free. Nothing is ever deleted. See Versions and restoring.

Project notes and the specification

Yorki keeps notes about your project, so a request made weeks later still knows the decisions made before it. Next to them is the specification: a document only you write, which every request reads first. See Project notes and specification.

Cloud

Cloud is the backend Yorki can add to your app: a database for the records your app keeps, storage for uploaded files, and user accounts with sign-in. Your app has two separate clouds:

• The preview cloud, which the preview uses while you build and test.
• The published cloud, which your live app uses once you publish.

See Turn on cloud.

Publishing

Publishing puts your app at an address such as my-studio.yorki.app. Publishing again replaces the live app with your latest version. See Publish your app.

Credits

Yorki counts the work it does in credits. Each tester has a monthly allowance, failed requests are free, and the Credits page shows what every request used. See Credits.

The code is yours

Yorki writes ordinary code: a React web app in TypeScript, styled with Tailwind CSS. You can read every file in the Code view and download the whole project, data included, from Settings, Export. See Code and export.