Changelog
What shipped, with dates.
Specific enough to be falsifiable. If an entry can't name what changed, it doesn't go in. Build engine work also gets written up on the blog.
Offer
One chrome, one free quota, no theater
- Public nav and footer are one component. The primary button is cobalt on every marketing page.
- Free quota is three Preview builds a day everywhere. Most popular is gone. Homepage no longer pins a fake Capacitor / SDK 36 toolchain.
- iOS page leads with our Mac and your certificate, not No Mac required.
- Homepage preview is Android, Source, Windows, and iOS on the real PhoneFrame (Pixel 8 / iPhone) plus a Windows 11 window. The 251s receipt and Build this are gone.
- The Free signup credit is a Preview URL wrap, not a ZIP compile. ZIP needs Pro. Stripe Pro checkout uses the square mark, not the broken wide banner.
Offer
Preview / Release, and refunds by responsibility
- Public offer is three cards: Free Preview (marked Android wrap), Single App (Release of this website), Pro (keep shipping, including IPA).
- Starter $29 and Agency stay archived. They are not on the homepage.
- Source ZIP is a paid lane. Free accounts cannot open it.
- Refunds follow responsibility: platform and network faults return the credit; a compile that would fail on your laptop does not; cancel does not refund.
Platform
v1.0: first tagged release
- iOS cloud signing shipped: upload your Apple distribution certificate (.p12) on the Agency plan and IPA builds come back signed and store-ready. Without a certificate you still get an unsigned IPA — we never ask for your Apple ID.
- Pricing landed in its final shape: Starter $29, Pro $99 (iOS builds included), Agency $199 monthly; Single App $149 one-time with lifetime updates, $79 regional pricing; USDT accepted at the same USD price. Superseded. Starter and Agency are archived.
- The whole site moved to the Modernist design system, and every docs page was audited line-by-line against actual product behavior — signing tiers, managed Android upload keys, container isolation, and the native-bridge API reference now say exactly what the platform does.
- The nightly regression matrix passed 44/44 fixtures for the first time, and the failure classifier grew to ~40 hand-written diagnoses — this week alone it learned to name pasted web links that aren't Git repositories and layouts referencing private Android system resources.
Engine
Flutter version matrix: old projects build on their own era
- Three toolchains now run side by side: Flutter 3.44.5 (Dart 3.12), 3.24.5 (Dart 3.5, intl 0.19) and 3.19.6 (Dart 3.3, intl 0.18). The builder reads your pubspec sdk constraint, your intl pin, and your android/ template generation, then picks the era your project was written for. A manual override lives in project settings.
- Proof build: Google's archived flutter/gallery — legacy imperative Gradle apply, 2023 lockfile — compiled unchanged into a 117.6MB signed APK on Flutter 3.19.6.
- Projects that pin intl ^0.19 with flutter_localizations no longer die with "version solving failed"; they route to 3.24 and resolve natively.
Platform
Upload limits relaxed 5×; failures stopped charging twice
- Source zip limits: single file 200MB → 1GB, total expansion 500MB → 4GB, 20k → 60k files. Zip-bomb protection unchanged. An 81MB Flutter project with a 276MB Windows debug symbol used to be rejected; it builds now.
- Re-submitting the exact upload that just failed with a non-retryable diagnosis is intercepted before charging, with the previous diagnosis shown.
- Failed builds now say "your credit was automatically refunded" on the build page. Refunds always happened; now you can see them.
- Git sources are validated before charging: a wrong branch name gets rejected with the repository's actual default branch suggested.
Dashboard
App Hub, in-dashboard billing, and guided failure playbooks
- Apps is now a first-class view: every app with its latest build, install QR from the last successful artifact, version history, inline rename and delete.
- Billing moved inside the dashboard: credit balance, plan, order history, and a per-build ledger where refunded builds are marked as refunded.
- Failed builds show a playbook instead of a dead end: at most three concrete paths (a copy-paste command, a prefilled wizard link, or docs), derived from the failure class.
Engine
Real-repo hardening: five public GitHub projects, six engine fixes
- Built skydoves/pokedex (modern native Kotlin/Compose, 8.25MB signed APK) through the Git pipeline.
- Stale pubspec.lock is no longer a wall: strict resolution falls back to regeneration with a visible log line. Both flutter/gallery and Best-Flutter-UI-Templates ship locks that no longer satisfy their own pubspec.
- Pre-null-safety Dart 2 projects and the removed imperative Gradle apply are now diagnosed by name instead of failing as PROCESS_EXITED.
- Native Android build containers grew from 3GB to 8GB after a real out-of-memory failure.
Engine
Toolchain floors: old Flutter projects auto-normalize
- The engine now raises what Flutter 3.44 requires when a project ships less: Gradle wrapper (seeded or raised), AGP, Kotlin, core-library desugaring, and plugin compileSdk floors — each gated so modern projects are untouched.
- shrinkResources conflicts with minifyEnabled=false are fixed automatically instead of failing the build.
- Pre-flight upload validation: a zip with no buildable project is rejected before a credit is charged, with an inventory of what the zip actually contains.
Dashboard
Push campaigns, OTA remote config, instant preview
- Push console: send now or schedule, campaign history with delivered and clicked counts from OneSignal.
- OTA remote config: change splash color, status bar, trusted domains, custom JS, and bottom navigation without rebuilding — apps verify an HMAC signature before applying anything.
- Paste a URL on the homepage and see your app in a live phone frame before signing up. No build consumed.