Albria is in private beta. This site describes what we're building; some of it is still being finished.

Make it with Albria

Some things you’ll want to make yourself. Others you’ll just want made. Albria works either way, and everywhere in between, piece by piece.

When it’s yours to make, it helps you find your own best lines: the question that unlocks one, a few ideas to react to, every line you set aside kept for later. When you just need it done (the website, the launch email, the flyer), it makes it, start to finish, for you to look over.

Or just tell it how you want to work. “This is my own work. Help me past what I can’t do yet. Question me, and push back when I’m settling.” Albria takes you at your word: it handles the technical parts, asks and argues where that helps, and keeps the work yours, aiming for the best of what’s already in you.

From an idea to the App Store

  1. You: Say what you want: “an app that follows my favorite bands”

    Albria handles: Asks as many questions as it takes to see what you’re picturing — one at a time, never a form.

    The clearer the picture now, the better the result.

  2. You: Approve the plan, in plain words

    Albria handles: Sets up everything: the project, the tools, and a save history of every version. You’ll never need to open them, but they’re yours.

  3. You: Try it on your phone

    Albria handles: Builds it, tests it, and tells you what it tested and what it didn’t.

  4. You: Ask for changes — as many rounds as you like

    Albria handles: Changes it, tests it again, and keeps every version.

    Each round makes it more refined, more useful, and more yours.

    again, until it’s right (back to step 3)

  5. You: Decide it’s ready

    Albria handles: Prepares the App Store listing — screenshots, description, privacy answers — for you to read.

  6. You: Approve sending it to Apple

    Albria handles: Submits it, then tells you when Apple’s review is done (usually a day or two) and what Apple said.

The first version is a draft. The time you spend shaping it is what makes it good.

What you can make

To publish on the App Store you'll need an Apple Developer account ($99 a year, paid to Apple). Albria walks you through signing up.

Your work is saved in your own GitHub account — a free place that keeps every version. Albria sets it up with you and handles it from then on.

Video, pictures and charts open right where the work is.

At full size

Add more of your own Macs and they share one memory: what one learns, the others know. Send the heavy work to another Mac while you keep talking on this one. Our own Macs go further, splitting big jobs between them and running code review, tests and releases through GitHub, and that’s coming to yours.

Built this way: BillBattle, Dead Donut, and Earmarked.