Rork Raises $15 Million Seed Round and Launches Xcode-Rival Platform to Scale AI-Built Mobile Apps

New updates have been reported about Rork.

Rork, an AI-native mobile app development platform, has raised a $15 million Seed round led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Peak XV, True Ventures, Goodwater, and existing investor a16z Speedrun, capital that will be used to accelerate product development and deepen its focus on native mobile. The company, founded by serial mobile entrepreneurs Daniel Dhawan and Levan Kvirkvelia, positions itself as an AI layer for building and monetizing iOS and Android apps from natural-language prompts, targeting what it sees as the most valuable and complex surface in software.

Rork’s platform converts plain English into production-grade Swift, React Native, and Expo code, enabling users to ship fully functional apps directly to the App Store and Google Play with minimal engineering expertise. Since launching its web product in February 2025 and mobile app in September 2025, Rork has become one of the top mobile AI coding tools globally, ranking among the top two “Developer Tools” apps on the App Store and emerging as the leading traffic referrer to mobile monetization infrastructure provider RevenueCat.

The company’s strategic pivot from web to mobile followed early competition in the AI web-coding category and leveraged the founders’ prior success in mobile apps, including large-scale consumer products with millions of users. That shift has helped Rork capture a differentiated niche: AI-powered native mobile development, which is materially harder to automate than web development but is central to the global consumer software economy, where mobile commands trillions of hours of attention and over $160 billion in annual spend.

Rork recently launched Rork Max, an advanced product powered by Claude Code and Claude Opus 4.6, which the company says doubled annual revenue within two weeks and generated over 8 million views on X at announcement. Rork Max is positioned as the first web-based Swift app builder that can substitute for Apple’s Xcode, supporting app creation across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessage, and allowing users to test on real devices and publish to the App Store in just a few clicks.

To reinforce its native Swift capabilities and accelerate its goal of becoming a full AI replacement for traditional iOS development workflows, Rork has acquired Paperline, a macOS app for AI-driven Swift development founded by senior iOS and full-stack engineers Evgenii Mozharovskii and Maksim Konstantinov. This acquisition consolidates talent and technology around Rork’s mission to own the AI-first mobile development stack, reducing time-to-market for enhanced Swift tooling and tightening its competitive moat against both legacy IDEs and emerging AI coding tools.

Rork’s business thesis is that AI will dramatically lower the barriers to building software businesses, shifting value creation from coding skills to speed, product judgment, and distribution. The platform already underpins a new cohort of small, AI-enabled software entrepreneurs, including an 18-year-old founder who built WrestleAI, an AI-powered wrestling coach app, on Rork in about a month and scaled it to more than $30,000 in monthly revenue by exploiting an under-served App Store niche and social media distribution.

Co-founder Levan Kvirkvelia argues that rapid advances in AI are already displacing traditional products and that Rork’s early bet on AI for complex software engineering problems is paying off, as models now reliably generate and iterate on native mobile code. Co-founder Daniel Dhawan adds that rather than eliminating jobs, AI will catalyze more first-time founders by turning consumers into creators who can launch businesses without raising capital or hiring engineering teams, with Rork serving as the enabling infrastructure on top of the App Store.

Lead investor Matthew Miller of Left Lane Capital frames mobile as the most valuable digital surface area and describes Rork as pushing AI into the most complex, highest-value layer of the stack—native apps where user attention and spending are concentrated. For executives, the implication is that Rork is positioning itself as a critical platform in the emerging AI-powered mobile economy, with fresh capital, a fast-growing user base, and a roadmap aimed at displacing incumbent developer tools like Xcode and capturing the next generation of app-first entrepreneurs.