Studio
Welcome to PriorStates Studio.
Get ready-to-go apps from the Gallery, or build a new one.
Or set this phone up for:
No mini-apps yet. Open Build and describe one, or start from the Gallery.
A circle is a few people who pass mini-apps to each other with one tap. Start one and invite them, or join with a link someone sent you.
Who builds
AI on this phone
A key from an AI service, and this phone builds apps by itself — no computer needed. Google AI Studio is free; in mainland China, use Zhipu GLM or Alibaba Qwen instead.
Get a free key at Google AI Studio, paste it here, tap Save. This phone then builds apps by itself. The key stays on this phone. Flash-Lite is the default: the free tier allows it many more requests per minute than the full Flash models.
No key yet? You can build now. Until you add one, Studio builds with its free starter AI, limited per day. Add your own key to build without the daily limit.
The AI on my computer
Stronger builds, and your apps are kept on the computer. It uses the AI you already pay for — Claude or ChatGPT — on your own subscription. Install PriorStates Studio for your computer (macOS, Windows, Linux), press Start then Pair a phone, and tap Scan QR code below — or paste the link here.
Alerts from your servers
Your computer sleeps; the machines that know something is wrong do not. Turn this on and a production server, a cron job or your monitoring can put an alert on this phone without being paired with anything. Each server is added with a short code that works once, gets a credential of its own, and can be taken away here — and all it can ever do is add an alert: it cannot read this board back and it cannot reach your computer.
On that machine, install PriorStates Link and run this. The code works once, for half an hour.
Reminders
Times your apps asked this phone to remind you. They arrive even when Studio is closed.
Android may hold a reminder back by up to an hour to save battery. Allow Alarms & reminders for Studio and they arrive on the minute.
No reminders yet. An app can set one, for example a medicine tracker that reminds you every evening.
Usage counts
Once a day Studio tells priorstates.com "opened today", with the kind of device and the version. No identifier, nothing about your apps, your data or you.
Language
Follows your phone unless you choose one here. Apps you build are written in whatever language you ask in.
Appearance
Studio is dark unless you say otherwise. System follows your phone.
On a computer Studio can stay a phone-shaped column, or use the whole window with the tabs down the left. Automatic picks by how wide the window is.
Small tiles fit four apps across a phone, like its home screen. Big tiles show three, with larger names.
Your copies
A backup carries the private halves of things other people rely on — the board your servers send alerts to, the inbox your shared apps send orders to. That is what makes it worth having if you lose the phone, and why the file itself should be kept somewhere only you can read.
Google Drive
Studio can keep a copy of your apps and their data in your own Google Drive, in a hidden folder only Studio can see. It goes straight from this device to your Drive; PriorStates never receives it.
Git
Studio on your computer commits your mini-apps to a repository there. Push after building; pull what another device committed.
Share
Send a mini-app to anyone as a link — it is encrypted on this phone and only the link holds the key — or as a file. They open it in Studio and it installs after a confirmation. A link can carry a preview card, so a post or a chat shows the app's icon, name and picture.
A page needs a publishing account: an email address and nothing else. It is how a page has an owner, and how we reach you if a page is reported. No fee.
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