Soarias is a macOS desktop app for indie iOS developers. It uses the Claude Code you already pay for to drive your SwiftUI project from prompt to App Store — entirely on your machine. No cloud build farm. No vendor lock. No $200/month subscription.
$79 once · No subscription · Bring your own Claude Code · macOS + Xcode
The dominant approach right now is a hosted, subscription-based platform: you talk to a cloud agent, your code lives on their cloud Mac fleet, you pay around $200 / month. Soarias is the opposite — a desktop power tool for developers who already have Xcode, Claude Code, and a strong opinion about owning their stack.
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Hosted cloud builder | |
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| Where your code lives | Your Mac | Their cloud Mac fleet |
| Pricing | $79 once | $200 / month ($2,400/yr) |
| AI engine | Your Claude Code | Their proprietary agent |
| Generated code | Native Swift / SwiftUI | Native Swift / SwiftUI |
| Editable in Xcode | Yes — it IS your Xcode project | After GitHub export |
| If they shut down | You keep shipping. Forever. | Workflow stops |
| NDA / regulated work | Safe — code never leaves | Cloud upload required |
| Best for | Devs who already use Claude Code | Non-devs who want a hosted platform |
Hosted cloud builders are the right call for some people. If your priority is "ship without ever opening Xcode," pay $200/month and you'll be happy. Soarias exists for the developers who want the opposite — their machine, their code, their license, paid once.
Soarias is a desktop app, not a SaaS. Your Swift source, your design tokens, your prompts, your secrets — all of it lives on your Mac. The only network calls Soarias makes are the ones you'd make anyway from the command line.
Every Soarias project opens with a fully fleshed-out design proposal — brand foundation, color system, typography, components, screen flows, and rollout assets. Below are two sample concepts, generated in seconds from a one-line prompt.
Sample prompt: "Turn the camera roll into a structured memory database — OCR receipts, business cards, screenshots, whiteboards, all searchable in plain language." Output below: brand, design system, screen mockups, and rollout assets.
Sample prompt: "One-tap voice recording. AI extracts people, places, concepts. Every new note auto-links into a personal knowledge graph." Output below: brand, design system, screen mockups, and rollout assets.
Sample design proposals generated by Soarias for illustrative concepts. Your output starts the same way: a complete brand and design foundation, customized to your prompt, ready to walk through implementation and submission.
Answer 5-7 questions about your app. Drop in your image-gen prompt — Soarias produces high-fidelity mockups.
Soarias proposes a screen list, data model, and SwiftUI component tree. You review and say "go."
SwiftUI + SwiftData code is written against your Design Tokens. You stay in the loop with confirmation gates.
fastlane, certs, screenshots, ASC metadata, submission. One button — Soarias handles the entire ship cycle.
Soarias accelerates the parts of iOS shipping that don't get easier with experience — they just keep biting. Every feature is built to run locally, on your stack.
Soarias spawns a real Claude Code session on your Mac, loaded with the soarias-ship-ios skill. You stay in control — review, intervene, redirect.
Built from a real submission cycle: 14 known App Store rejection causes, 13 fastlane gotchas, 7 ASC metadata fields fastlane can't touch. All pre-debugged.
iOS 17+, Swift 6 concurrency-aware. Output is a normal Xcode project — open it in Xcode, edit by hand, no proprietary layers.
Appfile, Fastfile, Snapfile generated. Certs, provisioning, screenshots, ASC metadata — Soarias handles the chain on your Mac, no cloud build.
Resume any project at any phase. SQLite-backed, stored in your Application Support folder. Works offline.
If Apple rejects, Soarias handles version bumps, build cancellation, and resubmission with proper notes.txt updates — no manual ASC dashboard wrestling.
The first 100 seats are $79 perpetual, then $129. Founder seats include every future major version. Subscription-free, forever.
Yes. Soarias is the orchestration layer; Claude Code is the brain. We don't resell Anthropic's intelligence — we use the one you already pay for. If you're not on Claude Code yet, this isn't the tool for you.
You can — and you'd spend a week stitching together fastlane, certs, Privacy Manifest, ASC metadata, and the 14 known rejection causes. Soarias is the encoded playbook plus a desktop UI for the parts of shipping that aren't fun.
No. Soarias is a desktop app. Your Swift source, design tokens, and project state all live on your Mac. The only network calls are to Anthropic (Claude Code, which you authorized) and Apple (App Store Connect). No telemetry.
You handle that. Apple charges $99/year directly to you. Soarias can't enroll for you — Apple verifies humans. Get that done before you buy.
Yes. Soarias drives Xcode, fastlane, and Apple's toolchain locally. macOS 12+ and Xcode required. (Hosted alternatives wrap a cloud Mac instead — different trade-off, different price.)
Completely. Soarias outputs a normal Xcode project on your filesystem. No DRM, no checkout pattern, no platform binding. Edit, fork, ship, sell — it's your code.
Your projects keep working. The output is a vanilla Xcode + fastlane setup. The Soarias-specific glue is just a folder of skill files; you can read them, fork them, keep using them.
Outcome-based. Use Soarias on a real project for at least 5 hours a day across 7 consecutive days and if you still can't reach a TestFlight build, full refund. Buyer's remorse isn't covered. Processed via the original payment method (5–10 business days).