A Draftbit alternative: AI written Expo apps for small businesses

Where Draftbit is better

• Bring your own AI

  Draftbit runs its agent on your Claude or ChatGPT subscription or API key, and the free plan gives 20 agent runs a week that way. OneCraft bills model use in its own credits.

• Code editing in the builder

  Draftbit lets you edit the code by hand from Standard and sync to GitHub. In OneCraft the files are read only in the builder; you download a zip to work on them elsewhere.

• Team seats and simulators

  Draftbit sells extra editor seats, runs up to 5 agents at once on Pro and includes iOS and Android simulators. A OneCraft site belongs to one owner account.

Where OneCraft is different

• A plan before the code

  The agent writes a plan of screens, tabs, data and a design family first, then a foundation, then the rest in steps, so the app holds together instead of growing screen by screen.

• Access rules that are tested

  Every table the agent creates has row level security, and the agent checks it as an anonymous visitor and as a signed in person before a step can finish.

• Payments without extra plumbing

  Card payments run as Stripe Checkout direct charges on your own connected Stripe account, with prices read from the database and a webhook marking orders paid.

Same stack, different roles

Both tools work with React Native and Supabase, so the code at the end looks familiar to the same developers. The difference is who drives. In Draftbit you sit in the editor with a coding agent beside you, and you decide how far to take each change. In OneCraft the agent works through a pipeline with its own plan, build steps and a review of screenshots, and you steer it with plain messages such as asking for a waitlist on full classes.

Builds and the stores

Draftbit counts builds per seat each month and offers App Store submission assistance on Pro. OneCraft charges 5 credits for each Expo test or store build on paid plans, runs them on OneCraft's Expo organisation unless you connect your own token, and leaves submission to you with eas submit from your own Apple and Google accounts.

What each monthly price covers

Draftbit's Standard plan is $12 a month, and the AI runs on a subscription you pay for separately or on credits you buy. OneCraft's Starter plan is $8 a month with 500 credits that cover the model use; a measured whole app generation used 55 to 72 credits.

Who should stay with Draftbit

Stay with Draftbit if you or a developer want to edit the code yourselves, already pay for an AI coding subscription, or need several editors and simulators. Move if you want one place that writes, checks and builds a business app for you from a description, with the database and payments set up as part of it.

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