OpenAI said on Thursday its coding tool Codex was being added to ‌the ChatGPT mobile app, expanding access to the ⁠product as competition intensifies in the market for AI code-generation tools. Coding ...

Since debuting last spring, OpenAI's Codex coding app has seen standalone Mac and Windows releases, so it was only a matter of time before OpenAI gave people a way to access their Codex projects on ...

"Either they should stop enforcing the rules in this weird way, or they should update the guideline to let this use case emerge." The rule in question is App Store Guideline 2.5.2, which blocks apps ...

Apple’s recent crackdown on vibe-coding apps hasn’t held up Lovable’s launch of its no-code AI app builder, which is now available as a mobile app on Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The vibe-coding ...

Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Appfigures, worldwide app releases in the first quarter of 2026 ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions, even as Apple continues to take issue with some of the ways these apps are ...

Apple’s App Store saw 235,800 new apps in the first three months of 2026, according to new data published by The Information on Sunday, up 84% from the same time period last year. The meteoric rise in ...

What’s behind a new wave of apps in Apple’s App Store? It’s probably two words: vibe coding. The App Store was flooded with 235,800 new apps in the first quarter of this year—an increase of 84% over ...

In short: AI-powered “vibe coding” tools have driven an 84% jump in new app submissions to Apple’s App Store in a single quarter, according to reporting by The Information, the largest surge in a ...

Apple removed the vibe coding app Anything from the App Store on March 26, citing Section 2.5.2 of its App Review Guidelines. Co-founder Dhruv Amin was told his app violated Guideline 2.5.2, which ...

Apple brought the ban hammer down on an AI-powered iOS app. The Information reported that Apple pulled an app called "Anything" from the App Store. For the unfamiliar, Anything is/was an app based ...