# Text to App AI

> A plain-English guide to text-to-app AI: how prompt-to-app tools work, what they cost, and when to use a coding agent instead.

Text to App AI (texttoappai.com) is a guide to turning a written description into working software with AI. It is published by General Action, the company that makes Emdash (https://emdash.com/), and is not an independent review site: where it recommends Emdash, it is recommending its publisher's own product.

## Pages

- [Text to App AI](https://texttoappai.com/): Text-to-app AI turns a written description into a working app. See how it works, the three kinds of tools, what they cost, and which fits your project.
- [AI app builders vs. coding agents](https://texttoappai.com/guides/app-builders-vs-coding-agents/): Hosted AI app builders and coding agents both turn text into software. Compare them on speed, control, cost and lock-in to decide which one your project needs.
- [From prototype to production](https://texttoappai.com/guides/from-prototype-to-production/): A generated prototype is not a product. A checklist of what to add before real users touch a text-to-app build, from access rules and secrets to tests.
- [How text-to-app AI works](https://texttoappai.com/guides/how-text-to-app-ai-works/): What happens between typing a prompt and seeing a running app, step by step, and why knowing the loop helps you get better results from any text-to-app tool.
- [Writing a prompt that builds an app](https://texttoappai.com/guides/writing-a-prompt-that-builds-an-app/): A copyable template and seven rules for writing text-to-app prompts that produce the app you meant, with a worked example and common mistakes.
- [About Text to App AI](https://texttoappai.com/about/): Who publishes Text to App AI, why the site exists, how it handles recommendations of its publisher's own product, and how to report a correction.