Meet Gizmo: A Tiktok For Interactive, Vibe-coded Mini Apps

Gizmo, a TikTok-like app for vibe-coded mini applications, is offering a caller measurement to create interactive media. The comparatively caller mobile app from nan startup Atma Sciences lets anyone create experiences utilizing text, photos, sound, and touch, which are past displayed successful a vertical feed, akin to TikTok aliases Reels. But dissimilar accepted short-form video apps, you don’t conscionable watch and scroll successful Gizmo — you play.

Depending connected nan type of “Gizmo” you encounter, you mightiness flick nan screen, swipe, tap, draw, drag, and much to interact pinch nan mini app. These Gizmos aren’t conscionable games but are much for illustration integer toys — things that could see interactive puzzles, memes, art, animation, aliases thing other a creator tin dream up.

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The consequence is an engaging, playful feed, wherever you tin for illustration and remark connected nan mini creations and moreover remix existing Gizmos to create your ain version, if you choose.

What’s more, you don’t request to cognize really to codification aliases moreover vibe codification to get started. Instead, you tin simply type retired an AI punctual to explicate your thought utilizing earthy language.

The app past leverages AI coding exertion to move your thought into an interactive acquisition by generating nan codification that makes it work. As portion of this process, Gizmo will besides render your thought visually to guarantee that each app functions decently and runs smoothly. Apps are besides vetted utilizing AI and quality moderation to guarantee personification safety, a institution FAQ notes.

Gizmo hails from a New York-based startup called Atma Sciences, co-founded by Rudd Fawcett and Brandon Francis, on pinch CEO Josh Siegel and CTO Daniel Amitay. The institution past twelvemonth raised a $5.49 cardinal seed information from First Round Capital and others, according to information from PitchBook. On nan company’s website (which is besides silly and interactive), nan squad explains their attraction is connected combining “powerful exertion pinch simple, elegant foundations,” starting pinch their productivity app, Gizmo.

None of nan company’s founders responded to requests for an question and reply erstwhile TechCrunch reached out, done aggregate emails, requests to investors, and via LinkedIn. We were told by 1 investor that nan squad isn’t yet fresh to do press. (Sorry!)

TechCrunch was drawn to Gizmo because of nan app’s imaginable for maturation and its unsocial attack to nan vibe coding abstraction (and a uncommon proposal from my teen). The institution is envisioning a world wherever anyone tin create apps for fun, not conscionable for a purpose, arsenic pinch different vibe coding app platforms for micro apps, like Anything, and others.

Despite being comparatively new, Gizmo’s provender isn’t repetitive. It’s filled pinch imaginative mini apps, starring to an acquisition that feels somewhat for illustration a mash-up betwixt TikTok and nan interactive 3D abstraction designer, Rooms. But while Rooms introduced nan programming connection Lua to those who wanted much precocious controls complete their creations, Gizmo keeps things prompt-based and simple.

The app is incredibly easy to use. You simply type retired your punctual and past spot really it turns out, and past modify arsenic needed. In 1 test, nan AI quickly coded a mini quiz, but we had to instruct it to edit nan title, which was trim disconnected astatine nan apical of nan screen.

The resulting creation tin beryllium shared to nan app’s feed, messaged to a friend, aliases posted to societal media utilizing a unsocial URL.

According to information from marketplace intelligence patient Appfigures, Gizmo has astir 600,000 installs, pinch astir half coming from nan U.S., aft being introduced pinch small fanfare little than six months ago. Around 235,000 of its downloads came successful December alone, representing 39% of its full count.

Gizmo’s maturation from October to December was 312%, pinch December installs up 50% month-over-month and November installs up 180% from October.

The app is disposable connected some iOS and Android.