Convert Your Base44 App to a Native iOS App

The native wrapper adds genuine iOS capabilities to your Base44 app: Face ID authentication, haptic feedback, native share sheets, and proper multitasking support. Wanilla's build system creates a universal binary for iPhone and iPad, with automatic light/dark mode support and Dynamic Type accessibility. Your Base44 app content updates instantly without requiring new App Store submissions.

Once you're on iOS: drive installs

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From a published Base44 URL to a listing, step by step

1. You publish in Base44 as normal. Ideally on your own custom domain — Apple reviewers are more comfortable with a branded address than a builder subdomain, and it makes the app look like a product rather than a prototype.
2. We wrap that address in a native shell. Your Base44 app is loaded in a hardened web view with native navigation, safe-area handling, pull-to-refresh disabled where it breaks your UI, and an offline screen instead of the browser's dinosaur.
3. Native capabilities are bolted on: Apple in-app purchases, push through APNs, Face ID, haptics, the native share sheet, and the camera or photo picker where your app needs it.
4. Store assets and metadata — icon, screenshots at every required size, description, keywords, privacy nutrition labels, age rating — are produced and filed.
5. Submission and review are handled by us, including responding to reviewer questions, which is where most first-time submissions stall.

What Base44 cannot do on its own

• Base44 has no native export and no Xcode project to hand off, so there is no "build for iOS" button to press.
• Adding the app to the home screen from Safari gives you a web app, not an App Store listing — no search presence, no Apple billing, and Apple's storage limits log people out.
• Apple rejects apps that are simply a website in a frame under guideline 4.2, so a bare wrapper is not enough; the native capabilities above are what make it pass.

Content changes you make in Base44 appear in the live app straight away — only changes to the native layer need a new submission.

What about Android?

The same published web app can be wrapped for Google Play, and the entitlement that unlocks paid features is shared across web, iPhone and Android. We start founders on iOS because iPhone users spend considerably more per head on subscriptions and because Apple's review is the harder of the two to clear — once it passes, the Play version repeats work already done. Android differs in three practical ways: Google Play Billing replaces Apple's in-app purchases, push runs on Firebase rather than APNs, and new personal developer accounts must run a closed test before a production release. If Android matters to you now, say so on your launch review and we will sequence it deliberately.