Layout

What Layout is

Layout is an AI app builder from Incorta. Its FAQ describes it as a platform that helps founders and developers turn ideas into working software apps instantly: you describe what you want to build, and Layout generates clean code, UI components and project structure. The company says no coding is required at all and that the product is designed for both non-technical founders and developers. The about page frames the aim as taking anyone with a good idea from "idea to live application" without learning to code or hiring a software house, and says the long-term direction is to support the whole journey from the first spark to prototyping, shipping and eventually monetization.

What you build and how

The workflow starts with one prompt box on the home screen. The quickstart tells you to type a short, concrete description of what the app does and who uses it, with the example "A to-do app with daily tasks, a calendar view, and a streak counter. Users can add tasks, mark them complete, and see their longest streak." It also advises keeping the first prompt focused on one core outcome and adding features later by chatting. When you press return, Layout creates the project and opens a workspace with the chat on the left and a live preview on the right. The docs say "Layout generates the frontend, backend, and database", the chat streams each step as it runs, and a first build usually takes 30-90 seconds.

After the first build, you change things by asking. The docs example is "Add a dark mode toggle to the top-right corner": Layout edits the files, rebuilds and updates the preview. Code and Preview tabs in the top bar switch between the running app and its source. The FAQ says you can edit the generated full-stack app visually while still diving into the code if you are technical.

The FAQ names the generated stack: a frontend UI plus a Supabase-powered backend with database and auth, ready for customization or deployment. The docs have a page on working with Supabase and one on authentication and users. The FAQ says the stack is widely adopted, well-documented and easy to extend. It also says you will soon be able to import existing codebases and continue building on top of them with Layout's AI assistance.

The documentation navigation shows how much of the editing loop is covered. Guides include writing better prompts, prompt patterns and recipes, images in prompts, editing your project, the preview browser, version history and cloning projects. Concept pages cover a debugging mindset, project visibility and community categories. Troubleshooting pages cover build failures and how to recover a bad change, and there are migration guides for people coming from v0 or Bolt and from Lovable.

On kinds of apps, the FAQ lists web apps, landing pages, admin dashboards, SaaS tools and internal tools, and says Layout supports custom workflows based on your idea. The about page adds that the result is a full-stack web app with UI, backend, database and responsive design. The home page also describes a site-building prompt: describe the site you want and Layout will design it, write it and host it.

Publishing is built in. In the quickstart you click Publish at the top right, pick a subdomain such as my-todo and confirm, and the app is live at my-todo.layout-app.com. The FAQ says hosting under a Layout domain needs no setup, and that custom domain support is coming soon. For ownership, the FAQ says all code generated by Layout belongs to you "100%". You can download it, modify it, deploy it anywhere and use it for commercial projects "with no restrictions". You can export the entire project and deploy it to any provider, naming Vercel, AWS, Netlify or your own infrastructure, and open it in VS Code, WebStorm or any editor.

For teams, the home page FAQ says collaboration is coming soon: share projects, manage permissions and collaborate in real time. The pricing page lists the same ideas under a Teams plan.

What the pages state

The pricing page lists 3 plans. The Free plan is "20 credits per month (3 daily limit)", with community support and "Deploy and host live apps (limited time)". The Pro plan is shown at $25.00 a month, marked 50% off a struck-through $50, with 200 credits a month, unlimited private apps, downloadable source code, deploy and hosting for live apps, and access to early features and updates. The Teams plan is marked coming soon: 100 monthly credits included, unlimited team projects, early features and updates, centralized billing management, advanced roles and permissions and real-time project collaboration. The FAQ says the free tier has limited generation credits and the free plan lets you create projects, preview them and export the code, while paid plans add more features and usage. Note the tension between the pricing page and the FAQ: the FAQ says the free plan can export code, while the pricing page lists "Download source code" on Pro, so check the plan terms before relying on export from the free tier.

The docs navigation also has a Credits and usage page and an Account settings page. Support runs through a Discord community for real-time help, plus a support team you can reach from the app, and the Free plan lists community support. The FAQ also says ideas and generated code are stored securely, with "industry best practices for data privacy and encryption", and names no certification or compliance standard.

The about page says Layout is part of Incorta and pairs "AI-driven frontend innovation" with Incorta's "Direct Data Mapping engine". The page and footer say copyright 2026 Incorta. The pages state no customer counts and no named integrations beyond Supabase.

Who it suits and who it does not

Layout suits a non-technical founder who wants a working MVP with a database and login, previewed and published to a subdomain in one session. It suits a developer who wants a starting codebase to export and continue in an editor. It also fits someone moving from another AI builder, since the docs include migration guides from v0, Bolt and Lovable. Its pricing is simple enough to plan around: a free tier to try, one paid plan with a stated monthly price.

The caveats are listed on its own pages. Custom domains, team collaboration and importing existing codebases are all marked as coming soon, so an agency building for clients under their own domain has to wait. Credits cap how much you can generate, with the free plan limited to 3 a day, so heavy iteration pushes you to Pro. The backend is Supabase, so a team that needs a different database or a self-run backend would be choosing after export. The pages also name no compliance standards, so a regulated business should ask before storing sensitive data.