G2

Verified User in Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/2/2026

"Modaal.dev: A Real Build Partner, Not Just a Code Generator"

5/5

What do you like best about Modaal.dev?

Modaal.dev feels like an actual agentic build partner for native iOS/Android, not just a code generator. I've used it to ship full features end-to-end for BookBank: Book Clubs, Bookshelf, and an Accessibility page, while keeping architecture consistent across RIBs, SwiftUI, and Firebase. It also caught real security issues on its own, like flagging four vulnerabilities in a Book Clubs audit and refusing to reintroduce an unsafe Firestore rule I'd previously removed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Modaal.dev?

The Firebase panel has been the biggest pain point, it's thrown persistent false errors (HTTP 403, "no apps registered") even when CLI access clearly confirmed everything was fine. Re-authenticating with the same Google account sometimes fixes it, but not reliably, so I've ended up managing Firebase mostly through the console directly and avoiding Create/Register/Deploy actions in the panel altogether.

The local Claude Agent login also expires unpredictably, causing 401 errors mid-session. The fix is just logging out and back in, but it interrupts flow when it happens without warning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Modaal.dev solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a one-person founding team without a full-stack engineer, I don't have the bandwidth for a large native mobile team, but I still wanted a genuinely native (not cross-platform-compromise) iOS and Android experience for BookBank. Modaal.dev solves that gap: it lets me, as the product designer driving vision and strategy, actually participate in building real features: Book Clubs, Bookshelf, Accessibility, without needing to hand every spec off and wait on engineering capacity we don't have.

The bigger benefit is speed without cutting corners on things that would normally get skipped at our stage: proper Firestore security rules audits, HIG compliance, accessibility support tied to live system state. Those are the kind of things a resource-constrained early team often defers, but Modaal makes it feasible to bake them in from the start rather than retrofitting them later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.