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Prototo
Native prototyping tool for iOS
Every design tool today puts AI on top of a canvas. Prototo removes the canvas. Describe a screen in plain language and it renders as a real native iOS app, not a webview mockup. Prototo Desktop puts Claude Code and the iPhone Simulator side by side in one window. No terminal, no commands, no file to touch. Publish turns any prototype into a link. Recipients open it in the free Prototo app and the prototype runs natively on their own iPhone, real gestures, real haptics, real Liquid Glass.
Hey everyone, it's Sherizan, the creator of Prototo. Stoked to be sharing this with you. Prototo came from a problem I kept hitting. Every time I wanted to prototype something native with real gestures, real scroll physics, actual Liquid Glass, I had two options. Fake it in Figma or hand it to an engineer and wait. Neither felt right.
The gap was obvious once I saw it. Nothing existed for a designer who wanted genuine native fidelity, prompt-only, without opening Xcode. Figma Make renders through a webview. Expo and SwiftUI are built for developers.
So I built the thing I needed. First as a proof of concept.
One terminal command. The iOS Simulator opened. You described a screen to Claude Code in plain language, it appeared. No canvas, no file to touch. I wanted to see if the idea even worked before building anything bigger.
It worked. 5,500+ npm installs, no marketing. Designers started sharing videos of their prototypes running in the Simulator. That was the signal.
So I built Prototo Desktop.
One window now. Claude Code on one side, the iPhone Simulator on the other. Same interaction model, describe and it appears, but no terminal, no commands to remember. The part I'm actually proud of is Publish. One button turns a prototype into a link. Anyone opens it on their own iPhone through the Prototo app, no build, no export, and it runs natively on their device.
Getting a prototype off your machine and onto someone else's phone, running for real, not a screen recording, not a webview, is a genuinely hard problem. That was the real work.
Simpler always wins.
About Prototo on Product Hunt
“Native prototyping tool for iOS”
Prototo was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 8 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #82 on the daily leaderboard. Every design tool today puts AI on top of a canvas. Prototo removes the canvas. Describe a screen in plain language and it renders as a real native iOS app, not a webview mockup. Prototo Desktop puts Claude Code and the iPhone Simulator side by side in one window. No terminal, no commands, no file to touch. Publish turns any prototype into a link. Recipients open it in the free Prototo app and the prototype runs natively on their own iPhone, real gestures, real haptics, real Liquid Glass.
On the analytics side, Prototo competes within Design Tools, Prototyping and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 805.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Prototo performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Prototo?
Prototo was hunted by sherizan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Prototo including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
sherizan
Hey everyone, it's Sherizan, the creator of Prototo. Stoked to be sharing this with you.
Prototo came from a problem I kept hitting. Every time I wanted to prototype something native with real gestures, real scroll physics, actual Liquid Glass, I had two options. Fake it in Figma or hand it to an engineer and wait. Neither felt right.
The gap was obvious once I saw it. Nothing existed for a designer who wanted genuine native fidelity, prompt-only, without opening Xcode. Figma Make renders through a webview. Expo and SwiftUI are built for developers.
So I built the thing I needed. First as a proof of concept.
One terminal command. The iOS Simulator opened. You described a screen to Claude Code in plain language, it appeared. No canvas, no file to touch. I wanted to see if the idea even worked before building anything bigger.
It worked. 5,500+ npm installs, no marketing. Designers started sharing videos of their prototypes running in the Simulator. That was the signal.
So I built Prototo Desktop.
One window now. Claude Code on one side, the iPhone Simulator on the other. Same interaction model, describe and it appears, but no terminal, no commands to remember.
The part I'm actually proud of is Publish. One button turns a prototype into a link. Anyone opens it on their own iPhone through the Prototo app, no build, no export, and it runs natively on their device.
Getting a prototype off your machine and onto someone else's phone, running for real, not a screen recording, not a webview, is a genuinely hard problem. That was the real work.
Simpler always wins.