Build nooq apps with AI

Connect your AI coding tool to nooq and build, deploy, and update apps using natural language. Just describe what you want and your AI assistant handles the rest.

Prefer not to use AI? Start here.

Don't have an AI coding tool yet? Install Claude Code

Follow the official quickstart guide to install Claude Code on Mac or Windows. Once installed, run claude from any terminal to start a session. We have more tips on using claude down below.

Can I use the free ChatGPT / Gemini / Claude chat tools to write an app?

In theory you can, but it's frustrating and if you really intend to build an app we recomend that you go ahead and spring for the subscription.

The free models are hard to work with for complex tasks. Building a working app takes a lot of code that has to hold together. The free tiers use smaller, cheaper models, and they tend to produce apps that almost work — broken pieces, bugs they can't find, and rewrites that undo things that used to work. This subtle "it's almost but not quite good enough" is almost worse than just failing at the task outright.

They can't connect to nooq. Chat tools can't connect to nooq directly, so nothing is automatic: you copy code out of the chat window, paste it into files by hand, and upload them yourself. Every change means doing that again. An AI coding tool with a nooq connection just writes the files and ships the new version for you.

What we recommend: a paid Claude plan — the $20/month Pro plan is more than enough for building nooq apps, and it includes Claude Code, which connects to nooq directly. Once you've got the app set up the way you want it, you don't need to keep the Claude subscription to use apps here on nooq.

1

Get an API token

2

Configure your AI tool

First, create your token in Step 1 above. Once you do, the commands below will automatically include it.

Claude Code

Run this in your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http --scope user nooq https://nooq.run/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
Cursor

Add this to your .cursor/mcp.json file (create it if it doesn't exist):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nooq": {
      "url": "https://nooq.run/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Cursor, then ask it to build you an app: "Build me a todo app on nooq"

OpenAI Codex CLI

Codex doesn't support remote MCP servers directly. Use mcp-remote as a bridge. Add this to your codex.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nooq": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "@anthropic-ai/mcp-remote",
        "--header",
        "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN",
        "https://nooq.run/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
3

Start building

Once configured, just describe what you want. Your AI tool will:

Tip: Always mention that you're building a nooq app or that you want it to run on nooq. This tells the AI to use the nooq tools and follow nooq's conventions.

Try something like:

"Build me a personal bookmarks manager on nooq"
"Create a habit tracker app on nooq with weekly charts"
"Make a simple notes app on nooq with markdown support"
Never used Claude before? No problem. Read our beginner's guide — covers settings, tips, and a full example session.