Pi App Studio has introduced two updates to help creators build more useful app experiences: persistent storage in the backend for newly created apps and an AI-assisted app planning phase before app generation begins.
Backend Support Enabled for More Continuous App Experiences
Backend Capabilities Begin with Persistent Storage: Pi App Studio now enables persistent experiences across user sessions for app creators. This allows apps to save and retrieve user-specific data across sessions, enabling experiences that continue even after users leave and return.
Before, Pi App Studio apps were largely limited to frontend-only, single-session experiences, where app data such as preferences or progress would disappear if users left the app.
Now, if a user achieves a high score in a game app, it can be maintained after the user leaves the app. A productivity app can remember a user’s to-do list, a note-taking app can preserve saved notes automatically, and other apps can maintain user-specific data over time instead of restarting from scratch each time the user visits their app.
Adding backend support is a significant App Studio platform milestone because it expands what AI-created apps can practically do on Pi Network. Persistent storage is the first capability built on this foundation, enabling a broader range of useful, everyday applications.
Note: this update only applies to newly created App Studio apps.
App Planning Assistance for Better App Creation
Pi App Studio has also added an “App planning phase” feature that allows creators to develop their ideas with the help of AI before App Studio generates the app. The planning phase helps guide them from an initial idea toward a more complete app concept in a more interactive and dynamic way.
For example, App Studio may ask for more detail about the app’s main idea, goal, category, or user experience. The planning process enables more thorough and detailed prompts for App Studio, which is essential for the AI to generate higher-quality app experiences for users.
Create a new app in Pi App Studio today to try these updates, from planning a stronger app concept to building app experiences that can persist across sessions.