An application where people, AI and devices participate in the same running system — sharing state, acting in real time, and continuing even when nobody is watching. A conventional app waits to be asked and forgets between requests; a Live App is somewhere you enter, where things can already be happening and where work carried on while you were away.
Credits are what your app's thinking costs. Every AI call it makes uses them, whether for text, images, speech, video or music, across 200+ models. You don't open accounts with AI providers or pay separate API bills, because the platform holds the keys and you get one invoice. A subscription includes a monthly allowance, and you can top up at any time.
Yes. An IKON app is a process that keeps running between requests, so a game keeps its world, a call keeps its participants, and an agent keeps working while nobody is watching. It also means an always-on agent uses credits while it works.
No. You can build the same apps on your own computer, in a coding agent's desktop app or in a terminal. Getting started shows how. ikon open <app-id> takes a Studio app to your computer.
The app itself is C#. Clients use one of six SDKs (C#, TypeScript, Dart/Flutter, Rust, C++ and Unity), and they all join the same live session, so a browser, a phone, a game engine and a device can be in one app together.
AI app builders generate a web application for you to host and maintain. IKON runs the application. That is why multiplayer, voice, video and always-on agents take a few lines of code here and an infrastructure project elsewhere.
By default, yes, and AI model calls can be pinned to a region. Deleting a person's data is built into the platform, and one deletion covers every store, including your app's own data.
You can take the source at any time. The app depends on the IKON runtime for the things that make it an IKON app: live shared state, the model gateway and the media stack. Running it elsewhere means replacing those.
Because of what one person can now put in front of other people. You can build an app with your friends, your customers or your class inside it. They talk to each other and to the AI on phones, TVs and headsets, and the app keeps running after you close your laptop. That used to take a team and a year. Once you have made one, it stops feeling unbelievable, but until then it usually does. The word describes what you build, not us.
Yes, and you never have to ask. ikon clone downloads an app into a directory. From Studio, Open on your computer in the app's Settings › Code gives you one command, ikon open, that signs you in, downloads the app to your computer and offers to open it in your editor. In IKON Desktop, Get an app under Build without Studio does the same without a terminal. You can connect an external git repository, which is mirrored each time you open the app and whenever you ask.