Get started with Studio

Start Studio for your business, make your first app from the gallery, from a few sentences or from scratch, and find your way around.

Start Studio

Open All Apps > Studio. The business owner starts it for the business and becomes its first Admin. Every new business gets a 14-day trial of every feature, with no card; after it you move to the Free plan or the plan you choose.

Studio is priced per business, not per person: everyone in your business can use the apps you build.

Three ways to make an app

Open Build > Apps & models.

Gallery - ready apps you can change: Visitor log, Complaints register, Equipment checkout, Warranty claims, Training register, Property listings and Student register. Each comes with its fields, screens, automations and, where it fits, a PDF report and a web form.
Describe an app - write what you want to keep track of, in a sentence or two. Studio drafts the models, fields and stages with your business's own AI key (Settings > AI). You tick what to keep before anything is made.
New app - start blank: give it a name, an icon and a colour, then add a model.

Apps, models and records

An app is what people open from the menu, for example Service desk.
A model is a kind of record in it, for example Job or Customer visit. When you make a model you choose what each record has: a number (JOB-0001), stages, an owner, priority stars, a customer, notes and history, activities, attachments, a colour, your own order, a branch, a currency, and whether customers see it on the portal.
A record is one job, one visit, one claim.

Every model starts with a main field (Name, or the label you choose). Then add the fields you need - see Fields and formulas.

Using an app

Each app shows in the side menu with its lists. A list opens in the view you chose - list, board, calendar and more (see Screens and views). Press New to add a record. On a record you can:

move it through its stages with the status bar at the top,
press the buttons your builders added (see Buttons and approvals),
add notes (type @ to mention someone), plan activities, attach files and follow it to hear about changes,
print it as a PDF from Actions.

Press Ctrl+S to save a record from the keyboard.

Changing an app

Press the magic wand on any list or record (Admins and Builders), or open Build > Apps & models and pick the model. Its tabs are Fields, Form, Views, Stages, Automations, Buttons & approvals, PDF reports, Web forms and Settings.

Every change is kept in Build > History. Press Undo to put a field, a screen, an automation or a whole app back as it was. Removing a field or a model never deletes its records or values - undo brings them back.

Moving apps between businesses

Packages (on Apps & models) saves one or more apps - their setup, not their records - as a file. Load the file in another business to get the same apps there.