Before you start

What you need before you start.

Four accounts, and they are yours, not ours. Studio charges you for Studio; these are what the builders run on and what your apps ship through, so the money goes to Anthropic, Apple and Google directly. You can start with only the first one.

The four accounts

Claude

Required

Powers the builders. A subscription of your own, kept in your own workspace, never seen by us.

From about $20 a month, paid to Anthropic
About five minutes

Sign it in on your workspace in the first few minutes, with us.

Get a Claude subscription

Take the subscription, not the pay-per-use API key: an API key for this workload typically runs $100-$300 a month instead.

Expo

Needed to ship

Ships the store versions of your apps and keeps them updated.

Free, no card needed
About two minutes

Nothing to do now. Your apps get attached to it later, with us.

Create a free Expo account

Apple

Needed to ship

Unlocks iPhone builds and TestFlight for your testers.

About $99 a year, paid to Apple, not Rikuvo, and only if you ship there
About fifteen minutes to apply, and Apple usually approves within a day or two

Have the Apple Account handy that you want to own the apps.

Enrol in the Apple Developer Program

Android works fine without it: iPhone and TestFlight just stay out of reach until you have one.

Google Play

Needed to ship

Unlocks Android builds on Play’s testing tracks.

About $25, one time, paid to Google, not Rikuvo, and only if you ship there
About fifteen minutes to apply, and Google’s checks can take a few days

Have the Google account handy that you want to own the apps.

Google’s identity checks are the slow part, so it is worth starting them before launch day.

Only Claude has to be ready on day one: nothing gets built until a Claude account is signed in on your workspace. Apple and Google matter the day you want the app on a phone, and Studio walks you through both, step by step, inside setup.

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