GitHub introduces GitHub Spark AI, enabling developers to create apps using natural language prompts

GitHub Spark lets users turn their ideas into fully functional apps by simply describing what they want in natural language — no coding required.

While GitHub has steadily integrated AI into developer tools over recent years, its latest innovation takes a giant leap. Under the experimental GitHub Next Labs program, GitHub Spark gives users the ability to create small web apps or “micro apps” just by typing prompts.

Users can choose between OpenAI’s GPT models and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet models. OpenAI’s offerings are tuned for developer tasks, while Claude’s Sonnet models have earned praise for their technical reasoning and debugging skills.

What makes Spark stand out is that it doesn’t just generate code; it actually runs the app and shows an interactive preview. From there, users can refine the app with additional prompts, making it highly iterative and user-friendly.

An exciting feature is the revision variants option, which generates multiple versions of the app—between three to six—with subtle differences. This helps users brainstorm and visualize different ideas before settling on the perfect version.

GitHub also provides handy tools like one-click deployment, collaboration with Copilot agents, and the ability to select from multiple AI models such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, OpenAI’s o1-preview, o1-mini, and GPT-4o.

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke highlighted Spark’s potential on X (formerly Twitter):
“In the last five decades of software development, producing software required manually converting human language into programming language, compiling it, debugging it, testing it – and then going back to more coding. Today, we take a step toward the ideal magic of creation: the idea in your head becomes reality in a matter of minutes.”

Currently, GitHub Spark is exclusive to Copilot Pro+ subscribers, priced at $39/month or $390/year. The subscription includes up to 375 Spark messages monthly, with additional prompts available at $0.16 each.