Bravo Studio Brand Guidelines: Barcelona, Codeless Labs & Design-First Native Apps

A Barcelona start-up and a single idea.

Bravo Studio comes from Barcelona. The company’s own timeline says Codeless Labs was created in the city in April 2019 “to enable anyone to become a creator of digital experiences,” and that it released Bravo Studio in August 2019, after joining a design tool’s plugin beta programme that June. Its “Our story” page puts the aim more simply: Bravo was started in Barcelona in 2019 “to put native app development in designers’ hands.”

Catalonia Trade & Investment, the Catalan government’s agency for attracting investment, lists the business in its Barcelona & Catalonia Startup Hub directory under the company name App Foundry S.L., with a founding year of 2019 and a seed funding round dated February 2020. The same company name appears in the copyright line of Bravo’s website today, so the product, the brand and the legal company sit under different names: Codeless Labs in the early timeline, Bravo Studio on the product, and App Foundry on the paperwork.

The idea behind the product is narrow and clear. Many app projects begin as screens drawn by a designer, which engineers then rebuild in code. Bravo set out to remove that second step: a designer prepares the screens in a design tool, connects them to data, and Bravo turns the file into an app that runs on iPhone and Android phones. The company sums this up in three principles it says it has held “since day one”: design is the source of truth, apps are native by default, and there is no backend lock-in, because apps talk to data through plain REST connections that a team can swap later.

Toby Oliver, Bravo Studio’s chief executive, was previously chief technology officer at Typeform, the online-forms company, according to the MarsBased podcast Life on Mars, which interviewed him in April 2023 for an episode titled “No code in 2023.” The show notes describe Bravo Studio as a no-code tool that turns app designs into apps, and frame the conversation around AI and no-code.

From a plugin to Bravo 4.0.

Bravo’s timeline reads as a steady list of releases. In December 2019 Bravo Studio launched on Product Hunt with the ability to bind data from APIs to a design. A preview app, Bravo Vision, followed on iOS in March 2020, so builders could try their apps on a phone while they worked. In May 2020 the company named a partnership with LottieFiles for animation, and in June 2020 it introduced three plans, named Free, Ole and Bravissimo. Users became “Bravistas,” a word the company still uses.

Bravo Studio 2.0 arrived in October 2020, adding HTTP API connections, Firebase support and automatic app bundle builds for iOS and Android, according to the company. In March 2021 a plugin for Adobe XD widened the range of design files Bravo could read, and in June 2021 it added payments through Stripe. Bravo 3.0 launched in October 2021. Through 2022 the company added video recording and upload, multi-language support, a professional app tier with white-label options, and a swipe-scroll navigation effect of the kind short-video apps made familiar.

The independent picture matches the company’s own. In a guide to low-code and no-code app builders published on 10 November 2026, Dynamic Business described Bravo Studio as a design-to-native-app platform that converts designs into React Native apps for iOS and Android. It listed three ways of working: a visual workspace for no-code assembly, a concierge service called Bravo To Go, and a beta route for building from inside AI coding assistants. The magazine noted live previews on both platforms, signed builds for app store submission, and a codebase that can be exported and extended by developers. It placed Bravo among visual no-code builders, suited to design-led teams with a finished prototype, and added that teams without a finished design would do well to start elsewhere and that the AI-assistant route was still in beta.

Design and documentation.

No-code and low-code app builders sell a promise that is easy to state and harder to show: that a working app can be made without writing code, or while writing very little of it. Their websites tend to make the promise visible. Homepages often lead with the editor itself, shown as screens being assembled from ready-made components such as lists, buttons, forms and maps, with a properties panel beside them for colour, type and spacing.

Template and showcase apps do much of the persuading. Builders publish galleries of sample apps sorted by use, such as marketplaces, booking tools, internal dashboards or community apps, and some let visitors open a sample on a phone or copy it into a new project. Customer stories and lists of apps made on the platform play the part that a portfolio plays for a design studio.

Plan and feature naming follows a familiar pattern. Tiers usually climb from a free starter level to team and enterprise levels, and features are named for what they unlock: publishing to the app stores, custom domains, code export, user seats or workflow runs. In recent years several builders have added AI assistants or rebuilt their products around them, and product names now often describe how much of the work the software does, from hands-on visual editing to describing an app in a sentence.

Corporate pages are usually brief. About pages tend to state a mission about widening who can build software, introduce the founders, and name investors or accelerators. Funding rounds, takeovers and, for open-source builders, licence terms are the dated facts that give each company its history, and the guides in this series set them out where a source records them.

Don’t build it twice.

Today Bravo Studio still trades from Barcelona under App Foundry S.L. Its homepage announces Bravo 4.0 and frames the product with the line “You already designed it. Don’t build it twice.” The site says more than 200,000 builders have used Bravo, and it presents apps in the App Store made by designers rather than engineering teams, collected under the tag #MadeWithBravo; named examples include Tripmix and Catch a Jet. The company also says the output is “real React Native code, yours to keep,” and that its paid Bravo To Go service turns a client’s design into a working app in about 48 hours. Those are the company’s claims.

The site’s voice is direct and design-centred. Headlines speak to designers in the second person, the process is laid out in four numbered moves, from designing in a tool to building, previewing on a phone and shipping to the store, and the copy returns again and again to one promise: the design is the app. The site also states that Bravo Studio and its products are not affiliated with or endorsed by the design-tool maker whose files it imports.

For a design guide, Bravo Studio shows how a Barcelona company built a brand around a single idea, that the designer’s file should become the finished product. Compare Adalo, which Dynamic Business lists for mobile apps on iOS, Android and the web, and FlutterFlow, which the magazine lists for Flutter mobile apps with code export. For this guide we use an ink plum, a coral and a warm cream with a sans, an unofficial interpretation; no product or logo is reproduced.

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