--- title: Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience... description: A walkthrough of building a full-featured iOS habit tracker app using Claude's new Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable 5') model via Claude Code, with zero manual... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of building a full-featured iOS habit tracker app using Claude's new Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable 5') model via Claude Code, with zero manual... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vJGDSlFIi.png og:image:alt: Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed **[Code with Beto](https://daily.dev/sources/codewithbeto)** · 22 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of building a full-featured iOS habit tracker app using Claude's new Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable 5') model via Claude Code, with zero manual coding. The tutorial covers setting up Expo with Bun, creating a development build with Xcode, writing a detailed prompt/plan for the AI agent, integrating custom Claude skills for app icon generation, using an MCP server for production-tested UI patterns, and iterating on the result. The final app includes habit tracking, local notifications, a heat graph, drag-and-drop sorting, and a native iOS home screen widget. Total cost was approximately $50 using the Claude Pro plan over ~41 minutes of generation time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much does Claude Fable 5 cost per million tokens? Claude Fable 5 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, making it notably more expensive than other Claude models. It is included in the $20 Claude Pro subscription plan, so subscribers can use it without separate per-token billing, though usage limits still apply within a session. _Developers weighing model costs before committing to a build can track pricing shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### Why can't I join the Expo SDK 57 TestFlight beta right now? The TestFlight testing group for the Expo SDK 57 beta is full, so new users cannot join it. The version available through the App Store and Play Store for Expo Go is still SDK 54. To use SDK 57 features like widgets, a development build must be compiled directly on a Mac or Windows machine using Xcode instead of relying on Expo Go. _Mobile developers tracking Expo SDK rollout quirks like this can follow the details on daily.dev._ ### How much did it cost to build a habit tracker app with Claude Fable 5? Building a full habit-tracker app with an iOS widget, notifications, and custom icon cost about $40-50 using Claude Fable 5 across roughly a 41-minute session, plus a separate $6 sub-agent session. Comparable results with Opus 4.8 were estimated to cost around half as much, roughly $25. _Anyone budgeting AI-assisted app builds can compare model cost tradeoffs like these on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii"},"datePublished":"2026-07-18T10:35:45.168Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:40:59.551Z","description":"A walkthrough of building a full-featured iOS habit tracker app using Claude's new Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable 5') model via Claude Code, with zero manual...","image":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REEt7nX6x-0/sddefault.jpg","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REEt7nX6x-0/sddefault.jpg","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Code with Beto","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Code with Beto","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--8oKUFd2X--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774179046/logos/codewithbeto?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/codewithbeto"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"mobile,ios,claude-code,vibe-coding","timeRequired":"PT22M","video":{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed","description":"A walkthrough of building a full-featured iOS habit tracker app using Claude's new Claude 4 (referred to as 'Fable 5') model via Claude Code, with zero manual...","thumbnailUrl":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/REEt7nX6x-0/sddefault.jpg","uploadDate":"2026-07-18T10:35:45.168Z","duration":"PT22M","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/vJGDSlFIi","embedUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/REEt7nX6x-0"}} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Code with Beto","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/codewithbeto"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Build Your First App with Claude Fable 5 – No Experience Needed"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-first-app-with-claude-fable-5-no-experience-needed-vjgdslfii#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How much does Claude Fable 5 cost per million tokens?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Claude Fable 5 costs $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, making it notably more expensive than other Claude models. 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