Frequently Asked Questions

Draftlytic is an AI-powered tool that helps you plan app ideas before you start building. Describe what you want to build, and the AI generates a structured project spec — features, tech stack, screens, and more. You can edit everything, then export it as a file to drop into Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable — or push it straight to a GitHub repo.

You can — but a one-shot ChatGPT answer is a wall of text you have to untangle yourself, and it forgets the details the moment you ask for a change. Draftlytic asks the right follow-up questions, organizes everything into the sections an AI coding tool actually reads correctly (features, screens, tech stack, data model), and lets you reorder or rewrite any part without starting over. It's a living plan you keep and export, not a throwaway chat.

Yes — Draftlytic works on mobile, but it's optimized for desktop. Mobile enhancements are still in development, so for the best experience (especially when editing projects, reordering features, or running AI workflows) we recommend using a desktop or laptop browser.

You can create an account and sign in with an email address and password, or use "Continue with Google" or "Continue with GitHub" for one-click sign-in. GitHub sign-in only reads your basic profile and email — it does not touch your repositories. Pushing a PRD to a repo is a separate, opt-in step on paid plans.

You describe your app idea in a prompt — even a rough one-liner works. The AI analyzes it and generates a full project spec including suggested features (prioritized as must-have, nice-to-have, or future), a tech stack, target audience, navigation map, and more. You can also answer guided questions to help the AI nail the details.

Yes — go ahead and write your prompt in whatever language you think in. The AI understands non-English ideas and generates your whole project (overview, features, tech stack, and more) just fine. One thing to know: Draftlytic has a shortcut that skips guided questions you've already answered in your prompt, and right now that shortcut only reads English. So if you write your idea in another language, you'll simply be asked the full set of questions instead of having some pre-filled — nothing breaks, you just answer a few more. If you'd rather skip ahead, write the prompt in English.

Draftlytic has a free tier so you can try it out — you get enough credits to generate a project and see how it works. To plan multiple projects and get the most out of AI editing, logos, and exports, you'll want a Starter, Plus, or Pro plan. Check out our Pricing page for details.

Credits are spent when you use AI features — generating a project, editing with AI, or creating a logo. Different actions cost different amounts. Your free credits reset monthly, and you can buy top-up packs if you run out mid-month.

Yes — annual billing saves about 10% on Starter, Plus, and Pro. Starter is $85.99/yr (vs $95.88 monthly), Plus is $149.99/yr (vs $167.88 monthly), Pro is $236.99/yr (vs $263.88 monthly). Switch to annual any time from the pricing page.

Two things can shrink a batch. First, if you're near the per-project question limit, the round is sized to fit what's left — and charged at the reduced partial-round rate (5 credits standard, 10 credits detailed) rather than the full rate. Second, even within a full-priced round the AI may return fewer questions than requested because your project has already covered those topics well: the system filters out near-duplicate questions and skips categories that are already saturated. When fewer questions are delivered than you were charged for, the difference is refunded automatically and you'll see a toast confirming the credit amount returned. So if you paid 10 credits but only received 6 questions, you'll get a proportional refund for the 4 that weren't asked.

You're covered. Most AI features (editing, scanning, logos, implementation plans, the workshop) auto-refund the moment a generation fails or times out. Initial project creation is slightly different — if that step fails you can retry without being charged again, or trigger a manual refund from the error screen. Either way, you don't lose credits to AI errors.

Depth controls how much detail Draftlytic generates. Brief gives you a quick overview — great for capturing an idea fast. Standard is the default and produces a solid, well-rounded spec. Detailed goes deep on the sections where richer context actually helps your AI coding tool — overview, feature descriptions, must-have acceptance criteria, tech stack, target audience, personas, data model, and API endpoints on each page in your screen map. Shorter sections like external services, notifications, and design fields stay concise at any depth to avoid unnecessary padding. Detailed depth is available on Plus and Pro plans.

Absolutely. Everything is fully editable — features, tech stack, overview, target audience, and more. You can drag-and-drop to reorder features, add or remove items, and use AI-powered editing to refine specific sections. The AI gets you 95% there; you can fine-tune the rest.

Yes. Open a project, hit the Share button, and invite a collaborator by email. You choose whether they get view-only or edit access. Edit collaborators can change content and run AI features (which spend your credits, since you own the project). You can revoke access anytime from the same dialog.

Scan reads your existing project (or PRD in the workshop) and flags concrete things that could be tighter — vague feature descriptions, missing acceptance criteria, unassigned products, gaps in the data model. You pick which fixes to apply and Draftlytic applies them in one batch. Paid plans only, 30 credits per scan, up to 10 fixes per run.

Yes — head to the PRD Workshop and paste it in. The workshop treats it as the working document and lets you scan it, refine sections with AI prompts, and export the result. Useful when you've already written a brief and just want to sharpen it before handing it to your AI coding tool.

A PRD (Product Requirements Document) is a structured spec that describes what you're building. Think of it as a detailed brief for your AI coding tool. Instead of prompting Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable with "build me a habit tracker," you give it a full spec with features, priorities, tech choices, and screen layouts — and it actually builds what you imagined. Draftlytic is a product requirements document generator that creates this spec for you from a single prompt.

The PRD Workshop (find it under PRD Workshop in the nav) is a separate space for refining a single PRD without spinning up a full project. You can paste in a PRD you already wrote, generate a new one from scratch, scan it for weak spots, and iterate with AI prompts until the document is sharp. It's a paid feature — Starter, Plus, or Pro plan required — and credit cost per prompt scales with how long the PRD is.

That's totally normal. You can update any section at any time — add features, change the tech stack, rework the overview. You can also use AI editing to rework specific sections based on new ideas. Your project evolves with you.

Versions let you split your build into milestones. v1 is your first launch, v2 is the next chunk, and so on. You can assign features to specific versions, mark earlier versions as completed, and choose which version to export. The implementation-plan export is version-aware too — pick v2 and it generates an additive plan that assumes v1 is already shipped.

Yes — on paid plans (Starter, Plus, or Pro). You can export as Markdown, PDF, or Word doc (.doc). Markdown is ideal for feeding into AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Lovable — it's plain text that AI models parse perfectly. PDF is better for sharing with people — it's a polished, styled document with your project's accent colors, priority badges, and page numbers. Word doc exports the same content as Markdown in a .doc file you can open in Microsoft Word, Google Docs, or Apple Pages. On any paid plan you can also push the PRD straight to a connected GitHub repo — commit it to the default branch or open a pull request — instead of (or in addition to) downloading a file. The export modal lets you pick which sections to include, optionally add your project logo, and even edit the generated markdown before exporting. Free tier users can upgrade from the pricing page to unlock exports. Note: on the Starter and Plus plans, exporting a PRD locks the project's title. You'll be warned before this happens. Pro users can export without any locking.

All of them — exports are plain Markdown, so anything that reads text reads it. We've specifically tuned the output for Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Windsurf, Replit Agent, GitHub Copilot, Cline, Aider, Devin, Trae, Figma Make, Google Stitch, Jules, Google Antigravity, Amazon Kiro, Emergent, Base44, Rork, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Pick your target tool when generating or exporting and Draftlytic adjusts framing and conventions to match that tool's quirks. On paid plans you can also push the spec straight to a connected GitHub repo — a direct commit or a pull request — so your coding agent always reads the latest version.

Yes — on paid plans (Starter, Plus, or Pro). Connect the Draftlytic GitHub App from Settings → Integrations, choose one of your repos, and push your PRD file. You can commit it straight to the default branch or open a pull request — handy when your AI coding tool (or a teammate) reads the spec from the repo instead of a pasted file. Draftlytic only touches the PRD file, and only on the repos you grant it access to. There's no credit cost for pushing.

They answer different questions and work best together. The PRD describes what you're building — features, priorities, tech stack, audience, constraints. It's the source of truth you and your AI coding tool align on. The implementation plan (paid feature, 40 credits per run) takes that same spec and turns it into a numbered, ordered sequence of build steps — scaffolding first, then data model, then auth, then features in dependency order, each with a concrete acceptance check. The exported plan also contains a `## Project context` block (design style, copy tone, UX patterns, revenue model, admin panel scope, notifications) so it's self-contained when you paste it into your AI coding tool without the PRD alongside. If you select a later version (v2, v3...) or have features marked as completed, the plan automatically switches to "additive" mode — it assumes the earlier version is already built and only covers incremental changes. You can override this with the "Include full project context" toggle (+10 credits, 50 total) when you want scaffolding steps for the initial app included regardless. Free tier users are redirected to the pricing page to unlock it.

Yes. Draftlytic includes AI logo generation. Describe a style and the AI generates multiple options to choose from. Generated logos are stored with your project and can be included in your export.

Yes. If you prefer to plan from scratch, you can create a blank project and fill in every section yourself — no AI required. Some people use this to organize ideas they've already thought through.

Yes. We use Supabase with row-level security — your projects are private by default and only accessible to you. We don't sell or share your data. If you connect GitHub, Draftlytic only accesses the repositories you authorize and only writes the PRD file you choose to push. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Manage your subscription from your Profile page. Upgrades take effect immediately, downgrades kick in at the end of your billing period. You can cancel a pending downgrade any time.

They stay in your account — nothing is deleted. If you downgrade, anything paid-only (extra projects beyond the free cap, exports, the workshop, scans, implementation plans) becomes read-only or unavailable until you re-subscribe. Cancel entirely and your projects are still there if you sign back in. To delete your account and data permanently, get in touch from the Contact page.

Yes — each plan has a cap on how many projects you can have. If you hit it, delete a project to free a slot. Archived projects count toward your cap too. The Pricing page has the per-tier numbers.

For subscriptions, you can cancel any time and keep using your plan until the end of the current billing period — we don't pro-rate refunds for unused days. For credit top-up packs, refunds are handled case-by-case — get in touch from the Contact page if something went wrong. Failed AI generations refund credits automatically, separately from any billing.

Short is better to start. Give the gist of your idea in a sentence or two — the guided questions are where you build it out. They make sure nothing important gets missed and keep the AI focused on one thing at a time, which produces a cleaner, more complete spec than one giant prompt. Want a thorough spec? Use the guided questions and set the depth to Detailed, rather than pasting everything into the first box.