Firebase Studio
lastmod 2025-06-23created 2025-04-112 edits
Rapidly prototype, build, and ship full-stack AI-infused apps quickly and efficiently, right from your browser.
About
- A cloud-based IDE for AI app development where you can write, test, deploy, and run code all in one place
- A full-stack AI workspace for quickly and easily developing, deploying, and managing multi-platform apps through AI agents in the browser
- Build backend, frontend, and mobile apps in one place. Offers broad flexibility, from rapid prototyping to customizable VMs
- Integrates Project IDX, Genkit, and Gemini in Firebase features
- A platform centered on fast development and collaboration for the AI era
Get started quickly, anytime, anywhere
- Open a browser and start developing within minutes
- Import existing repositories from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or your local machine
- Supports most tech stacks
- Use the App Prototyping agent to quickly create new apps from natural language, mockups, drawings, screenshots, and more
- Customize the environment with Nix
- Choose from templates for various frameworks or languages, or freely customize the development environment with Nix
- The current preview version provides 3 free workspaces
- Google Developer Program members can use up to 30 workspaces
What you can do with Firebase Studio
- Create AI app prototypes from natural language, images, and more
- Quickly create working web app prototypes with the App Prototyping agent
- Generated automatically on Next.js, including functionality as well as UI
- Genkit and the Gemini API key are set up automatically, so AI features are usable right away
- Edit apps by chatting directly with Gemini inside Firebase Studio
- AI assists with coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, code explanation, and documentation
- Request things like adding user authentication, improving the UI, or adding features in natural language
- Choose the default model or your preferred AI model
- Make quick edits even when the code is hard to understand
- Write code directly in a CodeOSS-based IDE
- Provides Gemini-powered code completion, debugging, explanation, and terminal access
- Provides a development environment integrated with Firebase services
- Preview apps on devices through a QR code or public URL
- Test prototypes directly on real mobile devices
- Deploy apps to Firebase App Hosting with a single button click
- Build, CDN, and server rendering handled automatically
- Supports workspace sharing and real-time collaboration
- Gemini Code Assist agents planned for code migration, AI model testing, documentation, and more
- Usable as a Kanban board inside Firebase Studio
- Early access sign-up available through the Google Developer Program
- Test and optimize APIs and backends using thousands of extensions from the Open VSX Registry
- Check apps from the user's perspective with the built-in web preview and Android emulator
Relationship with Project IDX
- Firebase Studio includes all features of Project IDX
- Includes customizable cloud VMs and emulators for app testing
- Provides more than 60 official templates and community templates
- Import existing codebases from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and more
- Also includes creating custom templates for sharing within a team
- Everything you did in IDX can also be done in Firebase Studio
- Additionally provides the App Prototyping agent and deep integration with the Firebase platform
Available now
- Firebase Studio provides 3 free workspaces by default
- Google Developer Program members get 10, premium members get 30
- Some features such as Firebase App Hosting require a billing account