Mixed Development Experience Still Possible?

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Hey everyone, Iā€™m new here looking for some help.

Iā€™m currently moving from a different tool and looking to rebuild my sites here.

Iā€™ve been playing around and one thing I LOVE is the AI builder in the ā€˜New Custom Appā€™ section of the tool. But I also find myself wanting to make changes without having to use AI for every change.

Ideally, Iā€™d love to build with AI, as well as having access to the drag and drop functionality /WYSIWYG.

I noticed in this update post, ( October 2025: cloud 3.152.0 and 3.152.0-rc.0 ) that users prior to this update ā€œcontinue to have access to the mixed development experience (drag-and-drop + AI)ā€.

However, is there a way to re enable this in settings somewhere? It seems like new users can either create a ā€˜Custom Appā€™ - which I believe is AI first. Or a ā€˜New Appā€™ which is drag + drop orientated.

The update sounds like new users donā€™t have access to this mixed development experience, but honestly I think the mixture is kind of a USP for UiBakery, no where else offers this combination. Iā€™m a little bit confused on the difference between custom apps and new apps - but looking forward to dig deeper into the product and learn.

There is lots of AI tools that can gen UI, and couple other drag and drop tools - but nobody offers both (except UI Bakery for existing users maybe?)

Is there any way I can use the mixed development experience?

Thank you for any advice and great work :slight_smile:

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Hi @deve, thank you for your interest in our product!

Thereā€™s a way to use mixed development experience, but itā€™s a bit one-sided :thinking:

You can create a low-code app with drag-and-drop default components and use Custom Component 2.0 there, but the opposite is not true for AI-generated apps. AI-generated apps can be edited via chat/code only.