Meta's vibe-coding game app Pocket officially opened to US users on August 20. The app had just been quietly tested in Brazil last month, and now it's available to everyone.

Pocket lets you use AI prompts to generate small interactive games and then publish them to a scrollable feed. Meta calls these games “gizmos.” They can respond to touch and phone tilt, play sound effects, and even include snippets of songs you like.

You can also pull in photos from your album or use the camera. Generated games can be shared to your profile, and other people can save them, remix them into new works, or repost them.


Pocket's predecessor is Gizmo, a vibe-coding game platform. Meta absorbed the Gizmo team earlier this year via an acqui-hire, and the new app is built on that team's technology.

The app is Meta's latest move to push AI creation tools into the mainstream. Previously, they've built image generation in the Meta AI app, plus an experimental app called Vibes for generating AI videos.

In recent months, Meta has been releasing several standalone mobile apps in quick succession. At the July earnings call, Zuckerberg said AI-assisted development lets the company test and ship new ideas faster.

“Earlier this year, we launched Instagram Instants. We also just launched Forum, a standalone Groups app, and Seller, a standalone Marketplace app. I expect it to be much easier to ship new apps going forward,” he said. “So we plan to build more ideas and scale them with recommendation systems.”

Beyond Instants, Forum, and Seller, Meta has also tested an AI bedtime story app, and this week it released a Mac app for Meta AI.

With Pocket's launch, the original Gizmo app acquired by Meta has officially shut down. Gizmo co-founder Josh Siegel posted on X:

> Shutting down Gizmo is a little bittersweet—it's something a lot of people poured their hearts into over the past few years, but I'm excited about Pocket and what's next.

Pocket is now available on the US App Store. If you've been wanting to try AI-generated games, you no longer need to wait for a Brazil beta invite.

Then again, the barrier to making games with AI is already so low that the feed might soon be flooded with all kinds of “inspired” creations. Scrolling through it could be as addictive as short-form video—and also like short-form video, a lot of it might start to look the same.