Meta launches Pocket, its new application to create gadgets and minigames from prompts

The technological Meta has entered the mobile gaming sector with a new application called Pocket which allows generating small gaming and gadget experiences simply with the use of prompts and its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

The new application, which is now available on Google Play, focuses on ‘vibe coding’ (programming based on ‘prompts’) so that users can create mini-games that can be shared through a ‘timeline’.

This application is the result of acquisition by Meta of the team behind the ‘vibe coding’ platform Gizmo, which took place at the beginning of this year, as reported at that time by the American media Business Insider.

On the Google Play page you can read that Pocket is a creative platform to create and share gadgets (defined as small interactive objects that can be played with), which are generated by describing them with ‘prompts’. For example, users will be able to create puzzles, selfie cameras or music boxes, according to the company. In addition, one of its peculiarities is the discovery feed that allows you to play or experiment with the ‘gadgets’ that other users of the platform have created.

Pocket by Meta has become known after being discovered by analyst Alessandro Paluzzi, who shared this ‘app’ in a publication on the social network launch by the technology company silentlywithout a press release or an official presentation. In fact, according to data shared by Appfigures for TechCrunch, the ‘vibe coding’ app was launched for iOS and Android on June 29.

With the launch of Pocket, Meta follows in the footsteps of Google, which released an update for Google AI Studio in May of this year that allows you to create native applications for Android using natural language with ‘vibe coding’ prompts.

This experience is based on an AI agent which, in the case of Google AI Studio, is called Antigravity and is responsible for writing or ‘chopping’ all the code to create an application that the user can install on their mobile device.

As for Pocket being an ‘app’ focused on AI, It’s not Meta’s first in this regard, and last year it launched both Meta AI for image generation and Vibes, focused on videos.