If what you need is a web app on a live URL by this afternoon, Bolt.new gets there faster and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. Orkas is for the work that surrounds it — the landing copy, the demo video, the SEO pages, the client report — on the files already sitting in your folders.
Bolt.new is faster at getting a web app on a URL. Orkas covers more kinds of work.
| Capability | OrkasThis site | Bolt.newIn-browser app builder |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Download and install a desktop app | Open a browser tab, nothing to install |
| Seeing the result | Run the project yourself once it is written | Live preview updating as it builds |
| Putting it online | You deploy it wherever you host | One click to a live URL |
| Depth on web apps specifically | One kind of job among many | Purpose-built for exactly this |
| What else it can produce | Sites, videos, documents, images, reports | Web applications |
| Files already on your machine | Point it at a folder and it works there | You import or paste what it needs |
| Models and keys | Managed official models, or your own provider key | Whatever the service provides |
| Reading and running the source | MIT licensed, build it yourself if you want | You use the hosted product |
Four rows go to Bolt.new. If the deliverable is a web app and you want it on a URL this afternoon, that is genuinely faster there and this page is not going to argue otherwise. The rows that go to Orkas are about everything that is not the app — the landing copy, the demo video, the SEO pages, the client report.
You probably should not pick one — Use each tool for the job it is built for, and pass the resulting files into Orkas when you need a coordinated, reviewable deliverable.
Shipping something means the app plus a page, a video, a post and a set of screenshots.
Build the app where it is fastest to build. If that is Bolt.new, use Bolt.new.
Pull the project into a local folder — export, or clone it from GitHub.
Point Orkas at that folder for the rest: the landing copy, the demo video, the launch post, the SEO pages.
Orkas is MIT licensed and runs on your machine, but it is not a like-for-like swap. Bolt.new is a hosted app builder with a live preview and one-click deploy; Orkas is a general agent team that can build a site among many other kinds of work. If the live preview is the reason you use Bolt.new, Orkas will not replace it.
Yes — building sites is one of the things people use it for, alongside marketing videos, SEO pages and data analysis. The files land in a folder you chose, so you deploy them the same way you deploy anything else.
Not in the way Bolt.new does. Orkas writes real files into a folder and you run the project yourself. That is the trade: you get the source on disk in exchange for the instant in-browser render.
In the folder you pointed Orkas at, on your own machine. With your own provider key, model calls go directly to that provider rather than through Orkas.
Free, MIT licensed, and it works on the files already sitting on your machine.
