From iClaw to Palvia: Seven Submissions, Six Rejections, and an App That Nearly Died in Apple’s Time Dilation
I built a native iOS BYOK agent app.
It was originally called iClaw. Later, it became Palvia.
It has multiple agents, memory, skills, an on-device JavaScript sandbox, browser tools, and a small set of Apple Health–related capabilities. Users bring their own API keys. The app does not sell model credits, and it has never tried to present itself as an official client for any model provider.
At first, I thought the biggest risks of building this kind of app would be:……