Glaze lets you remix other people's desktop apps
By Steven Van ·
Version 0.13.0.0 turns the Glaze store into starting-point templates, with automatic attribution back to the original creator.
Glaze, the AI desktop app builder from the Raycast team, shipped Remixing on August 5, 2026 as the headline feature of version 0.13.0.0. Instead of describing an app from scratch, you can now grab an existing app from the Glaze store and use it as the starting point for your own, with credit flowing back to the original creator automatically. For a tool whose whole premise is "apps from words," this is the moment its community store stops being just a gallery and starts being raw material.
Piggybacking as a Feature, Not a Hack
The mechanics are simple. Remix an app from the store and you get your own fully editable copy in your workspace. From there you build like you would with any Glaze project: describe changes in plain language and the AI reshapes the app in real time. Apps have to opt in to be remixable, and there is a new Remixable section in the store to browse what is available. Glaze even reworked the empty project state, so instead of a blank screen you now see a grid of remixable apps you can start from.
There is a second, subtler piece: you can now mention remixable apps to your agent as reference. Rather than copying an app outright, you can point at one and say, in effect, build me something with a layout like this. The agent uses publicly available apps as context while it builds yours, which is closer to how designers actually work, borrowing patterns rather than forking wholesale.
Attribution Cuts Both Ways
Glaze put real thought into the creator side of the equation. When you remix an app, the original is credited on both sides: your new app carries an attribution badge pointing back to the source, and the original app's store listing shows what has been built from it. Publishers on paid plans who would rather not have their work forked can opt out entirely.
There is also a curated Made to Remix collection, apps designed specifically as starting points. Remixes of those generate fully independent apps with no attribution badge, which makes them effectively official templates maintained by the community.
The Store Becomes a Library of Starting Points
Remixing solves the blank canvas problem that every prompt-to-app tool eventually hits. Describing an entire app in words is hard; describing how you would change an app you can already see and run is much easier. It is the same dynamic that made forking work on GitHub and community files work in Figma, applied to local-first Mac apps that integrate with the file system, menu bar, and keyboard shortcuts. Every good app in the store now makes the next app easier to build, and the attribution loop gives creators a reason to opt in rather than guard their work.
Also in 0.13.0.0
Remixing headlines the release, but the changelog runs deeper. Glaze apps gain native Swift support for tighter macOS integration, headphone motion detection for AirPods, and a new TimeField component for time input. You can now restore your published apps locally or on a new machine, and the release fixes session recovery issues and memory leaks. Full details are in the Glaze changelog.
Glaze is Mac-only for now, with a free tier that includes daily credits. If you have been curious but never knew what to build, the honest answer is now: start with someone else's app.
Sources: Glaze changelog (v0.13.0.0), Glaze on X (Remixing announcement), Glaze