Pricing and licensing

What do I get with a subscription?

Full access to every app kit, component, page, the form builder, auth views, and email templates, plus everything new we release while you are subscribed.

What happens after purchase?

You land on your dashboard. Connect GitHub, choose the private repositories you want, accept the GitHub invitations, then open each setup guide. GitHub grants read-only access, so you can install the gems but cannot push to the repositories.

What happens when my subscription ends?

Anything you have already installed in your apps is yours to keep and ship. You lose access to new kits, components, and updates until you resubscribe.

Why is Rails UI a subscription?

It funds ongoing work: new app kits, new components, and keeping everything current with the latest Rails. You get all of it while subscribed, on unlimited apps, and can cancel anytime.

Can I use it on more than one app?

Yes. Build as many apps as you want on a single license, with no per-project fees.

Solo or Team, which do I need?

Solo is one seat for an individual building their own products. Team covers up to 30 people, so studios and agencies share one subscription across the whole crew.

Is there a free version?

Yes. Three app kits and the core gem are free and open source on GitHub. The subscription unlocks the rest plus ongoing updates.

Do you offer refunds?

Because it is a digital product you download, we do not offer refunds, but you can cancel your subscription anytime. Try the free version first to see if it fits.

Before you buy

Can't AI just generate this?

AI writes one screen at a time with no memory of the last, so you get a working app that still looks unfinished and inconsistent. Rails UI is one coherent system every screen shares. Use AI for the logic, Rails UI for the product layer it skips.

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Why not just use Tailwind UI?

Tailwind UI is framework-agnostic HTML you convert to ERB yourself, then you still build form helpers, JavaScript, auth views, and email. Rails UI is Rails-native out of the box: ERB partials, a form builder, Stimulus controllers, Devise views, and mailers. No translation tax.

Is this only components?

No. Components are the building blocks. You also get full app kits, real SaaS screens, auth UI, email templates, and a form builder. The whole product surface, not snippets.

Can I use this in client projects?

Yes. Build unlimited client apps, and the Team license covers your studio with up to 30 seats. The only limit: you cannot repackage Rails UI itself to resell as a competing product.

Rails UI Charts

Do I need a subscription to use Rails UI Charts?

No. The core gem is free and open source, and it covers the shapes most dashboards need: line, area, bar, column, sparkline, pie, donut, scatter, bubble, radar, polar area, and range bars, plus combo charts with a second axis, metric cards, filter rows, and empty, loading, and error states.

A subscription adds the Pro helpers on top of it. It is an add-on to the open gem, not a different version of it, so nothing you build on the free one has to be rewritten later.

See both, side by side

What do the Pro charts add?

The charts a SaaS dashboard reaches for, where the work is the arithmetic and shaping rather than the drawing: MRR waterfalls, retention cohorts, funnels, treemaps, candlesticks, box plots, heatmaps, forecasts, ranked bar lists, uptime trackers, sparkline tables, deploy and incident timelines, annotated charts, and gap-filled time series that emit the days your GROUP BY returned nothing for.

Plus two capabilities rather than shapes: live updates over Turbo Streams, and PNG and CSV export.

Do I have to use Rails UI's design system?

No. The charts are a standalone gem and work in any Rails app on any CSS. Every colour, type size, and piece of geometry is a CSS custom property or a Ruby setting, so you point them at your own palette and they follow it, including dark mode.

Is it another charting library?

No. It wraps ApexCharts in Rails helpers, so you keep a mature rendering engine and skip the configuration. Hand it a hash from group(:name).sum(:total) and you get a themed, accessible, responsive chart. Every option remains reachable when you need it.

Are the charts accessible?

Every chart ships a visually hidden data table alongside it, so no value is reachable only by hovering a mark. The categorical palette was picked by validating orderings against colour-vision deficiency, a chroma floor, and a 3:1 contrast requirement in both light and dark. Animations stop when the reader has asked for reduced motion.