How to get started with Kiwari

Kiwari is a desktop app that sits next to Roblox Studio and builds with you. This guide walks through the whole first session, from download to your first verified change, in about ten minutes. You do not need a paid plan to follow it: a free account gets daily free usage from day one.

Before you begin

You need three things:

A Mac. Kiwari ships for macOS first. Windows is not available yet, and the download page has a waitlist.
Roblox Studio installed and up to date.
A Roblox account. Kiwari signs you in with Roblox, so there is no separate password to create.

1. Download and install

Go to the download page, open the .dmg, and drag Kiwari into Applications. Because the build is not yet notarized by Apple, macOS may say the app is damaged the first time. That is expected. Open Terminal once and run:

xattr -cr "/Applications/Kiwari.app" && open "/Applications/Kiwari.app"

You repeat this after replacing the app with a newer version. The support page explains each case.

2. Sign in with Roblox

Kiwari opens a browser tab so you can sign in with your Roblox account, then hands you back to the app. Your plan, usage, and billing all live in Settings, Account. Nothing is sold on the website itself.

3. Open a place in Studio

Open Roblox Studio and load the place you want to work on. For a first run, a blank baseplate or a copy of a project is the safest choice. Kiwari connects to the Studio instance that is open on your machine, so keep Studio running while you work.

4. Wait for the ready state

Kiwari checks that it can talk to Studio. When the connection chrome says it is ready, you can start. If it is not, the app tells you what is missing in plain language, usually that Studio needs to be open or the Studio MCP feature needs to be switched on. Fix that, and the status updates on its own.

5. Run one small task

Narrow prompts teach you the loop fastest. Try one of these:

"Add a Script in ServerScriptService that prints hello when the server starts."
"Create a TextButton labeled Play in a ScreenGui and print clicked when it is pressed."

Kiwari reads the relevant parts of your place, proposes the change, and shows it to you as a diff. Approve it and the change lands in Studio. By default every edit and every command waits for your approval, so nothing touches your place without you seeing it first.

6. Check that it works

Ask Kiwari to run the place and confirm the behavior. It can start Play mode, read the Output console, press keys, and take a screenshot. If something is wrong, it reads the error itself and tries again. You can also press Play in Studio and test by hand. Either way, the point is to close the loop before you move on.

What to try next

Once the first task works, scale up one step at a time:

Ask for a whole feature, such as a coin pickup with a counter in the UI.
Switch on Plan mode for something bigger, so Kiwari writes a plan you can review before it builds.
Use Ask mode when you only want answers about your project and no edits.
Pick a stronger model from the model picker when a task is hard. Free models are great for small jobs. Pro and Pro+ unlock more capable ones.

Keep control

Settings, Permissions lets you decide how much Kiwari can do without asking. You can let it apply edits automatically, let it run commands, or keep everything on review. Script edits can be undone, and Studio's own undo still works for everything else.

Common first-run problems

Kiwari says Studio is not connected. Make sure Studio is open with a place loaded, then reopen the connection prompt.
macOS blocks the app. Run the Terminal command above.
The app feels slow. You may have installed the Intel build on an Apple silicon Mac. Download the Apple silicon version.

When you are ready, start for free and run your first prompt.

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