In connection with Microsoft Ignite 2025 that took place this week (week 47), Microsoft announced what they now seem to call the new Power Apps.
This is a whole new way to build Power Apps with AI-assisted development. You can “vibe” code Power Apps together with a team of AI agents and the result will be a finished pro-code application in React built on top of a data model in Dataverse and rolled out in a Power Platform environment with all that entails in terms of governance, governance, scaling and security.
This is a revolutionary new way to build applications on Power Platform.
The new Power Apps can be found on https://vibe.powerapps.com/ this is currently only available in the Power Platform environment in the United States, but is likely to come to our part of the world relatively soon.
On the new Power Apps, you are greeted with this image that we partially recognize from Plan Designer that has been available for a while. Here you describe which application you want to create. It also has a button called “Enhance prompt” that improves your instruction a lot. It includes more detail, so it might be good to check that it looks okay before you hit the arrow to start.
I used the instruction “Create a CRM application for my one person photography company, Arild Aarnes Photography. Functionality similar to what Dynamics 365 Sales has»
After clicking on “Enhance prompt”, this became the much better and detailed instruction:
“Design a CRM application tailored for a solo photography business, Arild Aarnes Photography, with features inspired by Dynamics 365 Sales. The app should allow the user to manage contacts, leads, and clients, including detailed profiles with contact info, notes, communication history, and tags (e.g., wedding, portrait, commercial). Include a sales pipeline to track inquiries, quotes, bookings, and completed projects, with customizable stages and visual progress indicators. Enable creation and management of quotes and invoices, with templates for photography packages and automated reminders for follow-ups and payments. Integrate a calendar for scheduling shoots, meetings, and deadlines, with notifications and sync to external calendars. Provide task management for to-dos and reminders. Include a dashboard with key metrics (e.g., bookings, revenue, conversion rates) and simple reporting tools. Support file attachments for contracts, reference images, and deliverables. Ensure all data is easily searchable and filterable. The UI should be intuitive for a single user, mobile-friendly, and allow quick access to recent activities and upcoming events.”
When you launch new Power Apps, the agent starts at work and generates a plan, a data model, and a pro-code React application.
Currently, you can’t edit the code directly, only through interaction with the AI agents, but this will probably come pretty soon.
After a short time, the agents are done with the job and have built a functional React application on the Power Platform.
After a couple of interactions with the AI agents, it has also become multilingual with Norwegian and English in addition to dark mode.
Vibe-coding a Power App is far from flawless, but you get very far very quickly and can work with the AI assistants to fix errors and change pages or functionality. In the long run, there will probably be the opportunity to change the code as well, and I hope some form of integration with tools like Visual Studio Code.
Summary
With this, Microsoft is taking a big step towards renewing application development on the Power Platform. The big advantage Microsoft has over many other vibe code tools is that this application is fully rolled out in Power Platform. In Power Platform, it will benefit from goverance, auto-scaling, security model, Dataverse for data warehousing, access to approximately 1600 Power Platform connectors, and Data Loss Prevention policies. In addition, Power Platform has several Application Lifecycle Management capabilities that the solution will benefit from.
More info about the new Power Apps can be found here Inside the new Power Apps: The future of app development – Microsoft Power Platform Blog
