Lovable alternatives in 2026: 8 AI app builders and agents to use instead

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on October 28, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, Lovable included.

Lovable alternatives compared

Lovable builds web apps from a chat, then hosts them and runs their database and sign-ins for you. Its FAQ sums up how you pay: “One balance pays for building your app, chatting with Lovable, hosting your app and running its built-in backend, the AI features your deployed app uses, and connector usage.” Some of the apps people weigh against it work the same way, in a browser; others build on your own computer, with the AI plan you choose.

App	Best for	Price, checked October 28, 2026	Runs on	Hosts your app
Lovable	Building and hosting web apps in one place	Free, 5 credits a day up to 30 a month; Pro from $25 a month for 100 credits; Business from $50	Web; Mac and Windows apps; iPhone and Android	Yes, on lovable.app; your own domain on paid plans
Bolt.new	The closest browser builder, with phone apps too	Free, 1M tokens a month; Pro $25 a month for 10M; Teams $30 a member	A browser	Yes, on bolt.host; your own domain on paid plans
Replit	Full apps, with hosting and databases in its cloud	Starter free; Core $20 a month, or $18 billed yearly; Pro from $100	Web; Mac, Windows and Linux apps; iPhone and Android	Yes, paid from your credits
v0	React and Next.js apps on Vercel	Free, 7 messages a day; Plus $30 a user a month; Business $100	Web; iPhone app	On Vercel
Base44	The most built in, if you’ll stay on its platform	Free, 25 message credits a month; Starter $16 a month billed yearly; Builder $40	A browser	Yes, on base44.app; your own domain from Starter
Dyad	Free and open source, on your own computer	Free with your own keys or ChatGPT account; Pro $20 a month; Max $79	Mac, Windows; Linux experimental	No; it publishes to Vercel and other hosts
ChatGPT, with Codex and Sites	Building and hosting on a ChatGPT plan	Plus $20 a month; Pro from $100; Free and Go build with GPT-6 Luna	Web; Mac and Windows apps, Linux in preview	Yes, with Sites, on Plus and Pro
Claude Code, in the Claude app	Building on your computer with Claude	Claude Pro $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly; Max from $100	Mac, Windows; Linux in beta	No
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent on your computer, on the plans you have	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	No

Prices are per month as each maker lists them in the US, before tax. Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, v0 and Base44 sell their own AI usage as credits or tokens; Claude Code and Codex come with Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s plans; and Dyad and Enjoy run on the keys, plans and models you bring.

Why people look for a Lovable alternative

Three things on Lovable’s own pages send people looking:

• Credits pay for everything, and building costs vary. The same balance pays for building, chat, hosting, the database and your app’s AI features, and “Build mode is priced on the complexity of the request and the work completed.” The Free plan’s 5 daily build credits are capped “at 30 per calendar month,” per its plans page.
• You can’t choose the model or bring your own plan. “Lovable chooses the model behind Build mode, Plan mode, and Chat mode,” its FAQ says, “so you cannot pick a specific model for building.” A Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for doesn’t help there.
• Running out reaches your live app. When credits run out, its docs say “Your published site stays live,” but “Built-in backend services pause,” including the database, storage and sign-ins, and “AI features in deployed apps stop working.”

And since September 9, 2026, “Lovable may use customer data from Free and Pro plans” to train its models, unless you turn off Use my Lovable content for model training in your account settings.

Bolt.new

Best for: the closest thing to Lovable in a browser, with phone apps too.

“Bolt is an AI-powered builder for websites, web apps, mobile apps, and prototypes,” from StackBlitz, whose technology “lets Bolt run entirely in your browser,” per its FAQ. For a phone app, “Include the words mobile app in your initial prompt,” and Bolt sets it up with Expo. It hosts what you publish on bolt.host, and it can import a GitHub repository from its URL. You build with one of two agents, Standard or Max.

Price: its pricing has Free, “Free forever, no card required,” with 1M tokens a month and a daily limit of 300K; Pro at $25 a month, with “10M tokens/month, rollover included”; and Teams at $30 a member.

Watch for: tokens go faster as a project grows: “Most of your token usage comes from Bolt reading, understanding, and syncing your project files, so larger projects use more tokens per message,” says its tokens page. “Only Standard is available on the free plan,” and on free hosting, “if you go over this usage, your site goes offline for the rest of the month.” “Bolt only supports JavaScript-based backends.”

Replit

Best for: full apps, with hosting, databases and phone apps, in Replit’s cloud.

Replit’s Agent builds and runs your app in Replit’s cloud, from the web, its desktop app “for Windows, Mac, and Linux (Debian-based distributions),” or its phone apps, and its guides build native iOS and Android apps with it. “Builders on Core and Pro can choose an available model in Power Mode or Max Mode,” and Max Mode’s list includes Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. Everyday work in Free Mode costs Core and Pro nothing within an allowance that refreshes every five hours.

Price: its pricing has Core at $20 a month, or $18 billed yearly, with “$20 towards more powerful models,” and Pro at $100, or $90 billed yearly. The free Starter plan gets “daily credits for Agent usage, up to a monthly cap.” Publishing is paid from the same credits: “All publishing costs are deducted from your monthly credits.”

Watch for: past Free Mode, “Paid modes and confirmed paid work use effort-based pricing based on request complexity,” per its AI billing page, though “Replit asks for confirmation before a paid action starts.” Starter includes one published app, and “This published link will automatically go down after 30 days.” “Agent and AI usage charges are non-refundable.”

v0

Best for: React and Next.js apps that live on Vercel.

Vercel’s v0 “uses Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui,” says its FAQ, and “v0 deploys projects to Vercel,” with a preview for each working branch. It syncs with GitHub both ways, “You can still export code and deploy elsewhere,” and there’s an iPhone app. “ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers can use their ChatGPT subscription to build in v0,” per its ChatGPT guide.

Price: its pricing has Free, with a “7 message/day limit”; Plus at $30 a user a month, with “$30 of included monthly credits per user”; and Business at $100 a user. Credits are spent by the token: its v0 Pro model costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output.

Watch for: “When credits are used up, generation pauses,” and “You still need a v0 credit balance when using your ChatGPT plan.” Its docs say chat history and source files count “as input,” so a long project costs more per message. And v0 “is not included in your Vercel Hobby, Pro, or Enterprise subscription.”

Base44

Best for: the most built in, from sign-ins to email, if you’re happy to stay on its platform.

Base44, from Wix, builds apps with “A managed backend, authentication, integrations, and hosting” built in. Every app gets an address on base44.app, and from the Builder plan you can choose the model, among them Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon, per its chat modes.

Price: its pricing shows yearly prices first: Free at $0, with 25 message credits a month; Starter at $16 a month billed yearly, with 100; Builder at $40, with 250; Pro at $80; and Elite at $160. “Annual billing saves 20% on every paid plan.” Its credits page says “There is no set credit amount used per message.”

Watch for: leaving is harder. GitHub sync “requires the Builder plan or higher,” and of the ZIP export, its developer tools page says: “The exported code still relies on Base44 to run, so a ZIP is a copy of your code, not a way to move your app off Base44.” “Base44 doesn’t support self-hosting.”

Dyad

Best for: Lovable’s way of working, free and open source, on your own computer.

“Dyad is a free, local, open-source AI app builder. It’s an alternative to v0, Lovable and Bolt.new that runs on your computer,” say its docs. Your app is “normal code in a folder you keep,” with a preview “right next to your AI chat.” It “works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter and five more providers, any OpenAI-compatible API, local models, and ChatGPT or Claude subscriptions,” per its models guide, though a Claude plan goes through Claude Code, and “this one’s experimental.” It connects Supabase or Neon for a database and publishes to GitHub and Vercel. Its code is on GitHub under Apache 2.0, except its Pro features, under the Functional Source License.

Price: free, with “No sign-up required” and your own API key or ChatGPT account. Its Pro plan is $20 a month, with 200 AI credits, and Max is $79, with 900.

Watch for: “Dyad only supports JavaScript-based apps at this time,” and “Dyad has experimental Linux support.” The free plan’s basic agent is limited to 20 messages a day. Hosting is up to you: it publishes to your own accounts elsewhere.

ChatGPT, with Codex and Sites

Best for: building and hosting a site on a ChatGPT plan you may already pay for.

“Sites lets you build, host, and share a website by describing it in ChatGPT or Codex,” says OpenAI’s guide, and you can also host “a compatible project you’ve already built, without a separate deployment setup.” Each site gets a chatgpt.site address, a database of up to 10 GB, and a custom domain where available. In the ChatGPT desktop app, for Mac and Windows, with Linux in preview, a built-in browser “gives you and ChatGPT a shared view of websites and local web apps inside a chat.”

Price: “ChatGPT Sites is available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro accounts,” per OpenAI’s help center, and “Sites hosting is currently included.” Plus is $20 a month and Pro starts at $100. Free and Go get Codex in the desktop app with “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout,” but not Sites.

Watch for: Sites is in public beta, and “Building or editing a Site counts toward your Codex usage,” which OpenAI estimates at 15 to 160 local messages every five hours with GPT-6.1 Sol on Plus, adding that “These estimates are not fixed message limits.” “Some frameworks, private networks, databases, background services, and hosting patterns aren’t supported,” and “Sites does not register a domain for you.”

Claude Code, in the Claude app

Best for: building on your own computer with Claude, on a Claude plan.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app, for Mac and Windows, with Linux in beta. You describe the app, and, in its docs’ words, “Claude can start a dev server and open it in the Browser pane to verify its changes,” and “By default, Claude auto-verifies changes after every edit.” The code is in a folder on your computer from the start.

Price: “Claude Code is included in all paid plans,” says Claude’s pricing: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly, and Max from $100. “The free claude.ai plan does not include Claude Code access.”

Watch for: it doesn’t host your app, so publishing it is a step you take with a host of your own. “Both Pro and Max plans have a five-hour session limit and a weekly limit,” says Anthropic’s help center, and they’re “shared across Claude and Claude Code.” It runs only Claude. Our Claude Code vs Codex guide compares it with OpenAI’s agent.

Enjoy

Best for: building on your own computer with every lab’s agent, on the plans you already pay for, and bringing your Lovable project along.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode. You describe what you want in your own words, and the agent does the technical work. What it adds:

• Your Lovable project, on your computer. Our guide moves it in about 15 minutes: “Your Lovable app is regular code. Download it, open the folder in Enjoy, and keep building with Claude Code or Codex.”
• Your site beside the conversation. When the agent has your site running, Enjoy shows it in a browser next to the conversation, with a phone-width view, and agents click through it to test their work. You can open it from your phone too.
• No credits. Each agent runs on its own lab’s plan, and you can switch agents mid-conversation. When one runs out of usage, Enjoy moves to another of your accounts or waits for the reset and carries on.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing. The agents are billed separately: Claude Code needs a paid Claude plan and Codex in Enjoy needs ChatGPT Plus, while Antigravity works with a free Google account and OpenCode with free or local models.

Watch for: Enjoy doesn’t host your app. Our Lovable guide says “Your lovable.app site stays up until you unpublish it. Your agent can help you host it somewhere else,” and “Your app keeps using Lovable Cloud, even on your computer,” so its database stays there until you move it. Enjoy isn’t open source, it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends, and your site is reachable from your phone only while your computer is on with Enjoy open.

When to stay with Lovable

If you want one place that builds the app, hosts it and runs its database, none of this is a reason to move. “Publishing to a lovable.app URL is free on all plans,” Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits, and unused monthly credits “roll over at the end of each billing cycle, as long as your subscription remains active.” It has desktop apps for Mac and Windows and phone apps for building on the go.

Leaving later stays possible. Lovable says it’s built so that “you are never locked in”: paid plans download the whole codebase, every plan syncs with GitHub, and its hosting guide says “The applications you build with Lovable can be hosted anywhere.”

Move when credits are what stop you, when you want to choose the model or use a Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, or when you want the code on your own computer.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, plans and docs, and Dyad’s GitHub repository, on October 28, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. Prices are the ones each page shows in the US: Replit and Base44 lead with yearly billing, and we give both prices where they show both. Plans and credits in this category change often, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.