The community submitted 170 reviews to tell
us what they like about Lovable, what Lovable can do better, and
more.
4.7
Based on 170 reviews
Review Lovable?
Reviewers mostly see Lovable as a fast, easy way to turn ideas into polished prototypes, landing pages, and MVPs, especially for people with limited coding experience. Users repeatedly praise its clean UI, strong front-end output, and quick iteration, while some also like integrations such as GitHub and Supabase. But the praise comes with a clear limit: once projects get more complex, many report buggy loops, unwanted changes, weak backend handling, credit burn, and uneven support. Even enthusiastic founders mainly frame it as a rapid prototyping tool, not a fully reliable build system.
Lovable was a game-changer for Brand Stori! We built our entire front-end UI/UX in weeks instead of months. The platform's intuitive understanding of design requirements and rapid prototyping capabilities let us focus on perfecting our AI analysis engine rather than wrestling with frontend code. Absolutely essential for fast-moving startups who need beautiful, functional interfaces without the traditional development timeline.
What's great
fast prototyping (30)design capabilities (9)frontend development (5)
I've been using Lovable to create experimentation landing pages, and the new Visual Edits feature takes it to the next level—giving me even more control!
I've been able to export the code and deploy it with our platform Microtica, making it easy to test different campaigns and optimize marketing efforts.
Curious—have you seen any interesting trends in how users are leveraging this for growth experiments?
What's great
rapid application development (14)design capabilities (9)
Lovable is my favorite AI app builder. It's the best way to get started or build simple tools that just work out of the box. Although I often end up using Cursor for bigger, more serious projects - Lovable is my go-to AI tool for throwing something together quickly. I also gotta say that they make killer landing pages. I'm wowed every single time. Excellent integrations with Supabase, GitHub, and custom domains make it a really seamless experience.
free plan (1)fast prototyping (30)design capabilities (9)MVP builder (9)
Fantastic since it enables everyone to test their ideas and even improve on it...when you have that vision in your mind but need help to translate it into a real product!
Rapid development! Allows you to focus on product development and not programming, saving years!
I love it and have used it for a year, built 9 product, of which 6 was real and used by other and 2 was paid for with profit by B2B customers. Spend about $2000 in first year as early adopter on prompts and other hosting sites. Looking forward to see how they improve and help us grow and maintain what we already built.
What needs improvement
buggy (12)expensive (5)
Working with AI is fast and fun, but can derail you when project gets complex which it will.
So a lot of learning along the journey to understand the new technology, which ends up alos being more costly than expected but never as much as trusting someone else you have to pay to realise your vision.
Customer support can be lacking, when you lost lots of prompts due to a bug.
works better, better design, better integrations, better improvements over time, free 5 prompts a day...and friendly happy brand with lots of financial support. I rather pay more for a better product...less risk. Dont waste your time with worse tools, even if Lovable can still improve it is still the best one out there for AI development.
I’m into clean, sharp UIs and this tool nails it ... minimal but powerful, exactly the kind of design tools I dream of building when I code late into the night. I love how you kept it sleek without over-engineering, and made something that just feels “right to use.
vs Alternatives
I chose Lovable because it lets me build great web pages fast ... minimal code, maximum speed. It fits how I work: simple, efficient, and value-driven.
It's been a nice experience using lovable. I started wit free and turned to paid plan for a bit. It was a good experience as long as you asked small thins bit by bit. A few times lovable confused building and re built structures and code parts, or had some kind of refactor without asking causing errors etc.
Overall the past few month the app improved a lot and it getting better and better. Maybe you should consider how credits are charged especially for error fixing.
vs Alternatives
It had at the time the best marketing and ui to use.
Tried lovable and loved it. Incredibly easy to use, and the outputs are genuinely good. I like that you can toggle to pause deploy and instead focus on providing more context so that the output is more aligned with your vision.
vs Alternatives
Was looking at other website vibecoding options but loveable seemed to have the best value for money, and the best user interface.
I tried a lot of AI Coder, i mean a lot. Same, rork, replit, cline, Claude Dev, roo, bubble, v0, Bolt, just to new a few.
Dont use lovable. Let me explain why.
Lovable is solid for the first few code attempts. It will give you a baseline. You can prompt lovable to make a Website for example. BUT, then you want to make changes or add something, a new page, a form, an image. Lovable can do this theoretically. And then you will have a bug, something is not work correct. Now the Desaster begins.
This will happen:
1. You ask lovable to fix the Problem.
2. Lovable will tell you that the issue is now fixed.
3. You realize, its not.
4. start at 1.
5. You will ask for Help.
6. You realize the chatbot is completly outdated.
7. You write an email, and realized the same bot answering the emails.
8. You go to Discord. Open a Support Tickets.
9. You realize there are 0 Humans working in the Support Team. All your tickets will be closed without any Help.
10. You Open another ticket, they close it without any answer.
11. You realize there are 50 people every day asking for refund, because they have the same Problem.
I have done this with different Accounts. I even asked for help in the live Sessions in YouTube and also Discord. No Help. No Support. They just want your Money. Fire and forget.
Please use another vibe coder. There are Hundrets. Lovable is the worst of all of them. Just don't use it.
Mixed Feelings – Great at First, But Let Down by Functionality
I really wanted to love this platform. The initial hype was everywhere—it kept showing up in my feed, and I saw new startups and even agencies being built on it. So, I finally gave it a shot last week and tested it out on three parked project ideas.
• Complex project – failed.
• Simple static site – couldn’t generate a basic XML file but insisted it worked.
• One-pager – also failed. It couldn’t handle a flow as simple as: create questions → show a paywall → send a document using Resend.com.
If you just need a simple static page, it’s actually pretty great—you can connect your domain easily and get something live fast. But the moment you try to go beyond that—add logic, user login, or even prompts longer than 200 characters—it just stops working or ignores you completely.
And to be clear, I’m not rage-posting here. I’ve been refining prompts with ChatGPT to make them as clear as possible, but even then, things only barely worked once—if at all.
What needs improvement
limited prompts (4)limited backend support (3)complexity handling issues (12)
I'm using this to develop a very simple series of webpages for team member profiles and the app is barely even able to handle routing for the custom subdomain. Extremely unimpressed by how slow the troubleshooting is.
I'm sure things will have improved 3-6 months from now but for now speed of user experience seems to just not be possible with AI product-building tools.
As a user of no-code tools I like being able to have an action I can take myself to make a change (tedious but I myself am the driver of the velocity). But when I use Lovable (or its competitors) I lose my train of thought every time an update is being made because it takes more than 10 seconds. It takes 10 seconds or less for me to type the change that I want, so it feels like a huge time suck to spend 50% of my time on the application waiting for the application to respond. Kind of like working with an overwhelmed computer that takes 2 seconds to respond every time you click on something.
I can never, ever get it to work. Every time, I get excited and think, "This time, I'll be able to do it," and I subscribe again. But every single time, I just throw my money away. I've used other applications, and I can confidently say this is the worst. It wastes all your tokens just to create a simple leaderboard. Every time, something doesn't work. It just looks like it's doing something, but it can't even handle the simplest tasks.
On your second correction request, it goes into a loop and burns through all your tokens. The applications it fails to create have no algorithm, no actual processing. All I needed was for a user to enter a score and for it to generate a leaderboard based on those scores. Either sign-in didn’t work, or sign-up didn’t work—every time, something was broken. It wasted my money and hours of my time.
I was really excited about it and even told a lot of people. And I will talk about it again—but this time, I’ll make sure they never use it. It has a long way to go.