Quick answer
For the same build-from-a-description experience, Lovable is the closest, with a standard Postgres backend and GitHub sync on every plan. Bolt.new and Replit are the other big prompt-to-app tools. Capacity, which we make, builds a working app with hosting from a description or straight from Claude or ChatGPT, and ships native mobile apps; Floot also builds from inside Claude or ChatGPT.
For internal tools and portals, Softr, Glide and Zite are built for business apps with permissions and workflows. For complex logic built visually, Bubble; for native mobile apps, FlutterFlow or Rork.
| Tool | Best for | Paid plans from | Free plan | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | founders who want a working app online, built from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT, with native mobile apps. | $25/month | Web app: no. Desktop: 1 project | No free plan on the web; login via Clerk or Supabase |
 Lovable | the closest switch, with a standard Postgres backend and GitHub sync on every plan. | €25/month | Yes, 5 credits a day (up to 30 a month) | Builds web apps, not native ones |
 Bolt.new | building in the browser with a free plan generous enough to try a real idea. | $25/month | Yes, 1M tokens a month | Token use grows with the project |
 Replit | people who want an AI agent, a real code workspace and hosting in one place. | $20/month | None listed | Heavier Agent work billed by effort |
 v0 by Vercel | React and Next.js teams who want polished UI and deploy on Vercel. | $30/user/month | Yes, 7 messages a day | Cost depends on the model and tokens |
 Floot | building from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with hosting and a database included. | $25/month | Yes, 100 building actions a day | Daily action caps and a hosting allowance |
 Bubble | apps with heavy business logic that need to scale, built visually. | $29/month (yearly) | Yes | Steeper learning curve |
 Softr | client portals and internal tools on your own data, with permissions. | $19/month (yearly) | Yes, 5 AI credits a month | Mobile is an installable web app |
 Glide | internal business apps a team uses every day, built with AI. | $25/month | Yes, limited credits | Published apps are capped per plan |
 Zite | business apps and workflows for a whole team, with unlimited users. | $20/month (yearly) | Yes, 50 credits a month | Credits, records and workflow runs are capped |
 FlutterFlow | native mobile apps designed visually, with code you can download. | $39/month | Yes, up to 2 projects | More of a design tool than a prompt |
 Rork | native iPhone and Android apps from a chat, aimed at the App Store. | $20/month | Design mode only | Building starts on Pro |
Why people look for a Base44 alternative. The reasons that come back most often.
Two kinds of credits to track
Base44 plans count message credits for building and integration credits for connected services, so a busy month can run out of either one first.
GitHub starts on the Builder plan
Two-way GitHub sync is part of Builder, $40 a month billed yearly, so the $16 Starter plan keeps your code inside Base44.
Store apps are a web view
Base44 wraps your web app in a native web view to publish it. People who need a native app look at builders that make one.
A backend you don't see
The integrated backend is quick to start with and mostly hidden. Teams that expect developers to take over often prefer a standard Postgres backend they can inspect.
How we compared them. The same questions for every tool.
- What you get from one sentence: an interface, or a full app with its data, login and hosting.
- Whether hosting, a database and a custom domain are included.
- Native mobile apps, and how they reach the stores.
- How you pay: credits, tokens, daily actions, published apps or seats.
- Whether you can take the code with you, and from which plan.
- Who it's built for: founders, product teams, or business teams.
Build from a description
01 · our product
Capacity
Best for founders who want a working app online, built from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT, with native mobile apps.
Capacity turns a plain-language description into a working app: a React front end, a server and its own database, published at a capacity.studio address or on your own domain. You change it by chatting and watch each change in the preview. You choose the model (Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mistral Large 4 or Kimi K3) or leave it on Auto.
Why pick Capacity over Base44
- A fixed monthly price: each plan comes with a set number of credits, and building from Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral is unlimited on every paid plan, because your own subscription writes the code while Capacity hosts the app.
- Native mobile apps: Expo projects that you submit to TestFlight and Google Play from the publish dialog, with your own store accounts.
- Hosting, a database and a custom domain are part of every paid plan, with a full version history to roll back any change.
- Capacity Desktop ($249 once, macOS) runs the same builder on your Mac with your Claude Code or ChatGPT plan, and pushes the code to your own GitHub.
Watch out for
- The web app has no free plan for building: paid plans start at $25 a month. Capacity Desktop has a free plan with one project.
- Login isn't built in: you add it with the Clerk extension or a Supabase connection.
- In the web app, your code downloads as a zip; pushing to your own GitHub is a Desktop feature.
- It starts higher than Base44: $25 a month against $16 billed yearly.
Pricing
Starter $25/month (100 credits), Growth $69/month (250 credits), Professional $129/month (500 credits), Business $299/month (1,000 credits). Every plan includes unlimited projects, custom domains and unlimited building from Claude and ChatGPT.
02
Lovable
Best for the closest switch, with a standard Postgres backend and GitHub sync on every plan.
Lovable builds web apps from a chat with a live preview beside it. Lovable Cloud adds the backend, with a database, user login, file storage and server functions on a Supabase foundation, and your code syncs both ways with GitHub on every plan.
Why pick it over Base44
- The tool most 2026 guides name first for non-technical founders building a web app.
- The chat and the preview are the whole interface, and Lovable Cloud adds the database, login and storage.
- Two-way GitHub sync on every plan, including Free, so a developer can take over later.
Watch out for
- Each message uses credits, and Lovable Cloud usage is billed in credits too once its monthly grant is used.
- For the App Store or Google Play, Lovable points you to a PWA or a Capacitor wrapper you set up yourself.
Pricing
Free: 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month. Pro: €25/month for 100 monthly credits, with rollovers, top-ups and custom domains. Business: €50/month, adding a team workspace and SSO. Prices shown in euros from France.
03
Bolt.new
Best for building in the browser with a free plan generous enough to try a real idea.
Bolt, from StackBlitz, builds websites and web apps from a chat in your browser and deploys them. Like Replit, the code sits right there if you want it; unlike Replit, the chat and the preview stay in front.
Why pick it over Base44
- One of the most generous free plans here: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month.
- You can start from a prompt, a Figma file, a GitHub repository or a team template.
- On Pro, unused tokens roll over to the next month.
Watch out for
- Billing is in tokens, and long fix-and-retry sessions on a large project use them up faster.
- Teams pay per member, $30 a month each.
Pricing
Free: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month. Pro: $25/month, no daily limit, from 10M tokens a month, unused tokens roll over. Teams: $30 per member per month.
04
Replit
Best for people who want an AI agent, a real code workspace and hosting in one place.
Replit Agent builds web and mobile apps from a chat, sets up the database and user login, tests its own work in a browser, and publishes the app with hosting, monitoring and custom domains. The code sits in a full cloud workspace you can open whenever you want.
Why pick it over Base44
- Everything from the first prompt to hosting lives in one product.
- The Agent tests and fixes its own work in a browser while it builds.
- Up to ten agents working in parallel on the Pro plan.
Watch out for
- Plans include monthly credits ($20 on Core); beyond them, usage is billed by effort, so a long build is hard to price in advance.
- The workspace shows the technical side, which can be a lot for non-technical founders.
Pricing
Core: $20/month ($18/month billed yearly), with up to 30 hours of chat on Free Mode and $20 of usage for the more powerful models. Pro: $100/month ($90/month billed yearly). Enterprise on request. No free plan is listed on the pricing page.
05
v0 by Vercel
Best for React and Next.js teams who want polished UI and deploy on Vercel.
Vercel's v0 builds web apps and interfaces from a prompt, with a visual Design Mode, GitHub sync and one-click deploys to Vercel. It's known for clean React and Tailwind output that developers can drop into an existing codebase.
Why pick it over Base44
- Some of the most polished interface code of any tool here.
- GitHub sync and deploys to Vercel on every plan, including the free one.
- Teams share chats and billing on vercel.com.
Watch out for
- The free plan gives $5 of one-time credits, then 7 messages a day.
- Usage is billed by tokens at each model's rate, so cost depends on the model you pick.
- It assumes you're comfortable around React and Vercel.
Pricing
Free: $5 of one-time credits, 7 messages a day. Plus: $30 per user per month, with $30 of monthly credits and $2 of free daily credits. Business: $100 per user per month.
06
Floot
Best for building from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with hosting and a database included.
Floot builds apps from the AI you already use: you add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor as a connector, describe the app in the chat, and Floot builds it with its backend, database and hosting, live at its own link. It publishes to the web, and converts the app for the App Store and Google Play.
Why pick it over Base44
- Works from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, with no git and no terminal.
- Backend, database and hosting are included; paid plans add custom domains, with one free domain through IONOS.
- Every plan includes mobile app builds: 2 a month on Free, 12 on Pro, unlimited on Power.
Watch out for
- Plans cap building actions per day (100 on Free, 1,000 on Pro) and include a monthly hosting allowance ($10 on Pro, $25 on Power).
- Connecting Google Play needs a paid plan, and the stores need your own Apple and Google developer accounts.
Pricing
Free: 100 building actions a day, 2 mobile app builds a month. Pro: $25/month with 1,000 actions a day, $10 of hosting and 5,000 AI credits a month, custom domains. Power: $100/month with 5,000 actions a day, $25 of hosting and 15,000 AI credits. Yearly billing gives two months free.
Visual and business-app builders
Bubble is the long-standing visual app builder. It now starts from an AI prompt and lets you switch between prompting and editing visually, for web, iOS and Android apps, with its own database and workflows.
Why pick it over Base44
- Deep control over data, workflows and permissions, which suits complex products.
- Web and native mobile apps from the same plan.
- Generating an app from a prompt doesn't use AI credits.
Watch out for
- It takes longer to learn than prompt-only builders.
- Usage is measured in workload units, which grow with your app's traffic.
Pricing
Free plan to build. Billed yearly: Starter $29/month, Growth $119/month, Team $349/month, each with more AI credits and workload units.
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Softr
Best for client portals and internal tools on your own data, with permissions.
Softr is an AI app builder for business operations: secure internal tools and client portals with databases, workflow automation and integrations included. You build with AI or with no-code blocks, and connect data from its own databases or tools like Airtable and Notion.
Why pick it over Base44
- Unlimited apps, databases, workflows, agents and forms even on the free plan, with an API and an MCP server.
- Built for portals: granular permissions and visibility, Google sign-in and one-time passwords for your app's users from Pro.
- Over 59 integrations, including Airtable and Notion as data sources.
Watch out for
- AI credits are few (5 a month free, 10 on Basic, 50 on Pro), so most building is done with no-code blocks.
- Mobile means an installable web app (PWA) with push notifications, on the Business plan.
Pricing
Free: 5 AI credits a month. Billed yearly: Basic $19/month (10 AI credits, custom domain), Pro $99/month (50 AI credits, no Softr branding, permissions, custom code), Business $329/month (100 AI credits, 2FA, installable mobile app with push notifications). Yearly billing gives two months free.
Glide is an AI app builder for internal business apps: you describe the tool, and Glide builds it on its own platform with integrations and workflows, then publishes it to your team or, from Plus, to the public. You choose how hard its agent works (light, medium or heavy).
Why pick it over Base44
- Made for the internal apps teams run on, with integrations and AI features inside the apps.
- Pro adds unlimited published apps and workflows, org-level roles and building with your own agent over MCP.
- A free plan with 10 projects to try it.
Watch out for
- Published apps are capped below Pro: 2 on Basic, 5 on Plus.
- Pro, where the limits lift, starts at $125 a month for 5 team members.
Pricing
Free: limited credits, 2 team members, 10 projects. Basic: $25/month (100 credits, 2 published apps). Plus: $50/month (250 credits, 5 published apps, public apps). Pro: $125/month for 5 members (500 credits, unlimited published apps and workflows). Enterprise on request.
Zite builds business apps and workflows on its own database from a description, so a team can run its operations in one place, from a prompt like "a client management app for my marketing agency", connected to the apps it already uses. Every plan, including Free, has unlimited users, apps and editors.
Why pick it over Base44
- Unlimited users on every plan, which suits tools a whole team uses.
- Apps, workflows and a database in one product.
- The Business plan lets you build with your own AI.
Watch out for
- Monthly credits cap how much you build: 50 on Free (10 messages a day), 100 on Pro, 400 on Business.
- Records and workflow runs are capped per plan: 5,000 records and 1,000 runs a month on Free.
Pricing
Free: 50 credits a month, 5,000 records, 1,000 workflow runs. Billed yearly: Pro $20/month (100 credits, 100,000 records, a custom domain), Business $75/month (400 credits, 250,000 records, your own AI). Team and Enterprise on request.
Native mobile apps
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FlutterFlow
Best for native mobile apps designed visually, with code you can download.
FlutterFlow builds Flutter apps for iOS, Android and the web in a visual editor, with AI to generate pages and components. It's the usual pick when the native mobile app is the product.
Why pick it over Base44
- Strong native mobile results with fine control over every screen.
- Download the project's source code or an APK from the Basic plan.
- Push to GitHub and work in VS Code on higher plans.
Watch out for
- You build screen by screen in an editor, so it asks more of you than a prompt-to-app tool.
- Team plans are priced per seat.
Pricing
Free: up to 2 projects. Basic: $39/month. Growth: $80/month for the first seat, $55 for the second. Business: $150/month for the first seat.
Rork builds mobile apps by chatting with AI: iPhone apps in SwiftUI, Android apps in Kotlin with Compose, and web apps, with tools around the App Store such as an AI App Store reviewer and a screenshot studio. Rork Max adds iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, widgets and games.
Why pick it over Base44
- Native code: SwiftUI for iPhone, Kotlin with Compose for Android.
- Built around shipping to the App Store, with an AI reviewer and a screenshot studio.
- Max covers iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, plus games with native performance.
Watch out for
- The free plan only explores designs (35 design credits a month); building working apps starts on Pro.
- Rork describes Pro's 100 credits a month as right for basic apps and prototypes; Max is $200 a month.
Pricing
Free: design mode, 35 design credits a month (5 a day). Pro: $20/month, 100 credits, iPhone, Android and web apps. Max: $200/month for 1,000 credits (up to 10,000), iOS, iPad, Apple Watch and Vision Pro.
Base44 and its alternatives, side by side. From each official site, October 15, 2026.
| Feature |  Base44 | Capacity | Lovable | Bolt.new | Replit | v0 by Vercel | Floot | Bubble | Softr | Glide | Zite | FlutterFlow | Rork |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid plans from | $16/month (yearly) | $25/month | €25/month | $25/month | $20/month ($18 yearly) | $30/user/month | $25/month | $29/month (yearly) | $19/month (yearly) | $25/month | $20/month (yearly) | $39/month | $20/month |
| Free plan | Yes | Desktop only (1 project) | Yes | Yes | None listed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Design mode only |
| How usage is billed | Message and integration credits | Monthly credits; building from Claude or ChatGPT unlimited | Monthly credits | Tokens | Plan credits, then effort-based pay-as-you-go | Credits spent at each model's token rate | Daily building actions, hosting allowance | AI credits and workload units | Plan, with a few AI credits | Credits, published apps, members | Credits, records and workflow runs | Per seat | Monthly credits |
| Mobile apps | Web view wrapper for the stores | Native (Expo, TestFlight and Google Play) | PWA or Capacitor, set up yourself | – | Yes, from Agent | No | Web app converted for the stores | Yes (iOS and Android) | Installable web app (Business) | – | – | Yes (Flutter) | Native (SwiftUI, Kotlin) |
| Taking your code with you | GitHub from the Builder plan | Zip download; GitHub push from Desktop | Two-way GitHub sync | In Bolt; import from GitHub | Your Replit workspace | GitHub sync on every plan | – | No code export | – | – | – | Code download from Basic, GitHub from Growth | – |
| Built for | Non-technical builders | Non-technical founders, small businesses | Founders, designers, product teams | Makers and developers | Builders and developers | React developers and designers | People building in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor | No-code builders with complex apps | Business teams: portals and internal tools | Teams building internal apps | Teams building internal tools | Mobile app teams | Mobile app founders |
How to choose. Start from what you need, not from the ranking.
The closest switch, with GitHub on every planLovable
A generous free plan to try an ideaBolt.new
Agent, code workspace and hosting in one placeReplit
Complex logic, built visuallyBubble
A client portal on your own dataSoftr
Internal apps for a teamGlide or Zite
A native mobile appFlutterFlow or RorkWhen to stay on Base44
If your app fits the credits, you're happy with a web app (or a web-view app in the stores), and you value login, payments and integrations handled with the least setup, Base44 is still the cheapest way to start, at $16 a month billed yearly, with a free domain for a year.
Questions people ask. Short answers, with the details above.
What is the best alternative to Base44?
Lovable is the closest: it also builds a full app from a description, on a standard Postgres backend with GitHub sync on every plan. Bolt.new and Replit are the other big prompt-to-app tools, Capacity builds from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT with native mobile apps, and Softr, Glide or Zite suit internal tools.
Is there a free Base44 alternative?
Yes, with limits: Lovable, Bolt.new, v0, Floot, Bubble, Softr, Glide, Zite and FlutterFlow have free plans, and Rork's free plan explores designs. The Capacity web app has no free plan; Capacity Desktop has one with a single project.
What's cheaper than Base44?
Few builders start lower than Base44's $16 a month billed yearly. Softr Basic is $19 billed yearly, and Replit Core $18 billed yearly. What you pay depends on credits: compare what a month of your own use costs, not the sticker price.
Base44 vs Lovable: which is better?
Base44 is quicker and cheaper to start, with the backend, login and payments handled. Lovable is the safer base for a SaaS you plan to grow, with a Postgres backend and GitHub sync on every plan. Our Base44 vs Lovable comparison goes through both in detail.
Is there a Base44 alternative for native mobile apps?
Yes. Rork writes SwiftUI and Kotlin apps, FlutterFlow builds Flutter apps, Bubble publishes iOS and Android apps, and Capacity builds Expo apps you submit to TestFlight and Google Play. Base44 itself wraps your web app in a native web view.
Is there a Base44 alternative for internal tools?
Softr is built for client portals and internal tools with permissions, Glide for internal business apps, and Zite for team tools with unlimited users on every plan.
Can I move my app from Base44 to another tool?
From the Builder plan, Base44 syncs your code to GitHub, so a tool that works from a repository can pick it up. Hosted builders usually rebuild the app from a description, and you migrate your data.
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