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Runwork vs Lovable

Runwork vs Lovable

Lovable makes it look finished. Runwork makes it something your team can actually run.

Quick Verdict

Lovable is very good at the thing most tools are bad at: what comes out looks designed, works on a phone, and you can put it in front of someone without apologising. That polish is real and it is worth paying for. What it gives you is still one person's project with one person's account behind it. Runwork is the environment your agent's work lands in instead: a shared workspace, permissions on who can run and change it, version history and backups, live company data through connected integrations, and a deployment the whole team can find.

Overview

Lovable took the ugly out of AI-built software. Prompt it, and you get something with a real layout, real states, and a Supabase backend behind it if you want one. Founders ship MVPs with it, and that is a fair use of an afternoon. The catch is that looking finished and being ready for a team are different things. It is still one person's project: they own the account, they hold the keys to the backend, they are the one who has to redeploy it, and when they are on holiday the tool is on holiday too. Runwork picks up there. Your own agent, in Claude or Cursor or whatever your team already uses, builds in an isolated sandbox on Runwork, and what it makes deploys into the team workspace with permissions, backups, monitoring and an audit trail already on it.

Lovable is a AI App Builder.

Runwork Strengths

  • Your own agent explores your workspace data before it builds, so the tool fits the business you actually have.
  • It belongs to the team from the first deploy, not to whoever prompted it.
  • Live preview first, so nobody sees the broken version.
  • Every change is a commit and the data is backed up, so a bad change is a rollback.
  • Permissions decide who can open it, run it, and change it.
  • One database and one set of connected tools underneath every app, so they are not five islands.
  • 3,300+ integrations, so it works on live CRM, billing and support data.
  • It carries on without anyone watching: schedules, workflows and agents run in the workspace.
  • Real React and TypeScript you can read, with full version history. No proprietary format.

Lovable Strengths

  • What comes out looks designed, without a designer in the loop.
  • Fast path from an idea to something you can show a real user.
  • Supabase behind it when you need auth and a database.
  • GitHub sync, so the code is not trapped.
  • Custom domain publishing, so the demo has a proper URL.
  • Genuinely pleasant for a solo builder or a founder shipping an MVP.

Feature Comparison

Getting to something that looks finished

Feature Runwork Lovable
Polished UI without design work Clean, functional
Your own AI tool does the building -
It sees your real workspace data first -
Live preview
Real code, no lock-in
Version history you can roll back Via GitHub

Whose project is it

Feature Runwork Lovable
Lives in a shared team workspace, not a personal account -
Teammates can find it without asking the person who made it -
Permissions on who can run it and who can change it Basic
It still works when that person is on holiday -
Every teammate's AI can reuse what one person worked out -
Monitoring, so you find out before the team does -

Work that keeps running

Feature Runwork Lovable
Runs on a schedule after everyone logs off -
Multi-step workflows across your tools -
Agents running in your team cloud -
Pre-built business integrations 3,300+ Limited
Database and file storage included Via Supabase
One data layer shared across every app -

Team and security

Feature Runwork Lovable
SSO / SAML Soon -
Audit log of what agents did -
Per-customer access for client-facing tools -
Custom domains
Shared team workspace Teams plan
A dashboard showing how the team is actually using AI -

Infrastructure

Feature Runwork Lovable
One-click deploy
Global edge deployment -
Auto-scaling Via Supabase
Automatic backups Via Supabase

Which Tool is Right for You?

Choose Runwork if you need...

  • * Tools other people depend on, where one person leaving cannot take it down
  • * Work that runs on its own overnight
  • * Anything reading live company data through a connected integration
  • * Teams who want permissions, rollback and an audit trail on what their agents make
  • * Client-facing tools where each customer only ever sees their own
  • * Teams who would rather not manage a separate backend account per project

Choose Lovable if you need...

  • * Getting a good-looking MVP in front of users this week
  • * Solo builders and founders shipping their own product
  • * Consumer-facing experiments where the design is the point
  • * Projects you are happy to run on your own Supabase and your own account
  • * Single apps with nothing else to connect to

Pricing Comparison

Lovable prices per creator and per credit. Runwork is a team plan: seats plus a monthly usage budget, with unlimited apps and data, and most AI running on your own keys so it bills to you directly. Starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card.

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How to Migrate from Lovable

Keep Lovable for the things you are shipping yourself. What moves is the tool your colleagues started relying on, because that one now needs an owner that is not a person.

Typical migration: 1-2 days per tool

1

Find the one other people log into

Products you are building for users can stay where they are. The candidate is the internal thing your team opens, the one you keep getting asked to redeploy.

2

Connect the AI tool you already use

Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex and the rest connect to your workspace over MCP or the CLI. You keep prompting the same way, and so does everyone else on the team.

3

Describe it to your own agent; it builds against your workspace

Pull the code from GitHub if it helps, or just describe what it does. Your agent works in an isolated sandbox on Runwork where your real data and connected integrations are already in reach, so it builds against the actual business.

4

Point it at live data instead of a copy

Connected integrations mean the tool reads your CRM, your billing and your support inbox directly, so nobody is exporting a CSV every Monday to keep it honest.

5

Hand it to the team

One deploy, your own domain, role permissions on who can open it and who can change it. Backups, version history, monitoring and an audit log come with it, and there is no separate backend account for someone to be locked out of.

Frequently Asked Questions

Both build apps from a description. What is actually different?
Who does the building and where it ends up. Lovable has its own AI and its own place to put things. Runwork has neither on purpose: your team keeps the AI tool it already chose, and Runwork is the shared cloud those tools build into, so the result is a team asset with permissions, backups and monitoring rather than one person's project.
Can I keep using Lovable?
Yes. It is a good tool and it is very good at the polished first version. Use it for what you are shipping yourself, and use Runwork when other people start depending on the thing. Here is what that looks like day to day.
What about the Supabase backend?
Runwork has its own database and file storage, shared across every app in the workspace, so there is no second account to manage and no per-project backend for someone to be locked out of. If you already run Supabase and want to keep it, connect it as an integration.
Is the design quality as good?
Be honest with yourself about what you need. For a consumer product where the look is the product, Lovable is ahead. For the internal tool your ops team opens every morning, what matters is that it has live data, permissions and it is still working next month. Runwork apps are clean, responsive React you can restyle whenever you want.

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