Bolt.new vs CatDoes

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Cheaper paid plan: CatDoes — $17/mo vs $25/mo for Bolt.new
Free plan: Both have one
Higher Trust score: Bolt.new — 85 vs 64 for CatDoes
Best fit: Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · CatDoes: Founders prototyping a mobile app without hiring a developer
Status: Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Bolt.newIn-browser agent that builds and runs web apps

CatDoesDescribe an app in plain English and its agent plans, codes, tests and ships it to iOS, Android or the web.

Side by side

Fact	Bolt.new	CatDoes
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$25/mo	$17/mo
Trust score	85 / 100	64 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	StackBlitz, Inc.	—
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Bolt.new

Bolt is the quickest way to get from a sentence to a running web app you can click, and Bolt Cloud now removes the usual 'where does this deploy' problem for small projects. Treat the token meter as the real price: a complex app burns through the entry allowance fast, and the free tier is for trying the product, not shipping from it.

Pros

Whole toolchain runs in the browser, so there is no environment to set up or keep alive
Starts from a prompt, Figma design, GitHub repo or template, and exports back to GitHub
Bolt Cloud bundles hosting, databases and auth, which most prompt-to-app tools leave to you
Unused Pro tokens roll over, unlike most rivals' monthly allowances

Cons

Token-based pricing is hard to forecast; one long debugging session can eat days of allowance
Free tier is throttled daily (300K tokens) and carries Bolt branding
Yearly discount is advertised without the actual yearly prices on the page
No public API found, so Bolt cannot be driven from a script or CI

CatDoes

One of the few prompt-to-app tools that goes past a web preview and actually produces React Native binaries you can put in front of an app store reviewer. The credit meter is the thing to watch, because a stubborn feature can burn a chunk of the month in retries. Nothing on the site says who is behind it, which is a real consideration if the app matters commercially.

Pros

Builds React Native Expo apps for iOS and Android, not only web pages
Backend pieces — database, auth, storage, edge functions, realtime — come pre-wired
Pro tier and above allow two-way GitHub sync and full code export
Free tier with 25 credits is enough to judge the output before paying

Cons

Credits, not seats, decide how much you get done, and debug loops eat them
Free and Core plans cannot deploy to iOS or Android at all
No company name, country or founding year is published anywhere on the site
Cheap tiers cap you at one or two projects and a small checkpoint history

Which one fits

Choose Bolt.new if you need

Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon
Developers scaffolding a front end or internal tool before taking it into their own editor
Teams turning a Figma mock into a working front end without hand-coding the first pass

Choose CatDoes if you need

Founders prototyping a mobile app without hiring a developer
Teams that need iOS and Android from the same written brief
People who want the generated code exported to their own GitHub