CatDoes vs Lovable

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 Lovable
Free plan: Both have one
Public API: Lovable has one; not confirmed by us for CatDoes
Higher Trust score: Lovable — 86 vs 80 for CatDoes
Best fit: CatDoes: Founders prototyping a mobile app without hiring a developer · Lovable: Founders and designers shipping a working prototype without a developer

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

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

LovableDescribe an app and get a deployed full-stack project

Side by side

Fact	CatDoes	Lovable
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$17/mo	$25/mo
Public API	Not confirmed	Yes
Trust score	80 / 100	86 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web, API
Company	CatDoes Inc.	Lovable
Launched	—	2023
Last verified	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 24, 2026

What our research says

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, and the free allowance is now only 15 credits.

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
Named Delaware company with a published legal notice

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
Cheap tiers cap you at one or two projects
Two-way GitHub sync and code export only start at the $168 Pro tier

Lovable

The cleanest prompt-to-app experience for someone who cannot write React, and GitHub sync means you are not locked in — but 100 credits a month is less runway than it sounds once the app gets real.

Pros

Live preview after each change keeps iteration legible to non-developers
GitHub sync and Supabase mean the output is real, portable code
The free tier is enough to find out whether the idea works
Per-action credit costs are published, so estimating is possible

Cons

Free tier caps at 30 credits a month regardless of the daily grant
Debugging a bad generation can cost more credits than the original build
Opinionated stack — React front end, Supabase back end, little room to differ
API access is reserved for the Business tier, which charges double Pro's price per credit

Which one fits

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

Choose Lovable if you need

Founders and designers shipping a working prototype without a developer
Anyone who wants generated code exported to GitHub rather than held hostage
Small internal tools needing authentication and a database on day one