Executive Summary Adalo is the no-code app builder that pairs AI-powered generation with a visual multi-screen canvas, so entrepreneurs and business teams can design, build, and publish custom database-driven apps to the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and web from a single project — no code, no developers required. Lovable is a prompt-to-app builder that generates React + Supabase web applications from natural language descriptions. It excels at rapid web prototyping with code export but cannot publish native mobile apps. Scores: Adalo 5.94 (#1 visual builder) vs Lovable 5.08 (#1 prompt-to-app builder) in the State of App Building report. These platforms sit in different tiers — Adalo is a visual builder with AI assistance; Lovable is a prompt-only builder with a preview pane. The 80% problem: Lovable generates impressive first drafts but breaks during iteration. Users report that “after few iterations the code gets stuck” and describe spending entire days debugging AI-introduced regressions. One user was “absolutely stuck for 3 days, entire site broken” after a deployment went wrong. Security: CVE-2025-48757 exposed 18,697 user records across 170+ Lovable-built applications — a structural vulnerability in the generated Supabase configurations, not a one-off incident. Native mobile matters: Apple blocked Replit and Vibecode from the App Store in March 2026 for producing web-wrapper binaries. Adalo compiles genuine React Native apps; Lovable generates web-only React output with no mobile compilation path. As app store enforcement tightens, native compilation is not optional. Pricing: Adalo charges a flat $36-160/mo subscription with unlimited usage. Lovable uses credit-based pricing where users report burning through allocations in hours — one user spent 400 credits in under one hour debugging AI-generated bugs. Quick verdict: Lovable scores 4.46 to Adalo’s 5.76 in our State of App Building — February 2026 rankings — a 1.30-point gap. The numbers tell a clear story: Lovable is the faster path to a web prototype you can export as real React code. Adalo is the more complete path to a production app that actually reaches users — on iOS, Android, and the web — from a single project. If you need to ship to the App Store, the decision is already made.
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